Latest and Breaking Photography News and Top Stories - July 4
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Grand Tetons Nienke Klunder‘s presents us with an unsettling, eerily familiar vision – neither human or still life under the studio lights. Who or what is this figure? In her series Big Rock Candy Mountains, Californian-born ...
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Matthew Malkiewicz is what you might call a vintage train enthusiast. Fascinated with trains since his childhood, he's been photographing steam locomotives since a trip to Colorado in 2005 reignited his interests in trains and photograph...
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Timelapse photography has been used to capture all sorts of natural phenomena, from cloudscapes and stars to people moving about in a cityscape and plants growing, but this four-year compilation from the Hubble Space Telescope made histo...
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Move in close on the detail of beach huts and give your shots more impact next time you're at the coast.
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It can sometimes be difficult to photograph unique and creative images when shooting nature and wildlife, especially for photographers just getting started. There are a lot of technical and creative decisions to be made that may not be a...
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Want to try out some cool new effects while photographing fireworks this Fourth of July? Photographer David Johnson shows us what can happen when you manually adjust your focus while capturing fireworks: Johnson shot this image by settin...
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There are times when you come across a collection of images that no written words or powerful images can describe on their own. Such is the case with the heartfelt series, Lifelines. Inspired by past projects, photographer Norah Levine t...
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ebay (via getitdigital) has the Nikon D7100 for $849.99 (reg. $1199.99) in limited quantity with free shipping. Check it out while it lasts here on ebay. Note, this is likely a grey market item with an in-house warranty from getitdigital...
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It appears we can expect an increased interchange of technologies between imaging giant Canon and software maker Microsoft in the near future, thanks to to a patent agreement that was signed by the two parties on Wednesday. Though the br...
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Elisha Clarke was born in Dublin in 1983. In 2001-2002, She attended Stillorgan College of further education for Art Foundation followed by a BA in Photography at DLIADT until 2005. Now specialised in wedding photography, Elisha travels ...
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If you’re looking to spruce up your bathroom decor with some photography-inspired pieces that demonstrate both your love of old Polaroids and your disdain for the apps that try to recreate them with crappy filters, Modcloth has something...
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Given my interest in lifelong learning and skill-development, I often ask people which new skills they’re looking to learn. The most common response? “I want to be a better photographer”. And for good reason! Few things evoke the instant...
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The shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014 has been announced. And wow. "Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower over Mount Bromo" by Justin Ng (Singapore). Justin Ng / Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014 "Orion Nebula" by Anna ...
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Today's photo of the day, chosen from our online gallery is Dragonfly by Lu Zhang.
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Even by Chicago standards the weather here in the midwestern U.S. has been bizarre and extreme lately. We’ve seen giant walls of fog caused in part by a bitterly cold winter that chilled Lake Michigan, and numerous lightning storms...
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Have you recently acquired a new DSLR, or are you interested in prolonging the life of the one(s) you already own? Holly from the Canon Call Center has some tips on how to keep your camera and lenses in working order in the following vid...
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Brent Durand NMFS Lists 2 Hammerhead Populations as Threatened & 2 Populations as Endangered Species Scalloped Hammerheads Listed as Endangered NMFS Lists 2 Hammerhead Populations as Threatened and 2 as Endangered Species By B...
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Ground Bloom Flower Orange Ammo Smoke For Boom City, photographer Andrew Waits catalogues the outrageous fireworks sold north of Seattle, Washington in the Tulalip reservation. Each year on the 4th of July, families make a mad dash throu...
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San Francisco-based Peak Design will release a couple of new camera straps, the Slide and Clutch, in October following a successful funding campaign on Kickstarter. The Slide is a quick-connecting shoulder strap for cameras of any size, ...
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“This is a Satire Website. Fictional Stories Just for laughs.” That’s the line you’ll find if you scroll to the bottom of the ODGossip website. But when they posted that the subject of an embarrassing Meme was sui...
