Fuji, like everyone else, is getting ready for a gear-packed week at Photokina, but they're doing it with a little bit of tongue-in-cheek flare. Posted yesterday at the very top of their Photokina 2014 teaser page, the company decided to troll DSLR users a bit with a clever 'Evolution of the Photographer' graphic.
A little over a week ago, GoPro announced its first dedicated dog camera mount, and we'll be honest... we were kind of surprised at how excited everybody got about it. Surprised, that is, until we saw the video above. Because if this is the kind of smile-inducing footage you can expect from a fetch mount, then sign us right up!
Photographer Pierre Folk has spent 3 years documenting the same, 20-mile long stretch of Parisian railway with his 4x5 view camera... but he's not doing it because of the trains. No, in fact, no trains have run on this railway in for 80 years.
Image stabilization is a tricky business. There are a plethora of ways to do it: optical image stabilization, algorithmic stabilization and, more recently, hybrid options that combine the best of analogue and digital input.
Annie Leibovitz is known for capturing photographs of the most exclusive and well-known celebrities in the world. So when The Corcoran Group launched their new Live Who You Are campaign to show off their high-end and exclusive brand of real estate, naturally, they called upon the renowned photographer to get the job done.
Award-winning photographer Takehito Miyatake is known for his beautiful long-exposure photographs of volcanos erupting, beaches adorned with bioluminescent creatures and fireflies that light up the night sky.
Chris Seibel, one of the photographers at Chicago-based Allusion Photography, was going about his day-to-day photographing a “beautiful” Hindu wedding when he got the photo surprise of a lifetime.
Not yet announced in the English language, but announced nonetheless, it seems Sigma is looking to go toe-to-toe (read: focal length to focal length) with Tamron's popular 150-600mm f/5-6.3 by releasing its own slightly more professional grade version.
A recently-released product by Microsoft that allows content creators to embed digital images on their websites is being called a “massive infringement” of copyright images in a lawsuit filed by Getty Images against the computer giant.
The camera never moves, the interval never changes, there's no crazy 'flow-motion' skills involved and what is captured isn't a picturesque landscape... and yet, this time-lapse gabbed us and wouldn't let go.
In case you don't watch the news, you should know: there's currently a volcanic eruption in progress in Iceland. Earlier this week, the Bárðarbunga volcano in the Holuhraun lava field began spewing hundreds of cubic meters of lava, providing a perfect photo-op for Icelandic photographer and Guide to Iceland co-founder Iurie Belegurschi.
The release of the ZEISS 55mm f/1.4 Otus was hailed with wide eyes and meaningful glances at checking account balances, but if you only just saved up enough to afford it, we've got some bad news for you: the next Otus lens is about to be released.
In the past, we've shared a few different ways to make a DIY dolly, but today's version is a bit more... childish than those. That's because this automated and motorized dolly is made, not out of parts you'd find at a hardware store, but a toy store. It's a dolly made of LEGO.
For celebrities, selling off the rights to publish wedding photos can be quite the money-maker. And if your last names are Pitt and Jolie, that is doubly true.
Photographer and educator Tony Northrop is stirring the pot again, offering a bit of education on a hotly debated topic. Don't worry though, this isn't about crop factor... it's arguably worse.
This time, he's taking a well-informed, in-depth look at the Canikon debate, meticulously going through the comparisons between each companies lineup of camera bodies, lenses, and flashes, and explaining why he will continue shooting Canon, despite wanting to make the switch to Nikon.
In a world where there's an always-on march of forward progress driven by the notion that bigger is better, I find it refreshing to see that at least one company is keeping things simple.
Digital media designer and, for at least the last two years, photographer Bettina Güber recently shot a series of photographs that are stunning in their simplicity. Not overdone or over-processed, they're simply photos of flowers and leaves from her backyard, covered in rain drops from the storm that recently passed through.
The cast members of the 1994 film The Little Rascals, which was a reboot of short films and a TV series from the 20s and 30s, have reunited 20 years later to reshoot the film's poster and a number of scenes from the classic movie.
It's not often a portable hard drive catches our eye, but the newest offering from Western Digital feels like it was built specifically for photographers. Completely wireless, the drive's features include an SD card slot so you can unload photos on-location without ever having to get an intermediary device involved.
The Rifleman's Creed (also known as "My Rifle") is a famous creed from World War II that all Marines learn during recruit training. The text emphasizes the rifleman's symbiotic relationship with his personal rifle, and talks about how he needs to become one with it and treat it as an extension of himself.
General wisdom is that you should keep a respectful distance between yourself and the animals you're photographing. If you don't, you -- or in this case the buzzing drone you were using in your stead -- might be punished for your folly.
Quality, portability and price. Pick two.
Rosie the Riveter was more than a cultural World War II icon. To many women at the time, Rosie the Riveter was a person, an idea they aspired to while their husbands, brothers and fathers were overseas, fighting day in and day out.
Ever wonder what it's like to stare out of the ISS cupola -- the massive window-filled module of the ISS, and an ideal spot for taking pictures of the Earth below -- as our planet zooms by below? Well, thanks to a new video from Inside ISS, now you can!
Besides sensor size, quality glass is the other major hurdle that smartphones need to overcome if they ever want to truly compete, quality-wise, with their bigger more capable brothers.
Now that Sony's QX1 -- basically a smartphone add-on that lets you use E-Mount lenses with your phone -- has arrived, it was inevitable that people would take these new interchangeable lens capabilities to comical extremes. Enter Facebook user Usperedi, who created the image above for Sony Alpha Rumors.
