Posts by Author: Alex Baker
Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe
Create dynamic animal portraits with food-grade coloured powder
Feb 25, 2022
Alex Baker
How do you make agility dogs looks even more awesome? You add a dramatic coloured powder of course! DIYP took a look at these amazing…
Can a $500 lens possibly perform as well as a $26,000 lens? Let’s find out
Feb 24, 2022
Alex Baker
Seems like a perfectly idiotic question right? I mean, how could a $500 lens possibly be as good as a $26,000 lens? And who drops…
Canon celebrates 35 years of its EOS system next month
Feb 24, 2022
Alex Baker
Canon users should get out the balloons this coming March and join in the celebrations of 35 years of Canon’s EOS system! The EOS label…
Watch this stop motion film made out of over 600 light-painted still images
Feb 23, 2022
Alex Baker
There’s light painting, and then there’s this light-painted stop motion film produced by Photographer Darren Pearson. The film is a light-painted Western called ‘Fiat Lux’…
Learn to shoot wine bottles with this brilliant lighting breakdown
Feb 22, 2022
Alex Baker
How many times have you been browsing an online wine catalogue or a magazine and stopped to really appreciate the photographs of the bottles? A…
Photographer recreates famous landmarks out of household items
Feb 22, 2022
Alex Baker
What do photographers do when they can’t travel anywhere and are stuck at home? Well, the last two years have seen an awful lot of…
Should you use Jpeg or Png? Here’s the final answer to the question
Feb 18, 2022
Alex Baker
I know, I know, you’ve all likely been up countless nights stressing about whether that image should have been saved as a Jpeg or a…
This wearable camera will lip-read your secret Siri requests
Feb 17, 2022
Alex Baker
Have you ever needed to use your voice-activated assistant to ask something a bit embarrassing when you’re in a crowded place? Or what if you’re…
Astronaut captures beautiful image of both Earth and the moon from the International Space Station
Feb 17, 2022
Alex Baker
Images taken from the International Space Station never seem to disappoint, and the latest from astronaut Mark Vande Hei definitely belongs in the awesome pile….
These extreme macro shots will make you appreciate the humble fly in a whole new way
Feb 16, 2022
Alex Baker
There are macro images, and then there are extreme macro images. Photographer Marco Retana from Costa Rica specialises in macro images of insects that are…