Today's featured photo is chosen from ViewBug (The World's Best Photo Contests) community. This photo was taken during the opening ceremony of 2013 Singapore National Day. I used a Canon 5D Mark 3 with a 24-70mm F2.8 lens. Originally, I wanted to use my 70-200mm with 2x extender to get a close up shot of the planes. As we were waiting for the planes, I switched first to 24-70mm lens to get some cityscapes shots. Then all of a sudden everybody was pointing to the sky as the planes were already approaching. Unable to switch lenses, I continued … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Jose Viven
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Featured Photo by Jason Zollan
"With mommy out to lunch with a friend, this day was daddy daughter day. We played, we walked, we napped, but it was a perfect time to sneak a picture. I cycled through a lot of different set ups before arriving here. I originally had Britton on a steamer trunk with pillows, but didn't like it. Then I had her sitting on the bass drum with a guitar in the background, but hated it. Eventually I got here.Once I offered her the sticks, she took right to it, and we were off. She's so used to my pictures now, she actually smiles when the speedlight … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Jason Zollan
Featured Photo by Raya Steinsdotter
"My name is Steinsdotter, and I am a self-taught amateur photographer based in Norway. I have always loved photography, but just recently found my way in this beautiful world of art. Because that's how I see it, we can create magic! My biggest love is the style of Black & White, and people. So I shoot mostly portraits. This picture is of my daughter. And belong to a series called 'The 52 Week Project', started by the fabolous Jodi over at the blog Practising Simplisity. It's taken from the outside, looking into our basement. I chose this … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Raya Steinsdotter
Featured Photo by Namour Filho
Fuij X100S f/2 1/1000 ISO 1000To see more of Namour's's work, see his portfolio If you would like your photo featured, read this article.Were excited to feature your work to the Photofocus audience!______ … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Namour Filho
Featured Photo by Aydin Palabiyikoglu
"The photograph was taken at March 2nd, 2014 just after sunset by using Nikon D800 camera, Sigma 20mm f/1.8 Lens and ND filter. Pavilion lighted by halogen flood light while previous storms leftover altocumulus clouds moving on t he sky. It is total 120sec exposure at f/10 aperture at 100 ISO setting. "You can see "Belfry of Friendship" (Ujeong-ui Jonggak), which houses the bell, and massive bronze Korean Bell of Friendship (ujeong-uijong-gag) inside the house. The bell was presented by the Republic of Korea to the American people to celebrate … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Aydin Palabiyikoglu
Featured Photo by Wisam Hisan
Photo Title: A Wedding Gone Wrong. People usually don't like me (or any photographer for that matter) taking their photos, unfortunately the feeling is mutual, I don't like shooting people and prefer landscapes and architecture. But when I am in a situation where I am shooting people Id like to capture emotions and not only faces and that is usually a natural smile or a laugh which I have to tease out of my subject. Knowing that I try to challenge myself to shoot more people to improve my ability to capture those emotions. So when I decided … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Wisam Hisan
Featured Photo by Brenda Rivera
"Austin weather has been unreal this year from cold to ice to warm to rain. On this particular morning we had steady rain and as I was leaving for work I looked at my rose plant and saw the water bubbles on the leaves. I could not resist to take a picture but instead of going into the house to get my DSLR, I took out my phone - Samsung Galaxy III and snapped this picture. As a photographer the one thing I value is what I see, whether its emotion or scenery - I want my pictures to invoke emotion and this one remains me that spring is coming. … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Brenda Rivera
Featured Photo by Peter Steiner
"I am a portrait photographer based in Innsbruck, Austria. The urge to reveal an inner truth of my subjects not obvious at a first glance drives my work. I like to walk a narrow line between capturing the natural appearance and injecting an artistic notion that makes the result grab the viewers attention. Thats where I feel subjects telling a really compelling story. This photograph is part of a series that studies the opposing sides of our passions. Color, contrast, and tonality create a strong tension. Hesitant and uncertain expression of … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Peter Steiner
Featured Photo by David Pollard
