Photography News

Using burning steel wool in photography has gotten a lot of bad press as of late, but one thing’s for sure: the stuff looks wild when viewed through a macro lens. Macro Room did various experiments with setting balls o...

Recording artist Justin Johnson plays some blues on a three-string shovel guitar

Google is shuttering Panoramio, the location-centric photo sharing service it acquired back in 2007. The service will officially be ending on November 4th, 2016. Panoramio was founded in 2005 by two Spanish entrepreneurs...

Google announced its new in-house Pixel smartphone this week, boasting that it has “the best smartphone camera ever.” DxOMark agreed, giving the phone’s camera a record-breaking score of 89. If you’d like a taste...

The World Wide Photo Walk 2016 saw photographers from around the world hit the streets. This year I decided to host my very first photo walk and lead a group of 50 photographers through the streets of Johannesburg from 1...

Want to have your photos critiqued… by a computer? Keegan is a new online personal photo coach that can do that. Show Keegan one of your photos, and he’ll do his best to give you technical feedback to improve your ph...

This is a story about my photography portfolio that went missing for 30 years. I made this collection of photographs while working as a photographer at the Goldstream Gazette, a weekly newspaper on Vancouver Island from ...

Winning images from Red Bull Illume 2016 © Lorenz Holder / Red Bull Illume Lorenz Holder of Germany has taken the top prize for a second year in a row in the Red Bull Illume sports and action photography awards. His pho...

Award-winning photographers and conservationists Chris and Carolina Schmid decided to undertake a challenging film project that spans two years, travelling across Africa to capture on film the story of wildlife strugglin...

Here’s a simple tip that’ll come in particularly handy for the smartphone photographers out there: you can use an old phone’s LCD screen as a cheap, portable polarizing filter. The tip comes to us from the Koldunov...