Here's one of those bizarre things you'll find on the Internet: the YouTube channel Hydraulic Press Channel posted this 2-minute video showing an already-broken Nikon P300 compact camera getting flattened by a hydraulic press.
Want to see the face of the tiny insects that live in your home? For his project "Suburban Symbiosis: Insectum domesticus," photographer Daniel Kariko shot close-up portraits of common household insects. The images are gorgeous... and terrifying.
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Many of the short documentary films about artisan makers these days follow the same recipe -- things like slow, dramatic music, close-up shots with a super shallow depth of field, and more. Photographer Patrick Kehoe decided to parody that style.
Want a camera that captures point-of-view video of the happiest moments in your life? Check out the Smile Camera.
The German light modifier company Sunbounce today announced a new product called the Tight-Fit Screen. It's a simple reflector surface that can be stretched over an existing 2-in-1 Sun-Mover reflector to provide a 3rd surface.
Since launching the MagBeam via a Kickstarter campaign two weeks ago, MagMod has raised nearly $200,000 for the flash extender and gobo. But at least one notable photographer has an issue with how the product is being marketed: David Hobby calls one of MagMod's claims "100% bulls**t."
Here's something lighthearted that may put a smile on your face. A designer named James Fridman is amassing quite a following online by fulfilling people's Photoshop requests... way too literally.
Want the look of an 8mm film camera but the convenience of digital? Instead of using a filter app and your phone camera, you can hack together your own digital 8mm camera using Raspberry Pi.
An annual photo contest in Japan is apologizing and canceling this year's event after selecting a photo of a man on a dead whale as the grand prize winner. That photo sparked an strong outcry from the public.
Fuji announced last month that it's killing off the FP-100C, its last peel-apart instant film. Then last week we reported that Impossible Project founder Florian Kaps is now working to keep the film alive.
Adobe today announced Technology Previews for Lightroom on the Web, allowing photographers to test drive new features before they're officially released. First up: search.
For me photography is not portraying what exists, but portraying what exist in me.
Episode 56 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Adobe Camera Raw is no longer the ugly duckling of the Adobe photo editing software family. Adobe just released version 9.5 of the RAW conversion software, and the update brings a new user interface that matches the look of Photoshop and Bridge.
TIME's latest international issue features a portrait of a rape victim of the civil war in South Sudan. The magazine's choice of photo is sparking an outcry online, with people calling the cover "exploitative."
This is a set of notes on composition, loosely based on ideas of composition from the Victorian era. There's quite a bit more, and yet quite a bit less, to the Victorian ideas.
My name is Grzegorz Sawa-Boryslawski, and I'm a Polish photographer whose work since 2005 has been focus on pinhole and zone plate photography. In 2014 and 2015, I shot the world's first pinhole photos inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
The backlash has begun. A day after Instagram announced that its feed will soon be ordered by a Facebook-style curation algorithm, over 100,000+ people have signed an online petition to "Keep Instagram Chronological."
Here's a fun little piece of photography trivia: did you know that when it was released in 1998, the Game Boy Camera was the world's smallest digital camera?
In its methodology, photography can be reduced to a series of decisions that determine the exact characteristics of each photo. When conducting street photography, in particular, the opportunity to make these decisions is limited.
Getting a baby panda to stay still for your camera can be hard work. Here's an adorable 1-minute video showing how one tiny giant panda cub that just wouldn't work with a photographer/videographer during a shoot -- it just kept chasing the photographer and grabbing onto his legs.
Mounting frustration with Washington politics has outsider candidates surging in the 2016 election. The obvious examples across the partisan divide are Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Although different in substance and tone neither Trump nor Sanders are the image of their party's establishment.
Phase One released Capture One Pro 9.1 today, and the latest version of the photo editing software brings a number of new features and performance upgrades.
Film discontinuations are more common than new film announcement these days, but the latter is exactly what Japan Camera Hunter had today: it's introducing a new film to the world called JCH StreetPan 400.
