Photography

It might take a moment for you to notice the kayaker in the picture above. What your eye will focus on first will be a vast wall of blue-white ice, running the full width of the frame, with a flat white sky above it and dark, churning water below. Eventually, though, you’ll spot a tiny figure in a boat tipped steeply downward, plummeting down a waterfall that streams through a notch in the…

Forced perspective is a camera trick that makes small things appear much larger or smaller than they really are. Filmmaker Peter Jackson didn’t magically make Elijah Wood and his friends smaller in The Lord of the Rings; he just shot it so they appeared smaller (or so that Gandalf looked bigger). You can use the same idea to make a toy sports car appear as if it’s the real thing, like one…

VSCO has announced the final twenty-five images selected for The Fifty – an ongoing celebration of photography across the US, whereby selected images are displayed on billboards or large-format public displays in their creators’ home states. The open call for images earlier this year received over 13,500 entries, with VSCO unveiling the first 25 selected shots in September and billboard…

One phone call led to this award-winning sports image. It was a conversation between photographer Louis Garnier and his friend Kevin Rolland, a former world champion and multiple X Games gold medallist. “I’ve got an idea with fire. You in?” The result: An image so vivid you can almost feel the heat, with the skier flying off a pipeline in the dark, smoke billowing around him into…