If you follow just about any major news outlet, you're bound to have seen the photos of "Fukushima Kid." We published them ourselves. But today the photographer behind those shots, Keow Wee Loong, is on the defensive as another photographer accuses him of lying about the photos in search of fame.
Lighting company Aputure just released a light that we're pretty sure will make it into many (many many) photographer and videographer gear bags. It's called the Amaran M9, and it's tiny, ultra versatile, and costs only $45!
I was delighted this week to see that one of my photographs from a recent wedding was selected as an ‘award winner’ in the ‘All About the Light’ category ISPWP’s quarterly competition. Even more so that the founder, Joe Milton, had selected it as his ‘photo of the day’ yesterday! Here is how I made this image.
If you simply want something, do you just take it? In the world of photography, content is stolen everyday and used without permission. It's too easy, and I'm sick of it.
A new Canon lens patent hints at an interesting future for Canon's high-end point-and-shoot cameras like the G1 X line. Specifically, it seems Canon is considering packing an APS-C sensor into a future PowerShot.
Places where you may need to bring a kevlar jacket and gas mask as a photographer: a war zone, the middle of a violent uprising, and ... the 2016 Republican National Convention. That's right, photographers are gearing up to cover the 2016 RNC in much the same way they'd gear up for a conflict zone.
As iconic lenses go, perhaps no lens is quite as iconic as the famed NASA Zeiss f/0.7 glass Stanley Kubrick used to film a candle-lit scene using only natural light. In this video we get to see the lens, find out about the camera Kubrick modified to use it, and discover some of the tricks he employed to shoot that scene.
Since I got my Nikon D7000 camera 6 years ago I’ve used it almost everyday. That is a lot of shutter clicks, 148,558 to be exact. It looks like I will be in the market for a new camera soon as the D7000 is only factory tested to 150,000 clicks. My dilemma is should I go full frame, or stick with my cropped frame?
Phase One took the lid off of a first for the company earlier today. In partnership with Schneider Kreuznach, they've released the very first 'Blue Ring' zoom lenses: a 40-80mm LS f/4.0-5.6 and 75-150mm LS f/4.0-5.6 that promise prime lens quality.
If you’re like me, you’re constantly looking to improve and expand your referral base. Once you’ve got a good number of weddings under your belt your base will be made up of (mostly) previous couples.
Photographer Tim Berry of Practical Photography magazine recently decided to take his camera onto the streets of London, England, to exercise his rights to photograph in public places and to see how people would react to seeing a photographer at work.
Sometimes we, as humans, wrestle with big issues -- large complex questions with no easy answers.
Street photography ethics are a touchy subject and I am not talking of street photography rules but rather more how photographers choose to behave. When shooting (candid) street photography in London or anywhere else, many street photographers seem to leave their values at home as soon as they head out to photograph strangers.
In the world of soccer, the rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid burns bright, and it's seen as a conflict between Catalan and Spanish nationalism, respectively. Catalan national TV snubbed Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo in a bizarre way this week: they tried to Photoshop away Ronaldo's famously chiseled abs. What resulted was a glaring Photoshop fail.
Philly-based portrait photographer Chris Loupos has a personal project that's tentatively titled "Young at Heart." It's a series of images showing elderly people acting like little kids.
Over in the UK, a police force's announcement this week is raising eyebrows among some photographers. In a statement regarding hate crimes against women, taking photos without permission is listed as an example.
When astrophotography enthusiast Stephen King of Yakima, Washington, asked his then-girlfriend Andrea to marry him recently, he did so in a creative and unusual way: with a 360-degree night sky photo inside a Google Cardboard VR viewer.
In 2014, brother filmmakers Will and Jim Pattiz launched their More Than Just Parks project, an ambitious effort to celebrate America's 59 National Parks by creating a visual experience at each one. Their latest film showcases Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming in 8K resolution.
Australian adventure photographer and Canon master Krystle Wright is constantly dreaming up new extreme ideas for photos and figuring out how to turn those dreams into actual images.
For a Harry Potter-themed newborn shoot she did recently, photographer Kelsey Clouse made portraits of the tiny baby as a screaming mandrake.
"The Allegory of the Cave" is a surreal time-lapse short film by Hong Kong-based Visual Suspect. It uses cleverly reflected scenes for a mind-bending and eye-popping effect.
Photographers often use UV filters to protect the front element of their lenses, but tests have shown that impacts that shatter your filter will likely to damage your lens as well. Aurora Aperture wants to change that: they've created the world's toughest filters by using Gorilla Glass.
I’ve avoided writing about Pokémon GO for a whole four days, trying my best to keep from inundating the Internet with yet another think-piece. However, something interesting has happened the last two times I have played the game with friends: I have taken some exceptional photos.
Tether Tools has announced TetherBoost Pro, a product that lets photographers shoot with a tethered USB 3.0 connection of up to 65 feet without any frustrating signal drops.
Faroe Islands is an island country halfway between Norway and Iceland. It features some of the world's most beautiful roads, but those routes haven't been traversed by Google's Street View camera cars. So, the country decided to take matters into its own hands by mapping the island with sheep-mounted 360-degree cameras. It's called Sheep View 360.
I covered Tim Duncan during countless games, including their three NBA Finals titles in 1999, 2003, and 2005. I probably took thousands of photos of him, but on the occasion of his quiet retirement, I picked a few out just for this article.
Photographer Matt Taylor was shooting with the 4K photo mode on his Panasonic Lumix G7 on a recent evening when a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky off camera. Taylor's resulting photos show how much the bright flash from a lightning can illuminate a nighttime scene.
"Wake Up" is an inspiring 2-minute short film by landscape photographer Thomas Heaton about how his craft is so much more than just going into the great outdoors and taking pictures.
DJI today announced the Zenmuse Z3, the company's first aerial zoom camera and one that's geared toward still photography.
The Polaroid brand has launched a new free mobile app called Polaroid Swing. It's "an innovative moving photo app" that opens the door to a "new visual medium for the mobile era."
Should you ever give a client photos in exchange for "exposure"? That's the question discussed in this 6-minute video by NYC-based portrait and fashion photographer Jeff Rojas. He shares 3 things you can turn exposure into money.
After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was devastated by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the nuclear disaster caused a major evacuation and the creation of an exclusion zone around the old plant. Five years later, a photographer has ventured into the zone to deliver photos to the outside world.
Here are random observations from my time as staff photographer for Dean for America. I wrote this some time ago as advice for somebody who was going to be a campaign photographer.