12 years after hitting the scene, and 3 years after rebranding to Polaroid Originals, The Impossible Project has completed its metamorphosis. As of today, Polaroid Originals is reclaiming the original “Polaroid” name, and celebrating this milestone with a new camera: the Polaroid Now. The Polaroid brand’s merger with Impossible Project started in 2017, when the […]
Over the past few weeks, as people the world over were asked (or ordered) to stay home and isolate, you probably saw more than a few viral photos of animals reclaiming habitats that humans are being forced to leave alone. Sadly, almost all of those photos and videos are fake. In a report by National […]
Earlier today, the Supreme Court of the United States dealt a major blow to photographer’s copyright protections when it declared that states cannot be sued for copyright infringement because they have “sovereign immunity.” The opinion came down as part of a writ of certiorari regarding the case of Allen v Cooper. A writ of certiorari […]
If you’re a photographer stuck at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, Professional Photographers of America (PPA) has got your back. The trade association has made all of its 1,100+ online photography classes free for the next two weeks. “Times are tough – we need to be at our best,” writes the association, which was […]
The world’s first photo of black hole was published back in April 2019, and scientists have been laboring to find ways to capture sharper images of the mysterious regions of spacetime. Scientists are now saying that focusing on a black hole’s “photon ring” may lead to a huge increase in sharpness. In a new paper […]
Zhiyun Tech has just revealed a powerful new gimbal called the Crane 3S, which significantly increases the power and versatility of their popular Crane 3 LAB without giving up much in the way of portability. The Crane 3S is basically a larger, more powerful Crane 3 LAB that’s meant to handle beefier cameras. We’re talking […]
Over the course of 27 years, from 1991 until 2017, photographer Deanna Dikeman has a ritual. Every time she left her parent’s house in Sioux City, Iowa, she would snap a picture of her mom and dad waving goodbye from the driveway. The resulting photo series—titled Leaving and Waving—is part family photo album, part homage […]
An intriguing, and surprisingly plausible, rumor is flying around the smartphone world this week claiming that Samsung will be releasing an “almost 1-inch” sized 150MP ISOCELL CMOS sensor, and that this sensor could show up in a smartphone as soon as Q4 of 2020. The rumor first cropped up on the Korean message board Clien, […]
The UK National Parks and Campaign for National Parks have officially crowned the winners of the 2020 National Parks photography competition, awarding the top spot to a striking photo of an Osprey grabbing breakfast “to go” in Cairngorms National Park. The theme of this year’s contest was “Inspired by Nature,” and as you might expect, […]
Photographer Arnfinn Johansen recently captured a beautiful series of photos that show a coalition of male cheetahs (yes, that’s what it’s called) attempting a dangerous crossing of the flooded, crocodile-infested Talek River. Johansen lucked into this particular experience while on a photo safari in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. The photographer is familiar […]