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Update: It looks like many of these courses are no longer available. In …
Update: It looks like many of these courses are no longer available. In …
Here's a "carry around" tripod for your carry around lens and camera: The ZipShot is a "compact, ultra-light tripod" by Tamrac that has aluminum-alloy legs that resemble the collapsible poles used in tents. While it's not very useful in windy situations, or with heavy professional gear, it might suffice for most ordinary uses and lighter cameras (supposedly it can hold up to 3lb). The biggest benefits are obviously weight (11oz) and setup time.
About a week ago, San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge launched its own space program, Spacebridge.
Caleb Charland is a Maine-based photographer who combines a love of scientific experiments and photographs into wonderful and amazing photographs.
Liquid Scale is an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that offers content aware image resizing. What does that mean? Basically it's like a URL shortener for your photographs, reducing the dimensions of the photograph but retaining the meaning.
When I’ve needed to take quick self portraits with my DSLR, one of the tricks I’ve discovered is to …
One of the best online photo editors is now completely free to use. Aviary …
Pentax recently asked a couple production companies to shoot short films demonstrating the HD filming capabilities of the Pentax's flagship K-7. After the recent flurry of short films shot with Canon and Nikon DSLRs, it seems Pentax would like to remind us all that they're still in the game. The two films were recently released, and are titled "Uncle Jack" (embedded above) and "The Rider".
If you’re looking to set up a portfolio website for your photography, New York-based photographer …
It’s no secret that Polaroid has seen its share of financial troubles over the last few years. This year, Polaroid …
Here’s a story that’s sure to drop your jaws: A Spanish trawlerman named Benito Estevez was recently fishing off the …
If you’re addicted to The Big Picture like we are, then you probably …
Just in time for the Winter Olympics, Google announced on Tuesday that Street View now includes imagery of several runs at Whistler Blackcomb ski resort, where many of the events will be held. To capture the photographs, Street View cameras were mounted on a snowmobile that made runs down the slopes.
The Nikon Coolpix site now features an interesting tool for viewing photos, utilizing …
We’re not sure whether it’s worth it in terms of cost, but here’s a …
Some of you might know that popular photo sharing service Flickr was originally a set of tools built for a massively multiplayer online game called Game Neverending. In November of 2009 we also reported that Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr, had left Flickr and was returning to his original project, Game Neverending.
If you’d like to take nicer looking photographs of small objects, but don’t want to spend money buying a …
Nikonians rejoice! Nikon has just announced two new lenses: the AF-S NIKKOR 24mm f/1.4G …
After Polaroid announced that it would stop producing instant film in 2008, a group called …
This morning Apple introduced the latest version of their photo editing software: Aperture 3. The $199 program ($99 …
Aaron Gustafson, a Seattle-based artist, has become the first person to ever shoot large format photographs while skydiving. Using a custom large format helmet camera he designed himself, Gustafson made one large format photograph on each jump while traveling at speeds upwards of 130 miles per hour.
A German tourist was recently photographing at Sankt Peter-Ording in northern Germany, and ventured onto the frozen sea to …
Last week we reported that a photographer was in hot water after photographing public art and selling …
Today's big story is announcement of the Canon 550D, also known as the Canon Rebel T2i. This camera offers many of the same features as the Canon 7D, including an 18 megapixel sensor, an ISO range of 100–6400, full 1080p video (at 30, 24 or 25fps with manual exposure control), 1.6x crop factor, and a 3-inch LCD screen.
On June 8, 1924, mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set out on an expedition to become the first …
The humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), recently started a supplemental site, Images Without Borders, in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti.
For the past two weeks, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi has been beaming down photographs of Earth from the International Space Station using his TwitPic account. The photographs, taken with a Nikon D2Xs, show various cities and landmarks around the world as the ISS flies roughly 200 miles overhead at an average of 17,227 mph.
If you’ve ever wondered just how much editing goes into a particular photograph, there’s …
Most of you probably know that JPEG is lossy compression method, meaning compression permanently throws out data and detail. Luckily, a typical compression can save 10 times the space of an uncompressed image without sacrificing much noticeable quality. However, if the image is repeatedly compressed and saved, artifacts introduced during compression become more and more obvious.
Last week, we posted news that Oren Lavie’s music video for “Her Morning Elegance,” …
At the beginning of the week, Hasselblad announced the H4D-40 medium format DSLR, and stated the camera …
Looking for a neat new way to show off your photographs? Foldplay has a cool web application that can help you print and fold your very own kaleidocycle, a moving paper sculpture that turns endlessly.
Our latest giveaway for a Tamron AF18-270mm is now over, and it was by far our most popular …
The Shorty Awards now have a prize dedicated to Twitter photography: …
This news might come as a buzzkill for some Facebook users: Facebook’s unofficial …
In February 2008, Seattle-based photographer Mike Hipple received a letter from the lawyers …
Billionaire Michael Dell's investment firm MSD Capital, L.P has purchased the entire New York print archive of renowned photo agency Magnum Photos, totaling nearly 200,000 images. The collection includes some of the most iconic images throughout history, including photos of world leaders, celebrities, and major events such as World War II. Though the price was not disclosed, the collection was previously insured for over $100 million.