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Sebastian Luczywo has captured striking photographs of his family's farm life in Poland. Here are his most heartwarming shots, from chickens that make music to magical forests Continue reading...
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Fujifilm have launched 3 promotions running until August and September 2014.
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If you've ever found yourself frustrated by the document management capabilities -- or lack thereof -- in Adobe Photoshop, a new plug-in from Israeli software company Creative Do might well be the solution you've be...
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In celebration of the 50th and 75th anniversaries of the World’s Fairs, “ Tomorrow’s World: The New York World’s Fairs and Flushing Meadows Corona Park ” includes never before exhibited vintage images from the Pa...
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Wellington International Airport, New Zealand Raivavae Airport, Austral Islands, French Polynesia The long lines, lost luggage and cramped seats of airports hardly sets many people in a contemplative mindset. However sometimes it simply ...
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Here are five factors worth considering when you're looking for a new monitor.
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B&H has the new Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art lens in stock again for Canon EF mount. The shipment was a limited supply, so this may not last long. Check it out here at B&H Photo. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally...
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Happy "Almost 4th of July" to all of our US readers (and a belated Happy Canada Day to our readers up north). Summer is in full swing for the northern hemisphere, and with that plus the big holiday tomorrow, there's a l...
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As part of Nikon’s continuing effort to promote its gear and ambassadors while teaching you something at the same time, the company has put together yet another inspirational and educational video we felt was worth sharing with you. Feat...
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Imagine peering out an enormous window, and seeing the whole planet rotate beneath you It's hard to overstate just how powerful of an effect views of our planet have had on the human race. To this day, NASA routinely releases images take...
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Well, it’s not ‘sharks with frikin’ laser beams on their heads,’ but Sony isn’t far off with its latest camera publicity stunt. In order to get a… ummm… unique? perspective on the Yorkshire leg o...
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Artist Rogan Brown (previously) just completed work on his latest paper artwork titled Outbreak, a piece he describes as an exploration “of the microbiological sublime.” Over four months in the making, the work depicts an arr...
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Olympus are asking the nation's amateur photographers to take a shot at becoming a master photographer in a new competition.
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The low-cost lighting maker has announced a 300W studio light, with Canon E-TTL support Yongnuo has long had a reputation of creating camera flashes on the cheap that still boast a surprising suite of features. Now the company has unveil...
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Image © by Maaz Khan Back in the days of analog photography, we were used to seeing all kinds of artifacts in our images: dust specs, scratches, finger prints, cigarette burns, traces of the developing chemicals, etc. etc. Th...
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With record temperatures expected across parts of England today , our readers have been sharing their images of the summer Continue reading...
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Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Redwood City-based photo publishing service Shutterfly is looking to sell itself off. Currently in talks with the investment bank Qatalyst Partners to find a buyer, the report explains that these are on...
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Weâ��ve got your 4th of July covered-- everything you need to know about how to capture fireworks in one place. With firework displays happening all over the country this week, we’ve done the leg work for you and gathered all the best ti...
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The Lumix DMC-FZ1000 is Panasonic's new flagship super-zoom compact camera, offering a large 1-inch image sensor with 20 megapixels, 4K video recording and a 16x zoom lens with a 25-400mm focal range. Priced at £749 / $899, read our expe...
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Learn how to maximise the impact of your illumination images without resorting to the automated firework modes
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We’ve shared what we believe to be the first ever selfie in history, but we’ve never had occasion to share the photograph you see being taken in the image above. Taken in the 1920s on a rooftop in New York City, what you see ...
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Birds in the wild are difficult to photograph. So when I saw these photographs by Minneapolis-based Paula McCartney, I was impressed by her closeness to the animals (although just the right distance to have the viewer fooled, at least at...
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Google’s acquisition of Nik Software some time ago caused quite a stir in the photography community. Creators of a number of plugins, filters and the editing app Snapseed, Nik Software had a lot to offer Google in the world of photograph...
