Photography News

Ahead of our full review, here are 56 sample images and a movie taken with the new Nikon Coolpix P610 compact camera. The Nikon Coolpix P610 is a 16 megapixel superzoom camera featuring a massive 60x zoom lens equivalent...

Reikan has announced a major update to its AF tuning software, FoCal. FoCal automates the process of calibrating your lens to your DSLR camera body, important - if not absolutely necessary - for critical focus when using...

Back in June, I was lucky enough to partner with a Boston-based nonprofit, Shooting Touch, to travel to Rwanda and document the participants in their “Basketball Health Corps” initiative. They use the sport of basket...

Apple’s new Macbook features a redesigned pressure-sensitive trackpad called the Force Touch. In addition to being more powerful for inputs from your fingers, the new design allows for the use of a stylus on the touchp...

The University of Texas has initiated a new crowdfunding campaign that, if successful, will result in macro photos of insects being released into the public domain. The funding for the project will be used to support t...

Last year I launched a new initiative called the Streettogs Academy, a biweekly challenge for motivating and sharpening the skills of street photographers around the world. Photographers are given 2 weeks to shoot photos...

  In an ongoing series entitled “Icons”, Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger build miniature 3D replicas of historic photographs. The project began in 2012 and the duo have recreated 15 famous images to date which...

Every year at the Gulf Photo Plus photography festival in Dubai, attendees are treated to a special event called the GPP ShootOut. Called the “most exciting hour in the photography world” by David Hobby, the event pi...

As New York City prepares to digitize and publish thousands of historical crime scene photos captured by photo unit police officers, here’s a look at the subject from the photojournalist’s point of view. The 9-minute...

Akvis has announced a new software product which turns images into pointillistic paintings.

TeoreX, the company famed for its BatchInpaint, FolderIco, Inpaint, iResizer and PhotoSticher applications, has released PhotoScissors 2.0.

The photographer known as Weegee made his mark on photography by hunting for crime scenes and uncomfortable shots in New York City. We may soon be seeing some of the crime scenes he captured from an alternate perspective...

Leica Fotopark has announced a spring themed photo challenge.

A team at the University of Texas is set to create thousands of macro photographs showing the beauty and diversity of the smallest critters in the state of Texas. Every one of the photos will be released to the public do...

Shooting Instant Film in cold weather can give you unpredictable results.

  The “Weapon of Mass Instruction” drives the streets of Argentina, giving away free books to anyone that promises to read them. The modified 1979 Ford Falcon was built by Argentinian artist Raul Lemesoff in celebra...

Sony is making big restructuring moves in order to increase profitability, and one of the big changes has been closing its inefficient physical retail stores. 26 of the stores were closed in 2014, and now the latest word...

A new Apple Patent describes a cube that splits light onto three different imaging sensors.

Raspberry Pi project platform PiJuice is currently raising funds for its portable module on Kickstarter. As a demo of its capabilities, the team has created a step-by-step tutorial showing how the product can be used to ...

Photographer Andreas Ott has an impeccable sense of composition an uses geometry and high contrast black and white to get his images.

Back in 2012, The Camera Store released a lighthearted stop-motion video of mirrorless cameras attending a party. It reflected the state of the industry at the time — particularly how the Canon EOS M was late to the ga...

The Camera Store has updated their Mirrorless Party video, and this time everyone has aged a bit.