We wouldn't be surprised if you've never heard of The Drakensberg before. It almost sounds like a region in Game of Thrones, but it's not: it's a mountain escarpment in South Africa, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the subject of the timelapse above, and probably the newest addition to your bucket list.
VR is growing fast, and companies like GoPro don't want to be left in the dust. A single GoPro can't shoot 360° video, and so far multi-GoPro 360° rigs are all third party. Well, no more. Today we get to meet the Omni: GoPro's official VR camera rig.
NASA just gave satellite imagery nerds a very big present: along with a bunch of other scientific data, the space agency just made 2.95 million images of Earth changing surface available to the public at no cost.
Usually the term "top dogs" is used metaphorically; in this case, we're being literal. The most popular pooches on Instagram, it recently came to light, are raking in money by the thousands for every product placement photo they post.
For its 75th anniversary, Hasselblad is returning to its roots. They're saying goodbye to the smaller, rebranded models, and taking aim at the high end medium format market once again. And the company's first giant leap in that direction comes today, in the form of the all new H6D system.
You've probably heard the horror stories... they go something like this: photographer gets job, photographer does job, photographer delivers images to client, client disappears without paying photographer. It's a tale as old as time, and it's exactly what a new service called Fileship.io intends to stop.
Re-saving an image over and over and over again in a lossy format (a format like JPEG that tosses some data each time you save/compress the file) slowly but surely degrades the image. This is called generation loss, and it's demonstrated beautifully in these almost painful-to-watch YouTube videos.
Holy crowdfunding success Batman! Lomography has done it again, and by "done it" we mean launched an incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign. Their new Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens just went up on Kickstarter this morning at 5am Eastern time, and by 2pm it had already broken $200K in funding!
Huawei is making a lot of noise and some big claims about the dual cameras in their new, Leica co-engineered Huawei P9 smartphone. But will the phone live up to the hype out in the real world, in real photographers' hands? EyeEm teamed up with Huawei to find out.
It's been a little over a month since Leica promised to "reinvent" mobile photography in partnership with Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei, and today they're following up on that promise. The long-awaited, much-rumored, and much-leaked Huawei P9 has arrived.
Magnum photographer David Hurn has had the type of career one dreams of. He photographed stars like the Beatles and Sean Connery, and worked during what he describes as one of the friendliest eras in professional photography. But can you guess what one piece of advice he always gives his students? "Wear good shoes."
The new Photonomie app wants you to "say goodbye to the rectangular photo," at least where photo chat is concerned. With Photonomie, you can ditch the boring old rectangle and begin capturing & sharing immersive, interactive, 360° scenes with your friends in instead.
Photographer, digital artist, and Photoshop master Erik Johansson just released the behind the scenes video for his latest creation, and you may be surprised when you find out just how much work (not retouching, on-location work) goes into setting up a dreamscape like this.
Timelapse+, the makers of the new VIEW, call it "the intervalometer. redefined." We don't know about all that, but it does boast a few really neat features that will make it a very tempting purchase for all the timelapse photographers out there.
For us sighted folk, it's difficult to imagine an image-less Facebook News Feed, where a screen reader tells you that your friend uploaded a photo... and nothing more. But thanks to Facebook's new "automatic alternate text" tool and the power of artificial intelligence, that reality is no more.
God of Lighting, Lighting Rock Star, the late great Dean Collins has been called many things, and all of them point to the fact that he knew light better than, perhaps, anybody else you've ever studied under.
Any time a camera company takes away resolution with a camera update, they're bound to turn a few heads. That's exactly what Panasonic just did with the all new GX85, an updated, more affordable version of last year's GX8.
It's a few days late for outlandish April Fools' jokes, but that won't stop us from taking this next rumor with a big grain of salt. The Sony a7RII's successor may, it seems, come to market toting a 70-80MP sensor... take that Canon!
The pursuit of a "unique" shot is an obsession for some, not the least of all because many people think unique photos no longer exist. Everything, they say, has been done. Well... not everything.
When it comes to macro photography, DIY solutions for would-be macro shooters looking to get better results without emptying their wallets abound—from reverse lensing, to DIY macro tubes, to full-blown light boxes. Today, we'll add to that list by showing you how to make a simple DIY flash diffuser.
