Photography News

It looks like the idea of sharing front- and rear-camera photos at the same time isn’t lucrative enough to be big business. After raising a whopping $4 million from investors, the unusual photo-sharing app Frontback is now announcing that it will be shutting down on August 15th, 2015.

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Any object can be seen as something else given the right perspective. In this instance, fairly common items have been used to create the effect of lava.

Scroll through to see if you can guess the items used. The final photograph shows how these were created.

Here’s how the photos were made:

Yes, thats right. Its a seashell held up to light.

I produced these photographs over an evening after seeing how a... more

Photographer Clint Rivers recently spotted what may be the happiest little baby orca in all the ocean. The Victoria, British Columbia-based wildlife photographer was on a boat in the Salish Sea when they came across a pod of killer whales and a 6-month-old orca leaping over and over out of the water.... more

My day job has me using the new Panasonic GH4 for video. While Panasonic did include a 4K photo mode that can be used in a similar way with specific advantages (thats another blog post), I wanted to test shooting for stills in regular 4K video mode. The main reason for this was to also have the actual video clip to use for other things if I wanted.

Here are the video settings I used:

Rec Format: MOV
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With the advent of consumer drones, governments are in the process of creating laws and regulations to keep both operators and bystanders safe. While some countries, such as the United States, havent made much headway, others have already established clear and concise rules for drone flying. The UKs new... more

Less than a month after Union Pacific launched a public safety campaign that warns photographers against doing shoots on train tracks, another photographer has been killed doing just that.

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It seems that when the Internet’s most followed photographer designs a camera bag, the world of photography listens. Travel photographer Trey Ratcliff has teamed up with... more

Photographer Brian Rueb was approached by two friends to shoot their wedding - a familiar proposal for many photographers. However, there was a slightly unusual twist in this case, as the couple planned to tie the knot on top of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park. Read more

The Panasonic Center in Osaka has installed a photo booth that uses 120 Lumix DMC-GH4 cameras to create a three-dimensional impression of the occupants, which can then be turned into a plaster figurine. Panasonic claims that what makes its booth stand out is that the 'scan' is created in just 1/1000sec. That means the subjects can be in motion and the image will still be sharp. Read more

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