The above is a beautiful slow motion video (1000fps) shot of dogs jumping for dog treats flying through the …
Here’s a good tip for life: when flying, try to keep your camera …
If you’ve ever edited your Flickr photographs using the default image editor provided by …
Solargraphy is a technique in which a fixed pinhole camera is used to expose photographic paper for an absurdly long amount of time (sometimes half a year).
Tokyo/Glow is a creative time-lapse video by Jonathan Bensimon showing an illuminated man leaving his crosswalk sign at a street intersection and roaming the streets of Toyko.
Some years ago Canon offered a f/1.0 version of its 50mm L lens. They’ve since stopped manufacturing lenses faster …
The Sandpit is a beautiful short film by Sam O'Hare that shows New York City in miniature using a shallow depth-of-field. In an interview on Aero Film, O'Hare says,
Online entertainer Ze Frank has an interesting gallery …
“Save Our Earth, Let’s Go Green”, an electron microscope photograph created by Harvard scientists, was recently …
It's amazing what simple photography and tons of time and dedication can produce. This stop motion video was created using 25,000 pieces of paper and a 10 foot wall.
Back at the beginning of the year, Wired stirred up some fierce debate …
Here’s a photograph of paparazzi taken back in 1932. Looks like some things …
Showzey is a web app that helps you collect and organize your photographs from various places on the web in once place.
This isn’t related to photography, but it’s something that I’m working on, so I …
Fotobabble is a newly launched service that allows you to add a short audio clip to photographs via either your computer or iPhone (using their free application).
Here’s an amazing and unique project by Adam Voorhes, titled Exploded.
Here’s a neat idea I came across yesterday: tossing a coin to explore …
Yesterday we posted a mind-boggling video of water drops at 2000 fps. The above video is pretty …
Vans and the places where they were is an ongoing project started in 1996 …
There are some pretty amazing photographs of the Olympic games coming out of Vancouver these days. If you’re wondering …
There will one less millionaire paparazzo in the world. The first public photograph …
We've been seeing this idea floating around in concept cameras and new camera accessories, so it might be a coming trend in digital photography: detached LCD screens.
One thing I love about photography and videography is that it often allows us to see things in different …
SanDisk just released its 64GB Ultra SDXC (extended capacity) memory card, the largest capacity for the Secure Digital format. It …
Last December an amateur photographer named Bob Patefield was in Accrington town center shooting photographs of the Christmas celebration when he and his friend were stopped by police for suspicious behavior. He and his friend refused to provide the police with personal details (since they were not obliged to), and were stopped a total of three times before Patefield was finally arrested. His friend complied, provided his personal information, and was released on the spot.
Despite what your eyes tell you, the above image is a photograph of a real person, not a painting.
In 1987, a PhD student at the University of Michigan named Thomas Knoll wrote a program on his Macintosh to display images, and named it Display. His brother John Knoll, an employee at Industrial Light and Magic, convinced him to turn it into an image editor. Taking a break from school, he worked on the software with his brother for six months in 1988, and renamed it ImagePro. In September 1988, Adobe decided to license the software, now called Photoshop.
What do you get when you attach magnets to the Joby Gorillapod? The …
Photographers have been buzzing about the Digital …
SixthSense is a wearable gesture device being developed by PhD student Pranav Mistry at the MIT Media Lab that allows the wearer to interact with their environment, treating the real world as a computer display. The above video is of the demo that was given at TED that generated international attention. What we found interesting is how the device allows you to photograph with hand gestures (at 6m25s), and the ability to work with your images on any wall.
Update: This giveaway is now over. The winners were randomly selected by the giveaway system we used. Here they are: …
ImageStamper is an online tool that acts as …
Here’s a bizarre combination of old and new: a photo album that looks like a gigantic SD card. It …
We posted a while back on how to sharpen your photos like Flickr for smaller resolution images.
Most of you probably know the astronauts on the ISS use a lot of Nikon gear for their photography.
If you’re an amateur photographer looking to go pro, finding clients is often a …
Update: It looks like many of these courses are no longer available. In …
Here's a "carry around" tripod for your carry around lens and camera: The ZipShot is a "compact, ultra-light tripod" by Tamrac that has aluminum-alloy legs that resemble the collapsible poles used in tents. While it's not very useful in windy situations, or with heavy professional gear, it might suffice for most ordinary uses and lighter cameras (supposedly it can hold up to 3lb). The biggest benefits are obviously weight (11oz) and setup time.
At the beginning of the month we featured a creative lamp …
About a week ago, San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge launched its own space program, Spacebridge.
Caleb Charland is a Maine-based photographer who combines a love of scientific experiments and photographs into wonderful and amazing photographs.
Liquid Scale is an app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that offers content aware image resizing. What does that mean? Basically it's like a URL shortener for your photographs, reducing the dimensions of the photograph but retaining the meaning.
When I’ve needed to take quick self portraits with my DSLR, one of the tricks I’ve discovered is to …
For sale on eBay is a Century Studio Camera by Eastman Kodak …
One of the best online photo editors is now completely free to use. Aviary …
Pentax recently asked a couple production companies to shoot short films demonstrating the HD filming capabilities of the Pentax's flagship K-7. After the recent flurry of short films shot with Canon and Nikon DSLRs, it seems Pentax would like to remind us all that they're still in the game. The two films were recently released, and are titled "Uncle Jack" (embedded above) and "The Rider".
If you’re looking to set up a portfolio website for your photography, New York-based photographer …
Here’s a story that’s sure to drop your jaws: A Spanish trawlerman named Benito Estevez was recently fishing off the …
If you’re addicted to The Big Picture like we are, then you probably …
Just in time for the Winter Olympics, Google announced on Tuesday that Street View now includes imagery of several runs at Whistler Blackcomb ski resort, where many of the events will be held. To capture the photographs, Street View cameras were mounted on a snowmobile that made runs down the slopes.