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Edelkrone’s motto, lately, seems to be: “Why not? Let’s give it a shot!” It’s the spirit behind products like their StandPLUS, the “reinvented tripod”, and the strange-but-probably-useful Povie smartphone... more

The hardest part of a 365 project is the first week. Actually, maybe its the first two-three weeks. Its the period between introducing something new into your life and then making that thing a habit.

This is how Ive witnessed it through others taking on a one-photo-a-day projects. Posts go up every 24 hours without fail for a couple of weeks but then, you notice, Hey, I havent seen a shot from ***** in a while? Maybe Facebooks just not showing it.... more

Here’s a quick how-to that will probably come in handy sometime down the road for every portrait photographer. Have you ever shot a portrait where one of your subject’s eyes was partially closed and it made everything look strange and uneven?... more

Getting the best possible performance at the edges of a flat camera sensor is tough, but a new patent from Canon shows how the Japanese company is planning to tackle this problem in future Canon image sensors.

The problem, at its core, is that light travels in a straight line. That means the light hitting your camera sensor comes in at steeper and steeper angles the farther away you get from the center. Companies... more

The idea of cleaning your cameras sensor fills many photographers with dread. It may seem difficult or complicated but it is actually much more straightforward than you may think. In this article, I will give you a simple guide on how to check for sensor dust and how to effectively clean your cameras sensor.

Today I carried out one of the most daunting yet important tasks when it comes to photography: I cleaned my cameras sensor myself. Whilst I had... more

Forget buying a professional rain cover or carting a shower cap with you, if you want to protect your camera from rain and snow on the cheap, this creative quick-and-easy DIY solution will cost you less than $1.

This DIY solution is brought to us by photographer... more

The Rio Olympics have come to a close, and there's no doubt that these summer games have been memorable. World records were smashed, heroes were made and the best sports photographers in the game captured it all. But what may go down as one of the most memorable images from the games is actually two photos, captured by two photographers a fraction of a second apart.

Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuter's.Embed... more

Canon engineers have developed a new design for the micro lenses it uses on imaging sensors that it claims will reduce vignetting and false coloration at the edges of the picture. The new designs have a bi-convex lens that uses the upper surface to collect light and the lower to channel the light more effectively to the photodiode. The patent application shows the lower face of the micro lenses with a convex surface featuring an off-center vertex. Canon says these would be placed at the... more

When photo storage site Picturelife shut down, users were left high and dry without a way to access and/or download the images they had stored there. This didn’t sit well with SmugMug, who... more

There was a freezing 4C (39F) dunking pool at the freediving world championships in Turku, Finland… and photographer Daan Verhoeven did not want to let it go to waste. As the competitors took... more

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