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Pro photographer offers helpful tips on how to pick the right camera lens (VIDEO)

 
 

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...

World’s largest life-size self-portrait camera: coming soon to a city near you?

 
 

It's a massive, one-of-a-kind camera but, until recently, it was thought to be too big to move. That may change if a project to create a more mobile version of the IMAGO1to1 life-size self-portrait camera gets the funding it's looking for.

The original IMAGO1to1 walk-in camera was built in Munich in 1970 by inventor...

Daughter of Google CEO shares rare photos she captured in restricted North Korea

 
 

Vacation, it clearly was not. Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, recently took a trip to North Korea with Bill Richardson, former Governor and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and her father, and captured some rare photos of the closed-off country.

Sophie shared the photos of the...

Spanning the globe with some of the best travel photography of 2012

 
 

A British photographer has won the title of "Travel Photographer of the Year" for what contest organizers describe as his captivating images of "wet, miserable, dank weather."

How very British of him!

Seriously though, Craig Easton's visually compelling images (such as the first image below) won the Cutty Sark...

The Camera Bag: Gura Gear introduces Bataflae 18L travel photography backpack with laptop slot

 
 

Gura Gear added to its Bataflae line-up of camera backpacks yesterday with the new, portable Bataflae 18L ($349) pack for travel photographers. The 18L is the smallest in the Bataflae line but still has enough room to cary multiple, full-size professional digital SLR or medium format bodies, a 300mm lens and up to a...

Here’s your chance to become a National Geographic photographer

 
 

If you've ever fantasized about going on assignment as a National Geographic photographer, it's now time to act on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. WorldNomads.com and the National Geographic Channel have a new eight-day scholarship program that will select one lucky amateur photographer to travel to Oman -- located on...

The birth of travel photography: Du Camp and Flaubert’s 1849 trip to Egypt, North Africa and the Middle East

 
 

One of my favorite photography stories is about one of the world’s first travel shoots. It's a little-known, true-life adventure that puts Indiana Jones to shame. I discovered the tale years ago at a flea market when I bought an old, yellowed paperback titled "Flaubert in Egypt."
 
The book is composed of excerpts from...