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Photographer Darren Georgia was struck with what is being called the 'worst first pitch ever' during the Royals and White Sox game that took place on May 28. Georgia was positioned near the mound to capture the ceremonial pitch, but the toss didn't go as anticipated -- instead of traveling to the catcher, the ball ended up bouncing off the photographer's lens hood. dpreview.com »
We all came to love the famous Game of Thrones series because of its many plot twists, unexpected events, and amazing characters, but have you ever noticed what's going on in the background of all this action? No, not CGI landscapes and well-crafted soundstages, but rather very real and amazingly beautiful views of nature and ancient cities. boredpanda.com »
The otherworldly nighttime landscapes of Reuben Wu Reuben Wu's ethereal, meticulously framed location work – largely surrealist reinterpretations of natural scenes taken at night – is absolutely unparalleled in nature photography. dpreview.com »
A few weeks ago I returned from a fantastic trip to South East Asia. After 13 years without setting foot there (a bit of a frightening number – the last time was before I ever held a DSLR!), I was getting a serious itch that had to be scratched. dpreview.com »
Sacramento, California-based amateur astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy is a master of shooting amazing space photos from his own backyard, and he’s back again with this beautiful high-res photo of the moon created by combining 250,000 individual shots. petapixel.com »
Reviewing the Tokina 16-28mm f2. 8 OPERA lens was a bit of an odd thing for me as it goes against much of what I really want in a modern lens these days. While the focal lengths are limited in their range, the price point is kept down well over $1,000. thephoblographer.com »
Reviewing the Tokina 16-28mm f2. 8 OPERA lens was a bit of an odd thing for me as it goes against much of what I really want in a modern lens these days. While the focal lengths are limited in their range, the price point is kept down well over $1,000. thephoblographer.com »
When Canon releases a new firmware version, there is the usual list of fixes and feature enhancements, but there are also fixes that aren’t for Read more... canonrumors.com »
A team of five French amateur astrophotographers has captured a gorgeous 204-megapixel, 1,060-hour photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Lowell Observatory reports that the team, which goes by the name “Ciel Austral” (which translates to “Southern Sky”), captured thousands of photos between July 2017 and February 2019 and stitched them together to create this […] petapixel.com »
The US Court of Appeal has reversed a controversial decision that allowed a company promoting a film festival to use a copyrighted photograph on its website without having to pay the photographer that took it. dpreview.com »
Adolf Hitler speaking at an undated rally. Over a thousand glass plates showing Hitler’s rise to power and the Nazi leader throughout World War ll have been digitized by the US National Archive. dpreview.com »
Nikon Europe just published this 15-second video that provides a preview of the Eye-Detection AF functionality that’s coming to the Z6 and Z7 mirrorless cameras. This was the 14-second teaser that was shared when the firmware update was originally announced back in January 2019: Nikon says the new firmware update will be released on May […] petapixel.com »
Colonel Terry Virts (ret. ) is a U. S. Air Force pilot and NASA veteran of two spaceflights – a two-week mission onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 2010 and a 200-day flight to the Space Station in 2014-2015. dpreview.com »
Frans Lanting, pictured at DPReview's offices in Seattle. Frans Lanting is one of the most recognizable names in photography. With his wife Christine Eckstrom he's created some of the most popular and ambitious photo books of the last 30 years. dpreview.com »
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 »
Power Plant Szombierki has been an inherent component of the landscape of Bytom since it was opened on 29 November 1920. The investor and the first owner of the power plant was the German company Schaffgotsh Bergwerksgesellschaft GmbH, belonging to the Upper Silesian family Schaffgotschs. boredpanda.com »
A backlit photo of a dead fly trapped inside the inner elements of a Canon 70-200mm F2. 8 lens, photos kindly provided by Lensrentals. Thanks to ever-increasing reliance on firmware, the latest lenses can sometimes have bugs, but the bug Roger Cicala and his team at Lensrentals recently came across inside a 70-200mm F2. dpreview.com »
Despite the catastrophic mess that was the Yashica digiFilm Y35, it seems the company now at the helm of the brand have turned to its film roots instead. Everyone was hoping that it was just another (bad) April Fools' joke. thephoblographer.com »
