Photography News

A spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces beautiful mathematical curves by rolling a smaller circle inside a bigger circle. You can create similar patterns using light painting. Light-painting photographer Ja...

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 pe...

As camera drones become increasingly popular as a relatively cheap and easy way to capture aerial photos and videos, there are more and more stories in the news of drone accidents being caused by poor piloting. For those...

A group of artists were asked to spray paint the walls of a refugee camp tv set with Arabic graffiti (to make it feel more authentic) for the tv show 'Homeland'. The producers didn't care what they wrote so the artists s...

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 Ob...

Hurry! If you act fast you can still get your hands on a limited batch of New55 Panchromatic black and white instant film.

Polarr has released Photo Editor 3, the third version of its lightweight photo editing software. The new version brings with it support for using a mouse and a touchscreen, as well as a new user interface, adjustment sl...

LCD screens on the backs of cameras have higher and higher resolutions these days, and since the size isn’t usually increasing, we’re seeing more pixel density. It appears that Canon has been thinking about creative ...

Lens manufacturer Sigma has introduced a new lens to its Art range of premium optics that it claims is the fastest 20mm in the world. The new 20mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art  is designed for full frame cameras and will be availa...

My name is Edin Chavez, and I’m a photographer based in Miami, Florida. In my city, I often see giant cruise ships arriving and leaving the port. Having been on a few of them, I’m always impressed with their massive ...

Just one of the 32 'open wall' rooms at the Ladera Resort, where every room comes with its own plunge pool.

A New York Police Department officer has been convicted of a felony for lying about the arrest of a New York Times photographer back in 2012. The New York Times reports that officer Michael Ackermann was found guilty by ...

AEE Technology has launched its newest action camera: the S60 Plus.

Watch Kamil Tobiasz freerun across the rooftops of Santorini, Greece.

Sigma today announced the new 20mm f/1.4 Art lens, a new full frame lens for Canon, Nikon, and Sigma cameras that’s the world’s widest full frame f/1.4 lens. The lens is designed specifically for ultra-high-megapixel...

Manfrotto have just launched their Compact Extreme multi-purpose monopod/selfie-stick.

Welcome to the Shirk Report where you will find 25 funny images, 10 interesting articles and 5 entertaining videos from the last 7 days of sifting.

For the more contemporary among us, the new Tamrac Derechoe camera bags may be a nice fit.

Ashly Stohl recently published her first book "Charth Vader" about her youngest son Charlie and his Darth Vader helmet.

The Sigma 20mm F1.4 DG HSM | Art is billed as the World's first f/1.4 ultra-wide-angle lens for full-frame digital SLR cameras.

The new Sigma 20mm f1.4 Art may make landscape photographers giddy with joy.

Change may come soon for the web's most widely adopted image format. Earlier this week at a meeting in Brussels, the JPEG Committee discussed adding a DRM (Digital Rights Management) security feature to the regular JPEG ...