What would you risk to get the perfect shot? Would you risk having your head removed from your body? If you answered yes, then you might understand the motives behind…
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Photographer and animator Alexey Zakharov of Moscow, Russia created a stunning short film called “The Old New World” in which old black and white photos from the early 1900’s were animated and…
Think Tank Photo makes some of the absolute best camera bags in the business, bags that can not only hold your camera body and lenses but also your lighting equipment,…
Filmmaker Matel came up with a great idea for a creative time-lapse video. By placing time-lapse footage of the same scene in London at daytime and nighttime next to each other, he…
All the photographer wanted to do was snap some photos, but the cutest of baby giant panda bears wouldn’t let that happen. The photographer was attacked by the panda bear,…
In this video by The Nerdwriter, Ansel Adams is portrayed as a photographer who began his career simply snapping photos without any real technique, something that the narrator points out…
Affinity Photo, along with Affinity Design and Affinity Publisher, comprise Affinity’s lineup of editing software that is dubbed as a cheaper alternative to Adobe software. Affinity Photo is a photo-editing application…
Join Serge Remelli in his video “On the Trail of Ansel Adams: Shooting Yosemite El Capitan” as he follows the trail Ansel Adams took through Yosemite National Park. Remelli discusses what…
Department store chain Lord & Taylor is one of many companies to come under attack for the increasing prevalence of “native advertising,” or paid ads that are passed off as editorial…
Your Instagram feed currently works by displaying images in a chronological order, so the most recently posted image will be the closest to the top. That is in contrast to…
Time-lapse is not as easy as it looks. Sure, all you have to do is mount a camera on a stand and let it periodically shoot photos, but to have…
BOSTON – A wedding photographer whose equipment was stolen out of her car following a Saturday night wedding has lost all of the photos of her client’s most important, special…
You hear all the time about the comparisons between the power of the human brain and the power of supercomputers, but what about the comparison between the human eye and…
The iMom from Ariel Martin on Vimeo. Technology has always had an unprecedented impact on society, allowing us to accomplish tasks quicker and understand the world better. But while technology may…
Parents in France are being warned against posting pictures of their kids online in case their own kids decide that their privacy has been breached and sue them for it….
iOS and Android smartphones are no longer the only phones that can have the Instagram app. Instagram announced on MAR 8, 2016 that they have launched their beta app for…
Lee Filters is adding a new neutral density filer to it’s lineup called the Super Stopper. The Super Stopper limits the amount of light that hits your camera’s sensor by…
Nikon Ambassador and past Summit Instructor Joe McNally recently turned Domenick European Car Repair, Inc into his own personal studio in this new project, Joe McNally Garage Guys. McNally is able…
In his latest Two-Minute Tips video, David Bergman argues that making prints for clients goes a very long way; a heck of a lot farther than just posting your client’s…
Since everyone has a camera in their pocket these days, the distinction between being a photographer and being an artist is more important and prevalent than it has ever been….
It’s been a rough stretch for B&H Photo Video. The last couple months have not been good to B&H Photo Video, one of the largest photography retailers in the world….
On March 1, DJI released the Phantom 4 camera drone, the successor to the widely popular Phantom 3. The Phantom 4 is a highly intelligent drone that can literally fly…
Selfie sticks for your phone are so 2015. It’s safe to say that the selfie has effectively embedded its way into popular culture. The front-facing camera, duck face pose, and…
“The Irrational Fear of Nothing” is a new short film by director Paul Trillo that follows a paranoid man named Terry as he wanders about the streets of Manhattan. “I’ve…
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but you can teach dogs to be studio photographers….. At least you can in Japan, where a few dogs were highlighted in…
Last Friday, a federal judge ruled that photographing and filming police officers is not always protected by the First Amendment. The two cases that brought about the dramatic ruling were…
In November 2015, we wrote about how one of our workshop alums won the College Photographer of the Year award. And to think we were proud of her then!…
The Science Channel‘s show How It’s Made recently showed how camera tripods are manufactured. In the clip, we get a tour of a Manfrotto tripod factory. The tour starts from when…
Nikon has announced a completely new line of premium compact cameras called the DL series. The DL series (Digital…
Our long-time sports workshop instructor Brad Smith was one of two new members appointed to NPPA’s board of directors by NPPA President Melissa Lyttle. Smith and visual journalist Chelsea…
Cambits is a modular camera being developed by scientists at Columbia Engineering’s Computer Vision Laboratory. It is a set of…
“If you do these seven things, you’re going to lose your photo and video clients, I guarantee it.” Photographer Jay P. Morgan from The Slanted Lens made this short video…
Film and music lovers rejoice! OK Go, the pop band notably known for their creative, heavily-choreographed music videos, has just done it again with their video for “Upside Down &…
The photography industry continues to evolve and adapt to todays technologies and societal norms, but how does that affect the aspiring professional photographer? On one hand, photography equipment and resources…
Photos/Video by TimeSlice Films. Shooting a portrait on a still-camera will produce a two-dimensional image. Whether you are the Peter Hurley of portraits or a rookie, your picture will come out…
“You just aren’t yourself when you’re hungry.” Photoshop fails happen all the time in the creative and advertising industries, and sometimes they can turn into quite a big story. About a…
Sony’s CMOS sensors are very popular in todays digital cameras and smartphones, and the company’s newest sensor shows exactly why. The new IMX318 sensor is designed specifically for smartphones and it boasts 22.5…
If you use a hard disk drive for storage, then you’re probably aware of the shortcomings of spinning disk drives. Traditional disk drives carry the risk of writing and copying…
The rock star of music photography, Danny Clinch, was recently interviewed by Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes. He captured several styles of photographs, from journalistic photos to very precisely created…
“Run Baby Run” is a new video by Eran Amir that shows a 3D-printed baby running through different locations, and it was entirely captured in camera with no green screen…
Remember the moving pictures in the newspapers from the Harry Potter movies? Well it appears that the magically technology to accomplish this is being taken from the Wizarding World and…
The “bullet time” effect in video can make for a very interesting visual, just ask Keanu Reeves in The Matrix when he dodges a speeding bullet. Usually this visual technique…
The Cooperative of Photography has just released a fun video that boils the entire history of photography down into a 5-minute video. From the very beginning of pinhole-style cameras and…
If you’re one of the millions of people who use Google Drive for file storage, then you have an opportunity to receive free storage space from Google. In celebration of…
Photographs by Andrew Hancock for ESPN. Unless you’re a 6′ 9” power forward from the Oklahoma City Thunder, the opportunity to photograph Superbowl 50 is earned, not given. That’s why…
“…At my height, I might have some different angles than other photographers.” All Photographs/Quotes by Kevin Durant, Players’ Tribune. The packed crowd at Superbowl 50 was full of a collection…
GoPro has just released another video with footage captured with its not-yet-announced Karma drone. This time the footage is of freestyle skier Bobby Brown and some of his friends at Aspen…
Elite sports and portrait photographer, Westcott Pro, and Summit Workshops and Summit Online instructor Matt Hernandez offers some fantastic lighting tips in this F. J Westcott video on capturing professional…
