2015

After Donald Trump publicly called for the US to ban Muslims from entering the country on Monday, a number of photo editors responded by publishing photos of Trump that make the presidential candidate look like he's doing the Hitler salute (or "Nazi salute") -- a gesture that's a criminal offense in Germany and a few other countries.

I have had many hobbies in my life, but nothing comes close to my love for wildlife photography.

Charles M. Conlon was an early 20th century American photographer who was among the first to regularly photograph baseball games and players. Although he shot many iconic early photos of the sport, his name was largely unknown until 1990, when 8,000+ of his negatives were found in the archives of Sporting News.

Want to learn newborn photography but don't have any newborns to photograph? StandInBaby is a new product designed just for you. It's the world's first fully articulated, lifelike, and camera ready dummy baby that's designed to help photographers learn how to pose newborns.

Adobe may be dominating the photo editing space with Photoshop and Lightroom, but there are still a number of companies out there competing against those ubiquitous programs. One of them is Alien Skin Software, which just announced Exposure X, its latest software solution for organizing, editing, and enhancing photos.

Flickr today announced its new virtual reality app for the Samsung Gear VR headset, allowing people to experience 360° photos hosted on the service through an immersive virtual reality experience. The photo sharing service began teasing this new VR experience back in September.

Between 1985 and 1991, ABC, A&E, and The Travel Channel aired a weekly half-hour TV show for photographers titled "World of Photography." The show was a big influence on a generation of photographers, exposing them to new photographers and photography techniques.

Wary of sharing location data in photos? Get this: a burglary suspect arrested last week is accused of using geotagged photos from Instagram and Facebook to find female college students, break into their homes, and steal their underwear.

When you think of the planet Jupiter, you probably think of that giant striped planet with the Great Red Spot anticyclonic storm swirling across the face. But that's just one way of looking at Jupiter.

In Lebanon, 14-year-old children can get married without their parents permission, and marriages involving 12-year-olds are not rare. But not everyone approves of the idea of child brides -- in fact, it seems that a majority doesn't.

Apple is rolling out iOS 9.2 today, and among a host of minor features and fixes is new iPhone support for Apple's Lightning to USB Camera Adapter. This means you can now connect your camera to your iPhone and import photos directly without having to use a computer as the middleman.

In 1941, legendary photographer Ansel Adams began working for the US Department of the Interior to shoot large format photos of National Parks and other notable locations out in the great outdoors.

Here's a tongue-in-cheek promotional video for a new support group designed to help Instagram Husbands. "Behind every cute girl on Instagram is a guy like me... and a brick wall," says an Instagram husband named Jeff. "My job in pictures is to make her look good." …

Jason Ching is a research scientist with the University of Washington’s Alaska Salmon Program who uses photos and videos to document wildlife, landscapes, and ongoing research in Alaska. He recently took a drone camera out to Iliamna Lake, the largest lake in Alaska, and captured hours of footage of sockeye salmon on their spawning grounds in one of the largest runs in recent history.

Is it wise to convert your raw files to the Adobe DNG format? If you are using Lightroom or Photoshop with Camera Raw, you have the option to convert your master files to DNG. In this article I want to focus on the benefits of converting, the reasons why converting to DNG may not always be ideal or necessary, as well as tackle some of the misinformation about DNG.

Here's a 6-minute video by Green Label that focuses on the work of Travis Jensen, the San Francisco (and LA) based street photographer that we also featured back in February.

COOPH, the Cooperative of Photography, has launched a new rain jacket that's 100% waterproof and 100% designed with photographers in mind.

What happens if your portrait clients request golden hour lighting... outside of golden hour? That's the situation photographer Pye Jirsa of Lin & Jirsa Photography found himself in recently while shooting a wedding. As you can see in the 4.5-minute video above, Jirsa was able to deliver by using creative lighting, a powerful flash, and a couple of colored gels.

If an iPhone plays a big role in your photography, either as a pocket computer or as a primary camera, and you suffer from dead-battery anxiety, there's some good news for you: Apple just announced an official battery case that greatly extends your phone's battery life.

Brad Mangin is a freelance sports photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He regularly shoots for Sports Illustrated and Major League Baseball Photos, and he has photographed 19 World Series and a number of Super Bowls and NBA Finals so far. We had a chat with Mangin about his life, career, and love for sports photography.

Back in August, Instagram made a lot of photographers very happy by announcing that it will no longer force all photos into a square aspect ratio -- by allowing rectangular images, photographers can now share their photos in their original form.

For the past several years, a guy in Seattle named Florin Mehedinti has been pranking his wife, Gracie, with "The Forever Pose." Florin will pretend to take a photograph of Gracie posing, but instead he'll actually be shooting a short video clip. The 2-minute video above is a compilation of all of these "forever" poses (note: there's some strong language).

Back in April 2014, Dropbox announced Carousel, a photo app for archiving and sharing personal memories via a Dropbox account. Now, less than two years later, Dropbox is announcing that Carousel will soon be no more.

This is incredible: German photographer Lukas Fritz wanted an easier way to process his film at home, so he spent a year creating the Filmomat, a fully automatic film processor that can handle everything from B&W 35mm film to 5x7-inch color slides.