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One of the hopes people had for the Nikon D810 was that it would feature 4K video, but even though Nikon made it obvious in the press materials that this camera is a capable video machine, the rumored 4K capability never came to fruition...
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Jim Goldberg's photographs show both sides of the wealth gap in 1970s and 80s San Francisco, from lonely countesses to three poverty-stricken musketeers The photographer who caught the heartbreak on both sides of America's social divide ...
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Jim Goldberg took hundreds of portraits of San Franciscans for his series Rich and Poor, then asked his subjects to comment on their photos. Their reflections are poignant and painful Rich and Poor: America's great social divide in pictu...
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The Guardians picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the world Continue reading...
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© Helena Wahlman / Maskot / Offset To see more of Wahlman’s work, please visit Offset. Offset is an exclusive category channel partner on Feature Shoot. The post A Living Roof on an Idyllic Mountain House appeared first on Feature ...
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Canon and Microsoft have signed an agreement giving each other access to their patent portfolios.
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Earlier this year, Nikon's 1-series mirrorless camera line received a new flagship model, the Nikon V3 . Although the 1-series cameras had smaller sensors than most compact system cameras, they've made the best of t...
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In the darkened streets of New York City, Brooklyn-based photographer Ben Franke captures the gravity-defying vaults of Parkour athletes. The training practice, based in part off of military obstacle courses, is a noncompetitive discipli...
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Today's photo of the day and next week's photo of the week, chosen from our online gallery is Low-Light by Paul Cudmore.
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An amazing site from a unique vantage point The weather has been crazy lately in many parts of the US. As a result, there have been more awesome sky photos lately than we have seen in quite a while. Craig Shimala, however, capture a very...
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Young people from the favelas of São Paulo tell the story of the 2014 World Cup through their photographs Continue reading...
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Love them or hate them. But one thing you can’t do is ignore them. Prime lenses are some of the top favorites of photographers around the globe. What’s so great about them? In this video, Toby Gelston explains the five top reasons ...
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All the big hitters of the art world were at the 1959 Documenta exhibition: Kandinsky, Pollock, Magritte and Mickey Mouse. From polka-dotty punters to super-serious nuns, Hans Haacke's stunning photos capture the crowds who lapped up the...
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In the above video, Karl Taylor walks you through a four-step process that shows the before-and-after results of three variables when it comes to portraiture: studio lighting, make-up, and Photoshop. Breaking down each step and comparing...
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The Guardian's picture desk go mobile at Glastonbury. Follow guardianphotos on Instagram for more outstanding smartphone photography Continue reading...
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ebay (via AdoramaCamera) has the Rokinon 85mm f/1.4 lens for $199 (reg. $299). The lens is available in Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax and Samsung NX mounts. Check it out here on ebay. Copyright/DMCA Notice: The RSS entry was originally publ...
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Award-winning filmmaker Philip Bloom recently got his hands on the new A7s, and as part of his ongoing review of the newest mirrorless full-frame offering from Sony, he put it to the test in low-light to see how it compared to approximat...
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For his haunting animation Unity, Tobias Stretch imagines a mysterious story of love, death, and resurrection. Set to a piece by avant-garde composer Christopher Bono, the short stop-motion film is composed of over 10,000 photographs fea...
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BERLIN - With over 70 works by more than 35 artistic photographers the exhibition will show the rich spectrum of our relationship to animals: closeness and distance as well as heartfelt friendship and material exploitation.
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Ottawa, Canada-based David (Davey) Johnson refers to himself on his website as an “avid [photography] enthusiast.” Johnson lists his camera gear under his profile photo and invites his audience to ask him questions, doling ou...
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From the killing of three kidnapped Israeli teenagers and Tim Howard's World Cup heroics to the beginning of Ramadan and Hurricane Arthur photographed from space, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
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Recent reports claim that, in an effort to increase censorship, China has blocked Yahoo! photo sharing site Flickr alongside a number of other social media services. According to Greatfire.org, a group dedicated to keeping the Internet o...
