A student at the Rochester Institute of Technology had a creative idea for his Visual Media Innovation Project this past semester: he created the first (to our knowledge) instant camera drone by hacking a Fuji Instax Mini 8 camera onto a DJI Flamewheel f450 drone kit.

DON'T DO IT!!! *clears throat* ummm... I mean... this is pretty bold. The CEO of GoWing, makers of the popular Lens Flipper camera accessory previously featured here, wants to give you a heart attack and demonstrate the strength of his product at the same time.

Well, this is odd. A university in the UK is banning the traditional throwing of mortarboards at graduation; but no worries, they say, students can pretend to throw their hats and the event's photographer will Photoshop them in after!

Castello di Sammezzano (Non Plus Ultra) has to be the most beautiful castle in Italy. Often called abandoned, it's not actually so; every once in a while it is opened to the public for a guided tour and volunteers take care of the place. At the moment it is being auctioned to the highest bidder.

Installation artist duo Anna Heinrich and Leon Palmer loved the landscape around Hadleigh Country Park in Essex, England so much, they decided to capture it forever through the magic of the Camera Obscura. Thus was born "The Reveal."

The Impossible Project made a splash in the world of instant photography last month by announcing the I-1, the first new instant camera for the film format popularized by Polaroid decades ago.

Cameras record a ton of information about the exposure settings of your camera, and these have been standardized into EXIF metadata fields. What few people realize is that metadata is not limited to these standard fields, and your camera is recording far more information than you ever thought possible.

Traveling filmmaker Brandon Li has been chronicling his travels around the world over the last several years through short films. His latest one, titled "Hong Kong Strong," is one that's filled with creative camera techniques and editing tricks.

The Lightroom Develop Preset Creator is a new browser-based app that can generate presets with random looks for your photos. If you've ever wanted to use random filters in Lightroom, this site can help you do it.

It's safe to say natural history photographer Clay Bolt is obsessed with North American bees. What began with a few photos in his backyard in South Carolina back in 2014 has turned into a full blown project aimed at helping document the staggering diversity of North American bees.

Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi is about to launch its very own drone, and some are speculating that it may be the first truly affordable UAV on the market.

Bill Cahill is a commercial photographer based in New York and Los Angeles who specializes in capturing liquids in motion. He was recently commissioned to shoot an ad campaign for Peet's Coffee. The 11-minute video above offers a behind-the-scenes look at not only this specific project, but Cahill's career journey as well.

Photo projects usually are planned, researched and given approval to. This one just kind of fell into my lap after a single day of shooting on a bunch of expired film on a whim at the Daytona 500.

One of the big pitfalls of buying a grey market camera has always been how difficult it is to get them serviced or repaired. If you buy a grey market Nikon D810 and it breaks, you're stuck. Well... not anymore.

If you’ve seen the RGB and CMYK color models referenced all over the place but aren’t exactly sure how …

Recently there has been a spate of very sad, and ultimately defeatist articles decrying the “death of photography”. We have no shortage of examples. Seriously.

Photographer Kari Wehrs wanted to explore gun culture through photography, and she came up with a really interesting way of doing it. First, she took tintype portraits of gun enthusiasts; then she let them use their own portraits for target practice.

What's your deepest... darkest photography secret? Do you occasionally give in and shoot *shudder* Auto? Is your most popular photo taken with *shudder* an iPhone? This silly DRTV video is all about these kinds of "shocking" photographer confessions.

In the not-so-distant future, finding the photo you're looking for online may not require you to describe it or know the location or even the photographer... just as long as you can doodle something that looks like it on a scrap of paper.

This strange Raspberry Pi-powered DIY-camera isn't really a camera at all... at least not in the traditional sense. When you press the shutter, instead of showing you the picture you just took, it shows you a similar photo from the Internet instead.

There are only a few people alive as qualified to give photography and composition advice as Huntington Witherill. A former "artist of the year," he studied under the great Ansel Adams and in this video he describes his approach to composing eye-catching images.

Sad news in the photography industry today: Michael Reichmann, the founder of the popular website Luminous Landscape, passed away yesterday at the age of 71 after a lengthy battle with cancer.

It always staggers me that each time I’m in the shower, or camping in my tent, or having a coffee in a rural town in the middle of nowhere in France, I keep getting fantastic ideas for future projects, blog posts, photographs, travels, discoveries, and world domination.

Fujifilm today announced its new Fujinon Teleconverter XF 2x TC WR, a teleconverter that extends the reach of X mount telephoto lenses.

We've shared a number of do-it-yourself camera projects involving Raspberry Pi in the past. If you're interested in trying your hand at one, it's now even cheaper: the ultra affordable $5 Raspberry Pi Zero now has a camera connector.

Accurately selecting a subject's hair is not an easy task; a bit of frizz is enough to make a photographer pull their own hair out. But have no fear, there's an advanced Photoshop tutorial for that.

Several cameras have now been released that feature some type of "high resolution mode"—the Pentax K1's Pixel Shift and Hassy's Multi-Shot, for example. But it sounds like Olympus is planning to change the game with their own high res mode that will work handheld, no tripod required.

It's difficult to discover something fresh in a market as saturated as wedding photography, but Tahiti-based photographer Helene Havard has. Using drones, she captures a fresh, stunning take on couple photography that you probably haven't seen before.

Coldplay just released the official music video for the song "Up&Up," the 3rd single from the band's new album, A Head Full of Dreams. The 4-minute video is filled with creative composites that combines footage in a way that plays with perspective.

The Rochester Institute of Technology is about to send you on a journey through Light, Movement, Emotion, and Connection, as captured over the course of one year by the university's 70 photojournalism students.

On April 3, The New York Times Magazine photography critic Teju Cole penned a piece largely dismissing the work of renown photographer Steve McCurry. The piece caused a minor ruckus in photography circles with people (like myself) writing in his defense, while others castigated his imperialist eye and amplified whispers of staged scenes.

Gregory Crewdson is one of the best known and influential fine art photographers working today. He is currently the director of the photography department at Yale University where he received his MFA early on.

Researchers at Stanford University want to give your drone superpowers. Okay maybe not superpowers, but they have developed a drone that can land on walls and ceilings, clinging there like a robotic insect.

Getty Images has launched a creative new global advertising campaign titled "Millions of Images. Endless Possibilities." The 46-second video above shows a series of famous faces that were reconstructed entirely using various stock photo faces that aren't of those people.

How many photos did you come home with from your last professional shoot? Whether that number is several hundred or several thousand, that's a lot of photos to cull through, and a new Artificial Intelligence software called Picturesqe thinks it can help.

Want to see the world's most advanced selfie stick? Check out the video above, which shows the Automated Selfie Stick.