Foto Nouveau Watches Are Inspired by Camera Designs
Foto Nouveau is a new watch and accessory brand that offers designs inspired by vintage and modern camera designs.
Michael is a photography enthusiast, entrepreneur, and programmer based in Northern California near San Francisco. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with two degrees in computer science.
Foto Nouveau is a new watch and accessory brand that offers designs inspired by vintage and modern camera designs.
A week after being slapped with a $1 billion copyright-related lawsuit, Getty Images has been served with another suit. This time it's by Zuma Press, an independent press agency that accuses Getty of infringing on over 47,000 photos.
Remember KitSentry? The security-focused camera bag ecosystem raised over $27,000 on Kickstarter back in 2015. Now it appears that both the product and f-stop, the well-known company behind it, are failing.
While flying over the Pu’u O’o crater of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, Mick Kalber of Tropical Visions Video captured an unusual shot of what appears to be a glowing smiley face looking up at him.
Think Getty's Canon DSLR arsenal at the Rio 2016 Olympics is impressive? Check out Canon's official stockpile.
After seeing the trailer for Inception years ago, photographer Patrick Gilbert of North Bay, Ontario, recently decided to recreate the surreal "folding landscapes" in a series of drone selfies. The project is titled #BendNorthBay.
In addition to capturing all kinds of photographs, traveling press photographers also have a nice advantage when it comes to finding new Pokemon in the wildly popular game Pokemon Go. This 1-minute video shows a sports photographer who was recently spotted dividing his time between capturing photos and capturing Pokemon.
What if Instagram had launched over 20 years ago, and instead of being an iPhone app it had been a Windows 95 .exe program? Russian designer Misha Petrick decided to find out.
Once Syria's largest city, Aleppo has been the worst-hit city in the country since the Battle of Aleppo began in 2012 as part of the ongoing Syrian Civil War. Now a series of before-and-after photos reveals just how much the once-vibrant historical city has been marred by war.
For his personal project "Gold Rush," Los Angeles-based photographer Qingjian Meng combines two different eras. The subjects look like they're from the 19th century, except each of the 8 people is using some piece of technology from the 21st century.
A group of whale-watchers in Quebec recently had an unforgettable encounter with a giant whale that apparently wanted to pose for some close-up photos. What happened was captured in the 30-second video above.
Instagram just took a page from Snapchat's book by announcing Instagram Stories, a new feature that lets you share temporary slideshows with multiple photos and videos.
Since launching in 2010 and being acquired two years later by Facebook for $1 billion with just 13 employees, Instagram has followed a meteoric path toward social media superstardom. Just 4 years after the sale, Instagram's co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom is now a billionaire.
Photographer Justin Olsen of Salt Lake City, Utah, recently visited a mountain biking trail at night with Cody Kelley, the world's 39th ranked rider. While Kelley did runs and jumps, Olsen shot video entirely by moonlight using the Sony a7S II. The 1-minute Red Bull video above is what resulted.
The Internet has become the wild wild west of copyright infringement, and the fact that so many photos are illegally republished around without permission and/or attribution makes enforcement tough for the photographers behind them. If you've ever shared your images on the Web, there's one big-name place they could show up for sale without your permission: Amazon.com.
Sony's sgnl YouTube channel published this 5-minute teardown video that offers a look at the guts of the company's high-end 24-70mm f/2.8 G Master lens, which retails for $2,200.
NFL football star DeAngelo Williams is a huge fan of the TV show "The Walking Dead." Just how big? Well, he and his bride recently decided to do an elaborate zombie-themed wedding photo shoot that involved professional makeup and the entire wedding party.
On the first day of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, attendees were asked to pose for an official photo. The video above shows how that photo was captured by photographer Abbas Shirmohammadi using a 100-year-old camera.
It's commonly said that a camera adds 10 pounds, making you look heavier than you actually are. Here's a striking animated GIF that shows how much the focal length of a lens affects your apparent weight in a portrait.
After an earlier leak, Nikon yesterday officially announced its new 105mm f/1.4 lens, the world's fastest 105mm lens. The ultra-fast portrait lens is designed for beautiful bokeh, and here sample photos that show that.
Renowned photographer Carol M. Highsmith is reportedly suing Getty Images for $1 billion, claiming that the stock photo company committed copyright infringement through the "gross misuse" of 18,755 of her photographs documenting America.
Photographer Matt Sprouse of Greenwood, South Carolina, shot this clever parody of those popular water hair flip photos that typically feature girls with long hair (rather than guys with long beards).
Microsoft today launched Microsoft Pix, a new smart camera app for the iPhone that uses artificial intelligence features to help you shoot better photos.
Want to see what it's like to tiptoe between life and death as a war photographer? Watch Conflict, a 6-episode miniseries that provides a no-holds-barred look at photography in conflict zones. Netflix just picked up the show, but you can also watch it for free online.
The Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat, and a dream location for landscape photographers hunting for special shots. Russian photographer Daniel Kordan visited the salt flat at night and captured a set of photos showing the Milky Way being reflected by the flooded plain.
This photograph shows the camera equipment that Getty Images photographers will be using Brazil for the upcoming Rio Olympic Games. That's a lot of high-end Canon DSLR gear.
Chinese lens maker Venus Optics is set to launch a new lens called the Laowa 12mm f/2.8. It will be the world's widest rectilinear f/2.8 lens.
Adobe today announced a new member of the Lightroom family: Lightroom for Apple TV. While Lightroom on your computer or mobile device is geared towards editing and organizing photos, Lightroom on Apple TV is meant for enjoying photos.
Over the weekend, aerial photographer Mike Risser of Escape-Backpackers.com visited 13 castles around the Czech Republic. At the 13th century Bezděz Castle, Risser decided to shoot the short drone selfie above that captures the beauty of the location.
John S. Payne is a professional photographer who has been running a studio since 1985. He has also spent decades collecting Nikon gear, amassing an arsenal of cameras and lenses worth over $100,000.
A home security camera has captured the cringe-inducing way a $500 camera lens was delivered to an Amazon customer in Indiana. As you can see in the 30-second video above, the delivery man couldn't be bothered to take a few extra steps and bend over.
A Wolf Camera store in the Buckhead district of Atlanta, Georgia, was targeted by burglars who drove a truck through the front of the store in a smash-and-grab theft.
There's an interesting lens coming for Nikon photographers. A new Nikon AF-S Nikkor 105mm f/1.4E ED lens has been leaked early, offering us a glimpse at the soon-to-be world's fastest 105mm prime lens.
Verizon will be the new owner of Flickr. The telecom giant announced today that it will be acquiring Yahoo's core Internet business -- including Flickr and Tumblr -- for $4.83 billion in cash.
Canon may have some unusual things planned for upcoming DSLRs and lenses. The company will reportedly introduce "a DSLR first" in the upcoming 5D Mark IV, but that's not all: an upcoming lens may be the company's first to include a digital display.
Here's a 3.5-minute film by SmugMug Films about the life and photography of Dave Powell, the street photographer behind the photo blog ShootTokyo.
“Game Over” is a 1.5-minute stop-motion by PES that recreates classic arcade games …
Konsta Punkka is a 21-year-old nature and lifestyle photographer based in Helsinki, Finland, who has attracted over 750,000 Instagram followers, thanks in large part to his magical up-close photos of wildlife.
Cameras and photography were birthed in Europe, so how did the Asian island country of Japan become the most dominant player in the global camera industry? Here's a great 30-minute video that explores that question, offering a look into the history and culture of cameras in Japan.
There's no Google Street View in North Korea, but here's the next best thing: Singaporean photographer Aram Pan of DPRK 360 shot an interactive 360-degree video while driving around the streets of the capital city of Pyongyang.
Photographer Jerry Ferguson was shooting from a news helicopter this week when he spotted a microburst over Phoenix, Arizona. In the right place at the right time, Ferguson managed to capture remarkable photos of it.
Back in the late 1970s, the George Eastman Museum asked a group of photographers to share their favorite recipes and food photos to create a cookbook. Now, four decades later, it has finally been published as The Photographer's Cookbook.
This may be one of the craziest wedding photos you'll ever see. For a recent shoot in Iceland, wedding photographer CM Leung photographed a rescue helicopter flying near a bride for a one-of-a-kind photo.
Most of the photos in IKEA's catalog are CGI these days, and more and more video games are adding serious photo modes. As the virtual and photographic worlds converge, we'll be seeing more and more demos of photorealistic CGI that may trick our eyes. Here's one example.
For his bachelor thesis project, titled "notwinstagram," German artist Daniel Reuber decided to flip Instagram fads on their head. Instead of creating picture-perfect Instagram shots that show (or fake) a wonderful life, Reuber decided to show what those same shots would look like for someone with a very sad life.
NASA just released a timelapse video that will give you an eye-opening dose of perspective. The 3-minute video above shows 1 year in the life of Earth, photographed from 1 million miles away.
Photographer J P Goodridge was whale watching near Sydney, Australia, yesterday when he captured this photo of a lifetime showing a humpback whale explode out of the water right next to another little whale watching boat.
Photographer Oliver Hihn thinks its a shame that so many old cameras sit around on shelves and slowly gather dust, so he decided to take his dad's old Elbaflex VX 1000 35mm SLR out on a hike. Instead of shooting film photos, he decided to photograph landscapes framed in the waist-level viewfinder of the camera.
Before marrying President John F. Kennedy and becoming the First Lady of the United States, Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy once earned $42.50 per week as the "inquiring camera girl" for the Washington Times-Herald. Some of her personally used camera gear is now for sale on eBay.