Michael Zhang

Over the past 5 years, the San Francisco-based company Custom SLR has successfully launched 5 different camera products that all started with Kickstarter campaigns (the first was the C-Loop in 2010). Now the company has announced its sixth project: the Slim Strap.

It's a minimalist leather camera strap that's geared toward smaller mirrorless and compact cameras, featuring an elegant and durable design and a special quick-adjust slider that makes shooting a breeze.

Clarifai, a NYC-based startup that's developing state-of-the-art image recognition software, has launched a new free photo app on iOS. It's called Forevery, and it's a new AI-powered app that helps you organize, discover, and share photos on your phone.

Photographer Nick Fancher often does high-quality shoots with simple locations and do-it-yourself gear -- he published a book on the subject earlier this year that's titled Studio Anywhere. For a recent portrait shoot, Fancher visited his model's apartment and shaped light using a custom prism gobo, DIY barn doors, and the blinds on the model's door.

GoPro just announced the name of its upcoming camera drone: Karma. The news was announced on the GoPro website and in a 1-minute teaser video posted to YouTube (embedded above).

The GoPro Karma will be officially unveiled in 2016, and will be the action camera company's first foray into the exploding drone market that's currently dominated by the Chinese company DJI. A 2-minute video with footage from the drone was posted by the company back in October.

After Donald Trump publicly called for the US to ban Muslims from entering the country on Monday, a number of photo editors responded by publishing photos of Trump that make the presidential candidate look like he's doing the Hitler salute (or "Nazi salute") -- a gesture that's a criminal offense in Germany and a few other countries.

The Tuesday cover of the Philadelphia Daily News compares Trump to Hitler with its photo choice and headline, "The New Furor" (a play on the word "führer").

Charles M. Conlon was an early 20th century American photographer who was among the first to regularly photograph baseball games and players. Although he shot many iconic early photos of the sport, his name was largely unknown until 1990, when 8,000+ of his negatives were found in the archives of Sporting News.

Many of the photos were heavily marked, and the Digital Archive Project at the National Baseball Hall of Fame has been working to restore those images for future generations.

Want to learn newborn photography but don't have any newborns to photograph? StandInBaby is a new product designed just for you. It's the world's first fully articulated, lifelike, and camera ready dummy baby that's designed to help photographers learn how to pose newborns.

Adobe may be dominating the photo editing space with Photoshop and Lightroom, but there are still a number of companies out there competing against those ubiquitous programs. One of them is Alien Skin Software, which just announced Exposure X, its latest software solution for organizing, editing, and enhancing photos.

Flickr today announced its new virtual reality app for the Samsung Gear VR headset, allowing people to experience 360° photos hosted on the service through an immersive virtual reality experience. The photo sharing service began teasing this new VR experience back in September.

Between 1985 and 1991, ABC, A&E, and The Travel Channel aired a weekly half-hour TV show for photographers titled "World of Photography." The show was a big influence on a generation of photographers, exposing them to new photographers and photography techniques.

If you were a fan of the show back then, there's some great news for you now: hundreds of segments from the show can now be found on YouTube.

Wary of sharing location data in photos? Get this: a burglary suspect arrested last week is accused of using geotagged photos from Instagram and Facebook to find female college students, break into their homes, and steal their underwear.

When you think of the planet Jupiter, you probably think of that giant striped planet with the Great Red Spot anticyclonic storm swirling across the face. But that's just one way of looking at Jupiter.

The photo above, created with images from NASA's Cassini space probe, shows what Jupiter looks like from directly above the north pole.

In Lebanon, 14-year-old children can get married without their parents permission, and marriages involving 12-year-olds are not rare. But not everyone approves of the idea of child brides -- in fact, it seems that a majority doesn't.

The video above is a social experiment staged by the rights organization KAFA recently. They had a 12-year-old girl pretend to be a child bride, posing for a wedding photo shoot with her new husband... who looks old enough to be her grandfather. Hidden cameras nearby documented the reaction of passersby who noticed the photo shoot.

Apple is rolling out iOS 9.2 today, and among a host of minor features and fixes is new iPhone support for Apple's Lightning to USB Camera Adapter. This means you can now connect your camera to your iPhone and import photos directly without having to use a computer as the middleman.

In 1941, legendary photographer Ansel Adams began working for the US Department of the Interior to shoot large format photos of National Parks and other notable locations out in the great outdoors.

Guess what? The same job opening has appeared again: the National Parks Service is looking to hire a black-and-white large format photographer, and the salary is up to $100,000 per year.

Here’s a tongue-in-cheek promotional video for a new support group designed to help Instagram Husbands. “Behind every cute girl …

Jason Ching is a research scientist with the University of Washington’s Alaska Salmon …

Here's a 6-minute video by Green Label that focuses on the work of Travis Jensen, the San Francisco (and LA) based street photographer that we also featured back in February.

Jensen talks about seeking out the rougher places in SF that you won't find on postcards or in tourist magazines.

COOPH, the Cooperative of Photography, has launched a new rain jacket that's 100% waterproof and 100% designed with photographers in mind.

What happens if your portrait clients request golden hour lighting... outside of golden hour? That's the situation photographer Pye Jirsa of Lin & Jirsa Photography found himself in recently while shooting a wedding. As you can see in the 4.5-minute video above, Jirsa was able to deliver by using creative lighting, a powerful flash, and a couple of colored gels.

If an iPhone plays a big role in your photography, either as a pocket computer or as a primary camera, and you suffer from dead-battery anxiety, there's some good news for you: Apple just announced an official battery case that greatly extends your phone's battery life.

