July 2011

As Space Shuttle Atlantis left the International Space Station to head back to Earth for the final time, one …

Photographer Lori Nix spends weeks and months creating extremely detailed miniature scenes — …

Remember the strange boxy cameras that were spotted on Samsung's website a couple months ago? Turns out they were in fact digital medium format cameras, but were developed for "internal purposes" only.

Skott Chandler's House Watch project consists of photographs taken in private living spaces using a pinhole camera fixed to the ceiling.

After reading about the revolutionary "shoot first, focus later" Lytro camera that's currently in development, Canadian fashion model Coco Rocha reached out to the company to ask if they could work with a prototype.

Photographer Mike Mitchell was 18-years-old back in 1964 when he captured The Beatles on their first US tour. After sitting in a box for 45 years, 50 of the photographs were individually sold at a Christie's auction on Wednesday for a whopping $361,938.

PBS is starting a new web-only video series called “Off Book“, and the …

If you ever find yourself with some unwanted negatives on your hands, you can upcycle them into creative film …

Here’s a short clip from the talk show Stossel where American libertarian journalist …

How do you get a silverback gorilla to put a GoPro HD camera up to its face? Stuff the case full of raisins, of course!

Here’s another nail in the fail coffin for the much-hyped but not-very-popular photo-sharing app …

Los Angeles-based photographer Dave Hill created this video showing all 11 photographs in …

If you look at the Top 100 Movies chart in the iTunes Store, …

This photo that allegedly shows the mount and sensor on Nikon's upcoming mirrorless camera was just leaked onto the Chinese forum Xitek. My initial reaction was, "wow, that sensor looks small!". However, the camera is in fact rumored to have a relatively small 2.6x crop sensor (by comparison, the new Pentax Q has a 5.7x crop sensor).

Having a hard time getting a kid to smile? Children’s photographer Jennifer Tonetti-Spellman …

Update on 12/18/21: This video has been removed by its creator. NASA created this beautiful time-lapse video with photos taken …

You know you’re ballin’ as a photographer when you can use your lens collection to play a giant game …

"Vector Portraits" is a series of candid portraits of passing motorists shot by photographer Andrew Bush between 1989 and 1997 in the Los Angeles area. After making 66 of these portraits, he published a photo book with them titled "Drive".

The North Korean government is the latest to get caught trying to feed a poorly Photoshopped photo …

The WVIL concept camera that made the rounds on the Internet featured a lens that could operate separately from …

Check out this mummified camera used by Reuters photographer Jo Yong-Hak. Yong-Hak was assigned to cover the popular Boryeong Mud Festival this year in South Korea, and decided to protect his gear with some good ol' fashioned plastic wrap.

For the first time ever, an Adobe program is available through the Mac App Store. Yesterday, Adobe began selling …

Lv Sisi created this music video, titled “Digital Analogue”, using only sounds recorded …

Here's an awesome tutorial that teaches you how to create beautiful light painting sparkler photos. The materials are pretty cheap: all you need is some steel wool, an egg whisk, and a rope or cable. Simply place the steel wool inside the whisk, light it on fire using a lighter (or 9V battery), and swing it around at the end of the cable while your camera snaps a long-exposure photo. Just be careful not to start a fire!

Here’s a couple images of Sony’s upcoming A77 translucent mirror camera (with a …

On June 21, 2011, non-profit organization Shoot Experience sent out six photographers to various parts of London to see the current state of photographers' rights.

A study conducted by market research firm J.D. Power and Associates has found that "Nikon Pro Series" DSLRs rank highest in customer satisfaction. The company surveyed 4,500 verified online DSLR buyers to find out their satisfaction across five factors: image quality, durability, features, ease of use, and responsiveness.

The Nikon Pro Series ranks highest in online buyer satisfaction with a score of 914. The Nikon Pro Series performs particularly well in shutter speed/lag time, durability and reliability and ease of operation. The Canon Mark-Series follows in the rankings with a score of 909, and performs particularly well in performance and picture quality. The Canon D-Series and Nikon D-Series rank third in a tie, each with a score of 889.

Overall, customers were most satisfied with image quality but least satisfied with durability and responsiveness.

Photographer Mark Menjivar captured some interesting portraits of people across the United States by photographing the insides of their fridges. He spent three years travelling the country, gathering individual stories from people, and assembling the unique portraits in his project, titled "You Are What You Eat".

In 1839, a year after the first photo containing a human being was made, photography pioneer …

Here's how Urban Dictionary defines 'photographer'.

A compact camera probably isn't the first thing someone would grab when looking to make a photo with an extremely shallow depth-of-field, since the small aperture and small sensor limit it in this regard. That might soon be different: a recently published patent application by Samsung shows that the company is looking into producing achieving shallow depth of fields with compact cameras by using a second lens to create a depth map for each photo.

You can now create instant photo books with your favorite Instagram (AKA …

Here’s a fun photo project you can try: recreate each of Calvin’s funny face photographs from Calvin and Hobbes.

Here’s an update to the whole monkey copyright story that’s been swirling around the blogosphere as of …

In the middle of last year, Google finally gave users the option of customizing its homepage with a photograph.

Ken Murphy created this time-lapse showing an entire 360-degree view overlooking San Francisco using only a single camera:

The camera (a Canon A590 with CHDK installed) snapped an image every five seconds while the motorized mount slowly rotated, making a single rotation in 90 minutes. I assembled the images into this panoramic movie, in which each “pane” is actually the same movie, slightly offset in time. The panes combine to make a single 360-degree view. [#]

Here’s another ad from Olympus’ Get a Real Camera campaign spotted by …

Here’s a quick tip for making Photoshop faster: change Preferences->File Handling->Image Previews to …

What does four hours of a toddler playing look like when compressed into 2.5 minutes? Photographer Francis Vachon found …

You might soon be able to control Nikon DSLRs using only your emotions. A patent published recently shows that …