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Here’s another story that illustrates why the US government is racing to create a national drone registry that attaches each drone to a name: on Wednesday, someone apparently tried to fly their DJI Phantom drone through the Seattle Great Wheel and failed, causing the drone to plummet to the ground and smash a basketball-sized hole in a plastic dining... more

Ansel Adams is best known for his breathtaking landscape photos, but he photographed much more than nature during his decades-long career. In 1943, already the best-known American photographer, Adams visited the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, one of the concentration (or... more

California-based startup LucidVR recently showcased its consumer-level camera for creating virtual reality content, LucidCam. The camera, which is nearing mass production, is one of the first to enable anyone to create VR content, something that has thus far been limited to those with expensive VR camera rigs. Read more

Here’s a 4-minute-long point-of-view video showing how top China-based wedding photographer Sails Chong recently shot a series of urban wedding portraits using the... more

Photographer Geoff Tompkinson has been working on a new time-lapse technique that he calls the “... more

My name is David Anderson and I’m a photographer from Scotland. I recently decided to take a different direction in life: I quit my job, bought a camera, and started traveling to places in Europe I had always dreamed of visiting and photographing.

I have been traveling, on and off, for the past six months, capturing the adventure with my camera. I visited Iceland twice, photographing the amazing landscapes and making a travel film about the landscapes, then through Norway... more

Back in September, Adobe ate some crow after showing off the new Photoshop Fix, a mobile app that has many of the powerful retouching features of Photoshop. In the demo, an image of a model was used to demonstrate the new Smile feature, whereby the user can manipulate the strength of a smile by simply dragging a finger.

Given heightened awareness of... more

Modelsbelike created this 5-minute comedy sketch about the different types of fashion photographers models will encounter in the studio.

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What makes one smartphone camera good and another one bad? YouTube tech video star Marques Brownlee of MKBHD just posted this easy-to-understand 5-minute-long explanation of smartphone camera quality.

Brownlee talks about sensor size, pixel size, aperture, image... more

Each fall, PhotoPlus Expo brings together some of the top working photographers and industry experts under one roof. We took the opportunity to sit down with some of these pros and have a conversation about what they do, what inspires them and gather some insights on their specialties. Kicking off the series, we talked to fellow Seattle-ite John Keatley about his work in portraiture. Read... more

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