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  • You Can Do It: Glare-Free Glass Photography Using Backlighting

    Banish glare with backlighting
    • By Peter Kolonia on September 27, 2012

    How did photographer John Kuczala render this lab glassware with such crystalline clarity? The trick, says the New York City-based tabletop specialist, is avoiding frontlight. Backlighting against white or sidelighting against black does the job. Direct frontlight, regardless of the background, ruins your shots.

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  • Low-Light Photography: An Introduction

    We talk to four pros who thrive in the shadows, creating blazingly brilliant images
    • By Peter Kolonia on September 26, 2012

    Maybe it’s human nature, but photographers often fear darkness. For many of us, it’s associated with photographic failure: obscured subjects, blur from movement and inaccurate focus, and the inability to see while shooting. Overcoming that fear and conquering darkness has helped the four photographers featured here to create dark images that are boldly streaked with brilliance. Here are their secrets.

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  • Film Lives: The Enduring Allure of Analog Photography

    The medium that was left for dead takes on new life in the hands of contemporary photographers
    • By Debbie Grossman on September 10, 2012

    Some people might say that Michael Massaia is a little bit crazy. Six months out of the year, you’ll find him lurking around empty piers and truck stops in the wee hours of the morning, toting a camera that wouldn’t look out of place in the late nineteenth century. The rest of the year he is holed up in his basement darkroom, creating platinum prints the likes of which the world has never seen.

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  • Behind The Photo: Barbara Cole's Fine Art Underwater Portrait

    Water color with a whole new meaning
    • By Laurence Chen on September 4, 2012

    When you want to dive deep into a subject, there’s nothing like immersion. And fine-art photographer Barbara Cole does just that—she finds inspiration deep in her pool. Based in Toronto, Canada, Cole has long been attracted to the reflections and patterns she sees while swimming. “The water puts me into a meditative state that allows me to think very creatively,” she says. So she wondered how she could “have fun” with a color palette you don’t normally see in water.

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