As creative professionals, we all spend a lot of time and effort on social media to promote our brands and get our work out there. I personally contribute to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and 500px. However, after a recent spike of ghost account followers and image views on my 500px account, I have been trying to quantify an actual real world business value of social media followers. Does a huge number of fake social media followers have value?...

There are plenty of amazing landscape photographers out there whose work we follow and admire. But other than creating fantastic images, there are some other traits they share. Mark Denney has figured out seven habits and characteristics shared by highly successful landscape photographers. He talks about them in the video below, so let’s see if you agree, and if you have these traits, too.Advertisements 1. Overcoming obstacles 1. Overcoming obstacles...

Every once in awhile we stumble across a really cool time lapse. This is the case with Urbanique Chicago by Chris Biela. This 4K timelapse was shot in Chicago for a little over 8 months, and has amassed quite an impressive amount of footage – 65k photos and 250 clips. While you may think that the darkness and eerie locations were the main concern, it was actually balancing the project with a full-time job and a family:...

Drones have become widespread in photography and filmmaking, and their applications keep growing. Researchers at UC Berkeley’s High Performance Robotics Laboratory (HiPeRLab) have created a drone that shrinks mid-flight so it can squeeze through small spaces. The drone is, for now, only a prototype. Instead of rigid connections between its arms and the central body, there are sprung hinges. These hinges allow for the arms of the drone to fold down when low thrusts are produced by the propellers....

Photobombs can be the most annoying or the most hilarious thing. I especially love it when animals photobomb humans. This photobomb that interrupted KTVU’s weather report is funny as hell and so darn cute! What seems to be huge crow has photobombed the camera in the middle of the report and made the TV crew have a good laugh. While Mark Tamayo was reporting about the San Francisco weather, the bird suddenly appeared on the screen....