David Hollenack was in an alley southeast of Columbus, Ohio, when he noticed that one of the garages had this unusual Polaroid “security camera” installed. The 21-year-old Ohio State civil engineering student was in a low-income neighborhood working as an inspector for an engineering firm. “I was sitting in my truck in an alley doing […]
The Internet is filled with fake photographs, and some have even won contests run by the likes of Nikon. And here’s why: people are generally very bad at detecting when a photo has been faked. A newly published study by researchers at the University of Warwick in England has found that people were only able […]
Violent criminals are still targeting photographers in San Francisco for their valuable camera equipment, and the latest victim is a 71-year-old photographer who was shot and killed this past weekend at a popular tourist spot by two robbers who stole his camera. SFGate reports that 71-year-old photographer Edward French was at the scenic Twin Peaks […]
Adobe today released new updates for its mobile Lightroom apps, bringing powerful new features and new interface designs for both iOS and Android. Lightroom for iOS On the iOS side, for iPhone and iPad, Lightroom now has a Selective Brush that lets photographers selectively paint enhancements into photos. This was “one of the most requested […]
Photographer Martijn van Oers of the Netherlands recently visited a thrift store and came across an original Zeiss Ikon 520/2 folding camera, which was produced in Germany between 1929 and 1937. To his surprise, the camera contained a roll of exposed film in it. The camera looked “barely used,” Van Oers says. The Zeiss Ikon […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Barbara Davidson and Volvo recently teamed up for an unusual photo project: Davidson created the first ever photo exhibition ever shot using a car camera. The brainchild of the Swedish ad agency Forsman & Bodenfors, the exhibition was captured using the safety camera on board the Volvo XC60. It’s an intelligent camera […]
Bowens, the 94-year-old photography brand best known for its lighting equipment, may soon be shuttered. According to a new report, Bowens has reached the end of its road and has gone into liquidation. DIYPhotography reports that an inside source shared news of this liquidation, which was subsequently confirmed by two independent sources. Bowens lighting gear […]
LPA Design has just announced the new PocketWizard MultiMAX II. It’s being touted as “the most versatile, reliable and predictably compatible radio on the market.” The MultiMAX II is a followup to the original MultiMAX, which photographers have used for 16 years now to trigger flashes and cameras across all kinds of photography genres. On […]
Nikon generated great deal of excitement this week when the company’s president stated in an interview that Nikon is working on a new mirrorless camera. Now the company has issued another statement confirming that it’s building mirrorless gear that will emphasis performance and quality. DPReview reached out to Nikon for an official statement regarding the […]
Now this is clever: a group of street artists in Russia have “deleted” the graffiti covering a dumpster and abandoned car with a clever anamorphic illusion. Using paint, the artists covered the graffiti with Photoshop’s transparency checkerboard to make it look like someone had cut out the graffiti from a layer in Photoshop. The artwork […]