Here's a strange case of someone being a little too obsessed with photography. A woman who recently filed for divorce in Taiwan cited her husband's obsession with photography as one of the main things that broke their marriage.
Halloween is just around the corner, and director Matthew Rycroft just published a 2-minute short film to help kick off the creepiness. Titled "HASHTAG NOFILTER," it's a look at the dark side of social media. We get a glimpse into the world of a man who masquerades as a popular and globetrotting person named "Jenny Wanderlust" on Instagram.
Network Rail published a warning this week about the dangers of taking photos on railroad tracks. The company, which operates most of the rail network in England, Scotland, and Wales, also released a surveillance video that shows multiple dangerous photo incidents at a rail crossing that happened on in one day.
Photographer Clark Little is known for his jaw-dropping photos of giant waves crashing onto shore, a niche that's known as shorebreak photography. Earlier this month, he captured the amazing shot above on a beach in Oahu, Hawaii.
Canon's Selphy line of compact photo printers use cartridges that contain both paper and ink, allowing you to use your digital camera or smartphone like an instant camera while you're out and about. There's one thing you might not know about the cartridges, though: empty cartridges contain faint copies of the photos that were printed.
A group of bird photographers in Singapore have sparked outrage after they were caught on camera allegedly filling live fish with air and Styrofoam in order to bait the endangered grey-headed fish eagle.
Georgia Tech pulled off a crazy 22-16 win over the #9 ranked Florida State football team this past Saturday after a field goal attempt for the win was blocked and returned 78 yards for a touchdown with no time remaining.
It seems that Nikon has partnered with toy block maker Nanoblock to create a special set that lets you build a Nikon F SLR, Nikon's first SLR camera that was introduced back in April 1959.
Here's a clever new video by DigitalRev TV that imagines photography as a video game. There are 8 levels of photographer you can progress through as you gain more and more XP.
Halloween is just around the corner, and if you're looking for a photo-related costume this year, one fun idea that has appeared over the years is creating a DIY giant camera that's fully functional as a camera. Here's a look at 4 examples we've seen so far.
Photographer Rachel Hulin got quite a bit of attention a few years ago for Flying Henry, a series of Photoshopped photos showing Hulin's son flying through various scenes. Now she's back again with another creative endeavor.
If you grew up watching Looney Tunes cartoons, you probably know Elmer Fudd as the hunter whose life mission is to capture or kill Bugs Bunny. But did you know that Fudd's character originally started out as a wildlife photographer? In the first episode featuring Fudd, he's actually a photographer trying to shoot his bunny nemesis with a camera rather than a hunter trying to shoot him with a gun.
A fisherman in Thailand is being lauded as a hero online thanks to a viral video that shows how he rescued an elderly Norwegian photographer couple who got stuck in thick mud while out shooting.
First Lady Michelle Obama launched her new "Better Make Room" campaign at the White House today to encourage teenagers to pursue higher education beyond high school.
Luxury wedding selfie sticks are a thing. Not only do they exist, but they're actually a hit with brides who want to shoot selfies on their big day with style.
Instagram has over 400 million active users now, and top photographers on the service can make thousands of dollars per photo by promoting products. With the value of Instagram followers increasing, it seems that some people are now trying to use their follower counts to get free photography.
San Diego-based wedding photographers Jeff and Erin Youngren got an unexpected surprise this past weekend after President Obama stepped into the scene. The wedding was at the Torrey Pines golf course in San Diego, and Obama happened to be playing a round of golf on Sunday.
Back in 2010, a man named Randy Guijarro in Fresno, California, found and purchased an old tintype photo for $2 at a junk shop. It turns out that photo is worth up to $5 million because it's only the second authenticated picture that shows the famous outlaw Billy the Kid.
Are you curious about what goes on inside an airliner cockpit during takeoff and landing? If so, the Swiss website Blick recently published the video above to satisfy that curiosity. They placed a 360-degree camera inside the windshield of an Airbus A320, creating an interactive view of the beginning and end of a flight from Zurich to Geneva. You can "look around" in the video with your mouse or your keyboard (with the A/S/D/W keys).
Here's something you don't see very often at weddings: a choreographed dance involving the photographers. At a recent wedding in Albania, the bride and groom came up with the idea of doing an organized dance with their sharply-dressed photographers and videographers to open up the dance floor. You can watch the 3-minute routine in the video above.
Did you know the International Space Station has a RED Epic Dragon in its camera arsenal now? The 6K camera was delivered to the station back in January 2015, allowing astronauts to capture footage at 300 frames per second and 6 times more detail than before.
One of legendary photographer Robert Capa's most famous photos is The Falling Soldier, a 1936 picture from the Spanish Civil War that's said to show a soldier at the moment he's shot.
Want to shoot some abstract, eye-popping aerial footage? Just bring a camera drone to one of China's busiest roadways when there's a major traffic jam.
Poet Edgar Allan Poe had glowing things to say about photography after it exploded onto the scene in the mid-1800s. Other commentators in those days weren't so kind.
Talk show host James Corden went on a 4-minute rant about selfie culture on The Late Late Show earlier this week. In the video above, titled "Stop Taking Selfies," Corden talks about some of the stories we've shared in recent days: the sorority girls spotted at a baseball game, the woman spotted without a camera (in a sea of cameras), and the fact that selfies now cause more deaths than sharks.
