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A video I made during my visit. Please watch to the end and enjoy. shot using DJI Mavic 2 Pro and Canon 5D Mark IV. Music by DeKibo, licensed through Premiumbeat. comI'd like to thank my good friend Daniel Haussmann for his invaluable help with making this video. dpreview.com »
The crew of Apollo 11: from left to right, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin. Michael Collins, an Apollo 11 astronaut for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), passed away this past Wednesday at age 90 after a battle with cancer. dpreview.com »
I could not ask these questions in good conscience without sharing how I started as a photographer. I remember the first time that I picked up a camera. I was ten years old, and I was standing in the driveway of my childhood home. thephoblographer.com »
As part of its celebration of 50 years of photography auctions, Sotheby's recently sold a set of very early photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877). Despite a pre-auction estimate of $300,000-500,000, the final sale price was a staggering $1,956,000, setting a new auction record for Talbot. dpreview.com »
Step back in time to the last moment you physically felt your heart beating from excitement. That's the feeling the Nikon Df is bound to give you. We're a website that champions the future, but we also adore the past. thephoblographer.com »
After the release of the Sony 12-24mm f/2.8 G Master lens, I thought that that was it: Sony finally released my dream lens. But on a call with Sony a few weeks ago I was told that “something was coming, and it had my name on it.” That could only mean one thing: the one […] petapixel.com »
Charles 'Chuck' Geschke, who co-founded Adobe, a graphics and software publishing company, with John Warnock in 1982, died this past Friday at age 81 of cancer. Notably he was instrumental in developing the Portable Document Format technology, better known as PDFs. dpreview.com »
Photo via Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. A photo may very well have saved a missing hiker's life this week. 46-year-old hiker Rene Compean was reported missing near Mount Waterman in southern California on Monday evening. dpreview.com »
The COVID-19 pandemic changed a lot about the national sports scene, and the 2021 NCAA Tournament — AKA March Madness — was no exception. According to the NCAA basketball’s official photographer Jamie Schwaberow, the experience was filled with firsts both on and off the court. petapixel.com »
A video showcasing the incredible optical quality of the Leica APO-Telyt-R 400mm f/2. 8 lens recently surfaced, and the quality that this lens exhibits (which today retails used for $15,000 used) in 4K video is mind-blowing… especially considering the footage was shot from Earth. petapixel.com »
Genesis + Ronald, Before Prom, Westchester Ave (May 2019) David 'Dee' Delgado has spent his entire life exploring New York City. Born and raised in the Bronx, in his younger years he traveled the city as a graffiti artist before transitioning into photography. dpreview.com »
It's taken a decade, but Fujifilm will have been dedicated to the X mount for this long. That's longer than Samsung was dedicated to the NX mount. It's also longer than Sony has had full-frame mirrorless cameras on the market. thephoblographer.com »
2021 Bird Photographer of the Year finalists Recently, finalists were announced for the 6th annual Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY) competition. Over 22,000 images were submitted from 73 countries. dpreview.com »
Polaroid founder Edwin Land was a visionary tech titan of his time, and as is common with pioneering entrepreneurs, Land had unusual foresight into where technology was headed. Here’s a neat video from 1970 in which Land accurately predicts the coming age of smartphone cameras in everyone’s pocket. The film was shot for Polaroid’s shareholder […] petapixel.com »
The personal data of over half a billion Facebook users was posted online over the weekend. It appears to have been collected in 2019 through a vulnerability Facebook patched that year, but security professionals believe it could still be useful to cybercriminals. petapixel.com »
If there is anything that Olympus did, which I always found odd, it was the Olympus OMD EM5 III. As a guy who bought the original and adored it, it felt like a slap in the face to customers. We even thought so amongst ourselves as staff. thephoblographer.com »
"The camera feels like an extension of my imagination and a natural part of who I am today," explains Clint Kaster. It took Kaster a long time to get to that feeling. Somewhat of an outcast as a child, he was never sure where he fit in. thephoblographer.com »
