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How to Shoot Long-exposure Light Paintings

How to Shoot Long-exposure Light Paintings

Photographer Darius Twin is an expert at creating long-exposure images and animations like this one. In this 2-minute tutorial, he shows how to make your own light paintings using manual exposures, a shutter remote, and a focused light source. Be sure to check out his YouTube channel for more of his work.

A Compilation of Cool Camera Techniques

A Compilation of Cool Camera Techniques

Photographer Luke Edwin shows off a bunch of neat tricks for capturing amazing video shots on a shoestring budget. From using a cheap camera gimbal as a motion-control rig to pulling an action camera through scenes using an ultra-long selfie stick and string, each creative technique produces dramatic and professional-looking results.

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Google Maps x Cesium x Unreal Engine 5

Google Maps x Cesium x Unreal Engine 5

The data that Google Maps has amassed is pretty amazing. Bad Decisions Studio shows us how it’s possible to use the Google Maps API and Cesium to bring the power of its global data into Unreal Engine 5 to add your own lighting and make high-fidelity 3D renderings of any location on the planet.

How to Take Accidental Wes Anderson Photos

How to Take Accidental Wes Anderson Photos

There’s an entire photographic community inspired by the flat, symmetrical, color-coordinated world of Wes Anderson. Imitative Photography offers some great pointers on emulating the look in your original images. Beyond some basic techniques, the best and most important part is finding the right locations.

Gravity Illusion Photo Tips

Gravity Illusion Photo Tips

Thus far, humans haven’t figured out how to control gravity. But it’s easy to achieve the illusion that we can manipulate its forces through the magic of photography. COOPH shares a handful of simple tricks which use rotation and props to help sell the illusion.

High-Speed Photography Techniques

High-Speed Photography Techniques

Photographs that capture a split-second of action can be pretty amazing. The guys from COOPH put together this excellent tutorial video that shows techniques using powders, fluids, glass, and filters to capture crisp and detailed photos that seem to freeze time. Having a good flash and remote trigger can definitely help.

How to Shoot a Miniature Car Action Photo

How to Shoot a Miniature Car Action Photo

If you’re looking for tips and techniques for shooting great photos, look no further than COOPH. Their YouTube channel is packed with great tutorials like this one which shows how to shoot a photo of a miniature Ford Mustang launched off a ramp. This shot required multiple exposures to layer in the sparks, smoke, and dust.

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How to Make Images Look Engraved

How to Make Images Look Engraved

Do you like the artful, monochrome look of engravings like the illustrated portraits on currency? Texturelabs shows us how to achieve that exact look by creating a custom wavy texture, using the Oil Paint filter, and a few other tricks inside of Adobe Photoshop.

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Online Video Tutorial

Online Video Tutorial

With a basic command of Google or YouTube’s search box, you can find a video tutorial for just about anything these days. Johnny Kelly’s offers a strange compilation of some of the many things you can learn on the Internet, from how to make a robot from junk to how to tell if your pet turtle is still alive.

How to Make a Brother

How to Make a Brother

Could you use an extra kid in the house? Caleb and Kegan’s incredibly bizarre clip from Adult Swim SMALLS offers up the most peculiar digital baby since the dancing baby meme. We wonder if they used a 3D printer instead of a 2D one if things would have turned out better.

How to Make 1-Bit Pixel Art

How to Make 1-Bit Pixel Art

Brandon James Greer is a master at creating pixel art. In this tutorial video, he explains some tricks and techniques for working with the most rudimentary of color palettes. 1-bit art embraces the limitations of a low-res monochrome image to focus on composition, patterns, and textures.

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Making a Demogorgon

Making a Demogorgon

Looking for the best Halloween costume this year? Look no further than Ellimacs SFX’s brilliantly creepy version of the super nasty creature from Stranger Things. If you’ve got the time and ambition, follow along with the video, and get to cutting out those hundreds of teeth.

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