If you want to play around with shadows and add depth to your lighting, this simple technique is perfect for you. And you only need minimal gear to do it.

"Lost in Wonder" is a new project by New York-based artist Trina Merry, who's known for blending body art and photography to depict the human body in creative ways. Merry visited major "modern wonder" landmarks around the world and blended her model into each of the scenes.

If you're looking for unique Christmas portraits for your kids this holiday season, head over to the Pioneer Place shopping mall in downtown Portland, Oregon. There, in one of the world capitals of hipsterdom, you'll find a hipster Santa that ditched his traditional red outfit in favor of jeans, a festive cardigan sweater, and a fashionable man bun.

Adobe today announced Lightroom Mobile version 1.4 for Android devices. With this latest version, the photo editing app is now completely free -- you don't need an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription to download and use the app.

The PD-100 Black Hornet 2 is a high-tech camera drone that's currently being tested by the US military. Unlike consumer drones used by photographers, such as the DJI Phantom or Inspire, the PD-100 is designed to be extremely stealthy: it fits in the palm of your hand, and weighs just 18 grams -- about the same as 3 to 4 sheets of ordinary printer paper.

Photographer Mathieu Stern did this short experiment with capturing the full image circle from a 180-degree fisheye lens. You'll need a smaller image circle on a larger camera sensor. For this video, Stern used a Kenko 180° fisheye lens, screwed onto a 55mm to 52mm filter, screwed onto a Canon 50mm f/1.4 FD lens, screwed onto a NEX adapter, mounted to the Sony a7II.

Tips from the Top Floor podcast host Chris Marquardt recently got a private tour of the Kodak Technology Vault in the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. In the 1-hour video above, technical curator Todd Gustavson offers a glimpse into the treasures owned by the museum behind closed doors, stepping through the history of photography -- from the daguerreotype to digital camera prototypes -- in the process.

Artist Shea Glover recently did a social experiment. The 18-year-old Chicago-based artist took her Canon Rebel T5i around her performing arts high school and asked her peers to pose for portraits. But she was actually recording video instead of shooting still photos, and as each person stood in front of her camera, Glover told them what she was doing: "I'm taking pictures of things I find beautiful," she said.

Nikkei Asian Review published this interesting chart showing which companies dominated the interchangeable-lens camera sales in 2014. Canon had 43.3%, Nikon had 32.1%, Sony had 13%, and other companies accounted for a combined 11.6%. From a year earlier, Nikon lost 2.5% share to Sony and other smaller companies, while Canon basically held steady.

"Un Petit Tour Dans Paris" is a new 1.5-minute short film by French director Maxime Baudin.

For the past couple of years, photographer Joel Sartore has been working with Nat Geo on a photo project titled Photo Ark. The goal is to shoot portraits of the world's 12,000 captive animal species to help stop the extinction crisis, as half the world's plant and animal species are projected to go extinct by 2100. Sartore has added over 5,000 species to the collection thus far.

Atmosphere Aerosol is a new aerosol spray for photographers and filmmakers that essentially serves as a fog machine that you can easily carry around in your camera bag.

Here's an inspiring 3-minute video in which veteran fashion and portrait photographer David Turner talks about the idea that each magical photo is the result of 100 little decisions that were made correctly.

Check out this pint-sized Sony a7R II mirrorless camera. No, Sony didn't decide to release a new miniature version of the highly-acclaimed camera. What you see is actually an extremely detailed USB drive.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is at the center of a new Photoshop meme this week after his government was caught red handed trying to pass off a Photoshop fail as an authentic press photo.

Update on 12/16/21: This video embed has been removed by its owner. You can still watch it here.

My name is Mark Cersosimo, and I'm a hobbyist photographer and filmmaker living in New York. Way back in 2014, when President Obama announced that U.S. relations with Cuba would be normalized, I knew I had to make a move. While “tourist” travel is still prohibited, 12 new options became available in January 2015.

TIME's latest contract for photographers has been at the center of controversy for about a month now, and many photographers are still refusing to sign it as they campaign for more favorable terms.

Snowflakes have become an obsession of mine as an extreme macro photographer, but I never thought I would be able to take it this far: 2,500 hours of work across 5 years, all presented as a single composite photo titled “The Snowflake”:

Here's a short 30-second PSA ad about the dangers of taking pictures on train tracks. It was released by Operation Lifesaver, Inc., a US-based non-profit that advocates national rail safety.

In October 2015, Apple quietly unlocked 10-bit color in its release of the OS X El Capitan operating system update. 3rd party software didn't support the new color output, so it was limited to Apple's official Preview and Photos apps.

Google today launched Cardboard Camera for Android, an app that lets you shoot 3D virtual reality photographs with a smartphone. Resulting photos can be viewed immersively through a Google Cardboard VR headset.

Maya’s calm and thoughtful features hover kindly over her father’s hollowed face. David’s prominent cheekbones are exaggerated by the Chiaroscuro effect of a bare-bulbed lamp. Strings of dark hair frame Maya’s profile in the windowless bedroom. Propped up on an elbow, she is beautiful, yet the role reversal is obscene.

Skydivers often photograph and film their jumps with a GoPro camera, but what happens if you want to shoot higher-quality photos with a DSLR? The solution is to mount it to your helmet and find a way to trigger the shutter.