If you’re curious about what it takes to do well on Instagram, Connor Franta can tell you. He’s one of the biggest stars on the photo sharing service, boasting over 4 million followers. Franta recently published the 6-minute video above with his tips and tricks for shooting... more
Akiwi is a new website that’s designed to help you keyword photographs with minimal effort. It’s a semi-automated image tagging system that is easier than manually tagging and more accurate than automatic image recognition.
The site was created as a student project over at HTW Berlin. It... more
Here’s a new giveaway for our faithful readers, this one’s a doozy: we’re giving away a Sony a7R II full frame mirrorless camera, which the photography world has been talking about since it was... more
Photo colorizer Jordan Lloyd of Dynamichrome was recently commissioned to digitally color reconstructed photos of the discovery and exploration of Tutankhaten’s tomb starting in 1922.
The project took several months, and a great deal of research was done into finding accurate color... more
Here’s a little tip for those of you who shoot with Fuji Instax film while out and about: once you’re done exposing a pack of film, you can use the empty plastic pack as... more
Yahoo is rolling out a revamped image search engine today that now includes photo results from its Flickr service. As long as you’re signed in, the personalized Flickr results will include your own collection of Flickr... more
The Fixed Prime Lens Camera category is our smallest roundup of 2015 but also one of our most interesting. Cameras in this category range quite a bit, from the affordable, to the jaw-dropping expensive. If you prefer to zoom with your feet, instead of your lens, then this is the roundup for you. Read on
Commercial Photographer and camera blogger Ming Thein has shot with almost as many mirrorless cameras as we have, and has put together a list of all the things they get wrong or, at least, all the things he thinks they should all do. It's a fairly comprehensive list that we very much agree with. Thein echoes a lot of our own concerns about camera handling, behavior and operation, as he works through camera design point-by-point.... more
Lytro, a company known for its light field cameras and technologies, has introduced Immerge, a professional-grade cinematic virtual reality rig. According to Lytro, this is the first 'end-to-end' virtual reality hardware and software solution, with the entire system comprising four primary components: a light field camera array, storage and processing server, an editor, and a video player.... more
