Canadian photographer Barbara Cole turns ordinary into extraordinary using only water, her camera, and imagination. You already met her through her beautiful underwater portraits. In her latest series Appearances, she took flowers and gave them a whole new look, turning them into watercolor-like images. Like most of us, the coronavirus pandemic forced Barbara into isolation. Since she couldn’t work with people, she turned to flowers in an attempt to connect with loved ones and others....

You know what they say: one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Christian Tudor from Academy of Photography has created a cool little gadget from what you would normally throw into trash. In this video tutorial, he shows you how to turn a simple biscuit box into an accessory for a creative lighting effect. You will need You will need A cameraA tripod (or two, one for the camera and one for the flash)External flashWireless trigger and receiverA long biscuit boxScissorsSome adhesive tape...

Whether it’s a mistake or a consequence of circumstances, it happens that we end up with blown-out highlights in photos. But if you shoot RAW, it’s possible to fix them. In fact, there are several ways to do it, and in this video from Adorama TV, Pye Jirsa will show you three of them to use in Lightroom and make your photos perfect. Before we begin, you can download the exercise file if you’d like to follow along....

WhatsApp is planning to turn your avatar into in-app stickers WhatsApp is planning to turn your avatar into in-app stickers This feature has been discovered in WhatsApp beta 2.22.21.3, for Android. It doesn’t seem to be widely accessible in that beta build either, at least according to reports, we haven’t tried it. Only some people seem to have access, though. Chances are this feature will roll out to other beta users really fast....

I don’t think we’ve had a stupid-selfie post for a while, but here’s a good one. A woman who has not been publicly identified had her vehicle meet a chilling end when she chose to drive across a frozen river in Ottawa, Canada. As she drove across, she hit a weak spot in the ice that caused her car to crash through its surface. While onlookers were figuring out how to get her out of there safely, she climbed onto the car’s roof to shoot a selfie while it began to sink beneath her feet....