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If you watched the Super Bowl last month, or even if you didn't, you might have seen the popular "Farmer" commercial for Ram trucks, which features a slideshow of beautiful photos by a range of great photographers including William Albert Allard, Andy Anderson, Jim Arndt, Daniel Beltra, Mark Gooch and others. The only...
If you've just started using a digital SLR or compact system camera and want to learn more about how to pick out the right lens to pair it with, the following how-to video tutorial is a good starting place. It's led by professional travel photographer Kerrick James and focuses on Pentax lenses but the information could...
Photographer George Steinmetz clearly doesn't have a fear of heights. For the past 15 years, he's been photographing the world's extreme deserts from the sky while seated in a small, motorized paraglider. And these aren't just any deserts, they're "hyper-arid" spots where there's less than four inches of rainfall a year....
If you have more than a few million dollars to blow and you want to feel what it's like to live like one of the world's most famous photographers, we've got a deal for you. Famed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has put her luxury New York City compound on the market for US$33 million.
The sprawling,...
If you believe the Mayan end-of-the-world calendars -- and who doesn't? -- the apocalypse is right around the corner, on December 21st.
Sydney, Australia-based photographer Matt Granger, who goes by the handle "That Nikon Guy," thinks it might be even sooner than that though, and could quite possibly be happening...
With forecasters already predicting another down year for snowfall in the U.S. (global warming, anyone?), these stunning macro images of snowflakes by Russian photographer Andrew Osokin should help remind you that winter is coming (as the Starks often say on HBO's "Game of Thrones").
Osokin, who lives and works in...
Nature and outdoor lifestyle photographer Scott Rinckenberger has impressed us with his stunning imagery and his willingness to go the extra mile, quite literally, to capture the perfect shot. For his latest project, Scott has been skiing each of the twelve months of the year in his native Washington State and capturing...
The antique process of tintype photography is over 150 years old, but photographer Harry Taylor says it offers him something that shooting digital does not.
"I think the perfection that you get with digital is so easy, you just can't help but take it for granted," Taylor says in this poignant short film by Matt...
Photographer Michael Muller's images of celebrities have appeared in just about every magazine on the newsstand from Vanity Fair to Time to Entertainment Weekly but what Muller really likes to shoot are giant, killer sharks.
And he likes to photograph them from...
You've heard of Macro photography but how about über-Macro photography? That's one way, perhaps, to describe the work of San Francisco commercial and fine art photographer Caren Alpert who uses an electron microscope to capture striking extreme close-ups of food.
Who would have thought a shrimp tail at 230x...
In his project titled "Dancers Among Us," NYC-based photographer Jordan Matter captures moments of elation, passion and emotion by taking pictures of professional dancers going through the motions -- albeit the extraordinary motions that only dancers can achieve -- of everyday life. Matter has shot scenes with dancers in...
We've seen GoPros put in many interesting places to shoot unique point-of-view footage, but this could be one of the best uses of these tough, portable cameras yet. Photographer Ben Horne (right) and his bride stashed a GoPro Hero2 inside her wedding bouquet, and captured fantastic, wide-angle HD footage of their big day...
Photographer Robert Burley's new book "The Disappearance of Darkness," is not exactly an epitaph to the death of analog film in photography but it certainly could be called a eulogy.
Subtitled "Photography at the End of the Analog Era," the book features haunting images documenting film's slow fade to black including...
Photographer Sacha Goldberger lives with his grandmother and takes hilariously artful photos of her in a variety of whimsical situations, oftentimes with his beloved "Mamika" dressed as a superhero. When a friend of Sacha's decided to post his images on Reddit, the Internet went crazy, with many "Redditors" praising the...
(Editor's note: Photographer Alan Sailer captured the spectacular images of exploding cameras on this page with a Nikon D90, using high-speed photography techniques. The following is text he sent us explaining the process behind these mind-blowing shots. To see more of Sailer's images, check out his Flickr page.)
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In 2011, Steve Crist of AMMO Books published EDWARD WESTON: 125 PHOTOGRAPHS, with photos from scans of the photographer's original prints from an extensive collection at at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona.
This was a slip-cased, large format book with high quality printing on heavy paper, and while it was reportedly a very nice item for collectors, it...
Here's one of those "it's so crazy it just might work" ideas that photographers get from time to time. Photographer Robert Benson did some massive reverse engineering on his Canon 5D Mark II so he could mount and shoot with a Leica Noctilux 50mm f/1 lens on front.
The reason? He had the $6,500 Noctilux M-mount lens but...
Talk about a photographic treasure trove! Over 600 signed prints by legendary American photographer Ansel Adams have been discovered in a box at the University of California's Berkeley campus.
The prints -- totalling 605 in number -- were part of a project Adams had been hired for in the 1960s, which involved...
Portrait photography sessions can be rapid-fire-affairs with a photographer often shooting hundreds of frames in succession while looking for that perfect moment.
Photographer Harry Borden demonstrates this in a short film -- shown below -- where he strings together every portrait he shot of British comedian Frank...
In the world of action sports photography, female shooters are few and far between. One of the few women in action sports photography who is not only surviving but thriving these days is Mirja Geh, who captures a range of action sports from ski divers to extreme skiers to base jumpers.
In this video interview with Red...