Title: Rideau River and former Ottawa City Hall (1958-2000) "I am a self-taught, amateur photographer based for the last 22 years in Ottawa, Canada. My photographic interests are varied, ranging from landscape, to abstract, and to anything else that catches my fancy. Notwithstanding, over the past year I have become increasingly interested in long exposure photography. On this morning in August 2013, I set out to try and capture the movement of the Rideau River as it passes by Ottawa's iconic former City Hall building. Unfortunately, at that … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by David Pollard
Featured Photo: Foggy Morning on the Puget Sound by Steve Bisig
Photo: Foggy Morning on the Puget Sound During the last week of January 2014, a high pressure weather pattern was persistent over the Puget Sound region of Washington State, which during the Winter typically results in low laying fog during the morning hours. I knew that the foggy weather would allow for very clean, high contrast photos of the old dock pilings along the Ruston Way waterfront in Tacoma, Washington. So over a period of two days, I captured a series of photographs in which I selected ten of the images for a small photo project. … [Read more...] about Featured Photo: Foggy Morning on the Puget Sound by Steve Bisig
Featured Photo by Nicki Upstairs
I am a self-taught amateur photographer based in Thessaloniki, Greece. Capturing moments is something that has always fascinated me. Until recently my photography was focused mainly in landscapes and everyday life. Then I was introduced to the magical world of conceptual photography and I felt butterflies in my stomach. I knew that this was the kind of photography that I wanted to do from now on. I decided I wanted to change my style, so I can express my emotions and my thoughts through my photography, hoping to provoke emotions and thoughts to … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Nicki Upstairs
Featured Photo by Michael Pachis
We can't all make a trip to Africa but fortunately I live just 20 minutes from the world class Memphis Zoo. Zoos afford the average photographer the opportunity to create high impact images of beautiful and exotic animals. There is not the difficulty of capturing an image in the wild, but you do have the challenge of minimizing the unnatural aspects of captive animals. I think of my Zoo photography as animal portraiture trying to capture the essence of the animal, and hopefully eliciting a response in the viewer to care about and conserve the … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Michael Pachis
Featured Photo by Jason Zollan
Editors Note: Each week well be featuring members of the Photofocus community. Part of our New Years resolution is to focus on new and emerging talent. As such, Melissa Niu will personally select images from our readers and feature them here on Photofocus. Not a crazy story here, but I just wanted to capture Boots (that's the cat), with a quintessential shot of a cat playing with some yarn. I was playing with him and was able to catch him in action right as he pounced on the string. Photo was taken with a YN 560 flash bounced off the … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Jason Zollan
Featured Photo by Mike Criss
Editors Note: Each week well be featuring members of the Photofocus community. Part of our New Years resolution is to focus on new and emerging talent. As such, Melissa Niu will personally select images from our readers and feature them here on Photofocus. A lot of people have asked me about my composite image featuring my step-daughter. Coki is in her first year of cross-country skiing at Colony High School here in Wasilla, Alaska. She is doing great as a freshman and has already skied for the varsity team. I wanted to get some photos of … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Mike Criss
Featured Photo by Anders Lönnfeldt
Editors Note: Each week well be featuring members of the Photofocus community. As such, Melissa Niu will personally select images from our readers and feature them here on Photofocus. We had a photo shoot together with the model, who is also my friend, a couple of weeks ago. The location was an old cinema here in Helsinki, which is nowadays used as a concert venue. The old architecture in this old building is really beautiful at some places, like where I took this photo. In this photo my friend is actually sitting in a sofa in front of a old … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Anders Lönnfeldt
Featured Photo by Stephen Vosloo
If I could, I'd marry this light. Recently, while watching one of my photo heroes, Mr. Joel Grimes, teach an online workshop, he demonstrated a technique he developed based on classic Rembrandt lighting. He discovered that instead of mounting the light in the center of the soft-box, moving the source of the light all the way to the side achieved far greater control over how the light hit his subject. The appeal of this moodier type of light we all find so beautiful is its subtle transition from light to shadow. By changing the location of … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Stephen Vosloo
Featured Photo By Stephane Jean
