This beautiful timelapse of New Zealand by Bevan Percival was entirely taken on its Northern island and features some of the most breath taking shots I've seen to date.
It was shot over a period of six months with a Canon 5DmkII, various lenses and a Dynamic Perception 6' Stage Zero motorized dolly.
Seeing the clip, I am not one bit surprised that Percival's description is all inspiration and zero tech-talk: Click to continue ›
Time-Lapse | Earth is a time lapse edited by Bruce W. Berry Jr, and it is one of the most beautiful timelapse sequences I have ever seen.
Here is the thing though, Bruce did not take a single shot to create this movie, nor are they digitally rendered. It was all done with pictures shot by the ISS team and made available for public use by NASA (Here, here and here).
I am placing the movie (and some info) after the jump to make sure you sit back, go full screen and turn up the audio before you continue. Click to continue ›
So, if the exposure is right at f/8 and 1/250th of a second? What would the time value be at f/288?
While this is not a question you will need answered for your DSLR, it is something you would need to know if you got the new Ilford Harman Titan 8×10" Pinhole camera. Click to continue ›
If you are into exciting light painting here is a great tutorial from Eric Pare, part of the team behind the 360º bullet time light paintings.
This tutorial is about creating a light painting tool that acts like a feather: Click to continue ›
Here at DIYP we are always for some awesome light painting. Jason D. Page definitely answers to this definition.
Ina short teaser for his upcoming documentary, Jason shows some great light painting photographs and behind the scenes of how they were made, along with his concept of Light painting:
"Calling light painting a photographic technique, would be the same thing as calling painting a canvas technique or calling drawing a sketch pad technique. Light painting is its own art form". The movie and some more awesome light paintings after the jump. Click to continue ›
Remember those time lapse movies that show a harbor or a sea port via a tilt shift lens and they look like a set of Playmobil sets.
This time lapse made by the Discovery Channel beats them all. It shows the assembly stage of Maersk Line's very first Triple-E vessel. While it is a huge ship, the 3-month, 50,000 photos time lapse makes the assembly look like a child play. Click to continue ›
Electroluminescent wire (EL wire for short) has been used by light painting artists for several years. It’s most common use is creating a glowing smoky effect. A less common use is mounting it onto objects and creating defined shapes and patterns.
One of the nice things about releasing a project to the world is the fact that it can tranform, and et enhanced by the community. Here is how humble Paul Eliasberg describes his project:
This tutorial is nothing more than showing you my way of putting an extra frame into a standard Dippold pinhole camera. There may be other ways, but this works for me. If you haven’t made a Dippold camera before, please do so first. You can find the template and instructions here. Click to continue ›
The Black Hole series by Swiss Photographer Fabian Oefner is nothing but black.
Mixing in colors, a fast spinning drill and no less than 6 modified strobes, Fabian gives color splashes a new twist (pun intended).
The strobes used in this shoot are not your ordinary strobes, they are modified speedlights that can be dialed down till 1/40,000 of a second which is what Fabian needed to freeze the fast splashing color. Click to continue ›
Today on the blog we are hosting master light painter Patrick Rochon who collaborated with Eric Pare on a 360 light painting project. That means that unlike "regular" light painting which are 2D, the 360 light paintings can be rotated and viewed from any angle.
This part of the project is called Liftoff Liftoff 360º and is summed in the video below. More info, awesome light painting and gear satisfaction after the jump. Click to continue ›