On Monday, March 15, 2021, a record-breaking sandstorm descended on northern China, engulfing cities including the Chinese capital, Beijing. In recent decades, northern China has suffered from sandstorms as a result of increasing desertification in the north of the country which is largely dry, arid, and covered with deserts. “Why is the sky orange?” I […] petapixel.com »
When I studied to become a photographer so very long ago, it was all film, and the color film was way too expensive for me to use often, so most of what I did was with black and white. Now, in my 70s, I have lots of time to take shots of my lovely little family of rescue cats and making the shots black and white somehow takes me back to when I was a young man. boredpanda.com »
The winter sky was dark and vengeful. The frigid wind was skin-seeping cold and it lashed us without mercy. Although, it carried a fragrance with it. It was spirit refreshing to smell the mulchy mix of the forest’s perfume. petapixel.com »
Winners of the 2020 World Nature Photography Awards The World Nature Photography Awards (WNPAs) recently announced the winners and runners up for their 2020 competition. Thomas Vijayan, from Canada, was awarded a $1,000 cash prize for his photo of an endangered Bornean orangutan using a tree to cross over to another island. dpreview.com »
A father was caught on camera carrying his 2-year-old daughter into an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo to take a picture with the animals. After getting charged by an elephant, he was then arrested and charged by police. petapixel.com »
If we take a moment to consider some of Canon's best lenses, lots of films will cite the Canon 135mm f2 L. No matter how far behind it was on resolving their sensors, that lens was magic. It was very difficult to take a bad photo with that lens. thephoblographer.com »
All footage shot using the Sony a1 with Sony 16-35mm F2. 8 GM and Sony 50mm F1. 2 GM lenses. Most shooting conducted using a DJI Ronin-S gimbal. The Sony a1 is the second 8K-capable camera to come into our studio, so we took advantage of some rare spring sunshine to put together a sample reel. dpreview.com »
An early engineering model of the autofocus-capable Praktica BY60. Photo: Praktica Collector During much of the Cold War, Praktica-brand cameras – manufactured in the East German city of Dresden by camera conglomerate Pentacon – were ubiquitous among Soviet photography enthusiasts and budget-conscious western hobbyists. dpreview.com »
Tracking shots are difficult to pull off. Single takes, such as the nightclub entrance from the movie 'Goodfellas,' are legendary for a reason. Add in the skill set needed to maneuver an FPV drone through tight spaces, and it's that much easier to appreciate Jay Byrd Christensen's 'Right Up Our Alley' video. dpreview.com »
All images courtesy of Donna Ferrato. Donna Ferrato has spent her career documenting women and sees it as her duty to 'cut out the noise and listen'. She’s photographed everyone from survivors of domestic abuse to swingers – and throughout the course of her career she’s learned that all women are part of what she describes as a holy trinity: the mother, the daughter and the other. dpreview.com »
In early spring 1839, Paris was abuzz with excitement in connection with a recently published letter, in which the invention of photography was confirmed by reliable sources. The world was now waiting for the French government to work out a deal with its inventor Louis J. petapixel.com »
A San Francisco reporter for a local news station was conducting an interview about theft problems in the Twin Peaks neighborhood when he was accosted at gunpoint and robbed of his camera. Don Ford, a reporter for KPIX 5 News, was working on a story about robberies in the neighborhood that have been on the […] petapixel.com »
Recently, my wife shared a link with me; it was photography-related, so she thought it might interest me. Sure enough, I clicked—and was gobsmacked. This site certainly had everything to do with photography, but not at all in the way I had expected. thephoblographer.com »
I was born to a Jewish family from Leningrad in 1981. My grandpa on my mother’s side, Arkady [all names changed], died two years before I was born. He was an avid photographer, and a great many pictures you’ll find in this article were taken by him. boredpanda.com »
Doom-and-gloom stories of the state of the camera market have been pretty common over the past year due to COVID-19. But what if the data used to determine the health of the industry was flawed? Before we can get into why this might be the case, we have to first look at the information that […] petapixel.com »
