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Here’s a neat productivity tip for those of you who regularly buy stuff online (e.g. obsessive photo gear buyers): …
Here’s a neat productivity tip for those of you who regularly buy stuff online (e.g. obsessive photo gear buyers): …
Turns out the giant hand sculptures that popped up all over the world over the past few …
Photographer Nathan Seabrook made this creative stop-motion music video for the band Yuba …
At Levi’s Photo Workshop in New York City last year there was a …
Nikon's long-awaited mirrorless camera system has arrived. Today Nikon announced the new J1 and V1 mirrorless cameras and four new Nikon "1 System" lenses. The two cameras have nearly identical specs: a 10.1 megapixel CX-format (13.2mmx8.8mm) CMOS sensor with 2.7x crop factor, a 3-inch LCD screen, 10fps shooting, 1080/30p HD video recording, 1200fps slow-motion recording at 320x120, simultaneous video/still capture, 73-point hybrid autofocus, and 12-bit RAW files.
Want to adorn a wall with a giant print using your own photography? Here’s a great video in which …
While on vacation in Ireland five years ago and browsing a street fair, photographer Tom Storm captured a few shots of bubbles floating past. After reviewing the photos and discovering that a whole world was captured in the bubbles, he began to intentionally photograph bubbles while visiting landmarks around the world.
Want a challenging photography project? Try capturing an analemma in a single shot. "Analemma" is the name given to the figure-eight shape traced by the sun if photographed at the same time of day over the course of a year. To capture it, you'll need to leave your camera in a fixed position and shoot photos at exactly the same time of day for all of the shots.
All signs point to a Nikon mirrorless camera announcement at midnight tonight and, after Nikon’s strange “I …
Of all the camera lenses offered on Amazon, the $26,000 35-pound giant green Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 probably has the funniest customer reviews and images.
Today Instagram released version 2.0 of its …
Flickr user Alex12Ga turned his Canon 5D Mark II into a DIY digital view camera by mounting a Novar-Anastigmat 75mm f/3.5 lens from 1949 with its original bellows. He mounted the bellows to his camera using an aluminum plate and an EOS mount ring that he salvaged from a broken Sigma lens.
Canon has long offered its telephoto L lenses in white in order to keep the lens cooler under sunlight, …
Real estate agents make it a point to have homes look attractive in photographs, knowing that good photography can make a huge difference, but the people at animal rescue shelters often settle for second-rate photographs of the dogs they're trying to find homes for. Professional pet photographer Teresa Berg of Dallas, Texas realized that countless dogs are likely euthanized each year simply due to bad photography, and decided to make a difference. Several years ago she started doing shoots for a pet shelter free of charge, and helped increase the adoption rates there by 100%
Why sell an old photo as something historical when you can market it as something mythical? A few days …
Last Friday, Olympus partnered with JetBlue for an Oprah-style giveaway: each of the …
Nikon has set up a teaser page titled “I AM COMING”, with a …
The giant "GRIT" seen in this photograph wasn't added in post-processing. The secret? Blue painters tape.
Artist Stephen Doyle created the installation for a series of photographs that appeared in a recent New York Times Magazine article titled What if the Secret to Success is Failure?
Teenage photographers Vanessa Hollander and Wilson Philippe embarked on …
Have you ever wondered whether hall of fame athletes from decades ago would still find success if the played …
Over the weekend, Japanese blog ktf__design published this image of what appears to …
Line up an array of digital cameras and you'll have yourself a setup that can take Matrix-style bullet-time shots. Artist Sam Blanchard created a similar rig, but went with Polaroid cameras instead of digital ones. The project, titled Polaroid Matrix, consists of 20 Polaroid cameras arranged in a circle and modified to be triggered remotely. After the cameras are triggered to simultaneously capture photos of the subject in the center, the Polaroid pictures are arranged and turned into a Flipbook.
Last year Canon announced the world’s largest CMOS sensor — an 8-inch chip that’s 40 times the …
This incredible time-lapse video was created using photos captured from the International Space Station at night. [It] begins over …
tokyo camera style by John Sypal (see our interview with him) is a popular website documenting the analog camera culture in Tokyo, Japan by sharing photographs of cameras being used on the streets -- it's like The Sartorialist except for cameras instead of fashion. If you're a fan of the site and love browsing photos of old school cameras people use, you'll be happy to know that there's a number of similar websites for other cities and places around the world.
Philosopher and Georgia Tech professor Ian Bogost gave this short talk recently on …
If you’re the proud owner of a Sony NEX-5N but have been pulling out your hair due to strange …
Photo fads are themselves growing as a fad -- after "planking" became a worldwide Internet sensation earlier this year, it seems like every week a silly new idea is introduced as "the new planking".
Since photography emerged in the early 1800s, the number of photographs created every year has grown exponentially. A dramatic …
Here are the recordings of all the "Is Photography Over?" panel sessions hosted by SFMOMA that we referred to earlier today:
Photography has almost always been in crisis. In the beginning, the terms of this crisis were cast as dichotomies: is photography science or art? Nature or technology? Representation or truth? This questioning has intensified and become more complicated over the intervening years. At times, the issues have required a profound rethinking of what photography is, does, and means. This is one of those times. Given the nature of contemporary art practice, the condition of visual culture, the advent of new technologies, and many other factors, what is at stake today in seeing something as a photograph? What is the value of continuing to speak of photography as a specific practice or discipline? Is photography over? [#]
The videos run a total of 5 hours altogether, so you'll need to set aside a good amount of time to chew through the talks. You can also find transcripts of the sessions and more information about the experts here.
Google Street View is neat in that it allows you to step into …
In April of last year, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art held a two day summit on the …
Facebook is by far the world’s largest photo service, but how does its massive image collection compare with other …
You’ve probably seen videos showing the rolling shutter effect turning airplane …
Canon sent out this teaser yesterday stating that it’s going to be making some kind of game-changing announcement on …
YouTube user smithje77 and his dog recently embarked on a cross-country road trip …
On September 2nd, a woman in Northern California named Debbie Payne heard a loud crash and, upon investigating, found a smashed Canon 24-105mm lens on the ground and a gaping 9-inch hole in her roof. Now the police department in Petaluma is trying to figure out how the lens apparently fell from the sky.
Want to add some simple panning action to a time-lapse video? Trying using a cheap IKEA kitchen timer. GetawayMoments has a tutorial on how to convert a $2-$6 timer from IKEA into a simple device for your time-lapse projects.
Regardless of how bad photographers’ rights seem to be in your country, here’s a story that will definitely make …