Photography News

EarthCam has just released the official time-lapse video of the construction of the One World Trade Center. The 2-minute video above spans 11 years from the start of construction in October 2004 to the completion on Memorial Day 2015.

“Hundreds of thousands of high definition images were captured over the past 11 years and hand-edited for this exclusive time-lapse movie,” EarthCam writes. All the photos and the original camera... more (link is external)

Ad agency brand strategist Derrick Lin (link is external) has developed a creative way to vent about all the little annoyances of his office job. Using an iPhone, a desk lamp, and miniature figurines, he shoots miniature world photos that capture his real world frustrations.

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Heads up: for some reason the Sony a7R full frame mirrorless camera is currently listed on the Sony... (link is external)more (link is external)

Nicolas Alexander Otto has a big appetite for landscape photography, but his home in the Ruhr area of Germany puts him closer to urban and industrial scenery than countryside. His portfolio features a mix of the natural world and the man-made world, and is the subject of our latest DPReview Readers' Showcase. See a sample of his imagery and find out more about him in our Q&A.... more (link is external)

No stranger to Iceland's stunning landscapes, nature photographer Art Wolfe journeyed north in 2013 in search of the aurora borealis. Despite inclement weather, Art got the shots he wanted, and much more besides. Click through to read his story (link is external) of a trip which ended up delivering much more than what he originally planned. 

This year, the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II, also called the “Nifty Fifty” celebrates its 25th birthday. Yes, that’s right: this lens was released back in December 1990 and is the second oldest lens that’s still in production. Yet it still dominates the list of the most popular Canon lenses, and for good reason: it’s cheap, it’s fast, it’s small and lightweight, and it offers good performance for the price, which makes it the first prime lens for... more (link is external)

I recently went to great lengths to solve a simple problem. I have a Manfrotto monopod that requires a little screw to attach my camera to the monopod. Without it, I can’t use it. The screws are cheap and no big deal… but, they are too easy to lose.

My system has been to leave the screw in the camera at all times, which is effective… until I need to use a tripod. So everytime I want to make a time lapse, which is often, that screw... more (link is external)

In this article I will take a look at Google Photos’ new photo compression performance. I’ve been using a program called JPEGmini (link is external) for a couple years now to compress my JPEG images. Its compression of JPEGs is lossy, but it claims to do so leaving the perceptual image quality virtually... more (link is external)

One of the big Hollywood blockbusters to hit the silver screen this year has been Mad Max: Fury Road, which has gotten rave reviews, with many praising the insane and complex visual design of the film. If you were wondering what some of the shots looked like when they were originally captured on camera, here are some before-and-after comparison images showing those shots next to the final frames after visual effects were applied.

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Photographer Jimmy Nelson (link is external) has spent years traveling the globe in a quest to document the world’s most fantastic indigenous cultures before they and their way of life disappear. In the 17-minute TED talk above, Nelson shares some of his best large format portraits and some fascinating things... more (link is external)

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