Need a little creative boost this week? Here's a short video that shares 4 fun smartphone hacks that might just inspire you to create something different using the little computer in your pocket as either the camera or a prop.
We've gotten used to drones capturing cool, cinematic, sometimes never-before-seen images and video from the skies. But last night at the Super Bowl, Intel flipped the script, making the drones the subject of the spectacle instead of the machines capturing it.
The world's fastest 105mm lens, the $2,200 Nikon 105mm f/1.4, made a big splash when it arrived on the scene, but is there a more affordable 105mm lens that can produce similar results? Laowa's $700 105mm f/2 STF lens gives it a shot in this lens shootout.
Those ropes and signs at National Parks that people seem so eager to disobey are there for good reason. If you don't believe us, just check out these photos and video that show the dangers of stepping outside the designated viewing area at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
On a recent business trip to San Francisco to help my long-time friend and talented photographer Jenn Collins on her retouching workflow, she graciously gifted me in the best way possible. She knows my sense of humor and somehow found this loose-leaf paper book of the sassiest invoices I had ever seen!
What do you do when a celebrity with almost 5 million followers on Instagram shares your photography with their audience without credit... twice? That's the question fashion photographer Don Mupasi is wrestling with this week.
Here's a short comedy sketch that creatively sums up what photographers and other creatives often experience: being asked to do free work in exchange for "exposure."
Classical art meets modern-day drudgery in artist Alexey Kondakov's ongoing series Art History in Contemporary Life. For the past two years, Kondakov has been delighting his fans by expertly Photoshopping figures from classical art into modern-day photos.
From the "weird but also kind of fun" department comes one of the strangest and now most popular photos ever shared on Reddit. No, it's not some epic landscape or a mind-blowing wildlife photo... it's a shot of the London skyline with a lens flare that looks exactly like the South Park character Eric Cartman.
Step 1: Attach 2 GoPros to a katana. Step 2: Cut stuff in slow motion. Step 3: There is no step three.
NASA just released the highest resolution photographs of Saturn's rings yet. About 1.2 billion kilometers )(746 million miles) away from Earth, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is busy capturing a beautiful piece of our solar system in never-before-seen detail.
We're a little weary about drone Kickstarter campaigns these days, but that hasn't stopped people from flocking to a new campaign to fund the Selfly: a "Smart Autonomous Flying Phone-Case" that's already raised over $150,000 by promising to put an autonomous drone in your pocket.
One year of planning, one year of shooting, and four months of post-production is a lot of time to spend on a single timelapse, but photographer Morten Rustad's creation SEASONS of NORWAY makes a good case for the old saying: good things come to those who wait.
Photographer Jack Fusco just released a spectacular timelapse that combines several of mother nature's more beautiful elements to powerful effect. It turns out lava flow + ocean + stars = some seriously dramatic timelapse action.
After years of serious drought, California appears to be on the road to recovery. The state experienced its driest years on record between 2011 and 2014, but rains and snow have brought new life to the region since then, and this can be seen in NASA's satellite photos.
The iPhone 7/+ might be more waterproof than Apple has let on. If this report from Russia is to be believed, Apple's latest smartphone can survive a lot more than the official IP67 rating of 30 minutes under 3.3 feet of water.
Many (if not most) of the people reading this have shot 35mm film, and a chunk of those people have shot 120 medium format film, but only a fraction of that fraction has ever touched a large format camera. Here's your chance to see what it's like to shoot 4x5 film for the very first time.
NASA has a new high resolution toy in orbit. The GOES-16 weather satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral back in November, and NASA just published the first photos of our Earth taken by this new satellite and its special "Advanced Baseline Imager."
How do you make drones safer? The answer to that question, if you're this group of researchers from Virginia Tech, is on the other side of a few blunt crashes between commercial drones and a crash test dummy...'s face.
Using gigapixel technology, CNN managed to capture an ultra-high res, interactive, 360° photograph of the presidential inauguration on Friday—a great way to explore the crowd in detail and maybe (just maybe) spot yourself in the crowd.
At the beginning of 2016, I decided to stop digital photography for good and therefore sold my last digital tool, the Leica M Monochrom.
The Capitol was still under construction on March 4th, 1857, when photographer John Wood set up his wet plate collodion camera and captured the first known photograph of a US Presidential inauguration.
To the uninitiated, landscape photography might seem like a pretty swell gig. You imagine traveling to incredible vista after incredible vista, reconnecting with nature, and feeling one with your surroundings. But that, as Thomas Heaton painfully illustrates, is rarely the case.
Photo lovers and travel enthusiasts looking for a new show to provide some inspiration, listen up. Photographers and YouTubers Tony and Chelsea Northrup have just debuted a new web series called Wanderlust 4K, a show dedicated to inspiring the travel photographer in all of us.
Drone sweaters exist. We'll give you a second to glance at your calendar and remember that it's January, not April, before moving on ... okay, welcome back to our strange reality where drone sweaters are an odd and oddly stylish reality.
CMYK—which stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (or Black)—is the color model used in most printing. It's called a subtractive color model, and if you don't understand what that means or how it works, this brilliant little demo should help.