Victoria Yore and Terrence Drysdale are a couple made in photography heaven. The first is a beautiful model, the second a talented portrait, landscape, and travel photographer, and together they've created a series of wanderlust-inspiring images that are going viral.
The FAA has been scrambling to come up with appropriate rules for multi-rotor camera drones since the flying machines took the world by storm a few years back. And while the first set of proposed rules were revealed a little over a year ago, it seems a US Government committee is already working on a very important update.
What's your greatest career success? What about your greatest failure? Your greatest fear? And what's the best advice you could offer to someone starting out in the world of photography? These are the questions DIY Photography recently asked 4 top creatives.
Canadian Canon users woke up yesterday to some unfortunate news. The gear price hike confirmed by Canon at the beginning of March has taken effect, and the price of almost every Canon lens in the Canon Canada store has increased by 20%.
Do you have between $400K and $600K laying around, just begging to be spent? If you do, you could soon be the proud owner of the Zeiss Tele-Tessar 500mm f/8 lens—AKA the first telephoto lens used on the moon.
Earlier today you may have heard some strange news if you're a user of the image theft detection service Pixsy. In an email to its users, the company indicated that it has been acquired by none other than Getty Images.
Last week, Google dropped a bombshell when the company decided to give the Nik Collection of desktop photo editing plugins away for free—no catch, no strings attached, 100% free. But what if you have no idea how to use your newly-acquired suite of editing tools? No worries, Tim Grey has you covered.
Here's a neat, simple, and cheap little trick that'll help you get smooth footage when shooting video or a hyperlapse with your DSLR. If you don't have the money or the need to pony up for a serious stabilization system, try using a shopping bag instead!
Peak Design's Everyday Messenger Bag is the most funded bag in Kickstarter history, having raised a mind-boggling $4.87 million in funding. It's stylish, it's functional, it's well-built... there's just one catch: at $250, it's also out of reach for many of our budgets.
There's a new action cam on its way to market, and when it arrives it may give GoPro, Sony, and all the rest a serious run for their money. Why? Because this camera, the new Revl Arc, is the world's first action cam with built-in image stabilization.
There may never be a better time to jump into Hasselblad digital medium format than between now and Christmas Eve. All of December, the storied brand is offering steep, thousands-of-dollars-off discounts on its H5D cameras and lenses -- you can even get one for under $10,000!
If Patrick and Lee from Fstoppers and landscape/travel photographer Elia Locardi's goal was to get our hearts racing, they've succeeded in spades with the drone footage they just released from their time in Iceland.
The Canon 7D Mark II has kind of stolen many of the headlines away from a different camera that was released right around the same time: the Nikon D750. A full-frame shooter that boasts an impressive sensor, DPReview recently took the 750 out to Seattle's Museum of Flight for a very informative, in-depth set of real-world tests that they've compiled into the 19-minute video review above.
From an adorable puppy into... well.. a much larger adorable puppy, this short time-lapse by Greg Coffin captures his dog Sophia's growth from 2 months to 3 years old.
If you're like us, seeing the Aurora Borealis in person is high on your bucket list... quite possibly right at the top. The idea of watching this spectacular natural light show in real-time is thrilling, and while you don't get there sitting on your couch reading this, the video above by Ole C. Salomonsen of Arctic Light Photo is about as close as you're likely to get without being there in person.
Captured over the course of several months in Norway, Salomonsen has compiled the best of the best real-time footage he was able to capture with the Sony a7S into 5 minutes of northern lights bliss.
Up till now, picking up a Fuji X-Series camera -- in the literal sense -- usually meant making your way to the local camera store... assuming it's still in business. But apparently that is no longer the case. As long as there's a Best Buy nearby, you can now pick up an X-Series cam in-store.
We never get sick of watching talented wet plate photographers at work. This process, made to look so simple by those who have been honing their craft for years, is actually incredibly complex and finicky. And so when the Tested crew decided to get MythBusters' star and fellow host Jamie Hyneman's picture taken, they went to Michael Shindler, one of the absolute best.