_____________________ In this, now 3 1/2 years old experiment, I wanted to offer a sense of traveling in a waking dream state, kind of like when youre traveling by car at night, day dreaming, letting your eyes wander out the window with no real focus. The scene was some distant lights from a bus garage across a narrow portion of the lake that divides the small town, where I live and which provided me with some nice reflections. The shot was made with what you might call reversed light painting, as the lights were fixed and the painting … [Read more...] about Featured Photo By Stephane Jean
Featured Photo By Wasim Muklashy
Editors Note: Each week well be featuring members of the Photofocus community. Part of our New Years resolution is to focus on new and emerging talent. As such, Melissa Niu will personally select images from our readers and feature them here on Photofocus. _____________________ When you feel something, your mind and body are trying to tell you something. Listen. Don't ignore. Today was just another reminder of that basic instinct that we so often and easily seem to lose touch with in our hyper-connected day and age. There were a few things … [Read more...] about Featured Photo By Wasim Muklashy
Featured Photo By Crystal Dickerson-Hancock
_____________________ She Rests is the concluding image in The Poetry of Dreams series. The series is a set of self portraits that look at the universal archetypal character of the any woman. This particular image was made on a icy cold day, just after the sun had gone down on an abandonded dirt road behind my familys home near Wrightwood, CA. I used all natural light to create an alluring surreal state. The dress is an original from the 1940s and the suitcase is from the late 1800s. I prefer to use vintage props to add a sence of a by-gone … [Read more...] about Featured Photo By Crystal Dickerson-Hancock
Featured Photo By Jack Larson
_____________________ Corvallis, Oregon, where I live, is surrounded on the north and the west by the McDonald Forest. When I am in town, I walk and photograph almost daily in the forest. Autumn is always one of the prettiest times. When there is lots of fog, like there was this year, the forest takes on a mystical aura. As I was walking along, what especially attracted me to this scene was the way that the trail was covered with autumn leaves. The curve in the trail juxtaposed with the vertical tree trunks created that combination of the … [Read more...] about Featured Photo By Jack Larson
Featured Photo by Barry Mountford
Editors Note: Each week well be featuring members of the Photofocus community. Part of our New Years resolution is to focus on new and emerging talent. As such, Melissa Niu will personally select images from our readers and feature them here on Photofocus. _____________________ I am an Artist/photographer based in the northeast of England from a town called Gateshead, married and dad of two beautiful kids who are my biggest inspiration! I love compositing images. It just feels right, the whole process absolutely grabs me! I do get a hunger … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Barry Mountford
Featured Photo by Scot Hampton
This was shot on one of those warm nights we had in early November. (I was in a t-shirt...sorry East coasters!) Anyway, I had been wanting to shoot this building at night for a while. I've been to Cafe Zoetrope a few times and love the food there, and I'm glad that Coppola bought this building and kept it true to its original character. I set up right on the North corner of Kearny and Columbus, with my one of my tripod legs in the street, which was a bit dicey as the bus would come by every 10 minutes, less then a foot away. I was stopping … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Scot Hampton
Featured Photo by Roman Schatz
_____________________ This photo is part of a series of landscape images that explores both the visual and emotional aspects of the environment. For the past two years, I have made weekly visits to a lily pond near my home, in search of new ways of interpreting the space and form I encounter. For this image I used an old manual analog lens, mounted on a Lumix G2. I love working with older lenses as they slow me down and make my compositions more considered. I work as an artist and use photography as part of my visual language. I recently … [Read more...] about Featured Photo by Roman Schatz
Photofocus Now Showcasing Featured Photos
At Photofocus, we've always tried to put the spotlight on talented people. We feel one of the best ways to learn and enjoy photography is by sharing fresh images and new voices. Our podcast has interviews with a bunch of inspirational folks three times a month. Our Photographer of the Week segment interviews an interesting professional every Monday. Take a look at photo history with our A Photographer You Should Know every Sunday. Now it's your turn. Each week we'll be featuring members of the Photofocus community. Part of our New Year's … [Read more...] about Photofocus Now Showcasing Featured Photos
