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Republican state senate candidates in Iowa have been releasing advertisements in recent weeks, introducing their lives, views, and plans. With all the photos and videos emerging at around the same time, someone noticed something peculiar: the candidates are all seen talking to the exact same group of kids in the same school hallway.

The majority of "photos" you see these days when you flip through an IKEA catalog are actually purely computer generated images, but some of the shots are still done in a photo studio. To promote its 2017 catalog, IKEA released this humorous 2-minute tongue-in-cheek video that offers a glimpse into the minds of a few of the models involved in the photo shoots.

Capturing the Northern Lights in real time only recently became doable, with beautiful videos like this one popping up to show the potential of cameras that can handle high-ISO with low noise. But the folks at OZZO Photography took this idea to new heights... literally. They strapped a Sony a7S II to a drone and shot the northern lights from the air.

A compilation of 3 years of "awkward" GoPro clips with narration. That's all this video is, but it somehow still strikes a chord. It's a tribute to all of those candid moments between shots, the time spent setting up gear, getting ready, feeling inadequate or silly or determined... recorded.

If you like using Drop It Modern's photography backdrops, we've got good news for you: they sell those same patterns as wallpaper. Who needs a backdrop when your whole house or apartment can be one!?

The human eye can't possibly see how light washes over a portrait subject when you fire your strobe—the speed of light is simply too fast. But someone actually managed to capture the whole process on camera... nanosecond by nanosecond.

Join us as we take a nostalgic trip into photography's hey day. It's 1978, and you're a fly on the wall at Contact Press Images, working with world-class photojournalist David Burnett on a photo essay about the last traditional cattle drive.

Japanese artist Yoshiyuki Katayama's creation Umwelt is only part timelapse. Because while the flowers in this beautiful film bloom at timelapse speeds, insects crawl across the surface of the flowers as if in real time.

Here's a neat piece of camera gear you probably have never heard of. Back in the 1940s and 50s, a company called Haber & Fink used to modify Leica cameras by adding special lens 'turrets.' Only 200 were ever made, and a camera store in Ohio just got their hands on the 11th one.

Photographer Brian Maneely just shared one heck of a "commercial" for Pentax DSLRs. In a story posted on Ricoh Imaging's Facebook page, he shares how he and his camera got doused in pink fire retardant by a firefighting plane... and then kept on shooting.

This beautiful short film reminds us about a part of the photographic process that most of the people reading this will have never experienced: hand-tinting. Revisit the age of hand-tinted photography through the eyes of 83-year-old Grace Rawson, a professional colorist from the 1950s.

The mesmerizing macro dance above was created by video artist Thomas Blanchard (previously featured here) using only paint, oil, oat milk, paint thinner, bleach, and soap liquid. And it's spectacular.

Remember that amazing automatic colorizing algorithm we told you about back in March? It was just put to an interesting test. As a fun "what if?" hobbyist Amir Avni tried the neural network-powered colorizer on a B&W video.

If you want to own one of the rarest Nikon lenses in existence, now is your chance. A Nikkor stereo 3D lens from the 1950s has surfaced in an eBay auction.

Here's a new comic by xkcd about the rise of compact cameras with ridiculous zooms. Titled "Superzoom," the hidden caption reads: "*click* Let him know he's got a stain on his shirt, though."

The Auto Insurance Center used Instagram hashtags to put together another study about people and driving. Last time, they tackled road rage, this time, they wanted to see where people take the most selfies while driving.

When beautiful vintage photographic technology meets state-of-the-art photo equipment, the results are almost always interesting. Case in point, check out this frankencamera created by graphic designer Arber Marra using his Sony a7S and a 19th century lens he found at a flea market.

After reading so many stories about inconsiderate people putting animals' lives in danger (or outright killing them) to get a "cool" selfie, this story was like a deep breath of fresh air. Watch as a Polish nature photographer risks his own safety to save a young eagle stuck in the coastal mud.

Take note: even the animal kingdom hates it when you use your iPad to take photos. At least that's what seems to be happening in this video, when a playful (or annoyed) dolphin snatches an iPad right out of a woman's hand and drags it into the water.

The stakes at the Olympics are unimaginably high... and we're not only talking about the athletes. As a professional photographer at the Olympics, you're constantly searching for a unique vantage point. Getty Images is finding theirs by using fancy robotic underwater housings.

This is, to our knowledge, the world's first full-length Prisma music video. Transformed, frame by frame, into a moving painting, the music video for "DEEP BLUE" by the band Drive like Maria is a testament to the amount of work musicians are willing to put in when they have a cool idea.

If you often take pictures with a "small-capacity" 16GB iPhone, one thing you may often experience is the dreaded popup that tells you you've run out of storage space. It's particularly painful when the popup appears while you're trying to capture a special moment. This 1-minute ad shows that Google feels your pain.

In this short Q&A exchange, filmmaker Kevin Smith delivers an important message to all creative people—be they photographers, filmmakers, writers, or anything else. The message is this: create work for yourself, not everyone else. (Warning: Video contains some NSFW language).

When you think of modern app design, clean lines, a minimal aesthetic, and a sleek interface probably comes to mind. Imagine the exact opposite of that and you've got A E S T H E T I C A M, the self-styled "World's Worst Camera App."

This is nuts. Curious what 24-4000mm equivalent zoom will get you? This demo video, shot with the 83x optical zoom Nikon P900 superzoom, will show you.

Imagine how crazy sharing a picture of your dinner with your friends would have been back in the 18th century? Actually you don't have to imagine, IKEA did it for you in this tongue-in-check nod to sharing the perfect dinner shot.

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.

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.

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.

Using only 12 photos and the impressive new Platograph Pro software we told you about on Friday, photographer Ron Risman was able to create what he's calling a "pseudo timelapse." 12 photos, 12 'moving' sequences.

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.

Printing a hologram usually involves some sort of special materials or lenses, but a company called Lumii has invented a way to do it with a regular old Epson inkjet printer! The resulting 'lightfield prints' look for all the world like 3D, full-color holograms.

What's the biggest surprise you've gotten while you were out shooting? For astrophotographer Ian Norman, Wednesday night's massive 'fireball' that streaked across the sky while he was out taking Milky Way pictures tops the list. (Warning: Strong language.)

The Science Channel on YouTube just released a really neat video in which they show you the inner workings of a $50K cinema lens. A piece of technology they call, "the perfect combo of modern technology and old fashioned craftsmanship."

Here's a fun little video to help you get over hump day and on to the second half of the week. A weather camera at the top of a tower in Nebraska got an unexpected visit from a curious hawk this week.