Cameras

Creating a Color Street Photo Using Only Black-and-White Film

Creating a Color Street Photo Using Only Black-and-White Film

Photographer Mathieu Stern has based his YouTube channel on reviewing cheap and unusual lenses, but for his latest experiment he went a different direction. Stern created his own lens using 3D printing to see what results he could achieve. OK Go just released this 4-minute music video for their song, “The One Moment.” What’s notable […]

The Sony a99 II is a Low Light Monster

The Sony a99 II is a Low Light Monster

My cats love to go outside and explore the world, but when it’s raining they prefer to stay indoors and stare out the window. President-elect Donald Trump held an off-the-record meeting with about 25 media executives and anchors in Trump Tower on Monday. At the gathering, Trump shared some complaints about the outlets’ coverage of […]

Casey Neistat Ends His Daily Vlog, Offers Some Sage Parting Advice

Casey Neistat Ends His Daily Vlog, Offers Some Sage Parting Advice

Casey Neistat is one of the most prolific and successful creatives in the world at this moment, and he just demonstrated one of the most important lessons the creative person must learn: when it’s time to move on, move the heck on. Neistat shocked and probably disappointed many of his nearly 6 million YouTube followers […]

On ‘Trame’, or Everything Outside the Frame that a Photo is About

On ‘Trame’, or Everything Outside the Frame that a Photo is About

I feel that there’s a word missing from our vocabulary, and this essay is the culmination of an effort to find such a word, to define it usefully, and to work through some of what it might mean. Consider these two pictures: Tree Coffee Shop The first one I shot specifically to test a camera-clubby […]

A Photographer’s Review of the Peak Design Everyday Sling

A Photographer’s Review of the Peak Design Everyday Sling

First of all I just want to say this: Peak Design got the name of the Everyday Sling wrong. This bag isn’t the Everyday Sling, it’s the Everything Sling because this bag literally does everything I would ever possibly need to go when I’m going out. Second of all, you may not share my opinions […]

Understanding the Basic Laws of Light, Part 2

Understanding the Basic Laws of Light, Part 2

There’s not much to this video that isn’t covered in the headline: a guy attached a GoPro Hero Session to the end of an arrow, shot it at a variety of things and people, and then stabilized the output into some really cool footage. Starting about 40 years ago, photographer Chris Porsz began shooting street […]

Photographer Gets an Entire Wedding to Do the Mannequin Challenge

Photographer Gets an Entire Wedding to Do the Mannequin Challenge

Apparently, total domination isn’t quite good enough for DJI. It’s not enough that the Mavic has received rave reviews, beating the GoPro Karma so badly they started falling out of the sky in embarrassment. Today, DJI revealed two new drones that practically have aerial filmmakers wetting themselves. Unless you’ve been on an Internet fast for […]

Google’s PhotoScan App Uses Your Phone to Digitize Old Prints, Glare Free

Google’s PhotoScan App Uses Your Phone to Digitize Old Prints, Glare Free

Photo scanning smartphone apps, watch out… Google just peed all over your turf. With the release of the new PhotoScan app, the tech giant is swooping in to help people quickly and easily digitize that old box of prints languishing in the attic. Scanning your old prints with a smartphone instead of a cumbersome old […]

How that Crazy Iguana Snake Chase Scene from Planet Earth II was Shot

How that Crazy Iguana Snake Chase Scene from Planet Earth II was Shot

Jack Morris (@doyoutravel) and Lauren Bullen (@gypsea_lust) are both travel photographers and Instagram’s favorite travel power couple! With a collective following of 2 million people, you can imagine they’ve developed quite a great following! Rightfully so, the work on their accounts are beautiful and they travel quite religiously. President-elect Trump met with President Obama for […]