When to use Adobe Photoshop vs Lightroom

If you deal with a lot of photography, you need to know what to do with it. So whether you’re a photographer or a graphic designer, which software should you be using for your design project? Adobe Photoshop vs Lightroom: which one is better? The truth is,…
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Daniel Swanick
June 21, 2017
Graphic DesignPhotographyTechnology & Innovation

Art created from light and long exposure photography

Each December for about 50 days, Finland’s northern region has a period were the sun never rises above the horizon. Photographer Hannu Huhtamo embraces the prolonged darkness by making it the canvas for his beautiful light-painting long exposure photos.
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Daniel Swanick
May 11, 2017
Art & DesignPhotographyVideo

Guetzli by Google reduces the size of JPEG files, making image transfers quicker

If you’re into digital photography and hate the wait for transferring JPEG files, this announcement is for you. Google has introduced a new algorithm that will make it possible to reduce the size of JPEG images by about 35%, without reducing the quality.
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Daniel Swanick
April 19, 2017
PhotographyTechnology & Innovation

The top 10 winners of the Sony World Photography Awards 2017

The Sony World Photography Awards is an annual competition hosted by the World Photography Organization. Recently, the largest photo competition in the world announced the winners for 2017. 
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Daniel Swanick
April 6, 2017
EverythingLifestyleNaturePhotographyTravel

Top 10 websites to get free images

Images and photography has always been an integral part of design. Unfortunately, we’ve grown accustomed to seeing unrealistic stock images of people smiling at the camera while performing a task. Not only that, but it can get rather expensive if you’re constantly purchasing images from…
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Daniel Swanick
February 7, 2017
PhotographyWeb

Best travel photos from Siena International Photo Awards

Although the Siena International Photo Awards was only conceived last year, it’s already regarded as a prestigious award. Photographers from over 100 countries around the world have submitted their images for the 2016 awards. Results for this years submission of over 15,000 photos have just been announced.…
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Daniel Swanick
November 3, 2016
PhotographyTravel

College student’s photo series protests rapists release

In June of this year, Brock Turner, a former student at Stanford University in California, was sentenced for rape. He received only six months for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster at a campus party. As you can probably imagine, many people were understandably…
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Daniel Swanick
September 26, 2016
AdvertisingPhotographySex

The 2016 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest winners

Chosen from more than 10,000 entries worldwide, these are the best travel photos of 2016.
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Daniel Swanick
July 21, 2016
PhotographyTravel

A blind artist creates a series of hypnotizing GIFs

This legally blind artist has raised the bar in the art of animated images with his ongoing series.
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Daniel Swanick
July 4, 2016
Art & DesignPhotographyWeb

Subway passengers captured like 16th century paintings

If you ride the subway to work or school, you probably encounter different types of people. Some of those people are tourists who don’t speak very good english (although some people who speak english don’t do it well either). Then there’s that whisper-fighting couple where you catch every fifth…
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Daniel Swanick
June 23, 2016
LifestylePhotography

Tiny detailed illustrations that can fit on the tip of a pencil

What's amazing about Christian Watson's artworks are how small they are.
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Daniel Swanick
April 14, 2016
IllustrationPhotography

Google’s professional photo editing software is now free

What was once a $500US package of pro photo editing software is now completely free. Google has recently announced that its Nik Collection desktop suite, a professional photo editing package, is now free for download. Acquired by Google back in 2012, the software was priced…
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Daniel Swanick
April 4, 2016
PhotographyTechnology & Innovation
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