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One of the most prestigious accolades any photographer can obtain is to be the recipient of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Awarded annually for 90 years, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation gives the honor of the Fellowship to men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in [...]

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Famed photojournalist Steve McCurry was one of 80,000 people inside the Stade de France watching a France-Germany friendly on Friday, November 13th, 2015. Twenty minutes into the match, three suicide bombers detonated explosive vests just outside of the national stadium as one part of a string of highly coordinated terroristattacks across Paris, France. McCurry, most [...]

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Hasselblad was once known for its incredible lineup of medium format cameras. But at some point in the past decade the Swedish company has gained a terrible reputation for taking Sony cameras, wrapping them in unnecessary and over-priced faades and branding them as their own. One such camera is the Hasselblad HV, a Sony A99 [...]

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Do you ever get the feeling you’re being played by the camera manufacturers? Sony appears to have no shame in regularly drip feeding its technology to consumers, eager for the nextbest thing in image quality.

If you don’t mind your hot new camera becoming a dinosaur six months after you buy it, Sony is the camera brand for you. You see, Sony has been very crafty by releasing a wide range of new mirrorless cameras, in such a way that you’ll probably need more than one... more

Astrophotography is becoming more accessible than ever. Not only have manufacturers made cameras specifically designed with celestial photography in mind, theyve also started work on built-in star tracking that will use sensor-shift technology to account for the movement of celestial bodies in the sky during a long exposure. While Canon might have been one of [...]

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The internet and Photoshop are both amazing tools that have facilitated endless amounts of good deeds. But as a Canadian Sikh by the name of Veerender Jubbal recently found out, they arent always used with the best intentions in mind. A selfie Jubal posted online several months ago was photoshopped to make him look like [...]

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One of the most common uses for zoom lenses is, as their name suggests, to zoom in on objects that are far away.These lenses are fantastic for getting close-up views of nature, architecture, wildlife, or anything else that might be little more than a speck to the naked human eye.

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A rather funny, and perhaps somewhat worrying, video shows an encounter between Dallas Police detectives and a camera crew that took place a couple of days ago. As weve seen too often lately, police are quick on the scene once a drone is around and in this case they were making sure the team wasnt [...]

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If you’ve been infringed (and frankly, who wasn’t) there is a big difference on what you can do to the offending party, depending on your registration status. (Well, in the US, at least). If your photo has been registered with the US copyright office you can claimstatutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work [...]

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Sometimes real stories go beyond anything we can imagine. And this one fromDamn Interestingpodcast certainly exceeds any fictionous photography tale one can conceive. It involves espionage, camera coffins, secret film formulas and faxing a photo of the moon. During the cold war the US initiated a Project Genetrix a secret project executedtogather intel from the [...]

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