"Walk in Shanghai" is a short film by media artist JT Singh that takes you on a tour of Shanghai's urban streets. Singh shares the human experience at street level in an unusual way: by walking forward through a world running backward.
The Omega Transmitter was a huge 1,417-foot tall transmission tower near Woodside, Victoria, Australia, that was the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere until its demolition on April 22nd, 2015. Photographer Tom Blachford was on the scene, as he was hired by the Australian Defence Force to document everything with his camera.
Here's a cute little video to brighten your day. It shows a baby sloth at the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica interacting with a camera that's being held near its bed. Instead of taking a nap, the slow-moving sloth decides to explore the camera and reach out its arms for some selfie-style portraits.
Triggertrap wants to capitalize on the rise of the smartwatch. The camera remote company today announced a new "Wearables" mode for its Triggertrap Mobile app for iOS devices. It's the first app that lets photographers trigger their camera with their smartwatch through an iOS app.
"Makeup Transit Authority" is an ongoing portrait series by Brooklyn-based artist Lydia Cambron, who finds defaced advertisements in the New York City subway system and then recreates them in new photos.
Duga-3 is a radar system set up by the Soviet Union in the 1970s as part of the nation's anti-ballistic missile early warning system. Although official operations were ended in 1989, the gigantic antenna of the original Duga-3 still dominates the countryside near Chernobyl, Ukraine.
The world's largest drone maker is quickly becoming one of China's most powerful homegrown companies. DJI announced today that it has raised another $75 million in venture capital funding, and recent talks with investors have reportedly pegged the value of the company at a whopping $10 billion.
Want to pixel peep at full-resolution photos from the world's highest-resolution full frame DSLR? Here's a set of photographs that will satisfy that desire.
If you can't help but snap a smartphone photo before eating a meal, there's a restaurant in Israel that has a new concept designed just for you. The Tel Aviv restaurant Catit and Carmel Winery have teamed up for a new project called Foodography. It's a new meal experience that features newly designed plates that help you shoot quality food photos with your smartphone.
The image above is reportedly the first leaked photo of the upcoming Canon 50mm f/1.8 STM, the replacement for the popular and affordable 50mm f/1.8 II "nifty fifty" lens.
I love bugs. I love photographing bugs. I don’t love bugs, however, when I find them lurking in my shower. I also don’t love bugs when I find them lurking in my camera. Yes, I said inside my camera.
Photographer Blake Morrow shot a creative series of clone photos showing his friend Beth Beard before and after she lost 150 pounds. The portraits were taken two years apart and combined into pop-culture inspired clone photos showing old Beth interacting with new Beth. It's a series titled The Beth Project.
This week it was discovered that Samsung has been using Sony image sensors in some of its S6 smartphone cameras, but Samsung sensors in others. Some publications guessed that the decision may have been due to a shortage of Sony-made sensors, which have been increasingly popular in recent years. That theory is now being bolstered by a new report that Sony is indeed struggling to keep up with surging demand.
Photographer and filmmaker Dheerankur Upasak of Mumbai, India, recently took his Canon 5D Mark III and 24-105mm lens around and shot everything handheld using the camera's 6fps burst mode. He then combined the stills into a video, added background sounds from the different scenes, and ended up with this short film titled "Unframed." …
You've probably seen star trail photos before, but how about a "moon trail?" A Finnish photographer named Janne shot this beautiful photo earlier this week as the rising moon streaked across the sky. Janne was shooting with a Nikon D800 and 100-300mm lens at 300mm, f/8, and ISO 100. The trick behind the shot was a 10-stop neutral density filter, which greatly cut down the amount of light hitting the sensor and allowed Janne to shoot a 2258-second exposure -- that's a whopping 37.6 minutes!
I made this photograph a while back for a private client in Phuket, Thailand, who owned a stunning vacation home that she designed herself. She was drawn to my editorial style in my commercial work and she wanted me to take that approach for a series of lifestyle images at her home.
