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Shutterstock has banned all unnatural photos of apes and monkeys. The move by the world’s largest subscription-based stock-photo agency comes in response to an appeal by the animal rights organization PETA.

In a letter to Shutterstock, PETA argued that monkeys and apes suffer when used for photo shoots and that photos of them in unnatural settings does harm to conservation efforts while boosting the illegal wildlife trade.

PETA further wrote that the chimpanzee... more

There are different techniques you can use in Photoshop to brighten up a dark and dull portrait. This 4-minute tutorial by PHLEARN shows a 2-minute technique that avoids desaturated,... more

Instagram is now rolling out a new “Recommended Posts” feature widely to its users. It suggests photos and videos for you directly in your feed from people you don’t follow. Instead, the suggested content will be based on what people you follow have liked.

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Photo by Robin van der Ploeg

Earlier this week, we shared the news that Apple had admitted to slowing down older iPhonesan accusation originally leveled at the company by several Redditors and bloggers who found their phones' performance had been cut in half, and would only return to full performance with a battery replacement.

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Trees invoke a sense of timelessness, of grandeur. Most species grow many centuries older than humans ever will, so lets make trees look the part with these tips on capturing them with a wide-angle lens.

Reach the Beech – A glistening beech tree bathed in verdant sunlight. These are some of the oldest trees in the area where I live. While there aren’t many of them left because of logging, these sentinels of time leave a lasting impression on me.Previsualization

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Instagram is testing and rolling out features at a quick pace. Just a couple of weeks ago, the Facebook-owned photo sharing app started letting users follow Hashtags in addition to Profiles. And now, after testing the feature with a limited number of accounts, Instagram has confirmed to... more

Want an unusual camera that you can pretty much guarantee that no one around you has? A rare World War II German “gun camera”... more

Lensrentals has released its most rented gear of 2017 list, and the results are very interesting. You can check out the full list here, but we thought we'd point out the three things that immediately caught our eye.

1. Sony's claim that it's beaten Nikon... more

Hey look, it's our whole planet, just a tiny speck floating in a vast nothingness. This image is courtesy Cassini, a spacecraft we sent to its demise in September. Photograph copyright NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

September is the month when we finally accepted that 2017 was really happening and it wasn't all a bad dream. We also found out what it looks like when you don... more

Photographer Jason Siegel is still using old camera equipment to share an anti-violence message in a creative way. Since we... more

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