Rotolight has announced the launch of Neo 2, an "industry first" high speed sync-capable LED flash that doubles as a continuous light source and boasts no recycle time.
The company says it designed the Neo 2 specifically for videographers and portrait photographers, and that it collaborated with Elinchrom to build its Skyport 2.4GHz HSS wireless flash receiver into the model. That Skyport receiver, in... more
My 3-year-old daughter is at that phase in which she wants to do everything that daddy does. Apparently photography is not immune to this phase and seeing this as a potentially huge win (it’s not easy to coax her into driving 6 hours to go shoot some waterfall) I dug out my old Canon 40D DSLR and a 50mm prime lens that I had lying around and let the experiment begin!
I started her out on AV at f/2.0 with 400 ISO thinking this would cover both indoor and outdoor shooting.... more
Photographers now have a number of options for full-frame camera bodies that can be had for less than $2,000, but how do they stack up? This video from The Slanted Lens compares three... more
Florida’s Orange County Animal Services (OCAS) just broke a 48-year-old adoption record last month, and it says photography played a huge role in that. The organization has... more
New Carlisle News photojournalist Andy Grimm was shot by Sheriff's Deputy Jake Shaw on Monday after the officer mistook Grimm's camera and tripod for a gun, according to the news organization.
Per New Carlisle Newsa local news organization in New Carlisle, Ohioand Grimm's statements about the incident, Grimm had left the... more
Believe it or not, it's already September. In 16 short days and some change, autumn will officially begin in the Northern Hemisphere, and photographers across the US (and the world) will go hunting for the perfect orange-and-red peppered photograph of the season. Well, if you're in the United States, you're in luck: there's an interactive map available that will help you plan your trip to capture the best possible colors.
I recently dipped my toe for the first time in the world of alpinism, also known as mountaineering. I took part in a course teaching basic alpinism skills, and at the same time shot photos of the course for Mountain... more
Swiss photographer Madeleine Josephine Fierz has been stripped of two photography awards after it was revealed that she'd won them using someone else's photo.
The contest-winning image, seen above, was taken by Thai photographer Sasin Tipchai, who had uploaded it under a CC0 license to stock photography website Pixabay. Fierz submitted the image as her own, ultimately receiving first place in the... more
An Ohio newspaper photojournalist was shot by a police officer last night after the cop mistook the camera and tripod the photographer was holding for a rifle.
You might be getting sick of all the solar eclipse articles, but in the aftermath of last month's phenomenon we keep running across incredible new vantage pointsfrom this amazing (and viral) climber photo to this footage shot from a weather balloon in the stratosphere. Here is one more jaw-dropping... more
