Museum Releases Early Color Photos of a Vanished World a Century Ago
Stunning color images recently made available in high resolution by a French museum capture much of the world as it was transformed by technology and geopolitics 100 years ago.
This is the First Hollywood Movie Shot on a Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera
"The Possession Of Hannah Grace" is a new Hollywood thriller that hit theaters at the end of November 2018. What most theatergoers won't know is that it's the first Hollywood feature film shot start-to-finish on a full-frame mirrorless camera, the Sony a7S II.
These Are Likely the World’s First Wet Plate Collodion Photos of Snowflakes
Want a crazy photography challenge? Try photographing a snowflake. Want to make it even more challenging? Try doing it with the wet plate collodion process.
That's what a couple of photography professors over at the Rochester Institute of Technology recently attempted and pulled off.
These Were the First Wildlife Photographs Published in National Geographic
Did you know that after National Geographic published its first wildlife photographs in July 1906, two of the National Geographic Society board members "resigned in disgust"? They argued that the reputable magazine was "turning into a 'picture book'".
Luckily for us, it did turn out to become quite a picture book. Those first wildlife photos published in the magazine were captured by George Shiras, III, and marked quite a few "firsts."
Star-Studded Short Film Being Shot Entirely with the Nokia N8 Phone
First there was the House season finale filmed entirely with the Canon 5D Mark II to show …