Social media feeds are packed this week with videos of brave souls pouring ice cold buckets of water over their heads. Optimistic crowds are applauding the newsfeed takeover as a success. Pessimists criticize the phenomenon. But, photographer Anthony Carbajal has an important message for the haters: For the uninitiated, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge brings […]
It’s painful to write something about Robin Williams in the past tense. Arguably the best stand-up comedian that our generation has seen, Williams passed away in his home on August 11, 2014, leaving behind a legacy that will be hard to surpass. While fans mourn, obituaries get published, and movies which bear the stamp of […]
If you’re anything like me, at some point you’ve made the mistake of formatting a memory card full of great photos that you thought you’d already uploaded. Or lost the memory card altogether. And you’ve felt the devastation the little girl in the video below expresses after accidentally deleting one of her favorite pictures: Four-year-old […]
When something surprising happens, is your first impulse to take a picture of it? That was Dale Frink’s first response when a very wet surprise happened while out at sea: On July 2, Frink was out whale-watching when a pair of blue whales surfaced right behind him, capsizing the boat. Dale and the captain of […]
MELVILLE, NY — Today, Nikon announced the D810, the next benchmark in DSLR image quality for professional photographers and cinematographers. The D810 features a brand-new 36.3-megapixel, full-frame FX-format sensor without an optical low pass filter (OLPF) for extreme resolution and staggering dynamic range. Bolstered by Nikon’s EXPEED 4 image processing engine, the D810 delivers enhanced […]
Adobe is starting to make announcements about new features that are being added to the forthcoming version of Photoshop CC, and there’s one feature that looks especially useful. Watch this short reveal video to learn more about this exciting feature and start dreaming about how much time this will save you now that you won’t […]
Once the world’s largest shopping center, Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio now looks like it was pulled straight out of Resident Evil or The Walking Dead: Rolling Acres Mall opened in 1975 and eventually grew to house more than 140 stores before its popularity began declining due to rumors of gang violence and the loss […]
Videographer Megan Fritze illustrated a valuable lesson about the importance of location choice when shooting wedding photos during Dan and Jackie Anderson’s wedding in Crosslake, Minnesota. Take a look at what she caught on video: Not that any photographer would know the weight limits of random lake docks, but if you’re shooting a wedding party, […]
On a recent trip to Brazil, photojournalist Lee Thompson of The Flash Pack took a break from covering the upcoming World Cup to take an epic self portrait at the top of Rio’s famous Christ the Redeemer statue: The statue has been under repair after lightning damaged it in January, and Thompson somehow managed to […]
Wasatch High School in Heber City, Utah has drawn the attention of national news agencies after it Photoshopped sleeves and high necklines into some female students’ yearbook photos without telling the students or their parents they were doing so. The school argues the girls did not adhere to dress codes and their photos were too racy […]