Want to see how CMOS and CCD image sensors work and how they differ from each other? Photographer and animator Raymond Sirí created a couple of simple animations showing the basic idea of how these two sensor technologies go about capturing light, reading it, and storing the information.
Motorola Mobility has been ordered by a court ruling to fork over $10.2 million to Fujifilm for violating one of the Japanese company's camera patents in its mobile phones.
Photographer Jason Lanier is on a mission to end "discrimination against photographers." He just posted the video above showing two encounters he recently had with law enforcement while doing a photo shoot in San Francisco. In both cases, the officials noticed his "nice" camera and high-end equipment and questioned him to see if he was shooting commercially without a proper permit (which can cost hundreds of dollars).
Scientists around the world create massive and elaborate facilities for carrying out groundbreaking research. Photographer Enrico Sacchetti is a guy who specializes in capturing them on camera. He's a "science, technology, and industrial" photographer based out of Rome and London, and his images have appeared in many of the world's top science and technology magazines.
The Nikon D750 has a hot shoe that's different than the hot shoes on previous Nikon DSLRs, and the minor difference is causing major problems for some photographers. At least, that's what the flash and accessory maker Phottix is claiming.
Here's a short video in which National Geographic documentary photographer Wayne Lawrence talks about his recent project of documenting the city of Detroit.
If there's one things dogs don't like, it's the Elizabethan collar, popularly known as the "cone of shame" or the "pet lamp-shade." It's a protective medical device that's also commonly used by owners to discipline dogs when they do something bad.
Samsung's new S6 and S6 Edge smartphones were recently found by DxOMark to have the best sensor quality of all smartphones on the market, trumping even the iPhone 6. Good news, right? …
Editor's note: Elena Shumilova is a mother and photographer based in Russia who became a viral sensation online after sharing her remarkable photos of her children. Just two years after first picking up a camera, her photos were viewed over 60 million times by people around the world. In this article, Shumilova shares how she captures her beautiful and nostalgic pictures.
Every career has a reality TV show nowadays, from chefs to pawn brokers, but what about photographers? When I was asked to be the resident photographer on History Asia’s first home grown reality show about photography, Photo Face-Off, I jumped at the chance.
After having his ex-girlfriend stab his Nikon D80 to death using a screwdriver and a pair of pliers, Jon of Prime Studios decided to "take lemons and make lemonade" by using the camera for an in-depth teardown. In the 16-minute video above, Jon takes the DSLR apart to show us what things are like on the inside and what some of the main components are.
One couple in The Netherlands received some unexpected wedding photos from an unofficial photographer this past weekend. A helicopter of the country's National Police Corps was flying by a field of flowers when it spotted the couple in the midst of a wedding photo shoot. The crew managed to snap some beautiful aerial shots of the couple.
Today is the day that many people recognize as Star Wars Day ("May the fourth be with you"). To celebrate the occasion, members of the costuming group in Canada known as the 501st Legion: Capital City Garrison decided to volunteer some time for a special photo shoot to help get homeless animals adopted.
In March 2014, we reported that inventor Bob Crowley and his startup New55 were working on producing a new line of 4x5 instant film. That Kickstarter campaign turned out to be a smashing success. As the company continues to work on its instant film aspirations, its has released a new product that many photographers may find useful.
Photographer Jim Winters of Miami, Florida, created this crazy-looking DIY shoulder-mounted "triple axis" rig for taking pictures of planes at airshows. He calls his invention the TRIAXEZ.
QromaScan is a new photo scanning solution that's the world's first to pair smartphone scanning with voice commands for easy digitizing and tagging. It's simple option for people who want to scan their collection of physical prints without having to spend time and money on high-end scanning solutions or services.
In our age of selfies and instant photo sharing, some people appear to be losing touch with acceptable behavior in their pursuit of viral Internet fame. At the boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao this past weekend, one attendee was caught on camera getting a little too close to Mike Tyson while trying to pose for a picture with him.
I recently spent a few days in Kidepo Valley National Park, a remote reserve in the North of Uganda that borders South Sudan and Kenya.
