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Astronomers using the ESO Very Large Telescope have created the most detailed photo ever of a star other than our own Sun. The subject of the photo is the supergiant Antares, visible to the unaided eye in the constellati...

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Self-proclaimed “armchair aeroscience geek” Liem Bahneman managed to capture the Great American Eclipse from an unusual and amazing perspective: he loaded cameras onto a high-altitude and shot what the total solar ec...

For all of the many (many many) eclipse photos and videos that have been release, this is probably a view you haven't seen yet: the shadow of the moon traversing Oregon, as seen from a stratospheric balloon. The video wa...

NASA just placed a hefty order for 53 unmodified Nikon D5 DSLRs. The cameras currently cost about $6,500 each, so if NASA paid full retail price for each camera, they just spent at least $344,500 on this purchase. NASA�...

Following a study Google released last week showing how easily an AI could remove watermarks from stock images, stock photography website Shutterstock has introduced stronger watermarks that are more difficult to elimina...

While known to many for his elegant fashion photography and celebrity portraits, Richard Avedon is also actually distinguished for one of his biggest projects--a best-selling book and traveling exhibit entitled In the Am...

NASA's relationship with Nikon is as strong as ever, judging by the fact that the space agency just placed a massive order for 53 Nikon D5 DSLRs. According to Nikon, NASA ordered the cameras as-is (no hardware modificati...

Much ado about nothing or a serious ethical breach of photojournalistic norms? A debate emerged on Facebook when freelancer and Pulitzer Prize winner Ken Geiger's image appeared in the National Geographic Instagram feed ...

While visiting Yosemite in June, I took this photo of 4 riders on the road. A couple of days later, I posted the photo on Reddit’s /r/pics. It made it to the Reddit front page with more than 40k upvotes and almost 600 ...

A 69-year-old photographer dying from a terminal lung disease recently got his wish of visiting a newly opened Leica Store. The Straits Times reports that after freelance photographer Alan Lee read about the new store in...

I've dreamed of seeing a total eclipse of the sun all my life. When I read there would be one on August 21st that passed dead-center over the town of Newberry, South Carolina, I was overjoyed. This was my chance. My wife...

With her dreamy take on underwater photography and conceptual portraiture, Paris-based fashion photographer Marta Bevacqua explores how silence can be both ethereal and beautiful. For her captivating series aptly entitle...

My name is Kelly Thompson, and I’m a VP at 500px. Buried in Tuesday's announcement of Google's Android Oreo was an interesting tidbit for photographers: like Apple the year before, Google's mobile OS has been reworked ...

Lighting your subjects in macro photography can be tricky business. Now Polaroid has announced a new lighting accessory that aims to make your macro lighting easier without breaking the bank. The new Polaroid LED Macro F...

The Sigma 135mm F1.8 DG HSM | Art lens has won the "EISA European DSLR Lens 2017-2018" award.

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Japanese researchers have released photos and videos of the deepest fish ever captured on camera. The snailfish was found in the Mariana Trench at a depth of 8,178m (~5.08 miles) and filmed with 4K cameras. The Japan Age...

Version 2.6.9 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) has just been released.

Heads up, film photographers! If you're looking for some new and experimental films to try, KONO! has recently made their selection of films available for purchasing in single rolls. This makes sampling their funky films...

To be clear, I've not done much more than handle the D850 so far. Until we've spent a lot more time testing the camera, we won't know whether it's as good as its specs suggest it should be. But if it can deliver on a sig...

I used to shoot a lot of street, where the ethos is to always have the camera with you and always have it ready. Once you have that ingrained it really helps - always looking, always ready. That mindset never left me - e...