North Carolina-based photographer Tammy Cantrell has been shooting abandoned mills in the Gaston County area for years, but her Not an Exit exhibit/series reveals a part of those mills that no Urbex photo on its own ever will.
It wasn't long ago that we shared Trent Bell's viral photo series REFLECT with you. But while the photo series itself was an inspiring and beautiful collection of work that made its mark online, it actually started its life as an idea for a creative promotional mailer.
On Instagram, if it looks like you, and talks like you, and posts like you, it may not actually be you. A new wave of spam bots are apparently avoiding detection by Instagram's filters by copying real people... picture for picture, word for word.
As light painting photography is becoming more popular and common, photographers are coming up with better and better ways of bringing the technique to events. The Lightomatic is a fancy solution by Dazler, a collective of light painters based out of Lyon, France.
GoPro may rule the roost in the action cam market, but they aren’t the only ones with their hand in the basket. Sony makes a lineup of action cams as well, and today they’ve announced their latest adventure seekers camera, the Sony Action Cam Mini: a fun-sized version of the AS100v that packs just as much power into just two-thirds the size.
Well, this is certainly one of the more... interesting Photoshopping trends we’ve seen. Thanks to a brigade of dedicated Photoshop masters on Tumblr, Marvel superheroes are getting the most unlikely of makeovers -- Hello Kitty makeovers, to be precise.
Aperture is about to leave the RAW image organizing/editing game, and OnOne Software wants to tempt users over to their ranks before they all give in to Adobe. To that end, OnOne just announced an impressive new version of its Perfect Photo Suite.
It's Wednesday, or as our camel friend from GEICO would call it, 'Hump Day,' and if you need a little bit of a laugh, this squirrel is more than happy to provide it. Some, particularly the poor camera, might even call him over-eager.
Nowadays, anybody with an Internet connection has seen tens if not hundreds of photographs taken from space. Astronauts tweet them, Hubble sends them down... rovers even putter around planets other than our own taking pictures.
There's a new law in the works in The Philippines that may soon make it illegal to photograph strangers without their permission... even if they just appear by chance in the background of your photos. According to a government official, even selfies with people appearing in the background would be a no-no.
Hovering somwhere between 205 and 255 miles above Earth is the International Space Station, currently housing six intrepid explorers that are hurtling through space at roughly 4.8 miles per second.
People have been questioning the wisdom of the Sony QX so-called 'lens cameras' since before they even arrived. CNET mocked the news when it was still a rumor, saying it made no sense for Sony to release a camera accessory that made your phone just as bulky as a real camera... why would people buy that and not a real camera? …
If you've taken almost any math classes over the last decade, chances are good you have a graphing calculator sitting around in some drawer somewhere. And while we can't promise you'll ever use what you learned in Calculus (an engineer friend of mine used to call it 'calcuseless') the folks over at JACP Media can help put that old calculator to use by turning it into a homebrew intervalometer.
The breakneck pace of photo technology advancement makes it easy to forget how young our industry really is, but we had a reminder yesterday when, not long after 'modern photography' itself turned 175 years old, the very first Canon camera celebrated its 80th birthday.
More so than ever before, it's regular citizens with camera phones who are breaking the news... or in some cases shaping the news. And it's this topic, hot on the heels of the protests in Ferguson, MO, that developer Nicky Case decided to tackle in a powerfully simple game.
We’ve seen low-light photography before, but what about no light photography. While it seems borderline impossible, researchers have combined a number of techniques to produce photographs in almost complete darkness, where the resulting images are using less than one photon of light per pixel!
Photographer Oleg Grigoryev, like many of us, is a man who enjoys traveling, hiking and camping. Unlike many of us, his latest endeavors have taken him through the Fann Mountains of Tajikistan, where he captured a simple yet beautiful series of wanderlust-inducing images aptly titled Morning Views From the Tent.
Dorothea Lange's iconic Migrant Mother, pictured above, is just one of the roughly 170,000 photographs taken between 1935 and 1945 for a project commissioned by the United State’s Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).
Photoshop and other image manipulation software has become an interesting tool in the quest to define 'beauty.' Often used to sculpt and create false beauty, it's also been used by people like Esther Honig to illustrate how our definitions of beauty change based on culture.
About a year ago, we linked out to what we then believed to be the first 360-degree interactive panorama ever made of Pyongyang, North Korea. That interactive image was shot by photographer Aram Pan, but it was only the beginning.
Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon to hear about fauxtographers stealing other photographers work and passing it off as their own. Heck, there’s an entire website dedicated to shaming the scam artists who do this. But despite the distinct possibility that you'll be caught and have your career destroyed if you do this, it continues to happen.
When you think of colorful ripples of 'stuff' in the sky, the first thing that probably comes to mind is the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights. But while we'll never get sick of seeing those polar spirits dance, the phenomenon above gives Aurora photography a run for its money.
If you're thinking about adding a video component to your portfolio, one of the most important-but-confusing things you'll have to wrap your head around is codecs -- the different video compression/decompression formats available to you. These not only determine the quality retained by the camera, but also affect how you will approach the post-processing of the footage.
After a week packed with photo and info leaks about this mysterious line of lenses, ZEISS officially pulled the cover off of its Loxia line of manual focus lenses for the Sony full-frame E-Mount a7, a7R and a7S cameras.
