Friday's Top 50 Photography News & Stories
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Crowdsourcing can lead to some incredible creations. One such creation is an interesting little website called the Human Clock. It’s an online clock that’s created with photographs from people all over the world. The website ...
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Apple's iPhone is a great tool for both photographers and videographers, as the masses of iPhone photos and videos available on the web demonstrate quite impressively. However, for serious videography the iPhone has one...
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During its WWDC Keynote this year, Apple showcased iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Yosemite, and among the new features highlighted was their new Photos app. In a move to bring the mobile iOS and the OS X desktop operating systems closer together, ...
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MIOPS is a new smartphone-controlled camera trigger created by the minds behind the Nero Trigger. Looking to get financed through Kickstarter, the team behind it hopes to combine all of the features users want in a high-speed camera trig...
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Norah Levine has been working on an interesting photo project that illustrates a side of poverty that we don’t always see, the relationships that are formed between homeless people and their pets. The project, which she calls Lifel...
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Working with the nine filters individually or in combination gives us a process for re-creating that original perception of light. The 47-page instruction manual is comprehensive, well written, and illustrates the process for each filter...
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While Facebook has recently updated their guidelines on nudity and what it considers pornography, it looks like not everything has been cleared up. A female university rowing club has been banned from Facebook after promoting a charity c...
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Image © Rob Whitworth "In few other cities is it possible to walk from spectacular location to spectacular location," writes photographer Rob Whitworth as an introducion to his video "Barcelona GO!" on Vimeo. And few other vi...
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It's that time again, folks. The weekend is here, and with it, your weekly firmware update roundup. For this week's Firmware Friday, we have updates for four cameras and one camera accessory from Blackmagic and Niko...
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Lauren Kalman, Tongue Gilding, 2009 (Photo: Sienna Patti) Ashley Gilreath, I Am Who They Were (neckpiece), 2011 (Photo: Michael Webster) After discovering a photograph of her great-grandmother in a family locket, Ursula Ilse-Neuman, Cura...
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If intelligent life does exist on Mars, perhaps Martians wish on Earth when they wish upon the stars: This image was captured roughly an hour and a half after sunset by NASA’s Curiosity Rover as it explored Mars on January 31, 2014...
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Pluto has had a rough existence. Discovered February 18th, 1930, the largest object in the Kuiper belt has gone through a number of classifications, eventually settling on “dwarf planet” at this point in time. The interesting...
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As the saying goes, quality lenses are a lot more important than good bodies when it comes to investing in camera gear. They last longer, retain their value more, and have more utility overall than, say, buying the latest DSLR that will ...
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Four months after the tragic disappearance of a Malaysian jet in the Indian Ocean, a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 crashed in eastern Ukraine killing all 298 aboard. According to Ukrainian and US officials, the plane was shot down by a R...
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Late Thursday, a field of sunflowers in eastern Ukraine was transformed into a scene of a tragedy when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was brought down by a surface-to-air missile. Jerome Sessini was one of the first people to arrive. He w...
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They may be a staple (some might say cliche) of Tour de France photography but there is something cheering about photographs of riders and sunflowers on the Tour. This one is a particularly fine example with the converging lines of the r...
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It helps to have experience with first aid when you’re working as a photojournalists in conflict areas, and the intense video above is one example showing why. [warning: there's some blood] On July 16th, Norwegian photojournalist H...
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Similar in nature to the tribute Peter Essick paid to Ansel Adams, photographer Trenton Moore is on a mission to quite literally retrace the footsteps of famed photographer Robert Frank. In his project titled Retracing America: A Photo R...
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Sigma's DP-line of Foveon-based compact cameras have always sat in a special niche of the camera market. The previous generation of " Merrill " DP cameras were rather boxy and utilitarian on the exterior, but the APS-C,...
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While on a South American sojourn, Mark Wallace landed in Mindo, Ecuador. Standing right on the edge of a roaring river, Wallace gives us a perfect tutorial on how to use your circular polarizer and neutral density filter set (and a bit ...
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Win a fantastic Fujifilm X-T1 camera with a 18‑55mm f2.8‑4 LM R OIS lens! Read more and comment »
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Today's photo of the day, chosen from our online gallery is Sunset by Matt Cavell.
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Want further evidence of how far the concept of a “selfie” has spread in our culture? Look no further than this wacky Selfie Toaster by the Vermont Novelty Toaster Corp. Simply provide your favorite shot of your beautiful fac...