Mastering composition is the best way to get more keepers in your street photography. That makes sense, right? If you know how to make a visually pleasing image, then you can discipline yourself to capture the remarkable photos that tell a story.
The department store chain Lord & Taylor has agreed to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for deceptive marketing on Instagram. The company paid popular users up to $4,000 to post a single photo of themselves wearing a dress.
A guy named Jake was photographing his dogs on a beach in Canada last June when he was photobombed by a tiny flying bug.
In 1976, Walt Disney World opened River Country, its first water park. In 2001, the park closed its doors. Since then, it has been left to deteriorate, and nature has begun to take the park back.
There's a humorous stock photo making the rounds on the Internet that shows what you need to know your subject as a stock photographer.
All the numbers have been pointing upwards for Instagram. In fact, a recent analysis shows that Instagram will be used by 1 in 3 person, in the US, by 2020. With 400 million active users today, it is the only platform where people exclusively take and share visual content and nothing else.
After launching its Skyport Transmitter Plus HS system for Canon, Nikon, and (in the future) Sony, Elinchrom today announced its new Skyport Plus system, a universal radio transmitter that works with almost every camera to trigger almost every flash system.
Here's a fascinating 6-minute video that explores how Ansel Adams went from being a rather mediocre amateur photographer and into the legend we now know and revere.
Panasonic just announced version 2.5 for the firmware of its flagship mirrorless camera, the GH4. The update adds a few powerful features to the already impressive camera.
Your Instagram feed is currently a chronological list of photos posted by those you follow, but that's about to change: Instagram says a Facebook-style curation algorithm is on the way.
If you think having your photography go viral online is always a good thing, be careful what you wish for. American documentary photographer Nina Berman found that it can be quite a nightmare.
On March 10th, 2016, I woke up with great expectations: I was heading to the White House to photograph Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and American President Barack Obama.
Have you ever cursed your camera for missing that special moment in the streets? Do you ever struggle to get the subject quickly in focus before the fleeting moment is lost forever in the aether? Well then why not try manual focus?
As one of the most famous athletes in the world, soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo can't go anywhere without being swarmed by fans. And instead of autographs or a conversation, fans these days are intent on just getting a photo with Ronaldo.
Some aspects of photography are easier to teach than others. Photographing an advertising campaign alongside of a TV production is not one of them.
Parachut is a new startup that wants to do for camera gear what Netflix did for movies. It gives photographers unlimited gear for $149 per month.
My name is Chaim Perl, and I'm a NYC-based photographer who specializes in large group portraits. If it's difficult to shoot, I like it. In this post, I'll share how I created a photo mosaic by shooting 1,000 portraits.
Nikon sure has a strange way of marketing its brand: one of its newest advertisements features a Fujifilm camera...
Want to see what it's like to shoot on the streets of the West Bank? Photographer Chris Hughes wants to show you.
Here's a clip from Episode 10 of Season 7 of the TV sitcom The Middle, in which the family finds out that all of their precious photos have been deleted. Agony ensues.
My name is Vitor Schietti, and I'm a Brazilian photographer who is combining fireworks and long exposures for my series "Impermanent Sculptures."
The iPhone 7 Plus is rumored to have a powerful dual camera module as its superior feature over the standard iPhone 7, and now the first photos of that component may have surfaced on the Web.
I like to keep the amount of kit I have to carry with me to a minimum. Every single pound counts when you're scrambling up the side of a snowy mountain, and if you've ever had to pay excess baggage charges at the airport you will probably appreciate my 'less is more' mentality!
I recently spent some time using a DJI Phantom 3 Pro camera drone to make a 3D printed model of a statue of Jesus that's by my house in Lima, Peru. The technology used to do this is called photogrammetry.
You're not a photographer if you haven't been somewhere (traveling light on a weekend excursion perhaps) when out for an evening stroll you spot it... the picture you thought you wouldn't need to take this weekend: a long exposure.
