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I was sitting in my dorm room at Arizona State University. To my left I had my XBox on (as it was pretty much 24/7) with some racing game on pause. In front of me I had my future, for I was entering a photography competition that I believed would make me famous and rich beyond my wildest dreams.

To this day, I cant remember if I won any prize in that specific competition, but I remember that was the genesis of the idea that photo competitions were how you become successful in... more

Remember Nicolas Vuignier, the skier who shot bullet time by swinging his iPhone around his head? He... more

Im Alastair Philip Wiper, a British photographer based in Copenhagen and working worldwide. From the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, to... more

The $500-900 category (based roughly on US MSRP) features quite a few strong offerings, some of which should satisfy first-time camera buyers with easy-to-use interfaces and point-and-shoot style functionality. Others are aimed more at seasoned-enthusiasts, offering direct manual controls and high-end features.

At this price point, all of the cameras use either Four Thirds or larger APS-C-sized sensors and all can shoot Raw. And while a larger sensor can mean the potential for better... more

NASA's Mars Rover recently spent some time on the Red Planet's Ogunquit Beach, studying the area's dunes that stretch for miles. According to NASA the image above was stitched together from 115 individual images taken between March 24th and 25th. Color has been adjusted to represent how it would look in daytime Earth lighting. To fully enjoy a quick trip to Mars, be sure to play the video above in a browser that support 360-degree video.
Photo by Dan Bracaglia

Street photography is difficult. It generally requires patience, a keen eye and lightning fast reflexes to be successful. So what can you do to better your odds of getting the shot  when you see it? The Phoblographer's Chris Gampat has put together a helpful list of tips to help you out, including bits about maximizing battery life... more

Cassini's series of 'Grand Finale' dives by Saturn continues to mesmerize us. In the above video, you'll first see a 'Cassini-eye-view' of the surface of Saturn whizzing by, starting with the swirling north pole of Saturn. But it doesn't stop there, as NASA/JPL-Caltech also shows you a three dimensional simulation of exactly where the probe is as it's capturing the images.

The spacecraft's altitude dropped from 45,000 miles to 4,200 during this dive, and 'as this occurred, the smallest... more

Yesterday, we revealed that award-winning photographer Souvid Datta had published a photo back in 2014 in which a woman had been copied-and-pasted from a 1978 photo by renowned documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark. Datta... more

For his latest project, titled “Stratochronokinetics,” photographer and mixed media artist Alexy Joffre Frangieh created a “time slice” view of showing the town of Ehden, Lebanon, over the course of a year.

Here’s an interactive version of the work on Instagram (you can click/swipe to show more or less months):

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One of Ian Norman's examples of an image that would be affected by the 'Star Eater' noise reduction filtering.

Astrophotographer Ian Norman from website Lonely Speck has written an open letter to Sony over its use of spacial filtering that can obliterate small stars in long exposure photos. The phenomenon has been identified on the DPReview forum and characterized by contributors... more

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