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For the 2013 KOBE Biennale artists and designers were invited to create environments inside industrial shipping containers as part of the ‘Art in a Container International Competition.’ Designers Masakazu Shirane and Saya Miy...
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Summer is here and for many Americans (and visitors of the United States), it means one thing: road trip. When traveling by car for many hours and many miles, rest areas provide a place to stretch your legs, eat, use the restroom, and, i...
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Associated Press photographer Christoph Ena has been covering the Tour de France from Yorkshire to France. Ena highlights the faces and personalities of the fans who are as interesting as the athletes competing Continue reading...
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El Pescador Beach sunset by Jay Z Said it is a "hopeless romance" beach. Near LA. Jay Z: Photos · Blog
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Austria © Herlinde Koelbl Germany © Herlinde Koelbl Depictions of “the enemy” have long been a popular subject for shooting-range targets. Whom the enemy is seen to be, of course, depends on in which country you choose to sho...
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“Inspirational” probably isn’t the first word that comes to mind when you think about laundry, but for photographer Yvette Meltzer, that’s exactly what it turned out to be. Shirts strung over a clothesline, laundry being slos...
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Each week, the Guardian Weekend magazine's editorial team choose a picture, or series of pictures, with a powerful or surprising story to tell. This week, their choice is Nadav Kander's look at closed Russian science towns built for deve...
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From dogs to lizards: your best pictures on this week's theme, Sunbathe The next topic is Crush (to appear 2 August). Email a hi-res image (one per entry), plus a sentence or two about what inspired you to take your photo, to in.pictures...
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What's eating Europe's far right? For five years, between 2009 and 2013, an Italian photographer followed young fascist skinheads to try to understand their fear and rage. This is what they revealed Skinheads in Italy the rage of a young...
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Instagram is a popular platform for celebrities to share photos of their lavish lifestyles, but it’s also a social network in which many photos are published without permission and without credit to the original creator. Both of th...
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Powerful news photos from the past week
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Tethered controls without the tether MIOPS is a Kickstarter for a smartphone controlled remoter trigger system, and while that's not an entirely new concept, it does promise an impressive level of performance and control. Rather than phy...
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Vivian Maier was a nanny with a Rolleiflex camera, taking photographs whenever she wasn't on duty. A new film, Finding Vivian Maier, reveals how her extraordinary work came to light
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From the escalating violence in Gaza and the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, to the growing influx of unaccompanied migrant minors entering the US and the rise of the Super Moon, TIME presents the best pictur...
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New and exclusive articles on ePHOTOzine's 5 Micro-Sites.
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WPO caught up with collection member Peter Brian Schafer to discuss his newest project ‘3 days in Havana’ and to hear how he, as an American photographer, experienced working in a country geographically close, yet so far away.
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Lightning strikes the UK
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© James Worrell / Offset © James Worrell / Offset With an eye for color and texture, Iowa-based photographer James Worrell imbues advertising and editorial photography with a sleek artistic vision. Shooting lush cosmetics against solid, ...
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In the world of macro photography, the speedy hummingbird isn’t the easiest subject. With a little patience, however, you could nail a shot that reveals details you normally can’t see when tracking the bird with your eye. Tha...
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This month you have the chance to win a Pentax K-3 DSLR in the "Weather" competition.
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You have plenty of options to choose from when you want to reduce the noise in your images. Noise occurs due to low signal-to-noise ratio. Broadly speaking, the more you amplify the signal, the more noise you get. That is why you get mor...
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Vanie ° by Jay Kreens Hi guys, If you like my works, feel free to follow me on Facebook. :) My Facebook page : Jay Kerkreens Jay Kreens : Photos · Blog
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The V&A celebrates design as a form of protest, Isa Genzken brings her radical vision to Edinburgh, and we showcase the best exhibitions to catch on your summer travels all in your weekly art newsletter Disobedient Objects You know w...
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I just stumbled onto the Instagram account of Tolga Girgin, a Turkish graphic designer and electrical engineer who experiments with calligraphy. His latest pieces involve a number of 3D lettering pieces that use shadow and perspective to...
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Dronestagram, a website that allows drone photographers to share their images and videos, has announced the winners of their 2014 photo contest. Sponsored by National Geographic and GoPro, the competition was open to photographers a...
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Colors of Valensole by Elia Locardi Scouting shooting locations all the previous day, I was absolutely enchanted by the beautiful lavender fields in the Provence region of Southern France. When I woke up early the next morning to photogr...
