Last week, I had posted a landscape photograph for installment #8 of our How Was This Picture Taken? series. Judging from the comments, many of our readers took this exercise very seriously and posted deliberate and insightful remarks on how this photograph was visualized and constructed. I enjoyed both the aesthetic and...
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How Was This Picture Made #08?
For Part 8 of our How Was This Picture Taken? series, I have chosen the following photograph to share. On two recent road trips into the desert near my home base in Southern California, I had the pleasure of going on two landscape photo shoots, both of which I plan to write a...
How Was This Picture Made #07: The Answer
Last week I posted a portrait as the next installment to our How Was This Picture Taken series. There were a lot of great guesses and a few people even guessed the exact technique that I used to create the image! (more…)
How Was This Picture Made #07?
For Part 7 of our How Was This Picture Taken series, I have another portrait for you. Our last related article was a complete spoof and a joke (for those who did not get that it was an April Fool's joke, including our "sell-out" to Canon!), so this time we...
How Was This Picture Made #06: The Answer
Due to overwhelming emails, comments and response we got on our "How Was This Picture Made #6" post, which went viral and got us over 25 million hits (funds from which we are planning to use for the next team retreat on the beaches of Mongolia), we decided to publish...
How Was This Picture Made #06?
For Part 6 of our How Was This Picture Taken series, we have this very special photo of the Photography Life Team: UPDATE #1: The detailed answer has already been posted! UPDATE #2: Come on guys, this was an April Fool's joke! We will always continue reviewing a variety of...
How Was This Picture Made #05: The Answer
Earlier this week I posted a portrait as the next installment to our How Was This Picture Taken series. Most of our readers took this as an opportunity to stretch their brains a bit and try to use visual clues within an image to figure out how it was taken....
How Was This Picture Made #05?
For Part 5 of our How Was This Picture Taken series, I present to you: this portrait. The answer has been posted here. (more…)
How Was This Picture Made #04: The Answer
This article is the answer to my “How was this picture made?” post from a couple weeks ago. First, an apology – I intended to have this article published several days ago, but my winter classes already have taken their toll on my spare time (and sleep). That said, I...
How Was This Picture Made #04?
To continue our "How was this picture taken?" series, I would like to invite our readers to analyze this photograph and try to figure out how it was made. It may not seem out-of-the-ordinary at first glance, but this was one of the most technically-difficult photographs I have ever taken. In...