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When photographing the world around us, the property of color is likely something most people tend to take for granted. We expect our cameras to portray the visible light spectrum accurately. However, in a world so engrossed with color, we sometimes forget how long it took to get to this point in time and how many photographers and scientists viewed the concept as a pipe dream.

First Photograph: View from the Window at Le Gras byNicphore Nipce

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Australia-based conceptual artist Colin Anderson is re-defining what it means to be a modern photographer. An early adopter of Photoshop, Anderson creates complex allegorical images from a number of visual elements, including stills captured with a medium format camera and 3D elements created from scratch. Find out what he's learned from a long career in editorial and commercial photography.... more (link is external)

Hawkeye Huey is a 5-year-old photographer who has already accomplished quite a bit in his young career. At the age of 4, Huey traveled across the American West and shot documentary photos of things he saw. Those photos gained him a following of over 100,000 followers on Instagram (link is external), and now... more (link is external)

A few months ago I stumbled upon a very interesting article on PetaPixel titled “Why I Stopped Using The DNG File Format (link is external).” In this article the author mentions that Capture One give us a better starting point for color processing. This point made me excited about the whole idea that my portrait images could turn up a lot better and that I only need to start using Capture One.

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Last week, a treasure trove of 8,400 photos by Apollo astronauts (link is external) was uploaded to Flickr, making the archive easily accessible to the public. Director of photography Tom Kucy (link is external) decided... more (link is external)

Adobe has published an apology (link is external) following this week’s fumbled Lightroom update that caused slowdowns/crashes (link is external) and removed... more (link is external)

Pawn shops are hit and miss for photographers, but when they’re a hit, they can be a freaking HIT.

During one of my bi-monthly visits to all the local pawn shops in my town, I came across the sight above. It was a popular... more (link is external)

One of legendary photographer Robert Capa’s most famous photos is The Falling Soldier (link is external), a 1936 picture from the Spanish Civil War that’s said to show a soldier at the moment he’s shot.

Well, someone saw fit to turn the iconic photograph into a giant... more (link is external)

Want to shoot some abstract, eye-popping aerial footage? Just bring a camera drone to one of China’s busiest roadways when there’s a major traffic jam.

The video above shows drone footage and photos during an insane traffic jam outside Beijing, China, this past week.

Thousands upon thousands of cars were stuck at a point in the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway where the 50-lane road suddenly merges into 20 lanes.

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Voigtländer has introduced three new lenses that will be released in Spring 2016: the 10mm F5.6 Hyper-Wide-Heliar, 12mm F5.6 Ultra-Wide-Heliar, and 15mm F4.5 Super-Wide-Heliar. All three lenses will feature a Sony E-mount for use with full-frame Sony cameras sans an adapter. Read more (link is external)

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