There is no way to truly experience the power of Mother Nature without being there firsthand—the feeling of powerful winds howling at your back, the deafening sound of crackling thunder overhead, the heart-pounding adrenaline that flows through your body as you race to stay ahead of a violent tornado. Most of us, though, are sane enough to not put ourselves...
Today we are honored to share the work of Alan Friedman, an amateur astrophotographer enthusiast from Buffalo, New York who takes incredible photos of the sun using a telescope in his own backyard. The detail Alan achieves with his humble equipment is astounding, capturing the grandeur of the sun that we are never able to see with our naked eye....
Justin Bettman last spoke with us about his Bagel Project, and today he's taking some time to tell us a little bit about his stunning Dark series. Be sure to check out the rest of Justin's astonishing work here. Tell us a little bit about your Dark project and what it's all about. The dark series started out as a...
Photographer John Barclay explains how he uses the Sweet 35 to enhance the visual impact of an abandoned scene. What I Used Lensbaby Composer Pro Lensbaby Sweet 35 Optic A wicked cool location to shoot! A sturdy tripod Metadata: ISO 400, shutter speed 1/20, aperture f/4 How It Came Together This is a frequently photographed chair at the abandoned Klotz...
My love affair with caving began back in the forests of Iowa in the early 1990's when my family visited Maquoketa Caves State Park. It was there that an insatiable draw toward peering into the unknown and unexplored began to take root. Years later we moved to Utah, and my brother was offered extra credit in his junior high science...
Ton Koene from the Netherlands reports regularly from Afghanistan for de Volkskrant, a leading Dutch newspaper. For his portrait series depicting new recruits in a police training center in Kunduz, he won second prize in the 2012 World Press Awards. For the Camera Lens Blog, Koene used the high-speed Planar T* 1,4/85 to take a series of portraits in a...
I was in a rush, heading out the door with my camera bag one morning when an image appeared on the morning news that would change my life and the direction of my photography in so many ways. It was a black and white photograph of a hauntingly beautiful three masted ship that had been shot in the middle of...
Jess Dunlap is a director and photographer and also the genius behind the beautiful "Monolation" video. Jess filmed the video over the course of 2012, which consists of over 17,000 photos he took with his Canon 7D. Jess also used a Dynamic Perception "Stage Zero" dolly with a "Merlin" head to achieve the stunning results you see below: "After finishing...
Like most people, I am not lucky enough to be independently wealthy, so I must go to work every weekday. As I sit in traffic I get to enjoy the beautiful golden hour light on my hour long commute over the mountains near Los Angeles. I've witnessed many great sunrises and sunsets as I am driving along I-15, and although...
If you've had your eye on Fuji's X-Pro 1 or X-E1, now's the time to take the leap and start the revolution. For a limited time only, Fuji's offering up $300 off when you buy an X-Pro 1 camera body with the Fuji XF 18-55mm lens or an X-E1 camera body with a Fuji XF 18mm lens. The deals get...
Marc Muench (www.muenchphotography.com) has been a professional landscape and sports photographer for over 20 years. Marc is now the "artist in residence" at dgrin.com for Smugmug, where he contributes on a regular basis to the "Muench University" critique thread. He is currently the photo editor of the National Parks guide, published by The American Park Network, which contain many of...
We love photography here at pictureline, and we especially love the community surrounding it. As a way to give back to all of you, we're proud to announce the brand new pictureline Classifieds! A totally free space where you can sell your old gear, purchase some new stuff, and keep up to date with photography classes and events in your...
This one's for all of you Fujifilm junkies out there. Fuji just released new firmware updates for the X-Pro 1 and X-E1 that upgrade autofocus performance, audio performance on the X-E1, and allows for use of the new 14mm XF lens on both bodies. There's also an update for the 35mm XF lens that improves AF accuracy. Here's a silly...
Jerusalem is the creative terrain of Israeli photographer David Mor. The city, which he calls home, serves as a backdrop to turn everyday scenes into an allegorical and spiritual expression of ideas. The first rays of sunlight are an important yet fleeting design medium for Mor. At least one ZEISS lens is always in his bag. "Two men from two...
