OnePlus 7 Pro Has a Strong and Smart Pop-Up Selfie Camera
The Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus has unveiled the new OnePlus 7 Pro, a flagship smartphone that features an interesting solution for its front-facing camera.
The Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus has unveiled the new OnePlus 7 Pro, a flagship smartphone that features an interesting solution for its front-facing camera.
When "normal" people visit famous landmarks these days, they commonly pull out their phones and snap a selfie to keep as a memory of being there. Artist Stephanie Leigh Rose does something different: she shoots "anti-selfies" of herself "dying."
The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet, the first privately funded Moon mission, crashed onto the lunar surface yesterday, but not before successfully taking this selfie with the Moon in the background.
A woman was attacked by a jaguar at a zoo in Arizona on Saturday after crossing a barrier to get closer to the animal for a selfie. The cat reached out and gashed the woman's arm, and she was rushed to a nearby hospital.
The British photographer Rankin recently conducted an experiment for a project titled "Selfie Harm." He photographed 15 teenagers between ages 13 and 19 and gave them the untouched portraits to edit themselves. Each teen was instructed to retouch their face until it was "social media ready."
DxOMark is known for rigorously testing the image quality of cameras and smartphones, but for smartphones, it had focused on the main rear-facing cameras. That has now changed with the launch of DxOMark's new Selfie scores -- it's a new test protocol for determining the quality of front cameras.
A couple tragically plunged to their deaths while taking a selfie at Yosemite's Taft Point last week. The accident came just days after an engagement photo captured at the same spot went viral online.
It has been widely reported that selfies cause more deaths these days than shark attacks. Now a new study has provided new facts and figures on how at least 259 people have lost their lives while trying to capture smartphone self-portraits since 2011.
Apple's new iPhone XS and XS Max are at the center of a new controversy some have dubbed 'Beautygate.' The front-facing camera is said to be automatically smoothing skin in selfies, and there's no way to turn this "beauty filter" off.
Taking risks for extreme selfies has claimed another life, this time in California's Yosemite National Park. A teenager hiker has died after falling off an 820-foot cliff while trying to snap a photo of himself.
Decades before the word "selfie" exploded into popular culture, NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin shot the first space selfie while on a spacewalk during the Gemini 12 mission on November 12, 1966.
North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un is in Singapore this week for Tuesday's summit with President Trump, and of all the photos that have emerged of his visit so far, there's a curious one that has captured the world's attention today: Kim Jung-un's very first selfie.
A man in India was mauled to death by a bear on Wednesday after he approached the animal to shoot a selfie.
After watching the spread of the selfie stick over the past several years, photographer Peter McKinnon recently decided to try one himself for the first time. But then he decided he wanted something better... so he built himself a $10,000 ultra-Canadian selfie stick.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying on Capitol Hill this week regarding his company's use of users' personal data. Zuckerberg denied secretly listening to users through microphones for ad targeting, but the company is able to quietly collect quite a bit of data from a single uploaded photo.
The rise of smartphone selfies is causing big changes in how people see themselves. Here's a 2-minute video by Vox that explains why selfies usually make our noses look bigger.
A 13-year-old 7th-grader is Insta-famous today after he snapped a selfie with singer Justin Timberlake on national TV during the Super Bowl halftime show.
Google's Art & Culture app has been around since 2016, but the latest update harnesses machine-learning technology for an interesting purpose: it can now help you find your doppelgänger in the art world using a selfie photo.
The word "selfie" exploded into the mainstream over the past 5 years, but self-portraits have obviously been around much, much longer. Sarah Burton of BuzzFeed recently set out to discover the origins of the selfie. In this 7-minute video, take a trip through the history back to the birth of the selfie.
Researchers from the University of Nottingham and Kingston University have come up with an AI tool that will turn a 2D portrait into a 3D version, using just a single portrait photo you upload to it.
Here's a video by YouTube user oOtoke, who shot selfies for three years to create a timelapse of himself singing.
Here's a 2.5-minute video by Hugo Cornellier, who has captured a selfie every day of his life from when he was 12 years old up until his recent wedding. The video starts in February 2008 and ends when Cornellier tied the knot in August 2017 -- a span documented by over 2,500 photos.
A woman shooting a selfie lost her balance at an art exhibition in Los Angeles recently, causing a reported $200,000 worth of damage to the artworks. The whole thing was caught on camera and can be seen in the 35-second surveillance video above.
I recently found myself with a spine injury, which proved to kinda be a big road block to my photography. My photo projects usually involved lots of driving and walking, two things that proved to be extremely painful due to my crappy health. One day, sitting around bored, I decided to create a camera that was as immobile as I was. Armed with a rough sketch, and a misguided sense of self-confidence, I built a 20x24 camera over a weekend.
A chimpanzee in Kenya has captured an extended selfie using a 360-degree camera that she stole from a New York Times photojournalist on assignment there.
There's a new viral photo going around that shows what happened when a generous gesture turned into a heartwarming photo fail.
Photographer Dale Sharpe is a determined guy. It took two rings and two trips to the arctic circle, but he finally got engaged to the one person he loves, capturing the epic moment on camera while the northern lights danced above their heads.
A small study out of Europe is confirming what many of us probably knew intuitively already: while plenty of people love taking their own selfies, most people have no interest in looking at anybody else's.
For some reason, "entry-level" mirrorless cameras almost all have one thing in common: a cringe-worthy focus on selfies—the Olympus E-PL8, Panasonic GF8, and Fuji's own X-A2 are all great examples of this. Sadly, Fujifilm has not strayed from this formula with the brand new entry-level X-A10.
Selfie sticks are SOOO last year. If you want to be on the cutting edge of selfie technology, you really need to get your hands on the 'world's first selfie bottle'—a camera invention by none other than Coca-Cola.