Photography is more than merely capturing a still image – the still-shot photographers featured here will amaze you with mind-bending and world-inverting techniques from glamorous HDR to dark ultraviolet and tools ranging from trash-can cams to pinhole cameras, while the urban cinematographers in this section can twist and warp reality in motion.
Just looking at these optical illusions by conceptual artist Philippe Ramette might give you a bit of vertigo. Without the use of Photoshop or any other image manipulation, Ramette seems to shift ...
Jarringly out-of-place in Abu Dhabi's Emirates Palace and the St. Peter Mancroft Church in Norwich, England, a massive inflatable red ball perches on balconies, squeezes through doorways and ...
Wedding photos are nice to have, but a pain to sit through. When a photographer helps the soon-to-be married couple take their photography in a fun and unique direction, the process becomes a ...
Roombas, those little robotic vacuum cleaners, zoom around cleaning the floor without requiring you to lift a finger. Hitting furniture and walls, they simply back up and move in another ...
These days, just about anyone can alter and collage various elements into a scene using digital technology like Photoshop. But artist Sandy Skoglund has been producing surreal imagery for decades ...
Scanning Electron Microscopy allows scientists to enter a miniature world full of fantastic creatures and otherworldly objects. When viewed on such an incredibly small scale, the most mundane ...
Iconic paintings by artists like Leonardo DaVinci, Sandro Botticelli and Georges Seurat have become an intrinsic part of our cultural landscape, even as we progress far beyond the time periods in ...
Forced perspective photography is a simple and effective way to mess with viewers' eyes and brains by playing on perceived visual perception. Following up on last year's awesome assemblage of 15 ...
Words, ghostly forms and streaks of ethereal light take shape when photographers move a light source around in a frame while taking a long-exposure image. Variously known as light art, light ...
Streaks of light, trailing stars, smoothly swirling water, surreal color gradients and stretched wisps of cloud - all of these effects are possible using a long-duration shutter speed when taking ...
