November 6, 2014

There is no 'right' way to go about street photography. There's the laid-back, voyeuristic style, controversial in-your-face methods, and more personal relationship-building approaches.

Well-known photographer and blogger Steve Huff prefers the last of these. Rather than trying to capture a candid image or the 'decisive moment,' Huff takes a more humanistic approach by emphasizing making a connection and not just a picture.

More often than not, photographs are displayed on high-quality photographic paper, but that hasn't stopped people from experimenting with dramatically different mediums that, just maybe, serve a symbolic purpose as well as a functional one.

One of the most interesting photographic mysteries of the 20th century is the story of the ‘Mexican Suitcase’ -- something that is neither a suitcase, nor Mexican. What it is, is three boxes of roughly 4,500 negatives that depicted the Spanish Civil War, and were lost for more than 50 years.

Supersense, a company striving to keep analogue photography alive and well, has announced the launch of the devilishly-named 66/6 camera, a limited-run pinhole instant camera that uses Polaroid’s instant film.

It used to be only outliers ditched their Nikon and Canon DSLRs for more compact setups. But as mirrorless systems get better and better, more pros are making the switch and feeling compelled to let the world know exactly why.

Today David Lama is one of the most successful professional climbers in Europe. But at age 19, his climbing career almost ended before it even began.

There are few photographers out there as well-known as the iconic Steve McCurry. His Afghan Girl portrait earned him world-wide fame and recognition, but all of his work -- from the most iconic to the largely unseen -- speaks to his uncanny eye for capturing emotion and composing portraits that are second to none.

It appears Hasselblad might finally be caving to the opinion that rebranded Sony cameras are not be the best way to keep the once-prestigious brand alive. Almost three years after opening the Hasselblad Design Center in Treviso, Italy -- the goal of which was to create luxury versions of popular Sony cameras -- the company has shut the plant down.

As photographers, we're already intimately familiar with the importance of lighting and posture, but just how much of a difference can the proper pose and lighting make? This video by BuzzFeedBlue, titled "How to Fake a Before and After Photo," answers that question by showing the shift in real-time.

As photographers, writers, illustrators, actors, musicians... As creatives, we create the world that we exist in, we create the world that the rest of the world sees.

The folks at Lytro have always believed that light field technology is the future, and not just for photography and storytelling. They believe that anything with a lens and a sensor can benefit from the technology, and with today's announcement of the Lytro Platform, they're opening up their proprietary tech to anybody who wants to partner up with them and expand light field into new markets.

If this doesn't put a big fat smile on your face, we're not sure what will. As part of an experiment on 'the phenomenon of water surface tension in microgravity,' the astronauts of Expedition 40 managed to trap a GoPro inside a floating sphere of water.

Canon's EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM debuted in 1998, and over a decade and a half later we're still waiting for a replacement. But we might not be waiting very much longer at all. In fact, recent rumors now backed up by the first leaked image indicate that this lens will arrive this month.