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Written and directed by Dave Mullins, 'Lou' was nominated for 'Best Animated Short' at the 90th Academy Awards

Over 1,700 students both past and present perform a Haka for Mr Dawson Tahana Tamatea, 55, a beloved teacher at Palmerston North Boys' High School in the North Island.

Landscape photographer Nigel Danson made this helpful 20-minute video in which he shares 7 simple composition tips that you can use to instantly improve your landscape photos. “Composition is often the area of photogra...

The abstract treatment is an obvious and common approach to architectural photography, given the interesting shapes, lines, and patterns that they create. In one of his recent sets, Los Angeles-based Taylor Luo combines ...

Electronic waste, or e-waste, is the endless low of discarded electronic devices that are thrown out on a daily basis around the world. To raise awareness of this ever-growing problem, photographer Benjamin Von Wong got ...

Last year, I had the privilege of photographing Heather and Brett Pocorobba for their engagement and wedding. I am not a traditional wedding photographer, but they wanted a real street vibe to their collection, so it was...

I recently got bored and decided to expand a super-budget project I’m working on. I love gridded beauty dishes for dramatic artsy stuff, beauty, and as a generally very versatile modifier. However, even a cheap one is ...

This week, TIME magazine published James Nachtwey's photo essay on the opioid crisis. Over his decades-long career, Nachtwey has carved out a reputation as a stoic and relentless documentarian of conflict and pain. His l...

Elinchrom has just announced the new ELB 500 TTL, the most powerful and portable TTL light ever made. It’s a light for “adventurous portrait photographers shooting both in studio and on location.” The pack’s batt...

One of the most useful tools on your Lightroom arsenal is the gradient filter. As one of Lightroom's powerful local editing tools, it lets you make changes only to a specific part of your frame. If that sounds something ...

In Lighting 101, 102 and 103, we learned to control our flashes. In the Strobist Lighting Cookbook, we're expanding that approach to learn to move in a fluid way between flash and continuous light.

When new, high-end memory card manufacturer ProGrade Digital made its debut last month, one of the most common questions we saw in the comments was "will you make XQD cards?" The answer seemed to be "no," but it was base...

As the mirrorless camera war continues to heat up, Canon is finally turning more of its attention toward the emerging segment and away from its bread-and-butter DSLR business. Nikkei Asian Review reports that the Japanes...

Photographers know very well how shapes, lines, and patterns make interesting imagery; so do unique angles, perspectives, and vantage points. Cape Town-based fine art photographer Dillon Marsh takes it up a notch with hi...

We've been shooting with Sigma's new 14-24mm F2.8 Art, both close to home and in Yokohama, Japan. Its dust- and splash-proof design, 'Art' series pedigree and attractive $1300 price tag have made it one of the most hotly...

Now before I go on, there's pretty good reasons why the Elinchrom ELB 500 TTL will be great for wedding photographers and it really has to do with more or less enhancing ambient light and creating the light that isn't th...

The Elinchrom ELB 500 TTL is an incredibly portable and powerful battery pack combining 500Ws of power with a feature set including TTL, HSS, Active Charging and Full Asymmetry with built-in Skyport. This new ELB is desi...

"Oh dear." is what I literally said to myself while sick in bed at the W Hotel when Sony announced the Sony a7 III. My expression came from watching Sally Watson's Live Stream was more of a commentary on the fact that So...

"I built the curved plane paper negative camera as I liked the idea of creating images in a cinematic style." is what John Potter tells us about his camera after a conversation about curved film planes. "Because I was us...