The Sony NEX-5T, a fantastic little mirrorless camera, has never sold for anything less than $450 on Amazon. In fact, right now, both B&H and Amazon have the body only priced at $500. Which is why it's both surprising and exciting that the 5T kit with a 16-50mm Power Zoom Lens is going for $300!
There's no getting around it, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair should have picked a different photo before he and his wife sent out this year's Christmas card (yes... that's their actual card). Sent to us by a reader, this wonderfully awkward image is good for a laugh and perhaps a cringe or two.
Missed that Cyber Monday deal on the 28-inch 4K Dell monitor for only $300? Or decided to skip it because it was a TN panel and not IPS? No worries, Dell just announced two new monitors that are yet again setting a new low-price bar for jumping into the 4K game -- and these are IPS panels with 60Hz refresh rates!
If you're still on the fence about whether or not the Sony a7II is worth pre-ordering and you'd like a more detailed rundown of the features and real life performance of this camera, this video from Alpha Creative Skills should help.
In it, Mark Galer runs you through all of the differences between the a7 an a7II -- minute and otherwise -- before slapping a Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 lens onto the camera and showing you how well the 5-axis stabilization works.
Using light painting to capture the smooth motions of athletes, especially water-based athletes, is not new. You might remember these light painting wake boarding photos by Patrick Rochon, for example.
But photographer Stephen Orlando's images of Kayaking, Canoeing and Swimming remove one of the central parts of these images: the athletes. What remains are the simple, captivating paths of light left by the paddle or arm as it slices through the water, propelling its owner.
Some hugely innovative news is coming out of the Olympus rumor mill today. According to highly trusted sources, the followup to the Olympus OM-D E-M5 will take a page out of Hasselblad's multi-shot book and, using its sensor shift capabilities, spit out 40MP images from its 16MP sensor!
Every year Instagram goes through their data and compiles a list of the ten most Instagrammed locations of the year. And while they haven't published the list themselves yet, they were kind enough to send it over to us.
So, without further ado, join us as we count down the top 10 geotagged locations of 2014 on Instagram.
For as long as photographer Angelo Merendino can remember, leaving his parents' house involved a heartfelt goodbye at the door.
"There was never an, 'I'll just let myself out,'" he writes. "It was always, 'We'll walk you to the door.'" At some point he realized this goodbye wasn't always a given, and decided to capture it in photos for the remaining years he had with his 80+ year old parents.
Remember Foldio? Introduced a little over a year ago today, it's an ultra-portable, foldable light box that gave smartphone photographers the ability to capture much more professional looking product shots. And if you want to know just how popular it as, keep in mind the Foldio Kickstarter raised over $170,000 when its goal was only $10K.
Well, today Foldio comes back with a vengeance by introducing the Foldio2: a bigger, brighter version of the first Foldio that is well on its way to smashing that $170K funding bar they set with the first campaign.
Here's a really neat little customization trick that Adobe are allowing you to do if you're using Lightroom 5 or newer. You know that splash screen that pops up when you first open up LR, the one with all the developers' names on it? You can now replace that image with one of your own in just a couple of quick steps!
The tutorial was created by Craig McCormick of Destructive Pixels for our good friends at F Stop Lounge, and the process couldn't be any simpler.
It's almost too much to hope for, so we'll tell you to start with the salt and go from there on this rumor. Apparently, sources are saying Canon is finally going to get serious about mirrorless cameras this upcoming year by releasing an all-new mirrorless camera that will sport a full-frame sensor. *insert high pitch noises here*
In response to the controversy surrounding the shooting death of Michael Brown -- and especially the differing versions of events from officer Darren Wilson and others who were at the scene -- there has been a massive call to equip police officers nationwide with body cameras.
The Brown family themselves have been outspoken on the matter, and it seems the White House was listening. In a report released yesterday, the Obama administration laid out a proposal to spend $263 million on improving law enforcement, $75 million of which will be used to equip cops with body cams.
We're not sure whether this is funny, tragic, or some combination of both. In this viral Vine from over the holiday weekend, you get to see the effect that takings selfie-after-selfie with adoring fans can have on a man's psyche.