The Amazing Courage and Tenacity of a Conflict Photographer
The New York Times has a powerful piece about photographer …
The New York Times has a powerful piece about photographer …
The power of the Internet is awesome when it helps reunite people with lost photos, but it’s …
Here’s a nice bit of encouragement for times when you feel like everyone else is coming up with neat …
Why settle for one boring lightning bolt when you can show 70+ bolts in the same photograph? Photographer Chris …
A company called Lytro has just launched with $50 million in funding and, unlike Color, the technology is pretty mind-blowing. It's designing a camera that may be the next giant leap in the evolution of photography -- a consumer camera that shoots photos that can be refocused at any time. Instead of capturing a single plane of light like traditional cameras do, Lytro's light-field camera will use a special sensor to capture the color, intensity, and vector direction of the rays of light (data that's lost with traditional cameras).
[...] the camera captures all the information it possibly can about the field of light in front of it. You then get a digital photo that is adjustable in an almost infinite number of ways. You can focus anywhere in the picture, change the light levels — and presuming you’re using a device with a 3-D ready screen — even create a picture you can tilt and shift in three dimensions. [#]
Try clicking the sample photograph above. You'll find that you can choose exactly where the focus point in the photo is as you're viewing it! The company plans to unveil their camera sometime this year, with the goal of having the camera's price be somewhere between $1 and $10,000...
Film director André Chocron created this beautiful music video for the song “Time …
NASA captured this incredible photograph of the tornado that tracked across Massachusetts last …
Swedish Alex Breton spent 11 years and and $10 million developing the PrintBrush, …
After Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on its final mission, a woman named Stefanie Gordon snapped …
Reddit user Bryce Hoeper recently broke an old Zeiss Ikon Contina L he purchased for $7 from Goodwill after it took a nasty tumble down some stairs. After being bummed for a while, he stumbled upon Timur Civan's experiment with sticking a 102-year old lens on a modern DSLR, and decided to attempt the same thing. He spent a few hours taking apart the camera body to extract the lens, then super glued it to a Canon body cap that he cut a hole in, allowing the lens to be mounted to his Canon 5D Mark II.
Hong Kong-based camera enthusiast TM Wong has 1000+ instant cameras in his collection -- possibly the world's largest collection. That's enough cameras to use a different one each day for nearly three years!
Having old photographs restored is a service that many residents in China can't afford, but a 76-year-old man named Baojun Yuan is doing his part to help his fellow citizens by offering his astonishing Photoshop talents free of charge. After learning how to use the program when he was 60 years old, Yuan purchased a computer and scanner, and has fixed more than 2,000 photographs. He says, "my teacher just taught me how to repair the photos, but he forgot to tell me how to charge."
As the world of photography collides with the world of computing in smart phones, we will undoubtedly be seeing …
Photographer Cary Norton built a working 4x5 large format camera using Lego bricks, a 127mm lens he purchased for $40 on eBay, and a film holder and ground glass in the back.
Landscape photographer Terje Sorgjerd spent four years looking to create a timelapse of …
You probably won’t believe this, but this fly-by video of Saturn wasn’t created with 3D computer graphics. Instead, it …
"Double Exposure" is a series of surreal photos by Dan Mountford creating by exposing single frames of film twice. While they look like photo-manipulations done with fancy image editing programs, Mountford relies on fancy camerawork for the images, leaving only the color additions/modifications to post-processing.
If you thought Google Earth was cool, check out the work being done by Swedish corp …
What do you get when you combine a design-less white living room with two projectors and …
This creative time-lapse video (a commercial for Volvo) shows a beautiful outdoor scene transform from one season to another …
Lyrebirds are ground-dwelling Australian birds that have the remarkable ability to mimic sounds, …
We’re lucky that cameras and camcorders can be used during flights, or we wouldn’t have this amazing view of …
All of us can now experience what it’s like to accidentally fall off a giant cliff thanks to a …
If there was an MTV Cribs for photographers, it would probably look something …
Here’s a mind-blowing demo reel by Stargate Studios that will make you doubt …
Tom Guilmette was doing a project in Vegas that involved a …
Chris Kotsiopoulos of GreekSky created this mind-boggling panoramic photo of the sky that …
This semifinal performance at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 has an awesome steadicam shot starting at 2m35s. While it might seem like they used a super high-tech RC helicopter or some computer-generated trickery, it was actually done with a segway, a steadicam, and a whole lotta talent.
In 2007, 26-year-old real estate agent John Maloof purchased a box filled with 30,000 negatives from an estate sale for $400. After being stunned by the quality of the street photographs, Maloof began digging and discovered that they were created by a nanny and street photographer named Vivian Maier.
The winter hasn’t been friendly this year to certain areas of the US, with flash floods hitting Southern California …
Being a photographer for the National Geographic opens the door to all kinds of photo opportunities that other photographers …
When a NASA Space Shuttle lifts off, there’s always high definition cameras carefully placed around the launch site, documenting …
Wanting to capture a nighttime panoramic photograph of Toledo, Spain in which darker areas were illuminated, the …
"Nuit Blanche" is a 4-minute long short film by Arev Manoukian of SpyFilms that will blow your mind. While you're watching it, try to guess how it was created -- see if you can pick out what's real and what's "shopped". It may remind you a bit of The Third & The Seventh, another mind-blogging short we shared at the beginning of the year.
“Oops”, created by Chris Beckman, is a 10 minute art video composed entirely …
During Game 4 of the series between the Yankees and the Rangers this past tuesday, a player broke a bat when making a hit and the broken end of the bat flew all the way into the camera well, shattering the front of a Canon DIGISUPER 86II TELE xs camera lens worth $90,000. Luckily there was a protective filter being used over the lens, though it will still cost $20,000 to replace it. What's neat is that cameraman Steve Angel kept on shooting with the smashed lens, framing the scenes through the small hole in the shattered glass until the camera was replaced an inning later.
Introduced in 1967, the Lite-Brite is a children’s toy where colored pegs are …
If you shoot often, then you probably go through the hassles of sticking your memory card in a card reader and battery in a battery charger often as well. While these tasks don't take much time in themselves, doing them day after day can cause them to become quite tedious. Canon's Cross Media Station is designed to make these things a breeze, allowing you to do both by simply placing your camera (or two, or three) on the device, which looks like a slick scanner.