Photography News

Photographer Jimmy Nelson has spent over 3 decades traveling around the world and taking photos of people and places. He’s best known for his portraits of the disappearing tribes of the world. In the 6.5-minute video a...

Aurora HDR is one of the leading HDR processing software packages out there right now, and pretty soon it will be getting even better. MacPhun today announced Aurora HDR 2017 which will, among other things, include new t...

Recently I got a message from a person who said that they liked my pictures, but unfortunately they don't have a “photographic eye.” This inspired me to write the following article about basic aesthetics and their re...

What do you do if you’re out shooting on-location, without strobes, and you want to darken a bright background without affecting the light on your model? Joel Grimes shows you a neat trick that’ll work just as well a...

Let’s be honest, we all saw this one coming… Smartphone manufacturer Oppo finally bit the bullet for the rest of the phone makers out there and did what they’ve all been wanting to do for years: they made the front...

Today Samyang made the fourth of their expected 5 announcements in the form of a brand new 20mm F/1.8 lens that will be available in both still and cinema versions. This continues the latest trend from Samyang to capital...

Plotagraph Pro is really neat. The program lets you ‘animate’ cinemagraph style GIFs and videos from single JPEGs. There’s just one problem: the price. If the $300 asking price is too rich for your blood, we found ...

We recently shared the impressive Canon DSLR arsenal Getty Images brought to the Rio 2016 Olympics. Here’s something else that’s impressive: the agency team of photographers and photo editors at the Games can snap, e...

F-Stop Gear has announced that KitSentry, the bag it sought (and successfully raised) funding for on Kickstarter, will not be brought to market. The notice, which was posted as the final update for Kickstarter backers on...

I know, I know. It's been done before, but not by me, so I gave 'er a go. It started when I discovered a blog post online: DIY Foam core 8--10 camera by Cory Norton. Norton outlines a detailed and inspiring tutorial on h...

Photographer Ron Risman has created a video that he calls “The Most Spectacular 2.5 Minutes of Lightning.” It shows a powerful lightning storm in Kansas synchronized with music. The footage was captured in 4K resolut...

The polar regions are called the "lands of the midnight sun" because in the summer, the sun never sets

This is… different. Casio--not a company we write about much--has just debuted a rugged, outdoor adventure camera in their Japanese market that can actually be broken apart and put back together 4 different ways. The E...

Recently, I had a portrait shoot with the legendary poet, rapper, and actor Saul Williams. It began with a simple stroke of luck: I saw he was scheduled to perform at a local club near my house, and so I did a quick sear...

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When it comes to critical feedback, knowing who to listen to and who to ignore is challenging. While I am by no means a "known" photographer, I've put enough of my work out into the wild that I've run into the inevitable...

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 app...

The Samyang summer lens release bonanza continues. Last week it was a super-fast 35mm f/1.2 for mirrorless APS-C cameras; today, we get a new ulra-wide angle, the Samyang 20mm f/1.8 ED AS UMC for full-frame DSLRs and mir...

Samyang's summer lens party continues with the announcement of a 20mm F1.8 full-frame prime. The manual focus lens offers seven aperture blades and a minimum focus distance of 0.2m/0.6ft. Two aspherical lenses and three...

Twenty-three year old French photographer Bastien Santanoceto's Je Suis Photographe project is one that focuses on other photographers, with the fun twist of photographing them as if they are their usual subjects. A conc...

Backers of the KitSentry Kickstarter by F-Stop Gear are out of luck. Just days after an in-depth report that claimed the company is “falling apart at the seams,” F-Stop Gear has officially announced that KitSentry wi...

If you are a fan of the Fujifilm rangefinder style but can’t spring for an X-Pro line camera then the X-E line is all for you. The latest model may be the X-E2s, but the still very capable X-E2 is back on sale as Fuji ...