For photographer/web designer Max Elman and writer Christopher Hermelin, a picture is worth a thousand words. Literally. Their refreshing project, A Story and a Picture, offers a photograph from Max and a 1,000 word fiction story to go along with it from Christopher. Basically it’s two creative phenoms who met in a college radio class, coming together to meld the fine arts of writing and photography, and we dig

The final countdown for Digitalfest begins! We wanted to let you guys know about what’s going down here at pictureline this Friday and Saturday for Digitalfest 2013: Spring Edition. This time around, we wanted to keep the focus on learning, so we brought in some stellar people to lead our workshops: View the full Digitalfest schedule here! We hope you’ll find these classes useful! There’s nothing we

Nearly everybody has had this experience before. You sit in an airplane, take off, and dive into a wonderful new perspective—staring out the window, passing through clouds, seeing the sun set and then rise again, seeing silhouettes of brightly lit cities pass by, street lights form patterns, grids, and beautiful shapes. It is tight, your neighbor is snoring, the engines are crying – a baby in the last row is, t

We’re kicking off Digitalfest week with an awesome giveaway today via the fine people over at Tenba bags! They are giving one lucky winner a Tenba Mini Messenger Bag in the color of your choice. Gizmodo just named the Tenba Mini Messenger bag as “The Best Bag to Carry Your Mirrorless Camera,” and we agree! Enter to win below! a Rafflecopter giveaway

Local Utah photographer and Digitalfest keynote speaker, Adam Barker, recently took a big trip to California with the fine folks at Manfrotto to try out their new Befree tripod. Adam spent a week visiting California’s iconic photoscapes to put the Befree through the true travel test. Check out his videos below to learn more about the trip and see the Befree in action. If you’re here in Utah, be sure to ch

“I went from the White House to the white gowns” is how Greg Gibson refers to his move in 2002 from a 20-year career as a photojournalist, during which he twice shared the Pulitzer Prize, to documentary wedding photography. As he made the transition, he made adjustments in approach, style and content to account for the differences between photojournalism and weddings in the photojournalistic style. The photojournalis

We love Cliff Mautner. Why? His no-nonsense approach to both photography and education is direct, uncompromising and produces results. And, simply put, his wedding and portrait images ROCK. We asked Cliff to tell us why the PocketWizard AC3 ZoneController plus MiniTT1 (Nikon & Canon) and FlexTT5 (Nikon & Canon) changed the way he shoots – overnight. You may remember Cliff from some work we did with him duri

This is the second part of Victor Ha’s tutorial on creating time-lapse videos! If you missed part 1, be sure to check it out here. You can also view this entire tutorial on his blog, HDSLR Video Shooter. Once you’ve taken the time to capture the files in your time-lapse sequence, there are a variety of different options available that will combine them into an actual movie. Today, we will cover two of the more

Matt Molloy is a photographer from Ontario offering up a fresh look at time-lapse photography with his “Timestacks” series. Matt takes his time-lapse sequences and layers them into a single image, creating photos with a unique painterly feel where the clouds look like brush strokes. Matt uses a program called Magic Lantern and uses its intervalometer to capture the time-lapse sequences. It’s a small