Photography News

Portraiture and gaming the system on Instagram isn't always so simply. In fact, it's pretty difficult. But photographers have been trying to cut through all the noise as best as they can for as long as the platform has b...

Microsoft’s popular, portable Surface Pro tablet computer is getting a major update. Combine that with a new, souped up Surface Pen, and the Seattle company’s newest release is looking really tempting for photographe...

German media reports that the founders of the company behind the Panono 360-degree ball camera have filed for insolvency proceedings at a court in Berlin, Germany. Unfortunately this means it's very unlikely that the bac...

Microsoft's Surface Pro (they've dropped the numbering scheme) looks impressive. In an interview with The Verge, Microsoft's head of Surface, Panos Panay, claims there are about 800 new custom parts in the Surface Pro. B...

Some ideas are apparently too good to let die. DW Photo of Braunschweig, Germany, has become the latest company to attempt to produce the Hy6 645 medium format camera. This follows the collapse of DHW Fototechnik, which ...

The Kodak EKTRA, the company's'camera first' smartphone, is now available to purchase in the United States.The Android smartphone, which was first announced in October 2016, features a 21MP camera and a design reminiscen...

In an attempt to one-up photographer Aurel Manea, who shot these hand-held Milky Way photos with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II last week, New Zealand photographer Jonathan Usher took his own EM-1 II out for a hand-held l...

Spanish sculptor Isabel Tomás' (aka Lisa Toms) handmade fantasy creatures are wonderful

Cone is a beautifully designed iOS app that uses the phone's camera to pick Pantone colors from the world around you. The $2.49 app samples colors along with their Pantone name in real-time - the precise opposite of the ...

Photokina--the world’s leading trade show on photography, videography, and imaging--is making some big changes. Starting in 2018, the show will begin to happen every year (currently, Photokina happens every other year)...

There are instances when a photographer meticulously plans a wedding photo, and then there is serendipity. Such was the case for Portland wedding photographer Craig Mitchelldyer when he worked a wedding at Gorge Crest Vi...

In this creative 2-minute tutorial, Ukranian photographer Anya Anti demonstrates how to make an interesting bokeh effect using shapes cut out of a paper backdrop. To create the effect, you will need: Paper backdrop A ma...

Photokina, the biennial photo industry trade show in Cologne, Germany, has announced that it will become an annual event. Additionally, there are plans to diversify the show to include products and technologies beyond it...

One of the problems with digital photography for years has been high ISO output. While it's become much better when you look at the photos on a screen, it's still not perfect when it comes to printing. With film, you can...

Just how good is the video from the iPhone 7 Plus?The obvious way to find out is to do a side-by-side comparison with another camera used by a lot of people. You know, like... ummm... an Arri Alexa. Because why not. YouT...

After many years of experience using different lenses, I now have resorted to only using a single prime lens. I started with a 50mm, then added an 85mm, 35mm, 100mm, and 28mm to my collection, and I've played around with...

Instagram is testing a new feature called Archived Posts that will let you pull photos off of your main profile and into a hidden “Archive” section. That way, you can curate a perfect profile without deleting any of ...

Sarunas Jasikevicius addresses a question in a press conference about the absence of Augusto Lima, who wasn't present due to the birth of his child

This is some seriously impressive camera work! Take a peek behind the scenes of Oscar-nominated film ‘La La Land,’ and see how one of the camera men was able to swing a massive camera around like a toy to create perf...

Listening to requests and inquiries from their customers, TH Swiss today released updated correction profiles for their Irix 11mm and 15mm lenses to use with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

This brilliantly lit commercial for Canon introduces a new campaign that urges the viewer to "Live for the Story", and rather curiously does not prominently feature a camera at all. The 60-second spot follows the romanti...

Stop-motion animator Kevin Parry has shared a clever little video illusion titled “Walk in the Woods” that has a lot of people scratching their heads. It’s a loop that shows Parry repeatedly walking into a mirror i...