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I think it’s safe to say that the cat is out of the bag, the secret’s been blown… there’s a DC-3 plane wreck in Iceland. It’s become almost a right of passage, a pilgrimage of sorts to visit this location; even...

Akinori Goto's unique zoetrope won the Runner-up Grand Prix and the Audience Award at this year's Spiral Independent Creators Festival

For a budding photographer, or even an experienced one, a common question is how much to charge for your products; like prints, canvas, albums etc. This is not information that can be easily researched and a ton of the i...

Toronto photojournalist Victor Biro has taken it upon himself to do an upleasant job that he believes must be done. He spends all night listening to a police scanner and covering tragic crime scenes and gut wrenching acc...

In Banovina, Croatia, on top of Čukur hill, there sits a giant camera lens sculpture. Featuring shattered glass around a single bullet hole, the lens is a memorial dedicated to Croatian photographer Gordan Lederer. Lede...

The enlarger lenses used by film photographers to create prints from developed negatives are not meant to be used on a camera. Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t use one… or that you shouldn’t try. Photograph...

Google has updated both Google Earth and Google Maps with higher-quality satellite imagery using images mostly taken by NASA and the USGS's Landsat 8. According to the company, the refreshed imagery provides truer color...

It seems Canon has got a real winner on their hands with the impressive (and expensive) Canon 1D X Mark II. In fact, it’s now the highest rated Canon sensor DxOMark has ever tested! Move over 5DS… The sensor testing ...

A rare Nikon 1200mm f/11 lens recently appeared on eBay. The earliest Nikon non-refractive long lenses were the Nikkor-Q 400mm f/4.5, Nikkor-P 600mm f/5.6, Nikkor-P 800mm f/8, and Nikkor-P 1200mm f/11. All of them were o...

As we like to do from time to time, today on Cheap Photo we are highlighting the storage media that all of us photographers need. These deals are always great to be up to date on, as in many cases they can save you some ...

When spring rolls around in Japan, cherry blossoms (known as “sakura”) cause an explosion of bright pink colors in the natural landscapes. Photographer Danilo Dungo took his camera to various parks and captured gorge...

Whoa… We’ve all seen the so-called “Droste effect” in action--an image that contains itself, so it becomes a photo, in a photo, in a photo, etc. But now you get to look out from inside one! Turns out, it’s just...

A future version of Photoshop may include some pretty powerful automatic selection tools if the technology in this new paper by researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Adobe Research pans out. To be fair, ...

Apple has been awarded a US patent for a system that could disable iPhone cameras with infrared signals, allowing photography to be remotely banned in locations such as concerts and sensitive sites. The concept first cau...

The contrast between the dark blue and red regions may surprise you

For his project “Shots Fired,” photographer Mark Teiwes created images of gunshots. Instead of shooting the images with a camera, however, he shot the photo-sensitive paper with bullets. “Using a camera-less proces...

For photographer Nick Carver, photography is not about likes or comments or followers on your social network of choice; photography is about taking photos you love, printing them, and getting them up on your (or someone ...

I recently bought a stack of foreign Vogue magazines for inspiration, and inside of Vogue Italia I saw an amazing photo of Alessandra Ambrosio on a beach at night. I tucked it away in a manila envelope labeled “Possibl...

One day it will be the most intimidating sound in the jungle. That day is not today

Photographer 2wenty is a long exposure specialist. He's the artist behind The Man Made of Light, and he likes to take time to experiment and embrace the many possibilities that long exposures allow. For example, while we...

The golden ratio (or golden mean, or golden section, or divine proportion, or whatever you want to call it) is the subject of heated debate among photographers. But if you love using the golden ratio when you shoot, you ...

The Alpha SLT-A68 is Sony's entry-level Translucent Mirror camera and the follow-up to the a58. Despite its position in the entry-level class, it borrows many components from its big brother, the Sony SLT- A77 II. This i...