Photography News

While on a dive, Hawaii-based underwater photographer Timothy Ewing set up a camera and captured this fun little video of himself playing hide-and-seek with an octopus he was trying to photograph. “Octopus are one of t...

Some lenses have tabs on their focus rings that allow photographers to precisely control focus with a push or pull of their finger. For those that don’t, TAAB is here to help. It’s a universal tab that can be used on...

This is a short article that’s a reminder that every interaction you have is part of a relationship with someone — potentially a client. Recently I was looking for a food photographer for a web client. I wanted a loc...

  When Vadim Makhorov and Vitaliy Raskalov scaled the Shanghai Tower last year (see here and here) the Internet went nuts (the video alone has been viewed over 41 million times). The notoriety inspired them to attempt a...

Here’s a brilliant 45-second commercial that shows what expectation versus reality is like when buying a fancy new camera. People often have lofty ideas of what their photography will be like, but most of the time real...

Flickr is basking in a fresh wave of press after launching a revamp of its website and mobile apps, but the leader that oversaw Flickr 4.0 won’t be around to see whether it pans out. Bernardo Hernandez, chief of the ph...

I'm what I'd call a professional hobbyist when it comes to photography. I try to make it my life, but my passion sometimes overrides my business sense for it. I've usually done photography in phases. There was my fisheye...

Want to catch up on the best of our news for the entire week? Well here’s your weekly Phoblographer round up. This week, readers were all about inspiration, tutorials and apparently some of you don’t like the 50mm fo...

Photographers usually use an 85mm Lens for portraits or landscapes. Getting your first 85mm lens? Here are some tips on using them.

The Grocery Store Project is an unusual and ambitious effort by Danish photographer Simon Hoegsberg. After spending 159 afternoons over 20 months shooting 97,000 photos of strangers near a supermarket in Copenhagen, Hoeg...