2016

When photo storage site Picturelife shut down, users were left high and dry without a way to access and/or download the images they had stored there. This didn't sit well with SmugMug, who reached out to Picturelife and, today, is helping reunite those photographers with their lost images.

We all have heard about cases of sexual harassment or simply disrespectful attitutes towards females in workplaces, which sometimes get buried under the never ending mazes of bureaucracy, some other times they lead to job losses, penalties, warnings, sometimes plain ignorance.

If Puma or Nike or anybody else wants to photograph Usain Bolt from now on, the fastest man in the world says they'll have to do it on Jamaican soil. It's a decision Bolt made in order to help bolster his country's economy and help people back home.

The human eye can't possibly see how light washes over a portrait subject when you fire your strobe—the speed of light is simply too fast. But someone actually managed to capture the whole process on camera... nanosecond by nanosecond.

Join us as we take a nostalgic trip into photography's hey day. It's 1978, and you're a fly on the wall at Contact Press Images, working with world-class photojournalist David Burnett on a photo essay about the last traditional cattle drive.

Getting into fashion or beauty photography doesn't have to involve getting lots of expensive gear right away. As New York City-based photographer Jeff Rojas shows you in this short tutorial, you can capture three totally different looks with a very small footprint and just a couple of lights.

"365 Days of Photos," "One Photo a Day," "One Shot, One Day," "365 Challenge" – Do these sound familiar to you? Have you ever wanted to take at least one photo a day, every day... and I mean Every. Single. Day?

Making a living as a commercial photographer these days can be tough. But trying to keep the lights on at “for-profit” schools that teach photography to budding professionals ain’t no picnic, either. Just ask anybody who used to work for Brooks Institute in California or Hallmark Institute of Photography here in Massachusetts.

Some photos of and a user manual for the upcoming GoPro Hero 5 have allegedly leaked online, showing a camera that looks like a hybrid between the Hero 4 and Hero Session cameras, will focus heavily on GoPro's upcoming cloud service 'GoPro Plus,' and may feature voice commands.

It finally happened: after countless months of wandering around, going to places where people say they’ve spawned, after using lures, and being patient, I managed to add a... Eastern Whipbird (Psophodes olivaceus) to my collection!

Steve Jobs has been inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame. The Apple founder is being honored for transforming the world of photography through his company's products, most notably the iPhone.

Before the Olympics began, the Associated Press spent a month installing 35 miles of cables and remote camera systems at the sporting venues at the Rio 2016 Olympics. The 1-minute video above offers a glimpse at how the 8 robots and dozens of remote cameras are being used to capture sports photography during the Games.

Here's an 8-minute video lesson by photographer Mike Hagen of Nikonians and Visual Adventures on how and why to start using back button focus on your camera.

Many people would agree that this year’s presidential contest is one of the most polarized and combative in living memory. For that reason, it felt particularly important to me this year to be in Cleveland and Philadelphia capturing the people and events that would surround the candidates and conventions.

Sales of photographic film have been steadily rising over the last few years, with professionals and amateurs alike rediscovering the artistic control offered by manual processes and the creative satisfaction of a physical end product.

Nothing is "confirmed" before the manufacturer says so, but a new Apple leak is being hailed as "confirmation" that Apple is going to put Optical Image Stabilization into the 4.7-inch iPhone 7, something the smaller iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s both lack.

John Kraus is quickly making a name for himself with his top notch rocket launch photos. We've shared his work before, but his latest photo of a Delta IV launch warrants a double helping.

Photographer Karl Taylor made this 7-minute walkthrough video after people asked about his lighting setup for a commercial studio portrait he shot and posted to Facebook.

Think Tank Photo's Shape Shifter backpacks were originally a breakthrough in photography backpack design because of the way they could collapse and take on a narrow profile when empty. Now the company has launched V2.0 of the line with three new backpacks that expand and collapse.

Nikon made a splash back in September 2011 when it decided to jump into the mirrorless camera industry with its J1 and V1 cameras. Since then, Nikon has expanded and updated the line to consist of the AW1, V3, J5, and S2. But now there are murmurings that Nikon has ended the development of its 1 Series line of mirrorless cameras.

500px today announced a new tool called Splash. Instead of searching for photos using titles, keywords, EXIF details, or colors, Splash lets you hunt for photos simply by sketching them on a canvas.

Since 1932, the renowned Swiss watchmaker Omega has served as Official Timekeeper at the Olympic Games 26 times. This year at the Rio Olympics, Omega is once again providing finish line cameras to provide officials and the public with the most precise view of the athletes.

In addition to the recently-leaked 5D Mark IV, Canon is also planning to release two updated L lenses next week: the 16-35mm f/2.8L III and the 24-105mm f/4L IS II. Both lenses have now also leaked online.

It's happened. Safari did it in June, Firefox will do it by 2017, and now Chrome has officially announced they will do it, too: they're blocking flash by default in favor of HTML5. If your photography website runs on Flash, it may be time for a change.

Daniel Norton, the same photographer who showed you how to capture three distinct looks simultaneously when you're pressed for time on a shoot, is back for another useful quick tip. This time, he's showing you how to capture four distinct portrait looks with a single umbrella.

After 70 years of providing aspiring photographers with a formal education, Brooks Institute announced this month that it will be permanently closing its doors. The sudden closure came as a shock, especially to current students who may now face a difficult challenge in transferring their credits and salvaging their degrees elsewhere.

Dear photography community, I am writing this blog post to warn you from an experience I had in getting my camera stolen from a car, and then finding that my insurance refused to cover it.

Researchers from Harvard and the University of Vermont have found a way to use Instagram to detect depression. Using machine learning tools, they developed a model that can predict whether a person is clinically depressed with surprising accuracy, just by looking at their Instagram photos.

While Canon was out trying to plug up a major leak, Nikon was busy making an official camera announcement today. In a bid to recruit a few more DSLR beginners to its ranks, Nikon revealed the D3400 and four fresh kit lenses.

Japanese artist Yoshiyuki Katayama's creation Umwelt is only part timelapse. Because while the flowers in this beautiful film bloom at timelapse speeds, insects crawl across the surface of the flowers as if in real time.

Here's a neat piece of camera gear you probably have never heard of. Back in the 1940s and 50s, a company called Haber & Fink used to modify Leica cameras by adding special lens 'turrets.' Only 200 were ever made, and a camera store in Ohio just got their hands on the 11th one.

Varanasi, India is an incredible place, a real eye opener and a step back in time. You witness events you may have never imagined, or have ever wanted to see. It's completely unavoidable and totally unpredictable. It's the kind of place that you shouldn't expect anything, but embrace every moment.