It's a well-known "fact of the Internet" that almost anything will look cool if you shoot it in super slow motion—the "Slow Mo Guys" have made quite a YouTube career out of it. But even if you're getting sick of the trend, watching popcorn pop at 30,000 fps will probably still delight.
On New Year's Eve, you might think the people in Times Square were treated to the best light show... but you'd be wrong. Photographer Aryeh Nirenberg, enjoying a full row of seats on his flight from JFK to Reykjavik, Iceland, was treated to a more spectacular show.
In something of a followup to his explosive video "Nobody Cares About Your Photography," the always inspirational Ted Forbes is tackling a question that we've all probably asked: What is "work that matters" and how do you make sure your photography measures up?
Recently, I have seen a number of misconceptions floating around regarding the best way to improve oneself as a photographer. As a highly experienced photographer whose photos have been on the bottom of the Flickr Explore page on numerous occasions, I feel qualified to correct many of these assumptions and damaging tendencies.
German photography duo Michael Fertig and Phil Schreyer of Flash Bros shared this humorous video of a portrait shoot they recently did outdoors. There were extremely strong winds blowing, and getting the Profoto Octa softbox into position for the shot was not an easy task.
The Wacom riding owl in the video above may be the best photo retouching accessory I've ever seen. Something tells me this little guy doesn't come included with a new Wacom tablet.
Arranging camera equipment to look like a gun is not a novel idea, but photographer Jason Siegel's art project Shoot Portraits, Not People takes this provocative idea to a new level by building all sorts of weaponry and combat materials using hand-picked pieces chosen from over 200 pounds of camera parts.
Night sky photography—the milky way, star trails, that sort of thing—usually means a decent camera and a nice bright lens. But photographer Daniel Stein has managed to make it work using just a Polaroid SX-70 and some Impossible Project IP600 film.
Back in 1984, Minolta launched a camera called the Minolta AF-S V. Marketed in the United States as the "Minolta Talker," the camera would actually speak to the photographer using it.
Unlike the nomadic travel photography couple we featured yesterday, traveling couple Becca and Dan frequently explore the world apart. And when they do, they use their creative photography to "meet in the middle" ... well, digitally at least.
The Beauty of Science project bid farewell to 2016 in an appropriately beautiful way. Using old footage and outtakes from their previous experiments, they illustrated all four Earthly seasons in a gorgeous end-of-year video that'll have you itching to break out that macro lens.
Landscape photographer and travel addict Mike Wong has created a super useful tool for fellow photographers who want some help location scouting. It's called "PhotoSpots," and it's an interactive "heatmap" that reveals photography hotspots around the globe and even pulls sample photos from those locations.
Capturing beautiful stories. That's what wet plate photographer Ian Ruhter set out to do for his 3-year project at Slab City. But some of the most meaningful moments actually transpired within 48 hours, when English actor Gary Oldman paid Ruhter and his crew a surprise visit.
I often frequent my local Goodwill at least once a week. I'm usually partial to picking up vinyl, vintage sweaters, cameras, typewriters, and books. Somehow this week was different.
Intelligent virtual assistants like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa are quickly picking up skills and popularity. But what if your Adobe apps had a similar feature? What if Adobe designed a virtual assistant that would let you edit photos using voice commands?
If there are still photojournalists around in the year 2030, they'll be begging their editors to buy this strange concept car designed by Dillion Kane. Like the ultimate gear bag on wheels, it'll carry your cameras, scan the environment with myriad sensors, and houses its very own drone in the roof.
Panasonic's powerful new GH5 was one of the (if not the) most exciting camera announcements of CES 2017. And now that it's officially announced, we're starting to see what it can do in the real world.
On July 25th, 2017, Nikon will celebrate its centennial anniversary—100 years of Nikon. And in case you didn't know that, they've released an almost comically epic video announcing this fact and tracing some of Nikon's highlights throughout history.
The incredibly talented Felix Hernandez is at it again, creating tiny scenes and then photographing them to look larger than life. This time, the toy photography master uses model cars and dust to shoot some scenes straight out of the old TV show The Dukes of Hazzard.
In case you haven't heard, film is making a comeback. It's not just small companies funding new film stocks on Kickstarter, either—Kodak is bringing back Ektachrome and "investigating" what it would take to bring back Kodachrome. There's never been a better time to revisit one of the greatest film cameras ever made.
We all know mirrorless cameras are smaller and more portable, but when it comes to medium format, what does "portable" really mean? This photo of the mirrorless Fuji GFX 50s next to Pentax's 645z gives you an idea.
In their recently released report titled "Growing Up Digital," the UK Children's Commissioner did something we wish tech companies would do more of: they had a lawyer "translate" Instagram's Terms of Use into language that children (and their parents) could actually understand.
When Filmakademie student Eugen Merher created his Adidas spec ad "Break Free," he knew he had something special on his hands. Unfortunately, Adidas' communications department never got back to him; now they get to watch his beautifully-crafted ad take off without them.
It's only four days into 2017, and already we have a contender for the most cinematic drone footage of the year. This short clip, shot by FPV drone user Gab707, would be right at home at the beginning of a Lord of the Rings movie. Frankly, it looks more like CGI than drone footage.