We're entering the days of 4K, 5K, and 8K monitors becoming a standard feature of workspaces, but just 30 years ago the best selling computers could only display fractions of a megapixel in resolution. The Commodore 64, the best-selling computer of all time from 1982, had a "high-resolution" mode of just 320x200 and a normal multicolor bitmapped mode of 160x200.
A new challenger has emerged in the consumer camera drone fight to take a slice of the market currently dominated by Chinese manufacturer DJI. It's a company called CyPhy Works, whose CEO Helen Greiner was previously the cofounder of iRobot and its popular Roomba robotic vacuum.
Photographer Annie Leibovitz recently visited the set of the upcoming film Star Wars: The Force Awakens to shoot a series of behind-the-scenes photos for Vanity Fair. Above is a short video showing Leibovitz shooting portraits of the different actors and actresses in character.
It's amazing the kinds of space photos that amateur photographers can create from their own backyards these days. Case in point: the high-resolution moon photo above was captured last week by Polish photographer Bartosz Wojczyński. It was stacked together using 32000 separate photos.
A couple of months ago, we shared an interview with the photographer known as Weegee that was released in the 1958 vinyl record titled "Famous Photographers Tell How." On that same record is an interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson in which the legendary photojournalist shares his thoughts on what photography is, the way he approaches it, and various opinions on theory and technique.
Photographer and entrepreneur Gary Fong lost his house to a devastating fire earlier this year, but he didn't lose any of his most valued possessions thanks to precautions that he took. After the experience, he realized that cinder blocks can be used as a cheap way for photographers to gain some fire protection for their data without having to shell out big bucks for commercial solutions.
Posting live updates of special events to services such as Twitter and Instagram is a pretty common thing these days, but one photographer has chosen a relatively uncommon subject for her real-time Instagram snaps: childbirth.
Now that Rolleiflex cameras have gone the way of the dodo, Rollei needs to find a new segments of the camera equipment market to serve. It turns out one of the company's promising new niches is the selfie stick.
Hobbyist photographer and motor racing fan Carlo Bingen was at a race at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium yesterday when he cane across this photographer taking pictures over the chain link fence. While many people would be content with shooting through the fence gaps with a telephoto lens, this guy created a DIY platform that lets him stand over the top.
Olympus researchers have created an innovative new "3D stacked" CMOS image sensor that has both global-shutter and high-speed capturing modes. It is able to capture photos at up to 10000 frames per second.
For the past few years, photographer Will Ellis has been locating, exploring, and documenting obscure abandoned places in New York City. His images show everything from the ruins of old hospitals to abandoned subway terminals -- and sometimes the photos are one last glimpse of those spaces before they're reclaimed or reduced to rubble by developers or the government.
If you're a fan of the game Minecraft, then you may appreciate what SethBling has done. The Seattle-based player/inventor has created a working in-game camera using command blocks. His explanation is that the system uses ray tracing by shooting out armor stands from the camera, detecting when the stands hit another block in the scene, and copying that block onto a 2D canvas behind the camera. The camera is therefore able to correctly capture correct perspective by exactly recording its point of …
Unofficial RAW video functionality could be coming to a Nikon DSLR near you in the not-too-distant future. The Nikon hacker community appears to be making progress in using the live view feature of cameras to obtain RAW footage from the sensor.
My friend Matthew Simmons and I did recently did a photo shoot with an amazing little girl named Desi Robinson. After sending Renee, Desi's mother, the finished images and talking to her a few days after, something really hit me.
A couple of months ago, we featured a helpful little web app called the Bokeh Simulator and Depth of Field Calculator. The website allows photographers to quickly visualize what different options in a particular shot (e.g. aperture, focal length, distance to subject) do to the bokeh and depth of field in the resulting photo.
In the world of diamond mining, huge open pits are dug into the Earth in order to find and extract a relatively small amount of usable diamonds. For his new set of images in his ongoing For What It's Worth project, photographer Dillon Marsh created a series of photos showing this dramatic comparison.
