Photography News

Today’s RAW support update from VSCO isn’t the only thing the film emulation and photography presets company had up their sleeve. They also debuted something called VSCO X.

VSCO X is an invite-only membership for the most dedicated (read: obsessed) VSCO users. If you do manage to get an invite, VSCO X will still cost you,... more

Flickr has published its 2016 end-of-year report detailing the most popular devices and brands on its platform. Per the report, 48% of photos published on Flickr this year were captured using smartphones, and 47% of them were captured using iPhones specifically. The top three iPhone models were the iPhone 5s, the iPhone 6, and the iPhone 6s.

As far as brands go, Canon was the second most used at 24% and Nikon came in third at 18%. Device types, meanwhile, show DSLRs ranked second after... more

Every photographer should photograph a cancer patient at some point in his/her life. It teaches you how little of a person you are and how youre but one character in the story of life. Thats what I learned at least when I had the privilege of photographing the double mastectomy of my friend, Diana Sheldon, 38, last fall.

Warning: This article contains graphic photos of a breast cancer surgery.

I met Diana while photographing her... more

VSCO’s app for iOS is a go-to for many mobile photographers, and this week it’s getting an important update: RAW support. But not just RAW support for your iPhone photos, VSCO’s mobile app can edit RAW photos from your phone and DSLR.

The news broke over... more

German lens maker Meyer-Optik has launched the Nocturnus 50 F0.95 II, a super-fast manual-focus standard lens for the Sony E-Mount that is optimized for use with full-frame sensors, but also works with APS-C cameras. 

The lens comes with a focal length of 50mm and an aperture range from F0.95 to F22, offering lots of flexibility, both when shooting in low light and in terms of depth-of-field. The lens design features 10 elements in 7 groups and ensures high levels of sharpness in... more

My name is Jeff Cable, and I’m a photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I previously spent many years of my life as Director of Marketing at Lexar dealing with the ins and outs of the... more

This sweet photo shoot might not seem like anything special on the surface, but these wedding photos are actually 70 years in the making.

When Ferris and Margaret Romaire got married in 1946, there were no photosa totally foreign idea in 2016 when everybody carries around a camera in their pocket, but not all that unusual for a tiny Louisiana wedding in 1946.

All these years they’ve gone without wedding photos, but with their 70th wedding... more

Have your say: Best high-end compact of 2016

Although it's true that 'compact' usually refers to cameras small in size, here, we use it to refer to any camera with a non-removable lens. This makes for an interesting spread of cameras, with 1"-type sensors and APS-C sensors, prime lenses and zoom lenses, pocketable wonders and DSLR-styled bridge cameras.

So step (or sit) right up and take a peek through the high-end compacts of 2016, and let your voice be heard - which of these should be... more

If you’ve got some cash to burn and you’re looking for the ultimate photo editing monitor, BenQ’s got a great new gadget for you to consider. It’s called... more

As photographers, whether consciously or not, I think were all trying to capture moments in the way that we would like our own moments to be captured. What then are we supposed to do when its our turn to be the subject? This question troubled me as my wedding day drew closer. Who does the wedding photographer choose to photograph his own wedding?

To help with the decision, Elissa didnt really care much for a photographer to capture our wedding either... more

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