I've been working as an IT professional for years in the bank industry. One year ago, and thinking on enjoy time with my family, has decided that I'll don't wanna stay anymore inside an office all my life. boredpanda.com »
Photo of Grand Prismatic Spring, in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, courtesy of Don Kawahigashi. Drone use is illegal in all national parks. California-based drone manufacturer, Skydio, is under investigation after promoting its proprietary 'true follow-me' feature with footage of a rollerblader gliding along a West Thumb Geyser Basin boardwalk in Yellowstone National Park. dpreview.com »
The Google Pixel 3 has been my primary camera – and media consumption device, alarm clock, etc. – for over a month now. It will be no surprise to anyone that I'm finding the camera to be really, really good, but there are a few features in particular that stand out to me as excellent. dpreview.com »
Harvard University has been sued over its licensing of daguerreotypes believed to be the first images of American slaves. The lawsuit was filed by Tamara Lanier, who says she is the direct descendant of Renty, the man featured alongside his daughter, Delia, in the daguerreotypes. dpreview.com »
When two of his good friends got engaged, photographer Mike Soulopulos flew his drone above them and got this creative proposal photo that captures the couple in a romantic shadow. “There was no scouting or planning involved with this photo,” Soulopulos tells PetaPixel. petapixel.com »
Less than a day ago, it was revealed more than 20,000 Facebook employees had access to over 600 million user passwords that were stored in plaintext on Facebook's servers. Now, it's being reported that Instagram too has suffered from a bug that inadvertently exposed users passwords in plaintext. dpreview.com »
Less than a day ago, it was revealed more than 20,000 Facebook employees had access to over 600 million user passwords that were stored in plaintext on Facebook's servers. Now, it's being reported that Instagram too has suffered from a bug that inadvertently exposed users passwords in plaintext. dpreview.com »
As you know Meyer Optik has been acquired by OPC Optics. And today they honestly disclosed this: We became aware that internally the Somnium was actually a modified Russian lens and the Nocturnus was a modified Chinese lens. sonyalpharumors.com »
Back in the 1990s, digital photography was really still just getting its foothold and engineers were trying to figure out a whole number of problems and issues. It was done in a similar way to how the Metabones SpeedBooster gave cameras the ability to use lenses for larger format sensors while both providing more light and field of view. thephoblographer.com »
The prestigious Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA) has announced its 2019 winners, and Malaysian photographer Edwin Ong Wee Kee won the $120,000 Grand Prize with a photo shot in Vietnam showing a mother carrying two children. petapixel.com »
It's been a while since we last touched base with Brock Saddler, the Australia-based photographer who showed us how to hack the Bronica ETRS to shoot Fujifilm Instax Mini Film. While he hasn't been successful yet in creating a seamless version of this project, he was actually busy with something else: his own film developing lab. thephoblographer.com »
Dive tour operator Rainer Schimpf was documenting a sardine run in February off the coast of South Africa when something unexpected and terrified happened: Schimpf was sucked into the mouth of a whale and then spat out, and the whole thing was caught on camera. petapixel.com »
The Pentax K1 Mk II was launched in March of 2018 with little fanfare. Its predecessor the K1 launched in 2016 and made much more of an impact due to the fact that it was Pentax's first Full Frame DSLR. thephoblographer.com »
A compact camera reached speeds of 264 miles per hour during a test to demonstrate the dangers presented by normal domestic objects flying around during tornado. And no, it didn’t survive. The test was carried out by storm-footage stock library owner Martin Lisius with the help of a pneumatic cannon housed at the National Wind Institute’s Debris Impact Facility in Texas Tech University. dpreview.com »
My biggest hope for years now were that Sony would take the form factor of their a6xxx series cameras and make it full frame with a few extra upgrades; but we never got it. Then I was looking to both Canon and Nikon to do it. thephoblographer.com »
Gideon Lichfield, editor-in-Chief of MIT Technology Review, recounted a hilarious story of mistaken identity on Twitter this week. According to Lichfield, the publication received an angry email from a man who accused the site of using his portrait without permission to illustrate an article about hipsters who all look the same. dpreview.com »
