It has never been easier to shoot and share photos than in our modern Instagram age. The YouTube puppet web series Glove and Boots made this tongue-in-cheek 5-minute video on the “terrible history of photographs” to explain how much time and effort it took to do photography in past eras. Back in 2012, Glove and […]
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Photography -- is it a lucrative and glamorous job filled with travel, a hobby with an eye-watering amount spent on unnecessary gear, or something in between? Photographer Niels de Kemp pokes fun at the different misconceptions people have about what photography is all about in this humorous 2.
I can’t think of any other profession outside of photography where the pros obsess about their tools quite as much as we do. I’ll pause for a moment so you can write your own joke. There is no logical reason to replace a perfectly good lens with another version of the same when the previous […]
This article is a (tongue-in-cheek) description of the progression of your everyday street photographer — the 8 stages every street photographer will inevitably find themselves journeying through.
German freelance photographer Samuel Lintaro Hopf made thus humorous 8-minute video that features a whole bunch of things you may hear coming out of a Leica photographer’s mouth. Founded as Ernst Leitz Wetzlar in 1869 by Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany, Leica is an iconic camera company that has produced cameras popular among photojournalists, documentary […]
You missed out on that big first wave of Instagram stardom, you jumped on YouTube too late and now your Facebook page’s dwindling audience lives exclusively in Murmansk. You feel like your landscape photography is as good as (or better than) all these big-name photographers and you just want a slice of the cake. How […]
The photographer’s “journey” is, generally speaking, a pretty predictable thing. We all go through certain “phases” as we pick up and learn this craft—some more gracefully than others—and so, in the spirit of lighthearted candor, photographer and YouTuber Evan Ranft has decided to share his take on the 8 major phases of being a photographer. […]
Need a chuckle? Photographer and filmmaker Caleb Knueven made this tongue-in-cheek short film titled “8×10 | My First Exposure. ” The 8-minute video tells the story of Knueven’s first experience in large-format photography in the excessively sentimental style often seen these days.