In February 2013, Hindus from around the world made a pilgrimage of faith to bathe in the Ganges and Yamuna rivers in India. The event was called Maha Kumbh Mela, a particular festival held once every 144 years, and an estimated 100 million people visited the site over a period of days. It was likely the single largest peaceful gathering of people in the history of the world.
Want to read lines into your camera while maintaining eye-contact with your lens? The Parrot is a new teleprompter system that can help you do just that. It attaches to the front of your DSLR or mirrorless camera, and is uses your smartphone for the text it reflects toward you.
Multimedia artist Jeff Frost sold his major masterwork, “Standing in the Circle” in photograph form to a collector for 6.5 million dollars and ten cents last week, exceeding by one single dime the previous world record of 6.5 million recently set by Peter Lik Photography.
JPEG is a remarkably resilient file format. Despite having many upstart formats attempt to dethrone it over the years -- including JPEG 2000 and Google's WebP -- the JPEG is still used by nearly 70% of websites and is holding strong in popularity.
Australian underwater photographer Darren Jew has set a new Guinness world record by capturing 9 whales in a single underwater shot.
How good are your eyes at seeing colors? Over the years, we've shared a number of online color matching games that help you test this. 1000 Colours is an offline game for the same thing: it's a jigsaw puzzle consisting of 1000 pieces that cover the CMYK color gamut.
A New York woman has been awarded $1.12 million in damages after being arrested back in 2009 while taking photographs outside a military base.
The Colbert Report is coming to an end on TV, and The Hobbit trilogy will soon come to an end in theaters. Knowing that Stephen Colbert is a huge fan of JRR Tolkien (author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings), Entertainment Weekly invited Colbert to write a cover story about the movies and pose for a series of portraits as characters from the trilogy. He agreed.
Digital picture frames often steal attention away from the photos they display -- the quality and resolution on most displays don't always do photos justice and end up detracting from the viewing experience. Depict is a new frame that wants to revolutionize the experience of displaying and viewing art digitally.
Here's a behind-the-scenes video in which photographer Nigel Barker talks about one of the craziest photo shoots he has been a part of: capturing models posing with real bulls in a bullring.
Camera shake could one day be used to help track down people who record footage anonymously. Researchers say that footage captured by wearable cameras contain a "motion signature" that's unique to the wearer -- a hidden "fingerprint" of sorts.
Toronto-based time-lapse photographer Ryan Emond has released an impressive new video that takes you on an tour of the Toronto skyline, hyperlapse style. The project is titled, "Toronto Skyline Porn," and features gorgeous shots captured high overhead, with many of the shots seamlessly zooming into the following ones.
Canon and Nikon DSLRs have traditionally been neck and neck in terms of feature sets, but one thing that Canon has offered since the T4i in 2012 is a full-fledged touchscreen interface.
Check out this comic book illustration of Marvel's Silver Surfer. What you might not be able to tell at first glance is that it's not actually an illustration at all, but rather a photograph of an actual model.
Carol Carlise was the managing editor of Popular Photography magazine for 35 years in the earlier days of the publication. When she passed away in 2011, she left behind a treasure trove of prints she had collected over the years -- photos by some of the great masters of 20th century photography. Some of those works are now being auctioned online.
Seeing and photographing an aurora is probably on many a photographer's bucket list, but only a handful of people have ever had the opportunity to witness the phenomenon in person from space.
Remember the days when having a 1 terabyte hard drive was exciting? Well, Seagate has announced a new 3.5-inch drive that can hold 8 terabytes of your data, and with an affordable price tag to boot. It'll cost just $260, which means you're paying about 3 pennies per gigabyte.
Adobe has acquired stock photo giant Fotolia to add a serious stock photography and video marketplace to the Creative Cloud. The price it paid is roughly $800 million in cash.
I am not at the top. I’m not even skating the middle, but I have been doing this photography thing for a while, and there are some things I've learned along the way that I thought I would put out to the universe. Mainly because these things were bouncing around in my head and it’s nice to put things out there... so here they are.
Canadian camera shop The Camera Store has posted the video above naming its selections for this year's best and worst camera gear. It's 19-minutes long, and features hosts Chris and Jordan discussing some of camera, equipment, and trends that made a mark on 2014 in good and bad ways.
We're a bit late this year, but here's the latest edition of our holiday gift guide! Unlike other photography gift guides you might find this holiday season, ours is more lighthearted and geared more toward novelty gifts than serious gear.
Here's a camera-shaped case you can use to carry your lenses around -- not your camera lenses, but your contact lenses. The covers snap on tightly to keep your lenses safe from dirt and scratches when they're not in use, and the 2x3x.8-inch case is a perfect size for traveling.
Last summer I visited Norway for the second time. I had been in Oslo once before, but that was many years ago. This time I wanted to experience the famous scenery while driving through the mountains with a camper.
Here's a clever idea we've never seen before: a card that "loads" as you open it. Pull the card out of the sleeve and watch as the progress bar magically "works."
Grab your popcorn, folks. There's an interesting royal rumble happening over at The Guardian between columnists Sean O'Hagan and Jonathan Jones. The main question on the table is: "Is photography art?"
