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NASA's image of the day is a composite, taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on its Aqua satellite. It shows phytoplankton swirling in the currents of the Black Sea. Credit: NASA/Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response

The Black Sea is one of the largest bodies of water on earth, measuring 168,500 square miles, and it turns out not to be black at all. NASA's appropriately-named Aqua satellite captured this shot last month, showing the deep blues and turquoise... more

Example picture by Ron Pepper

UK software company HDRsoft has released version 6 of its Photomatix Pro imaging application with the promise of more realistic HDR images and better control of picture characteristics. A key new feature allows users to blend an unedited version of a picture with its HDR counterpart so that the overall effect... more

Here’s an inspiring video by Mango Street about one of the most important things you can learn to do as a photographer, which is storytelling. In addition to... more

Image courtesy UNIT9 and Gatorade

Video production outfit UNIT9 pulled off some neat visual tricks in a recent project for client Gatorade. Using a custom-built 'rain rig,' precisely timed water droplets fall to the ground in the shape of a figure. Strobes illuminate the droplets and give the effect of freezing them, and frame-by-frame the water figure appears to run, jump and kick right in front of our eyes.

The figure's movements... more

Camtraptions, the brainchild of wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas, has released the latest infrared motion sensor in its line-up. Used for wildlife camera trapping, these sensors... more

My name is Mustafa Turgut, and I’m a professional photographer based in Istanbul, Turkey. One of my photos was published on the cover of the China edition of National Geographic Traveler magazine in... more

Fujifilm's earnings report for the fiscal year ending in March has been published and contains some interesting information on the company's line of consumer imaging products. Sales figures of both X-Series cameras and lenses and the GFX medium format system have increased, according to the report.

'The business of electronic imaging achieved a sales growth due to positive sales of the X-Series of mirrorless digital cameras such as FUJIFILM X-T2 and FUJIFILM X-T20 as well as their... more

After the highly anticipated Sony a9 began landing in the hands of photographers, there were some reports of the camera displaying its overheating indicator icon after short periods of use in ordinary environments. Israeli photographer... more

If you’re taking your light stands outside, then you’ll probably be using sandbags to weigh them down. But they’re clumsy, take up a lot of space, and can be messy if punctured accidentally. ... more

I’ve been shooting tintypes for almost six years now and love to push the boundaries of what is possible with this slow and difficult photographic process. Taking a tintype from the air was an idea that, years ago, I had shelved as the technology wasn’t there yet. Drones were pretty scarce and the ones I had seen were extremely limited in payload and stability. But this spring I decided to revisit the idea.

A Google search for drone photography Nashville led me to... more

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