Today Lomography announced its new Lomo LC-A Minitar-1 f/2.8 M Art lens, which features the original optics from the original Lomo LC-A camera that was first introduced back in 1984. The new lens lets photographers capture the look that kicked off the Lomography movement using Leica M rangefinders and other M-mount cameras.
Want to see how the world's biggest fashion and beauty magazines retouch their photos? Here's a set of time-lapse videos that show many hours of retouching compressed into a matter of minutes.
I was in Nepal exactly six years and three days before the earthquake that devastated the country on Saturday.
Every once in a while my gear rental company notices something, because of the large quantities of cameras and lenses we buy, that we think people should be aware of. This particular issue won't affect our renters; we've sent the affected cameras back. It may not affect very many people at all, since this is from a relatively small sample size. But I still think it worth mentioning.
Leica today announced its new M Monochrom (Type 246), a followup to the M Monochrome black-and-white rangefinder camera. The new camera boasts improvements in image quality as well as new video and live view features.
Just a week ago, Devin Allen was just another photo enthusiast sharing his work on the Web, regularly posting artsy photos for his relatively small and faithful Instagram following. After protests and riots erupted in Baltimore this week, Allen suddenly became a much sought-after photographer who's sharing raw and gritty images from ground level for the world to see.
Note: This article is written for commercial photographers, not consumer photographers. A consumer shooter has a different list of challenges, and since I am not a consumer photographer, I won’t be addressing them.
Some drone operator gave a pilot a scare this past Tuesday after flying the quadcopter way too close to an airport. A Virgin America flight reportedly came within 200 feet of the drone while landing at Dallas Love Field airport. To put that distance in perspective, consider this: the Airbus A319 airplane involved has a wingspan of about 117 feet.
This past Monday, GoPro announced that it has acquired Kolor, a French company that's pioneering the use of 360-degree cameras for immersive virtual reality.
Yesterday, as a result of the ongoing Baltimore protests, the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox played in the first major league baseball game to not have spectators. The scenario made for a strange experience for everyone involved, and there was an unexpected side effect as well: loud shutter sounds from the photographers.
NPR's Radiolab recorded this 30-minute podcast episode titled "Sight Unseen" that explores current issues in conflict photography. We hear war photographer Lynsey Addario share about one particular experience she had with photographing a gravely wounded marine (The images can be see in this slideshow).
Time-lapse photographer Enrique Pacheco shot this beautiful time-lapse at Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, the world's largest salt flat. The 4,000-square-mile area is a popular destination for photographers, as the ground reflects the sky in ways that blur the distinction between heaven and earth.
Carl Zeiss today uploaded a number of sample photos captured with its new Batis line of full frame lenses for Sony's FE mount. Of the 7 images taken with the 85mm f/1.8 and the 4 with the 25mm f/2, one in particular is causing quite a bit of discussion among Sony shooters.
Want to try your hand at creating a solargraph? Photographer Justin Quinnell recorded this informative and humorous 14-minute video tutorial on how you can create a pinhole camera for 6-month-long exposures using only a beer can, some photo paper, a pin, and lots of gaffer tape (which Quinnell calls the "elixir of life").
Memory Clock is an interesting new concept design that combines the world of clocks with the world of digital photo frames. It's a clock that helps you relive memories by showing you photos from the past.
Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey recently gave this inspiring 18-minute talk at TEDxVerona titled "Life is Art." He shares the story of his own journey in photography starting from when he was diagnosed with polio at 6 years old, and had only a small window as his viewfinder into the world during months of solitary confinement.
You can tell a lot about people from looking at the things they value. A new project called "What We Really Value" offers a glimpse into the lives of people around the world through images of their single most prized possessions.
Sigma’s latest addition to its burgeoning fleet of Art lenses is just as dazzling as the first two incarnations. Riding the coattails of the beloved 35mm f/1.4 and 50mm f/1.4 primes comes yet another fixed lens success––24mm of wide-angle glory. This is the widest Art lens you’ll see in Sigma’s prime series, aimed at satisfying street photographers, landscape shooters, wedding soldiers, event documenters, and DSLR videographers.
LG put forward a new champion in the battle of smartphone cameras yesterday by officially announcing the new G4. Much of the anticipation centered around the phone's powerful camera features, which were finally outed in full detail.
There's a new champ in the world of smartphone camera sensors -- at least according to DxOMark. In its latest review of the new Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, the testing company found that the phone performed better than any smartphone they've ever tested -- even the previous leaders, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.
If you've been looking to purchase a full frame camera and have been waiting for a good deal, today may be the day. A new price drop on the Sony a7 mirrorless camera has created a very rare opportunity to snag a brand new full frame camera for less than $1,000.
Jill Greenberg is a commercial and fine art photographer who is famous worldwide for her daring and original portraits of people and animals. Her new series Paintings is currently being exhibited at the Clampart Gallery in New York City. I had a chance to ask Jill about her photographic beginnings and where her journey in photography is going.
Apparently some photography studios advertise their services with this punny message. This particular one was found on the door of a studio in Randwick, Australia. We hear it also works well as a jingle on TV.
If you're already turned off by the idea of ordinary selfie sticks, you might not want to read on. The "Selfie Arm" is a new selfie stick design that adds an arm to your self-portraits, making them look like photos of you taken by someone who loves you.
What do you get when you turn Photoshop tools into weapons for a computer game? "Shotophop" is one attempt at this concept. Like the "Selfie Assault!" game we featured a few days ago, this is another concept game that's strangely relevant to photographers.
