Photography News

Canon’s latest billboard ad campaign in New York City does more than promote the camera brand: they can actually help you shoot better photos. Each of the fixed and mobile truck billboards is updated in real time with useful photo tips you can use on the spot.

The 200 tips use data obtained from the Web, from weather reports, from traffic updates, and more,... more (link is external)

Adobe announced its quarterly results last Thursday, and investors are happy: the company beat market expectations by doubling profits from a year ago thanks to a huge growth in Creative Cloud subscribers. It seems that the shift from boxed software to digital subscription plans is paying off big time for the San Jose, California-based company.

833,000 new subscribers signed up for Creative Cloud in the company’s 4th quarter this year, a much higher count than analysts... more (link is external)

Here’s a new inspiring and thought-provoking video from Canon Australia’s The Lab project (link is external), which aims to “shift creative thinking behind the lens.” For this latest experiment, 6 photographers were invited to a cemetery and asked to capture “eternal life” in a single photo… without using a camera. They simply had to think about how they could best capture the concept and discuss their ideas with... more (link is external)

Here’s a 1-minute stop-motion commercial Karen X. Cheng (link is external) recently produced and directed for Totspot (link is external), a resale... more (link is external)

Street photographers Chuck Jines (link is external) and Keenan Hastings (link is external) both uploaded videos this week showing confrontations... more (link is external)

For their official Christmas card this year, the Norwegian photography store Stavanger Foto (link is external) decided to do a creative employee photo. This is what they came up with: the human Christmas tree.

Image credits: Photograph by Stig Hvard Dirdal and used with permission... more (link is external)

After exploring the science of digital camera sensors (link is external), Filmmaker IQ (link is external) just published this new video that explores the history and science of lenses. John Hess talks about everything... more (link is external)

 

Like much of the DPReview staff, editor Barney Britton is a self-proclaimed super-fan of the 35mm focal length. The Sony Cyber-shot RX1R II (link is external) has the same permanently affixed 35mm F2 lens as its predecessor, but it is backed up by almost completely new internals, including the same 42MP full-frame sensor and autofocus system as the Sony a7R II. Barney's put the RX1R II through its paces in a... more (link is external)

If you’re a fan of both photography and science fiction, here’s a movie you can add to your queue of things to watch: “Time Lapse (link is external).” Released earlier this year, the film is about a mysterious camera device that shoots Polaroid pictures that show the future.

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Photographer Jay Philbrick (link is external) takes his subjects where most photographers wouldn’t dare to go themselves: onto the face of a cliff, 350 feet above the ground.

You see, Philbrick started his career as a professional mountain guide before picking up a camera and starting a photography... more (link is external)

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