Filmmaker Woody Roseland made this short 2-minute tongue-in-cheek video titled "5 Photohacks to Take Better Snapchats and Pictures at Concerts." Step 1 is: "Don't. Just don't do it." …
Did you know that when the daguerreotype was announced back in 1839, one of the people who wrote about the new groundbreaking technology was the famous poet Edgar Allan Poe? …
This simple photo is a fascinating portrait of what smartphone cameras have done to our culture. A single woman is seen enjoying the moment with just her eyes while a sea of smartphone cameras surrounds her.
Canadian photographer Eric Draht posted this short video in which photographer Fiona Forshaw demonstrates some simple workouts you can do to stay in top shooting form. All you need are a few minutes, some space, and $9,000 in pro camera gear (in this case, two Canon 5D Mark III DSLRs and two Canon 70-200mm lenses).
You know you're committed to your craft as a wedding photographer when you find yourself doing these things for the perfect reflection portrait of the bride and groom.
Tsuneko Sasamoto is a renowned Japanese photographer who is considered to be her country's first female photojournalist, documenting pre- and post-war Japan since becoming a professional shooter at the age of 25.
Here's a cute 13-second clip that's making the rounds on the Web. It shows a little girl throwing a tantrum on a tabletop... until she notices that a camera is being pointed in her direction. If your child has this same reflex, it could be an early indication that you have a future model on your hands.
Want to browse the entire collection of photos captured on the moon by Apollo astronauts with their chest-mounted Hasselblad cameras? You can now do so right on Flickr.
UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, recently launched an ad campaign in Chile that speaks out against cyberbullying with smartphone photos. Titled "One Shot," each of the three ads shows a group of teenage students pointing their mobile cameras at one of their peers, firing squad-style.
If you ever find yourself with only 30 seconds to shoot in a studio and the need to capture 25 poses, you'll need to find a model with some unusual rapid-fire posing skills... like this guy.
During the MLB baseball game yesterday between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Colorado Rockies, a cameraman spotted a group of sorority girls who were apparently more interested in snapping the perfect selfie than watching the game. The announcers for the TV broadcast took notice, and the whole thing turned into a strange case study of what Instagram has done to our culture.
Back in July of 1956, Kodak printed a helpful photography guide for Disneyland visitors. The pamphlet was titled: "Kodak Camera Tour of Disneyland" and featured colorful illustrations, technical camera tips, and sample photos.
Toronto-based cinematographer Jon Simo created this trippy portrait showing how an infrared camera sees things compared to an ordinary camera.
Famous movies often have iconic movie posters that are easily recognizable at a glance. We've collected text-less versions of 23 different posters to offer a closer look at the photos that are used to create them.
Here's a crazy 50-second video showing an encounter one tourist photographer had with a wild elephant in Thailand. After finding and observing a large elephant among the trees and bushes, the man suddenly found himself at the receiving end of an elephant charge.
Every day, NASA releases a photograph from their collection that allows us to admire the great blue and green planet we call Earth. Recently, the agency released a picture of a group of small island cays in the Bahamas. The most interesting aspect of the photo is not the location, but a little bit of detail that reveals itself when you closely examine the photo.
Want to see what it was like to work as a photographer at a major newspaper back in 1983? Check out this blast from the past: it's a 20-minute video by photographer Hugh Wesley, who spent 28 years at the Toronto Sun before retiring as the director of photography in 2001.
Last week, RIT photography professor Willie Osterman held the 2015 RIT Photo MFA picnic in the front yard of his home in Bristol, New York. To commemorate the gathering, he pulled out a giant camera to shoot a wet plate collodion ambrotype portrait of the group.
Tokyo-based photographer Irwin Wong just released a crazy film titled "The Last Sentoshi." It's about a female superhero who defeats her enemies using a powerful camera flash.
Back in 1974, photographer Mike Mandel traveled across the United States and photographed 134 top photographers and curators as baseball players. Mandel then used those portraits to create Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards, an unusual set of trading cards featuring big names in the industry. As you can see from the card above, Ansel Adams was one of them.
The YouTube channel Found Footage Fest scoured thrift stores and purchased old modeling how-to videos from the 1980s. They then threw a bunch of the highlights together to create the 3-minute video above, a strange and strangely-awesome instructional video on how to pose for photos as a model from decades past.
NASA has released a spectacular new photo of Pluto that was captured by its New Horizons spacecraft during the flyby on July 14th, 2015. This latest one shows a near-sunset view of the icy mountains on Pluto surface, poking up on a curved horizon.
Movie and TV show blooper reels often feature unfortunate moments when an actor just can't seem to say a basic line correctly, and generally hilarity ensues. Well, the same thing can happen during camera reviews too. That's what Michael Reichmann and Kevin Raber over at Luminous Landscape experienced recently while trying to review Sigma's Quattro DP Zero. Check out what happened in the 3-minute video above.
Here's a list of 23 things you'll (probably) never hear coming out of a professional photographer's mouth.
A few days ago, we shared a creepy short film titled "Follow Focus," which told the story of a photographer's last nature photo walk. Here's another one with a similar theme.
