Inquisitive Hawk Investigates Weather Camera
Here's a fun little video to help you get over hump day and on to the second half of the week. A weather camera at the top of a tower in Nebraska got an unexpected visit from a curious hawk this week.
Here's a fun little video to help you get over hump day and on to the second half of the week. A weather camera at the top of a tower in Nebraska got an unexpected visit from a curious hawk this week.
In the world of digital photography, maximum quality tends to come at a price: file size. Optimization you apply to your pictures can only go so far and the line between good quality digital files and optimal file size is a precarious one.
Photography community and marketplace EyeEm is wasting no time. Just 48 hours after news broke that Verizon had agreed to buy Yahoo! (and by extension Flickr), the photo sharing company is making it super easy for you to ditch Flickr and move your entire portfolio over to EyeEm.
Want to see what it's like to tiptoe between life and death as a war photographer? Watch Conflict, a 6-episode miniseries that provides a no-holds-barred look at photography in conflict zones. Netflix just picked up the show, but you can also watch it for free online.
It's easy to forget that Sony doesn't just make full-frame mirrorless cameras, but they do. And it sounds like Sony is about to remind you that they do with an impressive successor to the Sony a99 that they plan to release "very soon."
We keep seeing crazy patents come across our desks and filing them under "never-gonna-happen." Is that what we would have thought of Nikon's new AF-S Nikkor 105mm f/1.4E ED 'world's fastest' lens if we'd seen it as a patent? Quite possibly.
Got a hankering for "thousands" of working, well-maintained cinema lenses? Have $1,000,000 to spare? If you answered yes to both questions, you're in luck. There's an eBay listing with your name written all over it.
Speed, portability, power... pick two. When it comes to strobes, that's the game you have to play. But maybe not anymore. Priolite's new Ultra monolight promises all three in a single package they believe will "blow your mind."
The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat, and a dream location for landscape photographers hunting for special shots. Russian photographer Daniel Kordan visited the salt flat at night and captured a set of photos showing the Milky Way being reflected by the flooded plain.
The controversial Pentagon manual for interpreting the international laws of war received a much-needed update this week, an update largely focused on protecting journalists working in conflict zones.
xkcd just published this simple comic that pokes fun at the brief existences of Snapchat photos (if you've never used it before, the service is built around the idea of self-destructing snapshots). The alt text of the comic reads: "For obvious reasons, the prize is awarded at a different time of year from the others, while it's still fresh in the committee's memory."
Ditching extraneous gear pays dividends when you’re traveling -- and not only the ones you might expect.
This photograph shows the camera equipment that Getty Images photographers will be using Brazil for the upcoming Rio Olympic Games. That's a lot of high-end Canon DSLR gear.
Have you ever looked out the window of a plane and imagined you were surfing the clouds? Red Bull Air Force member Sean MacCormac took it one step further by skysurfing the edge of a Florida thunderstorm on my most recent assignment, titled "Storm's Edge."
If you've in the market for a tiny, fun, manual focus bokeh monster to carry around with you, photographer Nitsan Simantov would like to introduce you to his "favorite lens ever": The Voigtlander Nokton 35mm f/1.4 MC.
Chinese lens maker Venus Optics is set to launch a new lens called the Laowa 12mm f/2.8. It will be the world's widest rectilinear f/2.8 lens.
The artist statement Nancy LeVine sent us for her series Senior Dogs Across America begins with a paragraph that left this writer in tears—a tribute to the two dogs she had to let go of. "I loved them passionately," she writes. "To the quiet, exquisite presence of each aged dog, I honor them with this work."
Adobe today announced a new member of the Lightroom family: Lightroom for Apple TV. While Lightroom on your computer or mobile device is geared towards editing and organizing photos, Lightroom on Apple TV is meant for enjoying photos.
Well, I did it. I switched from Nikon to Sony. I never thought I would, especially after attempting the Sony camera system twice previously. But as it turns out, my issues with Sony cameras have been resolved, for the most part, thanks to the A7RII.
Over the weekend, aerial photographer Mike Risser of Escape-Backpackers.com visited 13 castles around the Czech Republic. At the 13th century Bezděz Castle, Risser decided to shoot the short drone selfie above that captures the beauty of the location.
Turning a timelapse into a "flowing" painting in the style of one of the great masters doesn't necessarily require 80 hours of frame-by-frame iPad photography with the Prisma app. For artist Danil Krivoruchko, all it took was a high-tech computer algorithm.
Prisma, the ultra-popular, we-didn't-know-a-photo-filter-app-could-get-this-popular-anymore filter app that stylizes your photographs to look like famous paintings is no longer an iOS exclusive. Today, it arrived on Android.
You may think you're no good at seeing in the dark, but your eyes are actually incredibly sensitive. In fact, according to a new study, the human eye is so sensitive it can detect even a single photon of light!
John S. Payne is a professional photographer who has been running a studio since 1985. He has also spent decades collecting Nikon gear, amassing an arsenal of cameras and lenses worth over $100,000.
