Making food look appealing on camera is no easy task. For still photos, food photographers use all kinds of tricks and non-food products to make food look beautiful and tasty. Similar hacks exist for capturing food on video. In its new ad above, Carl's Jr. decided to go the easy route instead of using those techniques.
Ask a photo nerd and they'll tell you that the world's first digital camera was invented in the 70s by Steve Sasson while working at Kodak (oh, the irony). But did you know that it's Fuji, not Kodak, who claims they invented the world's first "fully" or "truly" digital camera? It's true.
"Follow your passion" is a piece of life advice that's commonly thrown around. It's heard in the photography industry, and especially in graduation commencement speeches. But here's a 5-minute video in which well-known TV host Mike Rowe argues for the opposite: why you (maybe) shouldn't follow your passion.
My name is Jesse Rockwell, and I'm a California-based photographer with an insatiable appetite for travel. I wanted to share a solution I have found for international travel and the hassle of charging large numbers of batteries on strange foreign outlets.
One of the most toxic feelings that a photographer (or human being) is to feel envy. Apparently envy is a trait that is deeply embedded in us, even as babies. But why is it that we feel envy, what are we envious about, and what can we do about it?
It seems the recently-leaked (maybe?) Canon 5D Mark IV is going to come with some fresh bling when it finally becomes official in a couple months time. According to recent reports, the camera will be announced alongside a refresh of Canon's 24-105mm f/4L lens.
Even a single off-camera flash can make a massive difference in an outdoor portrait shoot, giving you a look that is simply impossible to capture with natural light alone. Photographer Manuel Ortiz demonstrates this beautifully in a quick, eye-opening comparison video.
Start your day off with a bit of high-flying inspiration, courtesy of some of the most talented aerial filmmakers out there. From extreme athletes to roiling volcanoes, this footage ought to get your heart pumping at least as well as that half-finished cup of coffee on your desk.
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Ricoh just announced the new Pentax K-70, a rugged DSLR designed for photographers who enjoy shooting in the great outdoors. It packs features that were previously only seen in high-end Pentax cameras, such as the new top-of-the-line Pentax K-1 full frame DSLR.
A wildlife photographer in Singapore was slapped with charges this week for baiting endangered eagles with air-injected live fish in order to capture action shots.
A tripod is an indispensable accessory for photographers, but you're bound to run into a situation where you either didn't want to or weren't allowed to bring one with you. The mini Plaster Hand was created for those exact situations.
Getty Images, one of the largest stock photo agencies in the world and the official photo agency of the International Olympic Committee, is preparing for Rio by embracing the role of virtual reality in photography's future.
Can an algorithm-based service such as Google Images be racist? That's what people are suggesting this week after one man's video went viral.
"If you can't fix it with gaff tape, it probably does not deserve to be fixed."
Truer words may never have been spoken, but gaffer's tape isn't just for fixing stuff. Here are 50 different ways to put gaff tape to work for you.
The doctor looked straight to my mother's eyes. He wanted to break eye contact but he couldn't. There was bad news to deliver first.
Ever wish your smartphone could see in the dark? Your wish is Dutch electronics company Lumigon's command. Introducing the T3, a phone Lumigon claims is the world's first with a built in, HD, night vision camera.
Adobe today announced its latest updates to Lightroom and Camera Raw. In addition to new lens support and various bug fixes, the updates bring a brand new feature called Guided Upright -- it's a tool that lets you easily straighten lines in photos.
A rare unopened US military Leica camera has appeared on eBay with a price tag of $45,300. It's new in box, sealed inside an unopened paper bag, and comes with an X-Ray of the box as evidence of what's contained inside.
Google just made Apple's 'Live Photos' feature a whole lot more usable. No, that's not a typo, a new iOS app created by none other than Google just took the neat-but-often-ignored Apple feature to the next level.
We've all seen them: Apple's massive billboards, poster ads, and YouTube videos that where all "Shot on iPhone" by real users. The ads inspire some and annoy others, but a camera store in Canada just spoofed those ads in a funny set of parody ads that should make just about everybody grin.
It's not just the big guys you have to be worried about when setting up a camera trap in the jungle. As naturalist Phil Torres explains in this Jungle Diaries video, you should probably look out for ants too.
Hope you're in driving distance of Bolivia, because this one should be swallowed with "largest salt flats in the world" levels of salt. It seems the first picture of the Canon 5D Mark IV being tested in the wild might have leaked.
"Put Your Head Into Gallery," is an unusual interactive art project by Tbilisi, Georgia-based artist Tezi Gabunia. After creating realistic small-scale models of famous rooms in art galleries, Gabunia and his collaborators put them on display and invited visitors to his exhibition to pose with their heads inside the tiny spaces. The resulting photos show giant heads peering into well-known art galleries.
Cameras can make the invisible, visible. In this case, the magic of slow motion makes it possible to watch as a bullet smashes through 5 lit light bulbs, tearing through the frame at 62,000 frames per second and sending white-hot filament and shards of powdered glass in all directions.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk famously said recently that he believes there's a "one in billions" chance that we're not all living in a computer simulation. This idea of real being indistinguishable from digital is the basis for photographer Ollie Ma's project Open World.
Remember Flag? Back in 2014, the then-nascent idea raised over $150K on Kickstarter to launch a 100% free, ad-supported photo printing service. Today, that dream became an honest-to-goodness smartphone app reality.
Instagram just released version 8.2 of its iOS app. Among the "bug fixes and performance improvements" is a new iOS extension that lets you post directly to Instagram from elsewhere in iOS.
You don't see that every day. Australian photographer Tim Samuel recently captured a couple of photos the likes of which we feel confident saying you have never seen before. He photographed a fish... trapped inside a jellyfish... controlling the jellyfish from inside.
A few days ago, we had a crazy flood in Paris. The Seine rose by a whopping 6.10m (20 feet for you imperial friends), overflowing the banks, depriving people of electricity, and flooding buildings, public transports, and businesses. It was a rather destructive flood, especially for cities outside of Paris where entire towns, as I am writing this, are still chest-deep underwater.