2016

Cokin's new Riviera Classic tripod is a long time coming. It was only a matter of time before the "retro" craze hit the tripod market, leading to the Riviera Classic's tagline: "A modern tripod for retro cameras... and visa versa."

Care to start off your week with a heart attack? This video, captured earlier this year at a track in Canada, may only be three seconds long... but it'll make your heart stop nonetheless.

VLC's free and open source media player is a popular option for people who want a lightweight program that can handle pretty much any video format on any platform. The project just took another big leap in compatibility: it can now play back 360-degree photos and videos.

Controversial British photographer David Hamilton was found dead at his home in Paris yesterday. He was 83.

Adobe has launched Photoshop Elements 15 in the Windows Store, marking the first time the more powerful program has been offered through Microsoft's app store, where it joins Photoshop Express.

UK couple Dave and Sarah love both films and felines, so they've launched an Instagram project that combines the two. Called @moviecats, each photo they shoot is a scene from a famous movie recreated with the help of their two cats.

My name is Marius Hanzak, and I'm an experimental photography student currently studying at the Cleveland College of Art and Design in the UK. For one of my recent projects, titled RGB Church Street, I experimented with making color photos using black and white film.

Headshot photographer Peter Hurley has previously shared popular portrait tips for achieving slimmer figures, sharper jawlines, and photogenic eyes. His latest quick tip is all about adjusting height in portraits.

"Would you buy a photograph without seeing it first?" That's the question Canon Australia asked recently through its experiment titled, "Sight Unseen." The company held a blind photo auction to sell photos by some of Australia's best photographers.

If you'd like to see how your photos are being used across the Web, there's a new free browser extension that lets you do so with one click. It's called PhotoTracker Lite, and it makes it easy to quickly search multiple major reverse image search engines.

Just how well does the $2,500 DJI Ronin 3-axis handheld gimbal work to stabilize cameras? Just check out this short clip of Israeli photographer Oleg Balzanov using one upside down to hold his drink steady as he bounces around on a dance floor.

After generating a considerable amount of hype, Chronos has landed on Kickstarter, and the dream of a 21,500fps high-speed camera at a price point of $2,500 is catching on like wildfire. The campaign reached its funding goal of ~$48,000 in about 5 hours after going live.

Instagram took another big step this week in competing more directly with Snapchat. The Facebook-owned company has launched live video and disappearing photos.

Here's a new 11-minute video in which Ted Forbes of The Art of Photography discusses how all the greatest and most successful photographers he has met through the years have shared one "secret" in common: "extreme determination."

The sport of Quidditch from the Harry Potter universe has been exploding in popularity in recent years in the real world. While there are now countless western teams, there's only one that represents the continent of Africa: Team Uganda. Photographer Marijo Silva shot a photo series to share the team's journey.

Want a digital camera battery that can be recharged in just seconds and power your shots for days? That dream maybe become a reality thanks to new advances in battery technology.

If you don't play with your food, it'll just have to go play by itself! That seems to be the message behind photographer Benoit Jammes' fun photo series Skitchen, which features all sorts of fruits and veggies bustin' sick skateboarding moves all around the kitchen.

With travel photography, one of the issues is prioritizing equipment. You simply can’t carry everything you could possibly want to bring; if you do, it often hampers the overall travel experience as you’re weighed down by equipment and have to constantly look after it.

What began as one of the most explosive, publicized, and potentially ground-breaking copyright lawsuits in the world has ended in less-than-explosive terms. Carol Highsmith's $1 billion lawsuit against Getty Images has, for the most part, been thrown out of court.

There has been a lot of talk about diversity in street photography and, in particular, the lack of visibility for female street photographers in a genre that is populated mostly by men.

Here's a very simple answer to a common question you've probably either asked, or been asked, about Lightroom adjustments: Why does Lightroom let you move adjustment brush edits? How is that even useful?

If you're one of the unlucky people who purchased a GoPro Karma drone only to have to send it right back because it might fall out of the sky, there's a silver lining to your annoying predicament: GoPro is offering you a free Hero5 for your trouble.

Last week, we shared the unbelievable story of travel blogger Lauren Bullen, who discovered that one of her fans had been following her and her boyfriend around the world, copying every photo they posted down to the outfits she was wearing.

It was incredible, mind-blowing, and more than a little creepy... it may also be a big hoax.

Making mistakes is a powerful learning tool, but that statement only holds true if you realize what you're doing is a mistake. To that end, here are 5 of the most common Photoshop mistakes photographers make.

I feel that there's a word missing from our vocabulary, and this essay is the culmination of an effort to find such a word, to define it usefully, and to work through some of what it might mean.

First of all I just want to say this: Peak Design got the name of the Everyday Sling wrong. This bag isn't the Everyday Sling, it's the Everything Sling because this bag literally does everything I would ever possibly need to do when I'm going out.