July 2011

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 …

If your photographs ever include the faces of strangers, you might not want to move to …

When viewing other people's photographs online, more often than not there's a way to comment and share your thoughts. While photo-sharing sites seem to have nicer commenters than a site like YouTube, there are still plenty of people who seem intent on putting people down and filling the Interwebs with vitriol. If that's you, then here's a video you definitely need to see.

One of the things you’ve likely seen when looking at product or review pages for lenses is an …

Sure, Nikon USA finally started selling an official lens mug, but over in …

A little update to the recent brouhaha over Google+’s Terms of Service: …

If you’ve ever wondered how an art gallery would display the world’s largest photo taken by the …

Here’s a helpful tutorial by Tutvid that teaches how to give your photographs …

If ordinary citizens have the right to photograph police in public places, what about the other way around? That’s …

Here’s a concept for you to play around with over the weekend: give your shadow a real camera to …

If you've tried to scan film using an ordinary flatbed scanner as you would a piece of paper, you've probably discovered that it didn't turn out very well. The reason is because film needs to be illuminated from behind, while conventional scanners capture light that's reflected off what they're scanning. Before you give up hope and shell out money for a film scanner, here's some good news: you can build a cheap and simple cardboard adapter that turns any scanner into a film scanner!

Did you know that earlier this year YouTube added a free image stabilization tool to its video editor? It lets you smooth out the jitter in your videos without having to shell out dough for an expensive rig or software solution. The downside is that the stabilization makes your video look like it was shot by a robot.

There's plenty of tutorials online teaching you the "proper" techniques for photographing fireworks, but have you ever tried shooting them "incorrectly" on purpose? When photography enthusiast Pete Rogina took his Canon 5D Mark II out to capture fireworks this past Independence Day, he decided to try "light painting" with the fireworks by shooting them at long exposures without a tripod, waving the camera so that the streaks of light would take on abstract shapes.

Pose is a camera case that doubles as a simple stand. Designed to …

Photographer Mark Matthews of Sydney, Australia spotted the above plaque on a sidewalk …

At what point does inspiration turn into plagiarism? That's the question that popped up last year when Rhianna was sued by David LaChapelle over scenes found in one of her music videos, and it's the same issue with a lawsuit recently filed by photographer Janine Gordon against photographer Ryan McGinley. Gordon claims that 150 of McGinley's images -- including some used for a Levi's ad campaign -- are "substantially based" on her photos. In the three pairs of disputed images shown above, the ones on the left are by Gordon and the ones on the right by McGinley.

File this under “awesome ways to show off your photos”. Lomographer zakguy had …

Kyle Jones wanted to see what it was like to film from inside …

sonyalpharumors published the above image today showing what appears to be a pre-production …

Now here's an interesting way to capture the passing of an entire day in a single photograph. It's composed of 24 shots -- one per hour -- with no photo manipulation needed!

Just as the monkey photography story was dying down, a new twist emerges: on Monday tech blog TechDirt received an email from Caters News, the agency representing wildlife photographer David Slater, whose camera was hijacked by a monkey and used to shoot a number of self-portraits.