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Google Photos Ad Shows the Agony of Shooting with a 16GB iPhone

If you often take pictures with a "small-capacity" 16GB iPhone, one thing you may often experience is the dreaded popup that tells you you've run out of storage space. It's particularly painful when the popup appears while you're trying to capture a special moment. This 1-minute ad shows that Google feels your pain.

This Press Photographer Captured the Perfect… Pokemon

In addition to capturing all kinds of photographs, traveling press photographers also have a nice advantage when it comes to finding new Pokemon in the wildly popular game Pokemon Go. This 1-minute video shows a sports photographer who was recently spotted dividing his time between capturing photos and capturing Pokemon.

Generic Instagram Shots… Done Badly

For his bachelor thesis project, titled "notwinstagram," German artist Daniel Reuber decided to flip Instagram fads on their head. Instead of creating picture-perfect Instagram shots that show (or fake) a wonderful life, Reuber decided to show what those same shots would look like for someone with a very sad life.

30 Things You Never Want to Hear from a Client

"We love your style! So we're going to hire you to do something completely different!" If that sentence makes you laugh, then the 30 statements in this post are going to hit home.

I Swallowed a 64GB microSD Card

A couple of weeks ago, my team and I pulled together a weekend poolside shoot with models, perfect weather, and a drone. I operated the drone and got some beautiful footage. Magnificent footage. Award-winning footage.

This Texas Town Erected a Selfie Statue

Over in Sugar Land, Texas, a town of about 83,000 people, there's a strange new piece of public art that has the world talking. Sitting right outside the city hall building is a new bronze statue of two girls taking a selfie.

Photos of the Not-So-Glamorous Side of Pregnancy

Maternity photos are often idealized, showing radiant mothers-to-be cradling their bellies in serene environments and ethereal light. Lifestyle photographer Danielle Guenther decided to shed some light on the other end of the spectrum: her new project, "What the Bump," is a look at the not-so-glamorous side of pregnancy.

Photographer at Building Demolition Gets Photobombed by Bus

Photographer Garry Cornes of Glasgow, Scotland, attended the demolition of a 24-story building this past Sunday. After joining the crowd there and setting up his camera on the other side of the street, Cornes had his view ruined at the worst possible time when a bus rolled in to photobomb his shot.

Instagram Went Down for 15 Minutes and People Freaked Out

When your photo sharing app is used by hundreds of millions of users around the world, there are a lot of sad and angry people when your service goes down. Instagram crashed for about 15 minutes yesterday -- coincidentally April Fools' Day -- and people freaked out.

Photographer, 36, WLTM New Long-Term Partner….

Although so far the stories of Flickr's death have been greatly exaggerated, there's no denying the photo-hosting leviathan is in a difficult situation. At best, it will be taken over by a company content to keep things ticking over and just claim the subscription fees, but I'm guessing that it will change.

If Other Professions Were Treated Like Photography…

A lot of professional photographers have a growing frustration about losing jobs to part-time "photographers" doing horrible work for $30, or having clients tell them that another "photographer" will do the same job for $25. So, I got to thinking: what if other professions were treated like photography?

This Photographer Got Attacked… by a Cute Baby Panda

Getting a baby panda to stay still for your camera can be hard work. Here's an adorable 1-minute video showing how one tiny giant panda cub that just wouldn't work with a photographer/videographer during a shoot -- it just kept chasing the photographer and grabbing onto his legs.

Canon Made a Cheesy Music Video About Itself

Canon's slogan in the US is "See Impossible," but over in Asia it's "Delighting You Always." To celebrate the 10th anniversary of that slogan last year, Canon decided to... write a song and make a cheesy music video.

The Macbook Selfie Stick is Now a Thing

Tablet selfie stick not ridiculous enough for you? Check out the Macbook Selfie Stick. It lets you mount a Macbook (or any laptop, for that matter) at the end of a long telescoping pole for easy self-portraits with the built-in iSight camera.

Here’s a Fun Way to Do Portrait Lighting Diagrams

Enjoy looking at lighting diagrams to see how photographers light their photos? Check out the way photographer Joey Hernandez shares his. Instead of sharing simple 2D layouts showing his gear and placements, Hernandez shoots behind-the-scenes photos of his shoots and overlays helpful (and humorous) labels across important (or random) things in the shot.