A court in Spain has ordered that a photographer pay €8,000 (~$8,800) to a newly-married couple after he lost their wedding photos and couldn't deliver what they paid for.
Kalle Ljung of Stockholm, Sweden, recently spent 16 days touring the Antarctic with his 73-year-old father. He brought along a DJI Phantom 2 drone with a GoPro HERO3+ Black camera to document the trip from above. The footage he captured is gorgeous and can be experienced in the 8-minute short film above, titled "Antarctica."
Warning: This post contains graphic photos and descriptions of a serious injury.
If you've been in the market for a Canon 1200mm f/5.6L lens, B&H is currently listing a used one for just $180,000. The lens has a condition rating of 9+, meaning it "shows little or no signs of wear." Oh, and there's free shipping for the lens, a lens hood, and a case.
Photographer Chris Lambeth offers this short and sweet 3-minute tutorial on how you can use a Levels adjustment layer in Photoshop to reveal subtle sensor dust spots in your photos. Dragging the Levels sliders helps make the spots pop out of the image, allowing you to easily select and edit them out in the base image.
After successfully raising money on Kickstarter to launch its LensRacks gear storage system, Vancouver, Canada-based Ansix Designs is back with another innovative product for lens changes and storage.
For his project "In the Alley," Norwegian photographer Lars Andersen spent ten years visiting one particular alleyway in the city of Tromsø, Norway. In a country filled with unbelievable natural landscapes, Andersen chose to focus his lens on a seemingly mundane urban location to see what he could create.
Brave New Camera is an upcoming documentary film that looks at how recent developments in cameras -- things like Internet-connectivity, near-infinite storage, and powerful algorithms -- has changed and is changing the world we live in.
If you love food, colors, and neatly organized things, you're going to love these photographs by Seattle-based photographer Brittany Wright. Her images often feature a large number of fruits, vegetables, and foods that are carefully arranged according to color and/or size.
If you want a lens that looks more like a spaceship's laser weapon, today is your lucky day. A ginormous NASA 2540mm f/8 mirror tele lens has appeared on eBay in the "film cameras" category. Called the Jonel 100, it's being touted as "one of the biggest lenses ever," by the seller.
Instagram's lineup of filters is getting more and more crowded. After announcing five new ones last December, the company is back again with another three. Also announced today was new emoji support for photo hashtags.
Earlier this year, photographer Benjamin Von Wong got a call from the Chinese telecom company Huawei. They were getting ready to launch a new smartphone called the P8, and they wanted Von Wong to shoot the craziest photographs he could come up with.
Bird photographers are reportedly flocking to the town of Noordeinde in The Netherlands after the discovery of a large and friendly European eagle owl that enjoys landing on people's heads. The video above shows the 6-pound bird swooping down from a rooftop and landing gracefully on a woman's head in the midst of delighted photographers.
NYC photographer Joey L was recently tasked by Jose Cuervo, the best selling tequila brand in the world, to shoot advertising photos in its agave fields in Tequila, Mexico. The behind-the-scenes video above, part of Joey's Dudes with Cameras series, offers a look into how the shoot unfolded and the different challenges Joey and his team faced (warning: there's some strong language).
"First Women" is a 10-year-long project that photographer Anita Corbin started back in 2008. By the time the work is finished in 2018, the 100-year mark for women's suffrage in the UK, Corbin will have created 100 portraits of 100 women in the UK who are the first to achieve something in their field.
Baltimore photojournalist J. M. Giordano of the City Paper has been on the front lines of protests in the wake of Freddie Gray's death in police custody. Yesterday morning, Giordano and another protestor were apparently swarmed by police officers and beaten -- and the whole thing was caught on camera.
Adobe Lightroom CC/6 has been a hot topic in the photo community ever since it was announced a week ago. Although most discussions have focused on the "big" features such as HDR, panoramas, and performance, I have personally found one small addition to be the most useful new feature in my own workflow. I'm talking about the new "Add to Collection" option -- it's a bigger time saver and organizational boost for me than anything else that was introduced.
Moscow-based artist Dmitry Morozov has created a photo booth that prints portraits of live subjects using a Brother SX-4000 typewriter.
German climber Jost Kobusch had his camera rolling at the Mount Everest basecamp when the 2015 Nepal earthquake struck this past weekend. His footage reveals what it was like for climbers to feel the ground rumbling underfoot and then to see a colossal cloud of snow rushing toward them down the face of the mountain (Warning: there's strong language).
Photographer Justin Black captured this incredible photo of a jaguar attacking a caiman in the wetlands of Brazil.
Web developer Felix Turner has created an interesting new browser-based app called Mosh that can apply a large number of "glitch" effects to your photographs.
Mervyn O'Gorman was an English engineer whose artistic interests turned him into one of the early pioneers of color photography. Using the Autochrome Lumière process that was launched in 1907, O'Gorman shot images that are now regularly featured in exhibitions of early color photos.
Visual Supply Co., better known as VSCO, is becoming a juggernaut in the photo world. After raising an impressive $40 million from investors last May in order to build out its photo community, the Oakland-based retro preset company has just raised another $30 million.
Be careful when asking the Internet to Photoshop a photo for you. The results may be unexpected and you could find yourself turned into the latest Internet meme. A Dutch food blogger named Sid Frisjes found that out recently after one of his vacation snapshots took off online.
While I strongly prefer adding creative touches to my photos with physical tricks and effects -- such as using dry ice for fog -- sometimes I do need some digital manipulation done in Photoshop. Here is my technique for adding some fake fog to a photo in just 4 easy steps.
