This is what a US Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter looks like from a distance as it strafes the night sky: A graceful curve of light with only arcs of sparks to reveal that it’s actually spewing ammunition.
Navy photographer Eric C. Burgett pays homage to a classic 1949 Life magazine photoseries in this gorgeous shot of an MV-22 Osprey taking off from the Navy’s amphibious assault ship USS Boxer.
There’s something magical about traveling alone. Yes, there are more risks involved, but it pays dividends in nimbleness. Eventually, though, you get tired of talking to yourself (or your GoPro), you have trouble following your audiobook, and you’ve been through all of your pre-downloaded music. Having an ally on your…
Your 3-day weekend is over. BUT! The explosions. Those live on.
Long exposure photos of cars at night look like comets shooting down the highway. And for this week’s Shooting Challenge, you captured them in all of their stellar glory.
It’s one of the coolest, simple effects in photography. A car zooms by in the night. You capture it looking like Tron. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, capture long, luxurious exposure of cars at night.
Rainbows are visual desserts, you're always happier after you see them. But we don't see them enough! Not with a Pixelstick though. It's a giant stick that has 198 LEDs that can be programmed to display colorful rainbows, 3D cubes, pulsating magic carpets and so on in your light paintings. Basically wave, set your…
Photographer Rolf Maeder recently traveled to the Grand Canyon in hopes of taking some pictures of the sunset, but an incoming lightning storm required a change of plans. This astonishing photo of multiple lightning bolts and brilliantly illuminated canyon sky is the result.
Does this video remind you of being drunk, dizzy, or in some woozy dream-state? Whatever feeling it conjers, you've definitely never seen animated photos like this before.
This font, called Phone Streak, might not be the most practical typeface in the world, but it was probably the most fun to create—because it was put together by capturing long exposures of an iPhone being swept through the air.
Photographer Yume Cyan has been recasting the fireflies around Nagoya City, Japan, as fairy lights in a series of long-exposure photos. The momentary flashing of each bug becomes part of a bioluminescent trail it winds through the trees.
The Roomba can keep your floors clean, but with a little setup, they can also make art across your living room. Some Roomba owners have use their robot vacuum cleaners, LEDs, and a camera set to take long-exposure photos to create robot-made light paintings.
I'm such a wild sleeper that sometimes I wake up in the most awkward of positions. Face planted, facing the wrong direction, diagonal, on the completely other side—you name it, I've woken up in it. I was always wanted to know my movement patterns. Photographer Paul Schneggenburger created a photography series that…
Check out this spectacular and incredibly vivid long exposure capture by fine art photographer Amery Carlson. It's a photograph of a lightning storm taken off the coast of Ventura, California (what is officially the city of San Buenaventura).
The human figure is one of the most classic motifs in art. For this week's Shooting Challenge, you used modern camera equipment to reimagine shape and movement. The results are fantastic.
Here's a little five minute vacation for your brain. Check out these gorgeous images from Polish photographer Boguslaw Strempel, who rises early to catch the stunning morning scenes pictured here. Captured in the rolling mountains of Poland and the Czech Republic, jaw dropping doesn't begin to describe them.
We already know that one long exposure photo can be incredible. But what if you stack multiple long exposures, combining their perspectives in Photoshop? You cover more time, you can see more light. And the effect is remarkable.
You ever see a photo that looks like it's raining sparks? It was probably made through a trick with steel wool. And for this week's Shooting Challenge, you can try the technique yourself, BUT CAREFULLY, AND AT YOUR OWN RISK!
The world is always spinning. But what if we could stop, just for a moment, and let it all wash over us? These 32 long exposure photographs from this week's Shooting Challenge consider the possibilities.
We're surrounded by motion everywhere we go. Yet cameras capture still images, single moments. For this week's Shooting Challenge, you'll capture a person frozen inside a bustling, kinetic world.
