If you shoot portraits and you're not sure if you should upgrade from the APS-C system you're using to that full-frame body you're coveting, read this first. Photographer Manny Ortiz gives you a side-by-side comparison between the APS-C Sony a6000 and the full frame Sony a7 II for portrait photography so you can see the difference for yourself.
Photographer Mik Milman is an event and creative portrait photographer. Dog Brixton Milman is a dog. Together, they've captured the heartwarming connection between a man and his dog (or is it a dog and his man?) in the series Us: Mik and Brix Doing Things.
File this rumor in the "odd-but-plausible" folder. According to a "retail source," Canon is planning to put a 30MP sensor in the Canon 5D Mark IV. Not 20, 22, or 24... 30MP.
Capturing beautiful macro photos on the cheap isn't tough if you're willing to experiment a little bit. Amateur photographer Benjamin Weir was able to do it with just a smartphone and a lens element he tore out of a dead point-and-shoot camera.
Here's a fun little video to help you get over hump day and on to the second half of the week. A weather camera at the top of a tower in Nebraska got an unexpected visit from a curious hawk this week.
Photography community and marketplace EyeEm is wasting no time. Just 48 hours after news broke that Verizon had agreed to buy Yahoo! (and by extension Flickr), the photo sharing company is making it super easy for you to ditch Flickr and move your entire portfolio over to EyeEm.
It's easy to forget that Sony doesn't just make full-frame mirrorless cameras, but they do. And it sounds like Sony is about to remind you that they do with an impressive successor to the Sony a99 that they plan to release "very soon."
We keep seeing crazy patents come across our desks and filing them under "never-gonna-happen." Is that what we would have thought of Nikon's new AF-S Nikkor 105mm f/1.4E ED 'world's fastest' lens if we'd seen it as a patent? Quite possibly.
Got a hankering for "thousands" of working, well-maintained cinema lenses? Have $1,000,000 to spare? If you answered yes to both questions, you're in luck. There's an eBay listing with your name written all over it.
Speed, portability, power... pick two. When it comes to strobes, that's the game you have to play. But maybe not anymore. Priolite's new Ultra monolight promises all three in a single package they believe will "blow your mind."
The controversial Pentagon manual for interpreting the international laws of war received a much-needed update this week, an update largely focused on protecting journalists working in conflict zones.
If you've in the market for a tiny, fun, manual focus bokeh monster to carry around with you, photographer Nitsan Simantov would like to introduce you to his "favorite lens ever": The Voigtlander Nokton 35mm f/1.4 MC.
The artist statement Nancy LeVine sent us for her series Senior Dogs Across America begins with a paragraph that left this writer in tears—a tribute to the two dogs she had to let go of. "I loved them passionately," she writes. "To the quiet, exquisite presence of each aged dog, I honor them with this work."
Turning a timelapse into a "flowing" painting in the style of one of the great masters doesn't necessarily require 80 hours of frame-by-frame iPad photography with the Prisma app. For artist Danil Krivoruchko, all it took was a high-tech computer algorithm.
Prisma, the ultra-popular, we-didn't-know-a-photo-filter-app-could-get-this-popular-anymore filter app that stylizes your photographs to look like famous paintings is no longer an iOS exclusive. Today, it arrived on Android.
You may think you're no good at seeing in the dark, but your eyes are actually incredibly sensitive. In fact, according to a new study, the human eye is so sensitive it can detect even a single photon of light!
For better or worse, copyright law hasn't changed much in the United States even as technology has made it far easier for people to steal or "appropriate" your work. But a new service called Blockai thinks it can help by using something called the bitcoin blockchain.
When photographer Erik Hijweege realized that there were over 22,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, he was shocked... and inspired. Inspired to create a hauntingly beautiful series of glass ambrotypes depicting some of these endangered species encased in ice.
Between Flickr, 500px, and other major photo sharing sites that post EXIF data alongside photos, there's a wealth of information online about the cameras, lenses, and settings photographers are using. Explorecams puts that information in an interactive, easy to digest infographic.
We've shared a few very bright lights in the past that can turn night into day—even a crazy 1000W DIY version you can build yourself—but this 20,000W incandescent lightbulb makes all of those look like the pen light on your keychain. At full power, it can turn night into blinding white.
An Italian experimental photography group has set a new world record. Using a 24 square meter negative, a canvas of the same size, and 12 minutes and 30 seconds of exposure courtesy of the sun, they created the world's largest cyanotype contact print.
Cropping a photo just right can be challenging, especially if you're working on a smaller laptop screen. Use this quick Lightroom tip from the folks at Adobe to help you get more precise results every time.
Here's a quick retouching tip that almost every portrait photographer will end up using at least once: how to quickly and easily fix shiny or oily skin in both Photoshop and Lightroom.
In one of the most daring (and cost saving) feats of do it yourself engineering we've ever seen, the folks at YouTube channel Indy Mogul managed to recreate a remote-controlled 360° camera rig that normally costs $18,000 for just $650!
