We all know the drill: You find a bargain vintage camera on eBay or at a thrift shop and discover there’s a long-forgotten roll of film inside. Unlike most of us who would simply dispose of the film, Alex Galmeanu developed the roll and discovered 10 wedding photos from the 1970s.
London’s Grays of Westminster is a renowned camera shop that’s become somewhat of a Mecca for Nikon shooters; a world-class store devoted to everything Nikon with service second to none. And thanks to photographer Matt Granger, you can take a virtual tour of this award-winning shop via the video below.
Back in 1885 a Vermont farmer had a crazy idea: He would combine his bellows camera with a microscope in an attempt to capture the fleeting beauty of snowflakes. Wilson Bentley was 19 back then, and by the time he passed away in 1931 he had made over 5,000 images of snowflakes.
New York photographer Jordan Matter first came to our attention when we saw a beautiful nighttime photo he made of a ballerina on a Manhattan street and did a quick interview. Since them he has published the stunning book “Dancers After dark,” so we thought it was time to circle back with him to for more details.
Luke Shadbolt is a photographer who specializes in action sports, lifestyle and fashion. But his real passion is water photography, as you can see from these amazing images from a series he calls “Maelstrom.”
In 2015, Sony presented their second version of a high-end compact camera with a one-inch-type sensor and an 8.3x zoom that offered a lot of professional functions. This year the company announced an equivalent camera, but with an ultra-zoom lens. The new Sony RX10 III uses a one-inch-type sensor (13.2x8.8mm) with 20MP resolution. The large integral lens has a focal length of 24-600mm (35mm film equivalent). The new camera has an SLR-style body, but uses an electronic viewfinder with 2.36 million RGB dots. An LCD on the back with 1.3 million RGB dots can be flipped up- and downward.
There’s a lot you can buy for $400K, like a fast Lamborghini, a fixer-upper home in Los Angeles, or 50 Fujifilm GFX medium-format cameras to give to all your friends for Christmas. But one lucky (and wealthy bidder) just opted for the third Nikon camera ever built at an auction in Austria.
French photographer Aurelien Buttin has traveled the world, from Europe and Asia to the ruins of Chichen Itza in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. He recently made a road trip across California with some friends, and did some really nice photography along the way.
Phase One today released Capture One Pro 10, a powerful upgrade to their Raw conversion and image-editing software package. Designed for pros and amateurs alike, this new version offers an improved user interface, enhanced performance, and compatibility with over 400 digital cameras.
Tirthankar Gupta is a self-described “cubicle dweller” in his job as a systems engineer for a Kolkata-based consulting company. But when he removes his suit to expose an imaginary superman disguise, he becomes a powerful photographer who can scale any assignment in a leaping bound.
Last night Scott Borrero was named “Top Photographer with Nigel Barker” in the finale of AdoramaTV’s popular web series. Borrero is a San Francisco-based commercial photographer whose work has taken him across the globe from Spain and New Zealand to Indonesia, Norway and elsewhere.
I tend to travel on the wide side when it comes to lens selection, so it was exciting to get ahold of Tamron’s new super telephoto zoom—the SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2 (Model A022). And what better way to give this big beauty a try than to take it on safari?
Annegien Shilling is a talented artist/photographer from the Netherlands who creates magical self-portraits using nothing more than a good imagination, her own photos, and a few apps on an iPod Touch to create the composites. Her creative results have attracted international acclaim for their simplicity and charm.
The colorizing of old back-and-white prints and motion pictures has long been a popular technique, but this 2-minute film “The Great White Silence” is really something special.
San Francisco-based filmmaker Kevin Wolf is lighting up the Internet because of a simple trick he employed to turn a good photograph into a great one: He simply flipped the image upside down.