Inspiration

    These emotional photos of butterfly memorial at a wedding will leave you speechless
    Jul 4, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    There’s a common belief that our loved ones sometimes visit us as butterflies after they pass away. When she photographed a wedding a few weeks…

    NASA captures the galaxy’s most epic stellar “fireworks”
    Jul 3, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    The Independence Day is just around the corner in the US, and it means we’ll get to see (and shoot) lots of epic fireworks. But…

    Has social media turned photography into a competition?
    Jul 3, 2019 Andy Hutchinson

    Being a photographer used to be pretty simple. You had a camera, you had a subject you liked photographing and you used to go out…

    This is what it was like to be a cinematographer of The Empire Strikes Back
    Jul 3, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    All of us writing for DIYP are into photography and/or filmmaking, and since you follow our blog, I believe you are, too. But are you…

    Getting out of creative rut: what happens when a portrait photographer tries to shoot street photos
    Jul 3, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    I believe we all hate it when we get stuck in a creative rut. But hey, it happens, and there are ways to overcome it….

    This stunning macro footage shows 11 elements that make up your body
    Jul 3, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    Beauty of Science has presented us with some amazing video before. To celebrate The International Year of the Periodic Table, the team has created a…

    The weird lens guy came to my studio to shoot wet plates
    Jul 3, 2019 Markus Hofstätter

    Some time ago I did a project together with Mathieu Stern. Back then, we communicated via Skype. Because of that, I was super happy to…

    Poolside photoshoot inspires a viral message to all young moms: “social media isn’t real”
    Jul 2, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    When you see thousands of “perfect” images on Instagram, it’s easy to think that other people are living lives that are better than yours. But…

    Photographer captures two bears fighting from just a few feet away
    Jul 2, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    We’ve seen some pretty wacky, scary, and plain stupid encounters of photographers and bears. Finnish photographer Tero Pylkkänen was lucky enough to capture a video…

    Drone pilot captures the frightening moment he spots a shark approaching his family
    Jul 2, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

    While his wife and kids were playing in the shallow water at New Smyrna Beach in Florida, Dan Watson decided to take their photo from…