Photographer Andrew McCarthy was shooting the Sun recently when an airliner unexpectedly flew right into his shot. The result was this picture-perfect image of “A Civilian Transit.” McCarthy was shooting in the afternoon from Northern California on January 17th when this happy little accident occurred. “When you take pictures as often as I do, the […] petapixel.com »
Photographer Roberto Serrini received an antique camera as a gift from his father: a Rochester Premo B. Curious to see what it was like shooting with this camera as if it was 1893, Serrini decided to give see what that process was like. petapixel.com »
German artist Roman De Giuli created this beautiful short film titled “SATELLIKE. ” His goal was to recreate the look of satellite views of Earth’s water flows using ink and paint on paper. petapixel.com »
Freelance photographer Andy Aitchison was recently arrested in the United Kingdom for performing the duties of his job: documenting an event. Aitchison was tasked with photographing a protest, and after he concluded his business and uploaded his images, he was arrested at his home. petapixel.com »
Last week, I published a slideshow highlighting winners and runners-up of the Monochrome Photography Awards. I was under the impression it was legitimate since my friend, and world-renowned photographer, Petra Leary, was a judge for the competition. dpreview.com »
On the same day that Sony announced the powerhouse Alpha 1, it also revealed its latest Xperia phone. While it is technically a smartphone, it functionally is something else entirely. It’s easy to look at the Sony Xperia Pro and wonder what Sony is even thinking. To understand what has led them to this point, […] petapixel.com »
Years ago, I had a roommate that asked me to shoot portraits for him. Typically, this is just fine. He's a friend. He's not a bad guy. It's fine. "Hey Chris, I need a new photo right now," he said. thephoblographer.com »
Roger and Aaron are back at it again for Lensrentals, this time with a teardown of a Canon RF 100–500mm F4. 7–7. 1 lens with a little secret inside. As Roger tells it, Lensrentals has come across ‘several’ copies of Canon’s RF 100–500mm F4. dpreview.com »
Winners and finalists for the 2020 Monochrome Photography Awards Winners, runners-up and honorable mentions were recently announced for the 7th annual Monochrome Photography Awards – an international Black & White photography competition. dpreview.com »
My name is Ishay "Jesse" Lindenberg. I was born in Israel. My father is a psychologist, and my mom is a consultant. When I was a child, my dad had an old Zorki camera and a darkroom. My sister Yaara (r. thephoblographer.com »
I could call myself 50/50 when it comes to luck. Why? I was unlucky because when I moved to Istanbul, Turkey to make videos of all of the beautiful landmarks and cultural events, Covid-19 happened and it was either lockdown or unsafe & risky to go out. boredpanda.com »
After rioters stormed the US Capitol last week, one of the surreal photos that emerged showed a smiling man walking off with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern in the Rotunda. Then things got even more bizarre: people began calling for “Via Getty” to be arrested for his actions. Getty Images chief photographer Win McNamee was […] petapixel.com »
I'm not sure how many of you remember the older Fujifilm X30 camera, but in my eyes, it was the last good compact camera with a zoom lens. Sony for sure has the Sony RX10 series of cameras which are great--but they're pretty big. thephoblographer.com »
Isaac Wright, a 25-year-old U. S. Army veteran, is accused of operating the Instagram account DrifterShoots and was arrested for multiple charges including burglary and trespassing associated with breaking into the buildings and landmarks where he captured his dramatic images. petapixel.com »
After testing the RF mount 50mm f/1. 8, Photographer Alex Barrera didn’t think it had the “pop” that other Canon RF lenses had shown. To see if it was just in his head, he decided to pit it directly against that lens’s predecessor: the EF 50mm f/1. petapixel.com »
"I actually like cried. Tears of joy just started coming down my face... just someone of Oprah’s stature noticed my work." The post Oprah Hires A Photographer That Was Struggling After Seeing His Works On Twitter first appeared on Bored Panda. boredpanda.com »
A drone pilot from Philidelphia, Pennsylvania, was slapped with a $182,000 fine from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The individual, whose identity remains anonymous, incurred this massive fee after conducting at least 26 separate flights that violated Federal Aviation Regulations between December 2019 and August 2020. dpreview.com »
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 »
