Ever wonder how the photographs found on the pages of National Geographic come together? Here's a fascinating behind-the-scenes video showing how the images of the 1992 cover story titled "The Sense Of Sight" -- photographed by Joe McNally -- were shot, edited, and arranged. McNally writes, …
Philanthroper founder Mark Wilson was at a photography exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago when he came across this sign. His response? …
Update: Turns out this is actually a mockup created by Jonker Burger back in November of last year. We hear it's very close to what the camera will actually look like, though. (Thanks Peter) …
J. Mettälä took a camera under a frozen lake in Finland and captured this beautiful (and mind-bending) footage of his friends fishing in an upside-down world.
This is the latest leaked photo of Fujifilm's upcoming interchangeable lens camera, reportedly called either the X1 or LX10. The camera will probably be closer in size to the X100, though it will have an all black look that resembles the X10. There also appears to be some kind of handgrip on the camera, something that seemed likely after handgrip mounts were spotted in earlier leaked photos. We'll probably see an official announcement sometime in the next month or two.
While we're on the subject of photos captured over the course of one year, check out this crazy time-lapse photograph by Eirik Solheim of Oslo, Norway (whose time-lapse video work we've featured before).
Most people like to stand inside photos taken during travels, but photographer Tom Robinson documents his adventures by showing his family's feet. Robinson started his project Feet First back in 2005 while sitting on a beach which his girlfriend Verity, and has added over 90 photos captured from all over the world since then. In 2011, his photos began showing an extra pair of feet: those of his daughter Matilda.
Here's the proper way to respond whenever you're asked what your photo resolutions are for 2012.
On January 1st of last year, photographer Michael Chrisman began shooting a solargraph by placing a pinhole camera in the Port Lands of Toronto and aiming it at the city's skyline. Over the next 365, the rising and setting sun slowly exposed the photo paper inside. The total exposure time? 31,536,000 seconds. Instead of developing the image using traditional darkroom chemicals, he instead used a scanner to capture the extremely overexposed image -- destroying the original image in the process …
The Always-On Wrap-Up is a nifty camera case that attaches to your camera via the tripod mount. The case never gets separated from your camera, and all you need to do is unwrap it to take a picture. It costs $6 over on Amazon, and there's also a version with a built-in tripod that costs $9.