After years of launching lenses through much-hyped Kickstarter campaigns, Meyer Optik Gorlitz died in 2018 but was brought back to life after its parent company, net SE, was acquired by the German company OPC Optics. petapixel.com »
When Nikon first introduced the Z mount last year, one of the lenses that launched alongside the Z6 and Z7 was the Nikkor Z 24-70mm f4 S zoom lens. While it was compact and weather sealed, a maximum constant aperture of f4 just doesn't let in enough light, which is where the brand new Nikkor Z 24-70mm f2. thephoblographer.com »
Yes, we hear you. We have yet another film vs. digital post, but that doesn't mean we can't have a little fun with it. When commercial lifestyle photographer Steve Johnston shared this video with us, we found that he's actually encouraging viewers to play a little game with him: which was was shot in film and which was shot with a mirrorless camera? Let's find out. thephoblographer.com »
"We didn’t storyboard the images but we did have a clear idea of how they should look. " says photographer Aaron Graubar about his photos inspired by the traditional Japanese fish printing technique called Gyotaku. thephoblographer.com »
A casual photo session in Iceland resulted in a grandmother being swept out to sea while on her 'Ice Throne,' according to a recent news report. The incident, which resulted in a safe rescue and amusing image, involved Judith Streng, who was on Iceland's Diamond Beach with her son when they spotted a throne-shaped piece of ice. dpreview.com »
Several years ago I wrote an article that gave advice about managing confrontation in street photography. I spent time putting together an action plan, including ways in which you can avoid confrontation altogether. thephoblographer.com »
If you've ever used many higher end medium format film cameras, one of the things that you always have to remember to do is advance the film unless you want a double exposure. Even then, sometimes it happens on accident. thephoblographer.com »
I've long had a dream to be a wildlife and nature photographer skipping around on Antarctic icebergs and snapping exotic species hidden deep in forests. However, when I became a mum I had to face up the fact that I not only didn't have the luxury of traveling to those places, but I often only had an hour or two at difficult times of the day to shoot like in the midday sun. boredpanda.com »
If you were to sit there and compile a list of cult cameras, the majority of them would be analog--but in the digital world one can consider the predecessors to the Ricoh GR III to be cult classics. Along with the Fujifilm X100 series of cameras, the Ricoh GR has been fascinating street photographers for years. thephoblographer.com »
Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner has created an eye-popping new photo showing a 1972 Lamborghini Miura SV disintegrating with its individual components exploding in all directions. Here’s what’s crazy: Oefner actually photographed the $2 million car, spending nearly 2 years shooting and stitching the parts. petapixel.com »
For those of you that are unaware, a couple of weeks ago, the U. K. online photography retailer WEX photographic, quietly announced that Bowens was coming back and to many, myself included, this was a huge surprise. petapixel.com »
The sailor who was photographed kissing a nurse in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic photo V-J Day in Times Square has died. George Mendonsa was 95. Eisenstaedt was in New York City’s Times Square on August 14th, 1945, during victory celebrations that ensued after then-President Harry S. petapixel.com »
The kissing sailor featured in the iconic 'V-J Day in Times Square' photo, George Mendonsa, has died at the age of 95, according to his daughter. Mendonsa suffered a seizure at the Rhode Island assisted living facility where he resided and passed away two days before his 96th birthday. dpreview.com »
The popular photo-sharing service 500px has announced that it was the victim of a hack back in 2018 and that personal data was exposed for all the roughly 14. 8 million accounts that existed at the time. petapixel.com »
With a pre-production S1R in hand, I took to the streets of this iconic Spanish city. ISO 100 | 1/200 sec | F4 | Lumix S 24-105mm F4 @ 66mm I stepped out onto the promenade with the early afternoon sun shining bright. dpreview.com »
Before photography went digital, infrared imaging was possible using one of several infrared films available on the market at that time. Most of them were B&W (like Kodak HIE or Rollei IR), but there was also some false color infrared film. One of the most renowned among them was Kodak’s EIR. boredpanda.com »
