Photography News

Photographer David Mackay converted a Polaroid camera to shoot large format 4x5 images. And the results are beautiful.

Well now, it seems my little guide to common photographic expressions hit a chord with a few people. It's great that people appreciated it and I received some awesome comments. So I decided to put my thinking cap back on...

  This past weekend the ultra popular Facebook page Humans of New York posted a portrait and story about a young lady named Beyoncé. The post went viral, amassing nearly 300,000 likes, 45,000 comments and over 20,00 sh...

Lensbaby has introduced the Velvet 56, a portrait lens with an f/1.6 aperture and 1:2 magnification, as well as a minimum focus distance of 5 inches. Lensbaby claims the lens produces 'soft, glowing' effects at brigh...

  Zim zimma! Who got the keys to my bimmer? Who am I? The girls dem sugar. How can I…   Original vine by Brisk God    

  “Email in Real Life” is the funny sequel to last year’s popular parody, Real Life Conference Call.    

There are only a couple of Canon 5DS cameras floating around in the US for reviewers to play around with prior to the DSLR arriving on store shelves in June. Portrait photographer Peter Hurley managed to get his hands on...

One of the most important parts of a tripod is the head that connects the camera to the legs. Continuing where our previous ball head roundup left off, we've collected six ball-type heads for review that are in the med...

Color management company Datacolor has just announced Spyder5, a new line of devices for making sure the color seen on your monitors is accurate to ensure that your photos look the same across screens and match your prin...

“Underwater Babies” is a new photo series by photographer Seth Casteel. It’s a collection of adorable portraits showing babies exploring the underwater world of a swimming pool. The collection of more than 70 photo...

Tired of waiting hours for your camera battery to recharge? A newly developed aluminum battery could one day replace lithium-ion batteries and allow you to charge from empty to full in a matter of minutes. A research gro...

Underwater photographer John Ng was diving off the coast of the Maldives last month when he noticed something stuck among the rocks and coral reef at the bottom of the ocean. After a recovery and investigation, it turned...

Here’s a colorized 1912 photograph of freelance photographers Bill and Joseph James riding a motorcycle in Toronto. Their father was William James, who’s often referred to as Canada’s first photojournalist. The Jam...

  At the end of every quarter the Sifter highlights the top 25 “Pictures of the Day“, culminating in an epic Top 100 at the end of the year (check out the Top 100 POTDs for 2014!). It’s hard to believe we’re alr...

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Lensbaby has just added a new lens to its lens lineup. The Velvet 56 is a 56mm f/1.6 lens that can be used for super soft portrait shots or for macro images that highlight the details of little things. The lens is a manu...

The short film above is a dazzling “macro symphony” showing some of the colorful and complicated ocean creatures found off the coast of Indonesia. It was created by dive photographer Kay Burn Lim, who recently paid a...

Photographer Victoria Will shot Tintype Portraits at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Photographer Pascal Kulcsár has built a motorised slide scanner using commercially available LEGO pieces.

You know that selfies are legit now because Nikon made a Selfie Stick.

The Lensbaby Velvet 56 is designed to render your images looking like they were shot with vintage lenses.

Color Confidence have announced Anthony Bower, from Stockport as the winner of their exclusive Photography Show prize draw.