Brad Mangin is a freelance sports photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He regularly shoots for Sports Illustrated and Major League Baseball Photos, and he has photographed 19 World Series and a number of Super Bowls and NBA Finals so far. We had a chat with Mangin about his life, career, and love for sports photography.

Back in August, Instagram made a lot of photographers very happy by announcing that it will no longer force all photos into a square aspect ratio -- by allowing rectangular images, photographers can now share their photos in their original form.

Now Twitter is following suit: the company is announcing that photos in Twitter timelines will no longer be cropped.

For the past several years, a guy in Seattle named Florin Mehedinti has been pranking his wife, Gracie, with …

Back in April 2014, Dropbox announced Carousel, a photo app for archiving and sharing personal memories via a Dropbox account. Now, less than two years later, Dropbox is announcing that Carousel will soon be no more.

This is incredible: German photographer Lukas Fritz wanted an easier way to process his film at home, so he spent a year creating the Filmomat, a fully automatic film processor that can handle everything from B&W 35mm film to 5x7-inch color slides.

"Lost in Wonder" is a new project by New York-based artist Trina Merry, who's known for blending body art and photography to depict the human body in creative ways. Merry visited major "modern wonder" landmarks around the world and blended her model into each of the scenes.

If you're looking for unique Christmas portraits for your kids this holiday season, head over to the Pioneer Place shopping mall in downtown Portland, Oregon. There, in one of the world capitals of hipsterdom, you'll find a hipster Santa that ditched his traditional red outfit in favor of jeans, a festive cardigan sweater, and a fashionable man bun.

Adobe today announced Lightroom Mobile version 1.4 for Android devices. With this latest version, the photo editing app is now completely free -- you don't need an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription to download and use the app.

The PD-100 Black Hornet 2 is a high-tech camera drone that's currently being tested by the US military. Unlike consumer drones used by photographers, such as the DJI Phantom or Inspire, the PD-100 is designed to be extremely stealthy: it fits in the palm of your hand, and weighs just 18 grams -- about the same as 3 to 4 sheets of ordinary printer paper.

Oh, and they cost $40,000 each.

Photographer Mathieu Stern did this short experiment with capturing the full image circle from a 180-degree fisheye lens. You'll need a smaller image circle on a larger camera sensor. For this video, Stern used a Kenko 180° fisheye lens, screwed onto a 55mm to 52mm filter, screwed onto a Canon 50mm f/1.4 FD lens, screwed onto a NEX adapter, mounted to the Sony a7II.

Tips from the Top Floor podcast host Chris Marquardt recently got a private …

Artist Shea Glover recently did a social experiment. The 18-year-old Chicago-based artist took …

Nikkei Asian Review published this interesting chart showing which companies dominated the interchangeable-lens …

"Un Petit Tour Dans Paris" is a new 1.5-minute short film by French director Maxime Baudin.

"In a splendid and romantic Paris, while everything is going too fast, a young man ride a ‘bicyle’," the synopsis reads. "But his simple ride is going to take on a whole new dimension…"

For the past couple of years, photographer Joel Sartore has been …

Atmosphere Aerosol is a new aerosol spray for photographers and filmmakers that essentially serves as a fog machine that you can easily carry around in your camera bag.

Here’s an inspiring 3-minute video in which veteran fashion and portrait photographer David …

Check out this pint-sized Sony a7R II mirrorless camera. No, Sony didn't decide to release a new miniature version of the highly-acclaimed camera. What you see is actually an extremely detailed USB drive.

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is at the center of a new Photoshop meme this week after his government was caught red handed trying to pass off a Photoshop fail as an authentic press photo.

Update on 12/16/21: This video embed has been removed by its owner. You can still watch it here.

Photographer Marco Grob was recently asked by TIME magazine to do a portrait shoot with the cast of the new (and highly anticipated) Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens. The 3.5-minute video above is a behind-the-scenes look at how the shoot went down.

TIME's latest contract for photographers has been at the center of controversy for about a month now, and many photographers are still refusing to sign it as they campaign for more favorable terms.

Here’s a short 30-second PSA ad about the dangers of taking pictures on train tracks. It was released by …

In October 2015, Apple quietly unlocked 10-bit color in its release of the OS X El Capitan operating system update. 3rd party software didn't support the new color output, so it was limited to Apple's official Preview and Photos apps.

That changed this week: Adobe quietly expanded 10-bit (30-bit color RGB) support in Photoshop CC to OS X in the latest update, which also brought Custom Toolbars and a host of other features.

Google today launched Cardboard Camera for Android, an app that lets you shoot 3D virtual reality photographs with a smartphone. Resulting photos can be viewed immersively through a Google Cardboard VR headset.

Skydivers often photograph and film their jumps with a GoPro camera, but what happens if you want to shoot higher-quality photos with a DSLR? The solution is to mount it to your helmet and find a way to trigger the shutter.

Photographer Wolfgang Lienbacher demonstrated this recently by jumping out of a plane with the Red Bull Skydive team with a DSLR on his head and a shutter release cable in his mouth.

Canon will start shipping its $30,000 ISO 4.46 million camera this month for people who need to shoot in pitch black environments. A similar technology that's making a splash these days is "color night vision."

A Las Vegas-based company called SPI has a color night vision sensor called the X27. The 1.5-minute video above shows what the 10-megapixel sensor can capture in extremely dark places.

The city of Chicago has agreed to pay $100,000 to a photographer who was beaten by police officers during the 2012 NATO summit, causing the destruction of one of his cameras.

Polish photographer Rafał Krasa recently launched Eupidere, a new brand of high-end leather camera straps. He wanted some product photos with a seamless white background but didn't have the proper studio setup, so he decided to go with what he did have: his bathtub.

Here’s a touching 45-second video by ifolor, a photo printing company based in …