Check out this photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s no ordinary photo: Bentley calls it “the world’s most extraordinary car photograph.” Why? Because it’s a 53-gigapixel photo that you can zoom waaay into.
Here’s what it looks like when you zoom from 700 meters away all the way in to the embroidery in the passenger seat of the $330,000 Bentley Mulsanne on the bridge:
Nikon has released new firmware for its flagship D5 DSLR. There are four main improvements included in firmware v1.10, which address some of the frustrations that we had with the D5 in our full review, and brings the D5's capabilities more in line with its smaller sibling, the D500.
Video Recording Upgrades:
Movie maximum recording time extended to 29... more
Imagine getting off a flight, walking over to get your (unwillingly) gate-checked case full of $20K of camera gear, and seeing a baggage handler walking up holding a few lenses and yelling “whose are these?” That’s exactly what happen to photographer Yosef Shidler of... more
Photographing the Milky Way from the ground can be challenging in itself, but photographer Ian Norman has taken the challenge to new heights. In a new video tutorial, he explains how he and his partner Diana Southern photographed the Milky Way from an airplane.
Together, the couple make up the team behind Lonely Speck, a blog dedicated to astrophotography. They were on a flight to Budapest when they began to wonder if they could capture... more
The groundbreaking mirrorless medium format Hasselblad X1D looks ultra-portable in the product photos provided by Hassy, but how small is it really? We used the... more
In this video tutorial, I walk through my method of capturing and processing a photograph of the Milky Way from the window of an airplane.
Introduction
While on a commercial airline flight, my girlfriend Diana and I made some attempts at photographing the Milky Way from the window. After some trial and error, we managed to make a few decent exposures which eventually became the base exposures for a processing method similar to the... more
What do you do when the groom gets bit by a rattlesnake during your pre-reception photoshoot? You keep shooting of course! At least that’s what you do if you’re Colorado-based adventure wedding photographer... more
There are few photographers who have documented Hong Kongs past in the way that Fan Ho did back in the late 40s and early 50s. Dubbed 'the Henri Cartier-Bresson of the East', Ho observed the then British Colony through his Roleiflex, producing iconic images that played with shape and form and captured people going about their daily lives.
Ho was born in Shanghai in 1931 and moved to Hong Kong at the age of 17. As such, while Hong Kong was always the city he called home, he was... more
Phase One has updated its Capture One Pro software. Version 9.2 brings support for two notable new DSLRs: the Pentax K-1 and Nikon D500. The update also adds support for premium compacts in Canon's PowerShot G series as well as minor workflow enhancements. The update is offered at no cost for Capture One Pro 9 customers. Capture One Pro 7 and 8 customers can get the latest version for $99/99.
