Photography News

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“The Sound of Silence” is a series by Chilean street photographer Eduardo Asenjo Matus, who uses long exposures to show people in flow of the city. Matus started out studying architecture and graphic design, but his ...

Philip Frenzel of Aalen University was awarded first prize in a national design contest in Germany for his 'Mobile Airbag'

This is the story and all the messy details of how I lost my photography business’ 8-year-old website at Bludomain, a hosting service “for the creative professional.” Last week was busy! Along with a regular schedu...

Right now is the best time ever to be a photographer, so why all the long faces? Professional level cameras are selling for less than what we paid for one in 1980. Lower priced lenses are so much better than they used to...

The SD Association has released the name and official specifications for SD Express, the latest Secure Digital (SD) memory card format, as part of its SD 7.0 specification. Created as a successor to UHS-III cards, SD Exp...

Shooting good nudes is a lot harder than the uneducated individual may think; posing and lighting are key, as is the direction that you give to your model or client in order to produce the sort of results that you are af...

Want to learn how to create a “flying food” photo without actually making food travel through the air? Food photographer Skyler Burt of We Eat Together made this 5.5-minute tutorial on one way to freeze time and spac...

Iceland is booming. More than 2 million tourists visit Iceland every year. This comes as no surprise. As I am regularly guiding tours in Iceland, I have visited the country quite a few times over the years and the beauty...

Whatever kind of photography genre or creative venture you're doing, you're certainly doing art, and award-winning Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani has one important advice to further your craft: "All art has to pro...

Many of today's photographers are starting to do hybrid photography -- that is, shooting with both digital and film cameras. The former is for work, the latter for personal projects. With this setup, photographers often ...

Canon has their L series, Sony has their G Master series, and Pentax has their Star Series. That is, at least, what Pentax is going for with their latest lens lineup for their full frame K-1 and K-1 Mark II cameras. The ...

First announced last October, Ricoh is ready to ship the HD Pentax-D FA* 50mm F1.4 SDM AW, a weather-sealed fast prime for the company's full-frame DSLRs. The lens has 15 elements in 9 groups: one anomalous dispersion an...