Photography News

Since May of 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportations Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been beta testing a new smartphone app called B4UFLY (pronounced “before you fly”). It’s a portable resource that helps aerial photographers and other drone pilots stay up... more

Sony has released Sky HDR, a new PlayMemories app for capturing landscape scenes that have wide ranging levels of brightness. Sky HDR aims to replace a graduated ND filter, with various adjustment 'themes' along with control over exposure and white balance of sky and landscape areas separately.

Sky HDR works by capturing two different exposures of the same scene and combing them into a single image. The interface, demonstrated in the video... more

StikBox is a new iPhone case that’s designed to make your selfie sticks unnecessary: it has a collapsible stick built right into the back.

“Why carry two things when you can carry one?” asks inventor Yekutiel Sherman of Israel.

The case is just 0.6-inches... more

Photographer Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens made this helpful 7-minute video tutorial that provides a crash course on the different types of clamps used by photographers during shoots.

“This is not super glamorous stuff to talk... more

Long-time film photographer Timothy Gilbert was frustrated with existing options for processing 4×5 large format sheet film at home, so, as an engineer, he decided to create an easy-to-use and affordable system himself.

After several prototypes and extensive testing, what he came up... more

Flickr recently gathered up photo and camera data to review the past year, and now the company is doing some number crunching to reveal major... more

Here’s a short behind-the-scenes video showing how fashion photographer Yu Tsai recently photographed tennis superstar Serena Williams for Sports Illustrated magazine. Williams was featured in the cover story after being selected as... more

The braniacs at MIT have created an algorithm to determine the memorability of a photograph. The deep learning-based technology learned what makes a photo memorable by evaluating the rankings from 5,000 human volunteers, and even indicates which portions of an image it considers to be memorable with a heatmap depiction. The algorithm is allegedly as good as a human in determining what makes... more

Before anything else, lets address the elephant in the room: for my Gear of the Year Ive just selected a camera whose future appears a bit dark. As in 'Luke, I am your father' kind of dark. The Samsung NX1 was the camera that some photographers saw as A New Hope for the future, but theres a disturbance in The Force with signs that the Dark Side might prevail when it comes to Samsungs camera business. 

Some might find my lack of faith disturbing, but I have a... more

Whether you're traveling the world or the next town over, having the right camera at your side makes all the difference. We've picked out our best picks for the photographer who wants to keep things simple by carrying a compact camera rather than one with interchangeable lenses. If you fall into that category, we've got great news for you - there are more high quality cameras with attached lenses than ever before, brimming with features tailored to your needs. 

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