Toy photographer Benedek Lampert recently teamed up with LEGO Hungary to recreate some of the most iconic photographs from the Apollo 11 mission in honor of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. The resulting images are truly impressive and are captured almost entirely in camera. LEGO Hungary got in ...
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Creativity is One of the Least Desirable Traits in a Partner, Study Finds
If you’re a single photographer looking for a romantic partner, you might want to focus more on showing off your qualities, talents, and attributes outside of your skills behind a camera. A new study has found that creativity is among the least desirable traits in a partner for both men ...
Read More »Petition Begs Disney to Stop Replacing Photographers with ‘Photo Boxes’
Earlier this year, rumors that Disney would replace its PhotoPass photographers at Disney Parks with robotic “photo boxes” were confirmed as photo booths began popping up around the park in lieu of people. These boxes have been popping up everywhere, and people are not happy: so much so that there ...
Read More »Deal Alert: The Nikon D5 is Now $1,000 Off
As Nikon prepares to reveal the Nikon D6 flagship DSLR in earnest, the Nikon D5’s price has dropped to an all-time low. Whether you want the XQD or CF memory card version, you can now pick it up for “just” $5,497, or a full $1,000 off the suggested retail price. ...
Read More »First Look: This is the Upcoming Pentax APS-C Flagship DSLR
Last week, Ricoh revealed that it would be releasing a new flagship Pentax APS-C DLSR in 2020, but they shared very few details and only one low-resolution photo of the upcoming camera. Fortunately, photographer Niels Kemp was at the Pentax 100 Years of History event in The Netherlands, and sent ...
Read More »A Portrait Shoot with a Lensbaby Composer Pro and Sweet 80 Optic
I shot a full portrait session using a Lensbaby Composer Pro II with Sweet 80 Optic. Here’s how it went… Helpful Hearsay For years I had only delivered work for clients, something which is imperative for paying the bills. But what I found was that years of shooting for someone ...
Read More »Photographing the Stunning Wildlife of South Georgia with David Yarrow
British fine art photographer David Yarrow visited the island of South Georgia in the southern Atlantic Ocean to photograph the “mind-blowing” wildlife scenes found there. His trip and creative process are captured in this new 4.5-minute short film, titled “Yarrow: The Virtues of Monochrome.” “There are few places left in ...
Read More »Capturing Commercial Grade Product Photos in a Junkyard with One Light
Commercial photographer, director, and artist Isaac Alvarez of Unplug Productions recently set out to see if he could capture professional-grade commercial product photography with a single LED panel for light, and a junkyard as his “studio.” It seems the answer is yes… When someone says “product photography,” images of crowded ...
Read More »China’s New 500MP ‘Super Camera’ Can Identify a Face Among Tens of Thousands
Scientists at the Fudan University and Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics in China have developed a 500MP cloud-connected ‘super camera’ that can reportedly pick out facial details of an individual person among thousands in a crowded stadium. The new tech is raising serious concerns about privacy and ...
Read More »Sony Has Developed a 47MP MFT Sensor that Can Shoot 8K/30p Video
Yesterday, Sony quietly released the specs for a new 47MP Micro Four Thirds image sensor that it claims is for “Surveillance, FA cameras and Industrial cameras.” But the image sensor—which can record 10-bit 8K/30p video with a with a 17:9 crop—might actually show up in the successor to the Panasonic ...
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