Photography News

With craigslist ads like this one going up all the time, it’s easy to think things are looking pretty bleak for professional wedding photographers. But a new survey of nearly 18,000 brides married in 2015 paints a rosier picture.

The survey was performed by the “the #1 wedding resource” website, The Knot, and covered everything from how much you... more

Shooting the moon has been a little obsession of mine for a very long time (ever since I started photography). I guess it is my love of impossible images, science fiction, and science fact that drove me to want to take photographs of the moon.

I tried a few things using the gear that I have collected over the years. Sadly, neither zoom lenses nor telephoto lenses ever really resulted in a clear picture of the moon. Until… I got the... more

Four portraits that, for decades, have been shown and sold as self-portraits captured by famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe are now at the center of a massive law suit by an artist who claims he shot the portraits, not Mapplethorpe.

Poet, actor,... more

When you think pinhole lenses, you probably think cheap, low-fi lenses created by hand for DIY photography projects. Zero Optik takes things in the opposite direction: it’s a new line of high-quality pinhole lenses that are designed for professionals.

“Pinhole... more

The LomoInstant Wide is an Instax wide format camera that opens the flood gates to an unprecedented level of creative Instax photography. Packed with more features than I can count, I immediately got to work snapping imaginative, fun, and downright hilarious photographs.

Photographs that, once the Lomo’Instant had spit them out, I could hold on to with my hands or even hand out to friends, family or strangers on the spot.

In fact, the photos were... more

Digital photography can be incredibly empowering, but it can also help new photographers develop some really bad habits. And one of the oft-cited habits that digital photographers develop is “chimping.”

Chimping, for those who aren’t familiar with popular photography jargon, is the act of looking at your camera’s LCD over and over again after every photo you take to see what you got. It can distract you from your subject at hand and... more

Canon XC10 key features
  • 12 Megapixel 1" CMOS sensor
  • DIGIC DV5 image processor
  • Fixed 10x (24 - 240mm equivalent) zoom lens with image stabilizer
  • Face Detection/Tracking auto-focus mode
  • Records 4K XF-AVC UHD (3840 x 2160) video to CFast 2.0 cards
  • 305Mbps video codec (4K)
  • Canon Log (12 stops of dynamic range)
  • Slow and... more

Brazilian photographer Marcos Alberti‘s ‘Wine Project’ portrait series is dead simple: give your subjects some booze and photograph them between drinks. But the resulting portraits are taking the Web by storm.

“There is a saying about wine that I... more

Optical stabilization has slowly but surely continued to improve in recent years, but a new patent from Canon hints at a major change in the tech that may arrive in future lenses: instead of one image stabilized lens group, the patent describes a lens that uses two.

According to the translated patent, one IS group would always be working, while the second would turn on based on “the magnification ratio and the distance information of the lens.” If... more

For his new project Lux Noctis, photographer Reuben Wu lit and photographed landscapes at night by mounting powerful LED lights to GPS-enabled drones.

Drones are widely used as flying cameras these days, but Wu wanted to use them as flying lights. Using a prototype AL250... more

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