Photographer Adam Rabinowitz's Tiger Suit project is like Humans of New York crossed with Tigger from Winnie the Poo. Like HONY's Brandon Stanton, Rabinowitz photographs strangers on the street and jots down interesting blurbs from their conversation. There's one big difference in the projects, though: Rabinowitz's subjects must agree to put on his tiger suit.
Meet the Omega, the world's first 10-in-1 shoot through reflector. Designed by photographer Jerry Ghionis and manufactured by Westcott, the product has removable center panel that allows you to use it like you would a giant beauty dish or ring flash.
New York-based stop-motion creator PES was nominated for an Oscar after his "Fresh Guacamole" short film went viral on the Web. He's back again with a quirky new film called "Submarine Sandwich," which shows a bizarre sandwich being made in a deli with some pretty strange ingredients.
Instagram has officially passed the 300 million user mark, making it more popular than Twitter (which reported 284 million six weeks ago).
Launched today, Snapselect is a new Mac app by Macphun that's designed to help picture takers cut down on clutter and save disk space. It's a photo management app that's described as "a new smart way to quickly pick your best images."
About 6 months ago, I put an ad on Craigslist trying to sell a 2x12 guitar cabinet. The next day I got a response from a nice guy named PJ who was interested and the transaction was soon under way.
Shooting time-lapse is fun. Watching a big storm devour a city is fun. Doing both at the same time is 'super' fun.
Peer into the Gowanus Canal in New York City, and you'll see what is widely recognized as one of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States. The contamination is so bad that the canal has been designated a Superfund site.
The airways and Internet tubes have been filled with news that Peter Lik has sold a black and white photo of Antelope Canyon for a record setting $6.5 million, raising eyebrows amongst many photographers. This tops the previous record holder, Andreas Gursky, by nearly $2.2m.
Want to decorate your wall with a collage of your photos, but don't want to spend the time, energy, and money required to make it happen? CollageMo can help. It's an app that does for photo collages what Mosaic does for photo books.
Check out this gorgeous short film in which NASA astronaut Don Pettit shares what it was like to photograph Earth from orbit in the International Space Station. During his time aboard the station, Pettit became one of the most prolific astronaut photographers in the history of space exploration -- one time he clogged up data transfers for three days with photos from a 30-minute shoot.
Lytro has released Version 4.1 of its desktop light field photo editing software, and one of the main new features is something called "Focus Spread." It's a revolutionary feature that takes advantage of Lytro's "shoot now, focus later" abilities, giving photographers the ability to control where focus starts and stops in a photo.
Earlier this year, a woman shot a video of a girl at a swimming pool who spent a considerable amount of time trying to snap the perfect selfie (presumably to share). That (somewhat mean-hearted) video quickly went viral after it was shared online.
Leica is acknowledging that there is a "sensor corrosion" issue that potentially affects photographers who use its M-series digital rangefinders. The problem shows up as white spots in photographs that cannot be removed by a traditional cleaning of the sensor.
Australian landscape photographer Peter Lik has taken the crown for most expensive photo ever sold. "Phantom," the picture shown above, was sold to a private collector for a staggering $6.5 million. The record was previously held by Andreas Gursky's "Rhein II”, which sold for $4.3 million back in 2011.
A friend (Eric) and I were hanging out one Sunday and we decided to do something fun with EyeEm data. We obtained and then graphed the predominant photo colours for every photo uploaded or tagged in Europe. We then generated these pretty pie graphs for each country.
Here's a short and inspiring video in which renowned photojournalist Steve McCurry talks about one of the big lessons he has learned over the course of his career: that photography is more about the journey than the destination.
Want to learn the basics of US copyright law without having to spend eons going through imageless websites and backbreaking textbooks? Check out Bound by Law. It's a comic book that translates abstract and confusing copyright laws into easy to understand "visual metaphors." …
If you're a professional photographer using Fujifilm camera equipment and have been envious of Canon and Nikon's professional service departments, take heart: you may soon have top tier support and services starting next year.
Here's a new idea that's quite a bit off the beaten path: RoboStage is a new online studio that lets photographers conduct a photo shoot through their browser. We're not talking about some kind of faked virtual environment, but an actual photo shoot done in an actual location, controlled through your browser.
Here's a fascinating short video that offers a look into the workshop of Kenji Yamaguchi in the basement of National Geographic. He has worked there for 32 years after being sent by Nikon to train the original technician over 3 decades ago.
"AirBnB for cameras." That's how ShareGrid describes itself. The young startup company is trying to do for camera rentals what AirBnB did for vacation rentals, and if the idea catches on, camera gear rental companies may have some stiff competition to deal with in the years ahead.
Photographer Shelley Calton grew up in Houston, Texas and was raised by a father who owned guns for both hunting and self-defense. She and her two sisters all learned to shoot firearms from a young age.
Back in August 2013, Amazon unveiled a new fine art marketplace featuring tens of thousands of artworks -- including thousands of photos -- from various dealers and art galleries. If the prices in the shop are too rich for your blood, get this: you can now name your own price for some of the works.
On July 14, 2012, I received a desperate email from a photographer whom I had only met once briefly at a public appearance. He was terribly distraught, and nobody would help him. In his letter, he said that I was his last resort.