If you've ever been curious how some of the beautiful desktop wallpaper images in Apple's OS X operating system were shot, you're in luck. It seems Apple forgot to scrub the EXIF data from one of the El Capitan wallpapers, giving you a glimpse into how it was shot, and how it was edited.
Not everything looks better in slow motion, but a whole lot of things do. Case-in-point, check out this behind the scenes video that shows a high speed robotic arm being used to capture slow motion footage, and then shows you the sweet results. (Warning: There is very brief nudity around 1:40).
Controlling your DSLR from your smartphone or tablet has never been ... smaller. Meet the CASE Remote Air, the self-proclaimed "world's smallest and most powerful smart camera controller."
A computer vision researcher at the University of Washington has developed a face-swapping image search engine that will automatically insert the face from an uploaded photo into any search term at all. No photo editing skills of any kind required.
The new Wolffepack Capture camera backpack does something that we wish every photography backpack could do: it lets you swing it around front without actually taking it off, making it much easier to get at your gear.
Amazing photography subjects are everywhere, and if you don't believe us, look no further than this gorgeous macro photography timelapse of pain killers, vitamins, and other over-the-counter pills dissolving in water.
Contradictions abound on the Apple rumor mill. One month after reports claimed Apple had scrapped the dual camera system long-rumored for the iPhone 7 Plus, a newly leaked photo shows the clearest picture of the dual cam we've seen yet.
The New Yorker recently had an interesting idea. They asked filmmaker Kevin McAlester to recreate a 70-year-old drive through downtown Los Angeles—a then and now video that shows just how much the city has changed since the 1940s.
Drones are a source of beautiful pictures, captivating videos, and somewhat understandable anxiety, but a couple of teenagers vacationing in Washington recently turned theirs into a crime fighting tool.
If you’re a fan of high-quality glass for Sony full-frame mirrorless cameras, Zeiss has your back. According to a …
One of the unintended consequence of blazing new trails is, often, capturing incredible photographs. That's how we ended up with this gorgeous shot that shows SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket both taking off and landing... in a single long exposure.
Tripod maker SLIK is doing something not a lot of tripod makers do these days... they're making news. That's because their latest line of LITE tripods feature a neat little trick: a detachable LED flashlight built right into the center column.
What does Santa do in the 'off-season' between January and December? Does he go swimming? Work in his wood shop? Play the keyboard? Photographer Mary Beth Koeth set out to find out, and the answers are yes, yes, and yes.
If you thought the idea of taking a picture with the wink of an eye died with Google Glass, think again. A new hopeful product-to-be called Blincam is bringing back the idea: a standalone, handsfree camera that attaches to any pair of glasses and captures photos with a wink.
This gorgeous video was captured by Le Cut Studio with a DJI Phantom 4 flying high above Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia. It shows a lone seal swimming (fishing, really) through a massive school of fish just below the surface of the water.
Ready to be wowed? Because if you've never seen how a car chase scene is captured on camera by modern-day camera crews, you're about to be thanks to this recently released B-Roll footage from the next Jason Bourne movie.
Drone manufacturer Walkera is causing a bit of stir today with the announcement of their Voyager 4: a superzoom drone that boasts a whopping 16x optical zoom camera system.
Listen up, because this is a really neat trick. Using a little-known and almost never-used blend mode in Photoshop, Scott Kelby shows you how to align two things perfectly in PS every single time without fail.
This video needs very little introduction beyond the headline except to say that yes, it is exactly as cool as it sounds.
It's not all crazy patents today on the rumor mill, this week also brought with it some tantalizing teasers about three of the biggest camera manufacturers. We have a "first" from Canon, a new lens from Nikon, and a new memory card from Sony to tell you about.
Fine Art photographer Pascal Goet has been capturing macro photos for 26 years, but it's only today that his work made its way onto our radar. His series Mask & Totem features some of the most colorful, anthropomorphic insects he's photographed—insects that looks like mysterious, intricate masks.
It took Drew Geraci over at District 7 Media over 80 hours of post-production to create his latest China timelapse. That's because he took all 2500 individual frames he had captured and turned them, one by one, into paintings using the Prisma app. The result is mesmerizing.
Here's another one for the "probably never going to get made but WOW" file. A month and a half after Canon patented a massive 1000mm f/5.6 DO lens and two months after the crazy 28-560mm f/2.8-5.6 patent, the company is at it again. This time they've patented an EF 40-800mm f/4.5-5.6!
Researchers working on atomic-level storage have found a way to store massive amounts of data in a tiny space. With a bit more improving, this technology could mean memory cards with tens of terabytes of storage.
A couple of months ago, BuzzFeed's "Try Guys" released a video in which they got Photoshopped to look like ideal men's body types as seen in movie posters and magazine covers. But today, they kick it up a notch: they're being Photoshopped not like men... but like women.
If you follow just about any major news outlet, you're bound to have seen the photos of "Fukushima Kid." We published them ourselves. But today the photographer behind those shots, Keow Wee Loong, is on the defensive as another photographer accuses him of lying about the photos in search of fame.