Profoto recently connected two icons in their respective fields: Albert Watson, the portrait photography legend, and Sergei Polunin, the so-called "bad boy of ballet" and probably the only ballet dancer you could call "mainstream." Together, they set about capturing some unique portraits, and filmmaker Eric Becker, the director of our own long-form video series, was... more
Pixelmator, the company behind a $30 image editing application for Mac, has just announced a new product called Pixelmator Pro. Though it hasn't yet been revealed how much this software will cost, the company has detailed many of its features, some of them powered by artificial intelligence.
Pixelmator Pro, an editor designed specifically for macOS, taps Apple's Core ML framework to bring... more
Over 100,000 Instagram users and some of the worlds best known media organizations were fooled for over two years by someone pretending to be a front-line war photographer. The entire stranger-than-fiction story was revealed recently by BBC Brazil after a lengthy... more
Want to see what it’s like to fly into the eye of one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded? After Hurricane Irma developed into a Category 5 storm yesterday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) flew airplanes directly into the hurricane to gather weather data. Cameras on the planes captured videos and photos of the experience.
Here are a couple of videos showing what flying through Irma’s 185mph (~298kmh) winds was like. This first one... more
Pixelmator is an image editor for macOS that launched back in 2007 and has since grown into a formidable alternative to Adobe Photoshop in a previously untouchable domain. Now the company has just announced a Pro... more
More bits are better, right? But do you really know the difference between 8-bit and 16-bit images? Photo educator Nathaniel Dodson breaks it down for us in this informative 8-minute... more
Here’s a 2.5-minute video by Hugo Cornellier, who has captured a selfie every day of his life from when he was 12 years old up until his recent wedding. The video starts in... more
Here’s a 10-minute video tutorial by PiXimperfect that teaches how to add artificial film grain to your photos. Learn three ways to give your digital photos a film look.
