For her project titled “Nebula,” Spanish photographer Jacqueline Roberts shot portraits of youth in the limbo period between childhood and adolescence using the wet plate collodion process from the mid- to late-1800s. The resulting photos are haunting in their appearance. “‘Nebula’ are portraits that I make on glass and metal plates,” Roberts says. “I use […]
Here’s an inspiring video by Mango Street about one of the most important things you can learn to do as a photographer, which is storytelling. In addition to organically capturing moments as they happen, you can also conceptualize and execute an idea that inspires you, and Rachel and Daniel show how it’s done in the […]
A little while back, I was working for a small local newspaper outside of Houston, Texas. I was working on a series about adrenaline junkies around the area. One article I really wanted to write was about skydiving at Spaceland Houston. Its one of the larger skydiving places in Texas. I had skydived there before, […]
VSCO has just announced that it’s releasing its popular mobile app photo filters on desktop. The filters are packaged in a pack called VSCO Mobile Presets 01 (MP1). “Many members of the VSCO community have been asking for new desktop presets,” VSCO writes. “MP1 was designed to help you easily mimic the looks celebrated on […]
Off the top of your head, do you know how much more light f/2.8 lets in compared to f/5.6? Do you know the f-stop number that comes after 11? This 1.5-minute video reveals the simple pattern used by the scale. If you didn’t know, f/2.8 lets in four times as much light as f/5.6. That’s […]
In the fall of 2008, Barack Obama had just become the Democratic candidate and was heavily favored to win the White House to become the first African American President of the United States. His popularity created media frenzy as the world was thirsty to learn more about the young Senator from Illinois. Because Obama was […]
Noted music photographer Danny Clinch, who took photos of Tupac for Rolling Stone, is suing Forever 21 and Urban Outfitters for copyright infringement after they allegedly used his photographs on their merchandise. Clinch’s nearly-iconic photos of the late rapper were featured in a profile of Tupac for Rolling Stone back in 1993, and on a cover […]
Submerging your film in liquid might not seem like a good idea, but when done properly it’s a photography technique that can garnish unexpectedly beautiful results. Without any post-processing work, you can get a distorted effect with vivid streaks of color and interesting textures. Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in Format magazine, and […]
Photographer Benjamin Von Wong is back, and this time he’s using his signature “epic adventure” style of photography to tackle a new social issue: first world child hunger. At first, that term might seem like an oxymoron—when you think child hunger, one of those commercials by a charitable organization in a third world country probably […]
My model triggered this photo of herself holding a light-painting tube with lightning in the background. I did a 30-second edit of this picture at the airport in Albuquerque and posted it right away on Instagram. It went bananas. I had mixed feelings about this photo because this is not representative of our work — […]