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'When the men of Jeju went off to war or out to sea to fish, diving for conch, octopus and abalone became the women's domain. And it has remained that way' Known as the Korean mermaids and the Amazons of Asia, these sea women, or haenyeo...
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A couple of weeks ago I got an email asking if we would be willing to take some lenses, remove the electronics, fix the aperture wide-open, and permanently lock them at infinity focus. It seems the person who needed this done was having ...
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Southampton Football Club have an opportunity for a photographer with experience in a sporting environment to join our Media team. This role will provide full time support to the Club's Media department, working across both digital and p...
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International Garden Photographer of the Year has teamed up with The National Trust to create a brand new special award: 'Changing Coastlines'.
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Some contend that there are no fireworks shows that can best mother nature’s display during an intense thunderstorm, and the video above by Chicago-based videographer Craig Shimala goes a long way in confirming their belief. This p...
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Vanguard has put together a free infrared photography guide and it's available to download now.
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It’s the fourth of July (on the off-chance didn’t know), which means your Facebook feed is about to get flooded with firework photos from friends, family and professionals alike. But the firework photos in photographer Andrew...
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Hi Gang: July 4th is a big holiday for us here in the US — it’s Independence Day — a day where all Americans celebrate their independence from Glyn Dewis and Dave Clayton (shown pictured with me above. This shot was taken during th...
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Italian photographer Simone Bergantini fuses painting and photography in La Compagnia dei Pappagalli, creating perfectly chaotic and colorful works that elevate these parrot portraits to new heights. To create the works, Bergantini first...
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From jumping mice to sunsets: your best pictures on this week's theme, Dynamic The next topic is Sunbathe (to appear 19 July). Email a hi-res image (one per entry), plus a sentence or two about what inspired you to take your photo, to in...
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Released in an article earlier today, what you see above is the first photograph taken with Sony’s revolutionary curved sensor. And while you can’t really tell much about the quality or any other specifics about the sensor fr...
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IGPOTY has launched a new 'Coastlines' award in collaboration with The National Trust.
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Paul's Studio is available for personal hire as well as hosting regular studio events and model days.
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Combine your photos in Photoshop to create a truly special composite images.
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© Bruce Peterson / Offset To see more of Peterson’s work, please visit his artist page. Offset is an exclusive category channel partner on Feature Shoot. The post Cocktail Hour: Wine o’ Clock appeared first on Feature Shoot .
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Commercial photographer Jeff Luker has shot lots of professional campaigns, but none where he needed the assistance of a fire truck. Working on a set of images for Levi, Luker was determined to create energetic, natural photos that did n...
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There are many ways to cut out objects in Photoshop, but none are simpler then this.
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The Guardians picture editors bring you a selection of the best photographs from around the world Continue reading...
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The Fujifilm X-E2 is one of a new breed of DSLR-challenging CSCs. WDC's Michael Topham swapped his DSLR for the X-E2 on a recent trip to the Scottish Highlands to see if he would consider making the change permanently
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Picking the right camera bag for your needs isn't always straightforward. Katie Dix lends a helping hand with the ins and outs of eight great photography bags.
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Ahead of Brazil's quarter-final against Colombia, World Cup fever and national fervour is ramping up again Continue reading...
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MindShift gear has launched the Filter Nest dual purpose round filter case for outdoor photography.
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Matthew Malkiewicz is what you might call a vintage train enthusiast. Fascinated with trains since his childhood, he's been photographing steam locomotives since a trip to Colorado in 2005 reignited his interests in trains and photograph...
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It may be heralded as one of the best lenses ever made, but is the Zeiss Otus 55mm f/1.4 really worth almost £2,500 more than the Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art lens? Richard Sibley and Andrew Sydenham put the lenses head to head
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Danish photographer Ulrik Pedersen spent two weeks travelling around the country in June, capturing daily life under the Kim dictatorship Continue reading...
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Ruddy Roye believes in the power of photography to change the world, and for the New York-based photographer Instagram can help cut out photography's gatekeepers and get the message out.
