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Here's a short and humorous sketch that pokes fun at how hard it can be to satisfy the wishes of clients as a portrait photographer.

Here's a strange occupational hazard for certain sports photographers: getting hit by a shot putter. That's what happened to one photographer at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Portland, Oregon.

Here's one of those bizarre things you'll find on the Internet: the YouTube channel Hydraulic Press Channel posted this 2-minute video showing an already-broken Nikon P300 compact camera getting flattened by a hydraulic press.

Many of the short documentary films about artisan makers these days follow the same recipe -- things like slow, dramatic music, close-up shots with a super shallow depth of field, and more. Photographer Patrick Kehoe decided to parody that style.

A guy named Jake was photographing his dogs on a beach in Canada last June when he was photobombed by a tiny flying bug.

Here's a clip from Episode 10 of Season 7 of the TV sitcom The Middle, in which the family finds out that all of their precious photos have been deleted. Agony ensues.

During the total solar eclipse on March 8th and 9th, NASA had a camera documenting it from a very special perspective -- one that's 1 million miles away.

A massive thunderstorm over Dubai was recently captured in super slow motion at 1977 frames per second.

A photographer's awareness and quick-thinking helped save the life of a TV news reporter this week. His warning cry allowed the reporter to jump out of the path of a car crash, and it was all caught on camera.

When shooting with your pricey camera drone, beware of... flying jet skis. That's probably not a warning you've ever heard before, but check out what happens in this video.

Canon's slogan in the US is "See Impossible," but over in Asia it's "Delighting You Always." To celebrate the 10th anniversary of that slogan last year, Canon decided to... write a song and make a cheesy music video.

The Golden State Warriors are having a historic year in the NBA, and Adobe is taking advantage of that by promoting Photoshop at the home pages in Oakland.

When the Leica camera was born in the early 1900s, it was the first practical 35mm camera to use standard 35mm cinema film. In 1930, Leica introduced the Leica I Schraubgewinde, which used an interchangeable lens system based on the Leica LTM (Leica Thread Mount) 39mm screw thread.

Two pixels on a hard drive were having a conversation. Here's how it went...

National Geographic photographer Cory Richards was recently shooting at Franz Josef Land in the Russian Arctic, just 560 miles from the North Pole, when he was charged by a polar bear that spotted him in the distance. You can see footage of the scary encounter in the 2-minute video above.

Want to teach your dog a new trick? Try training it to do studio photography. That's what a few dogs over in Japan were taught to do recently. You can see the results in the 3.5-minute video above, titled "PhoDOGrapher."

Here's a short video clip showing a Formula 1 photographer doing a brief photo shoot with a car and driver during recent pre-season testing. We see how a backdrop is quickly wheeled into and out of the scene for just a few moments of shooting (and before the photographer gets a little scare from the driver).

During the Oscars this weekend, the website hosting service Squarespace will be airing a new commercial featuring photographer David Guttenfelder. Above is the extended 60-second version of the 30-second ad that will air on Sunday. "Why do I do what I do? So everyone can see what I've seen," the photographer says.

Last week we shared some stunning photos of "Firefall," the phenomenon that occurs in Yosemite during the last 2 weeks of February each year, when the Sun lines up just perfectly with Horsetail Fall on El Capitan to make it look like glowing lava.

The Canon PowerShot SX50 HS features a 50x optical zoom lens, the equivalent of a 24-1200mm in 35mm terms. Combined with its 4x digital zoom, the camera has a reach of 200x. The video above is a mind-bending demonstration of how powerful a 200x zoom is. It was filmed by YouTuber TheSleeb during a trip through Bilbao, Spain.

Someone Photoshopped Ronda Rousey's arm without her knowing, and the mixed martial arts star is publicly apologizing for the picture.

"Normal" stock photos often feature scenes and situations that would be incredibly strange if you ever saw them actually happening in real life. DigitalRev made this humorous 3-minute video that reveals what's actually happening in those generic stock shots of business people, doctors, and scientists.

People often complain about how terrible they look in their passport photos, and it doesn't help that the US government has some pretty strict requirements regarding the layout, lighting, and composition. That's probably why everyone seems to be talking about Prince's official passport pic, which the musician shared with the world recently.

Using a single, ordinary still camera, you can shoot a traditional 2D static portrait of a person. With an array of multiple still cameras, you can stitch together a 3D portrait. To add yet another dimension, you can use video cameras instead of still cameras.

There are often stories of huge (and often hilarious) Photoshop fails in the advertising industry, in which models are seen with extra limbs or ridiculous body proportions.

During the Great Depression, the US government launched the largest photography project it ever sponsored by sending photographers across the country to document America. Of the 170,000 photos captured by photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Arthur Rothstein, some of them showed other photographers at work with their cameras.

"Lost Property" is a wonderful 5-minute animated short film by freelance animator Asa Lucander of Bristol, UK.

Here's a beautiful photo of the Earth and Moon in a single frame, captured back on October 3, 2007 by the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Our planet was about 88 million miles away from the camera.

If you use Facebook (or Instagram), you may have seen people share photos of themselves that they "accidentally" snapped... but really the photo was clearly planned. YouTuber Crispy Dingo decided to poke fun at these types of pictures. In the 37-second video above, Dingo reveals how "accidental" Facebook selfies actually come about.

Photographer Nao Tharp of Los Angeles, California, just released this short video that shows something neat he captured on a freezing cold winter night back on December 12th, 2015. While shooting a time-lapse of the Geminid meteor shower at Red Rock Canyon State Park in California's Mojave desert, his camera caught a bright meteor explosion and a resulting orange glowing plume that lingered for about 40 minutes.

Life took a 180-degree turn last week for one woman in Nigeria. While walking through town to sell bread, she stumbled into the frame of a pop star's photo shoot. One thing led to another, and now that accidental photo bomb has earned the woman a modeling contract.

There are good Photoshop tutorials and there are bad Photoshop tutorials. Tom Trager and Or Paz of the sketch comedy group Sugar Zaza created this humorous 2-minute video that pokes fun at the latter group. We see a guy trying to learn a technique in Photoshop from a fictitious site called LearningPhotoshopIn-A-Breeze.com, but it's not as useful as he hoped.

Guess who was on the sidelines photographing Super Bowl 50 yesterday? Kevin Durant.

Nikon Singapore became the butt of many jokes last week after selecting a clearly Photoshopped photo as the winner of a small photo contest. After the story went viral and appeared in headlines around the world, Nikon and the photographer both apologized and took down the winning photo(shop job).

During a family game of hide-and-seek last year, Dan Iverson and his wife strapped a GoPro camera to their tiny toddler. They then hid themselves and watched the live stream on their phone while the toddler ran around looking for them. What resulted is the adorable 1-minute video above in which you see the world from the toddler's point of view, and in which you can see the gears turning in the kid's head as he thinks about where his parents could be hiding.

Here's a video you need to watch if you enjoy seeing and learning about photography history. The folks over at Objectivity recently paid a visit to The Royal Society, where they were shown a set of priceless items from photography history.

Ethan Field and Ron Campbell were hiking off-trail in Oregon's Columbia Gorge last week when something shiny caught their eye. Bending over, they discovered an old camera that was mostly covered by rocks, dirt, and vegetation.

The YouTube musical channel AVbyte created this short video titled "Selfie: The Musical." Over the course of 3 minutes, we see an overview of how people respond to selfie culture: some love and embrace it, while others hate the idea of constantly sharing your own face with the world through social media.