For better or worse, copyright law hasn't changed much in the United States even as technology has made it far easier for people to steal or "appropriate" your work. But a new service called Blockai thinks it can help by using something called the bitcoin blockchain.
Light painting has been a basic technique in my photography ever since I learned how to really play with it. I started by just doing the usual of writing names and doing swirls but then I learned how to use it for my professional work.
When photographer Erik Hijweege realized that there were over 22,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, he was shocked... and inspired. Inspired to create a hauntingly beautiful series of glass ambrotypes depicting some of these endangered species encased in ice.
The launch of the Fujifilm X-T2 had many photographers excited, with the successor to the wildly popular X-T1 promising higher image quality, 4K video recording and faster autofocus. With its new release, Fujifilm hopes to convert more photographers to the X-system with the DSLR-like handling of the X-T2.
Between Flickr, 500px, and other major photo sharing sites that post EXIF data alongside photos, there's a wealth of information online about the cameras, lenses, and settings photographers are using. Explorecams puts that information in an interactive, easy to digest infographic.
My name is Dana Neibert, and I'm an advertising photographer based in Coronado, California. I recently shot a series of portraits of Flo from Progressive Insurance. Here's a look at the project.
A home security camera has captured the cringe-inducing way a $500 camera lens was delivered to an Amazon customer in Indiana. As you can see in the 30-second video above, the delivery man couldn't be bothered to take a few extra steps and bend over.
We've shared a few very bright lights in the past that can turn night into day—even a crazy 1000W DIY version you can build yourself—but this 20,000W incandescent lightbulb makes all of those look like the pen light on your keychain. At full power, it can turn night into blinding white.
A Wolf Camera store in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia, was targeted by burglars who drove a truck through the front of the store in a smash-and-grab theft.
An Italian experimental photography group has set a new world record. Using a 24 square meter negative, a canvas of the same size, and 12 minutes and 30 seconds of exposure courtesy of the sun, they created the world's largest cyanotype contact print.
There's an interesting lens coming for Nikon photographers. A new Nikon AF-S Nikkor 105mm f/1.4E ED lens has been leaked early, offering us a glimpse at the soon-to-be world's fastest 105mm prime lens.
Cropping a photo just right can be challenging, especially if you're working on a smaller laptop screen. Use this quick Lightroom tip from the folks at Adobe to help you get more precise results every time.
Verizon will be the new owner of Flickr. The telecom giant announced today that it will be acquiring Yahoo's core Internet business -- including Flickr and Tumblr -- for $4.83 billion in cash.
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Here's a quick retouching tip that almost every portrait photographer will end up using at least once: how to quickly and easily fix shiny or oily skin in both Photoshop and Lightroom.
In one of the most daring (and cost saving) feats of do it yourself engineering we've ever seen, the folks at YouTube channel Indy Mogul managed to recreate a remote-controlled 360° camera rig that normally costs $18,000 for just $650!
If you've ever been curious how some of the beautiful desktop wallpaper images in Apple's OS X operating system were shot, you're in luck. It seems Apple forgot to scrub the EXIF data from one of the El Capitan wallpapers, giving you a glimpse into how it was shot, and how it was edited.
Not everything looks better in slow motion, but a whole lot of things do. Case-in-point, check out this behind the scenes video that shows a high speed robotic arm being used to capture slow motion footage, and then shows you the sweet results. (Warning: There is very brief nudity around 1:40).
Controlling your DSLR from your smartphone or tablet has never been ... smaller. Meet the CASE Remote Air, the self-proclaimed "world's smallest and most powerful smart camera controller."
Canon may have some unusual things planned for upcoming DSLRs and lenses. The company will reportedly introduce "a DSLR first" in the upcoming 5D Mark IV, but that's not all: an upcoming lens may be the company's first to include a digital display.
A computer vision researcher at the University of Washington has developed a face-swapping image search engine that will automatically insert the face from an uploaded photo into any search term at all. No photo editing skills of any kind required.
I never get tired of seeing our closest star set below the horizon, and seeing how the landscape changes as the warm light gets fainter by the minute. Every sunset has its personality depending each location, weather and season. One beautiful thing about a sunset is what happens right after the Sun has set. If turn around, you can slowly see the Earth shadow rising from the horizon.
Here's a 3.5-minute film by SmugMug Films about the life and photography of Dave Powell, the street photographer behind the photo blog ShootTokyo.
The new Wolffepack Capture camera backpack does something that we wish every photography backpack could do: it lets you swing it around front without actually taking it off, making it much easier to get at your gear.
"Game Over" is a 1.5-minute stop-motion by PES that recreates classic arcade games using photos of carefully arranged things. It's actually one of PES' earliest projects, released back in 2008, but PES has just published this remastered HD version for everyone's enjoyment.
Amazing photography subjects are everywhere, and if you don't believe us, look no further than this gorgeous macro photography timelapse of pain killers, vitamins, and other over-the-counter pills dissolving in water.
