The day after photography was invented in 1839, somebody pointed out that the photographs were just shades of gray – there was no color. The photography inventors knew this was a problem and probably hoped that no one would notice.
Paintings were in vivid color and if photography was ever to compete with painting, there needed to be some color in them.
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I'm delighted that the world of black and white photography is a more accepted place than it was nearly a decade ago. We've come a long way from the days where it was looked at as just a crutch. Instead, it's a movement. thephoblographer.com »
2020-12-23 14:00
Winner, ZEISS Photography Award, Seeing Beyond – Discoveries, 2020 KyeongJun Yang, Korea A previously unpublished 27-year-old journalism student from Korea has picked up €12,000 to spend on Zeiss lenses on top of a €3,000 grant towards a photographic project after winning the annual Zeiss Photography Award. dpreview.com »
2020-04-02 21:53
Editor's note: Some of the photographs in the winning selections are graphic in nature. We have taken the liberty to censor a few of the more graphic images and provide uncensored links in the gallery description, but even some of the uncensored images are tough to look at. dpreview.com »
2019-04-16 22:04
Here's one of those stories and moments that I've said all too many times when it comes to film and film photography; over and over again I was told that Fujifilm Velvia 100 isn't worth the money or the hassle. thephoblographer.com »
2018-07-18 13:00
I must admit that along with the tripod there was also a "better" camera. I am an old surfer, so the drone enables me to view the coastline in a completely different way, to the way that I did when growing up. boredpanda.com »
2018-01-20 03:51
When I started working professionally in photography, I couldn't help but shake the feeling that it felt like a man’s world. Whether that feeling was justified or not - it's easy for young women breaking into the photographic world to get bogged down in the perception that it's a male industry. digitalrev.com »
2018-01-08 03:00
Among the many things reported on in March of 2017 was this probably-not-delicious, plump-breasted pigeon. With a camera. The pigeon is probably not named Speckled Jim. We're looking back on the photographic world in 2017, and we kicked off March with a look at the CP+ trade show that had taken place the previous month in Yokohama, Japan. dpreview.com »
2017-12-22 17:00
This month Getty Images, one of the largest picture agencies in the world, announced that it was tightening up its rules and would be banning images that have been Photoshopped to make models look substantially thinner or larger. digitalrev.com »
2017-10-10 03:00
The Holuhraun eruption in Iceland, taken from a helicopter. This remains one of my most rewarding photographic experiences. So far in this series I have talked about the advantages of aerial photography and about shooting from a helicopter as opposed to shooting from a light plane. dpreview.com »
2017-06-17 13:00
I got my first camera long before I knew what to do with it. It was nearly 20 years ago, and I used it to document mostly class trips and sports days in school. My first serious foray into the photography world was in freshman year of college. thephoblographer.com »
2017-06-16 13:00
Lino Manfrotto, the eponymous founder of Manfrotto, one of photography’s most popular camera and lighting support brands, died on Sunday at the age of 80. Passing away due to natural causes, Manfrotto was in the presence of several loved ones at his villa in Bassano, Italy. digitalrev.com »
2017-02-07 03:00
$(document). ready(function() { SampleGalleryV2({"containerId":"embeddedSampleGallery_7608234858","galleryId":"7608234858","isEmbeddedWidget":true,"standalone":false,"selectedImageIndex":0,"startInCommentsView":false,"isMobile":false}) }); Lisa Bettany is a renowned landscape photographer whose career began as she was recovering from a traumatic injury. dpreview.com »
2017-01-26 14:00
When James Buchanan was sworn into office on March 4, 1857, John Wood made history by making the first known photograph of a US Presidential inauguration. Wood was hired by Montgomery C. dpreview.com »
2017-01-20 11:01
If the trends in medium format photography have been any indication at all, then the idea of getting a truly large 645 medium format sensor is something to truly aspire to and that most professional photographers may never accomplish. thephoblographer.com »
2016-09-21 07:02
Photographer Steve Birnbaum has been recreating music history by photographing images of musicians and bands in the exact location where they were originally photographed.
Every place in the world has a history. To understand it in the present you need some knowledge of its past. The history of the earth can be read from its rocks; the history of life, from the evolutionary histories and relationships of its species. [Read More]
It was, for most of them, the first happy time in their lives, and for some, the last and only. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as part of his New Deal, penned the Civilian Conservation Corps into existence.
To mark 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, we revisited the precise locations of 14 memorable photos taken when half of the city lay behind the Iron Curtain. The Reichstag in 1962, as seen from behind a ragged barbed-wire fence that would become the Berlin Wall. Before the barrier’s construction in 1961, […]
Dutch artist Ard Gelinck has been working on an ongoing “then and now” project in which he uses Photoshop to create portraits of famous people posing with their younger selves. Richard Gere Tina Turner Justin Timberlake Michael Jackson Lady Gaga Ellen DeDeneres Elton John Harrison Ford Paul McCartney Sylvester Stallone Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Clint […]
Want to see how the city of San Francisco has transformed over the past century? Here’s a neat set of then-and-now photos showing old shots of The City by the Bay next to modern pictures shot in the same locations.