Its perhaps ironic that it was during our Street Photography trip to New York that we chose Havana, Cuba as our next destination. Ironic because we didnt know then that the two week period we chose would see the first visit of a sitting U.S. President to the city in 90 years and with it an air of expectancy and change in a country unlike any other.
The people of Cuba are extraordinary. Many live with little but are proud of what they have, and in the often... more
Hawaii photographer Raiatea Arcuri was out shooting beautiful seascapes and putting together a tutorial video recently when he took a rather bad tumble. The video came out yesterday, but all people can talk about is the scary fall he captured.
Russian photographer and art student Egor Tsvetkov used his own photos and a facial recognition app to destroy any illusion of privacy we might have with his latest project “Your Face is Big Data.”
The aptly named project was simple. First, he took photos of about 100 strangers on the subway. “The people did not react in any way,”... more
We won’t waste time hemming and hawing: this is just plain cool. Using a patented technology, Satellite Lab can move a light source around an object at 10,000 feet per second while capturing that same object in super slow motion, creating an effect we’ll call “bullet time 2.0... more
Photographer Serena Hodson of Dry Dog Wet Dog fame is back, and she’s not stopped capturing adorable, viral photos of dogs. Her new series The Upside of Dogs is blowing up now too, and it’s bound to put a smile on your face.
The whole point behind Serena’s dog photospast and presentis to capture dogs’ idiosyncrasies. In The... more
A French tourist was arrested in Rome last week when he tried to fly his camera drone over the iconic Colosseum to capture some aerial footage. According to Italian law, he could now face fines of up to 113,000 Euro ($127K USD).
Over 1.5 billion people worldwide use the Facebook app on a monthly basis, and all of those people have opted in to Facebooks privacy policy by the act of creating... more
One of the features we were excited by when the a6300 was announced was the promise of 'live view' while shooting continuous bursts of shots. Now we've used and tested it, what do we think?
What's the big deal?
Autofocus systems on mirrorless cameras have been getting better and better with each generation of cameras, to the... more
With the annual NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show just around the corner, Canon has announced numerous firmware updates for its video-oriented cameras and display systems.
In the latest installment of “crazy photography innovation to cross our desks,” let us introduce you to the “sheet camera” by the engineers at Columbia University. This flexible camera array lets you change field of view by simply bending it.
Curved sensors aren’t a new idea, but this isn’t a curved sensor or even a flexible sensor, it’s a fully self-contained flexible camera. Developed by a team at Columbia... more
