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Climber, photographer, and videographer Tim Kemple travelled to Iceland alongside ice climbers Klemen Premrl and Rahel Schelb to photograph the pair climbing massive walls and cliffs of ice. SmugMug Films came along for the ride to document Kemple's adventure and the resulting short film, Climbing Ice - The Iceland...

 

 

Fine art photographer Stephen Wilkes' work has been featured in National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, and more. He has taken on many projects throughout his career, but his latest work has been the Day to Night project, which he began in 2009.

Day to Night is a body of work that includes images...

 

 

While digital is how most of us do our photography these days, film still holds a special charm for many. Once consequence of the digital revolution, though, is that really prime film-era gear can be had for a song online. 

Freelance photographer Daniel Sawyer Schaefer has written a guide to buying and shooting...

 

 

Portrait photographers know how difficult it can be to work with strobes in the studio and shoot at wide apertures. Patrick Hall has written an article and recorded a video that discusses some techniques for capturing portraits with a shallow depth of field inside of a studio environment. Hall is a South...

 

 

In addition to their impressive Experience Center in Southern California, Canon USA has once again expanded its customer service footprint with the opening of a new Customer Support Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Amongst their five existing Service and Support Centers along the East Coast, West Coast and in the...

 

 

Rob Whitworth has created a video for Turkish Airlines that utilizes his signature flow motion style. The video takes us on a fast-paced trip through Istanbul. Utilizing zooms, twists, and turns, Whitworth creates a dynamic advertisement that tempts anyone who sees it to hop on the next plane to Istanbul. 

If...

 

 

As you're probably aware, Imaging Resource supports itself with the ads you see above and to the right of this story. Those are very important for us, but you can support our effort more directly by using the purchase links for our retail partners (B&H Photo, Amazon, and Adorama) on our site.

It doesn't cost you...

 

 

Auction site eBay is home to both the mundane and magnificent; we'd put this item closer to the latter, for photo history buffs with healthy pocketbooks.

The Nikon FM2 was a truly legendary camera, renowned for its ruggedness and appreciated for its battery-less operation. In its heyday (1982-2001), it was the...

 

 

EEVblog takes us on a humorous journey through time as Dave Jones breaks down a Chinon Genesis II camera. Although the video is funny, it also provides a lot of insight into camera technology.

The Chinon Genesis series was a bridge camera available from 1988 until the early 1990s. The Genesis featured a built-in...

 

 

Dzvonko Petrovski over at Light Stalking has an article discussing the use of photo sharing sites as portfolios.

Websites and platforms such as 500px (which does offer a premium personalized portfolio service), DeviantArt, Flickr, Instagram, and Facebook can act as social networks for photographers. Instagram and...

 

 

Breakthrough Photography is ramping up their production of their new X3 circular polarizer (CPL) with a Kickstarter campaign. The San Francisco-based research and manufacturing startup claims that the X3 CPL is "the world's sharpest and most color neutral circular polarizer."

In addition to their...

 

 

Want a really compact full-frame camera with oodles of resolution? If so, chances are the Sony A7R II is at the top of your shopping list, and for good reason: The svelte frame of Sony's Alpha camera line flagship boasts a whopping 42.4-megapixel resolution, and as you may have seen in my recent first field...

 

 

For Ian Ruhter, photography is a very hands-on activity. He captures photographs using a wet plate collodion process. Wet plate collodion photography began in the mid-19th century. The nature of the process requires that images must be exposed and developed in a matter of minutes, or else the collodion will dry. As...

 

 

Australian photographer Leanne Cole has great tips and tricks in her 10 Tips for Better Landscape Photography article on Digital Photography School. 

Cole's first tip is to work the scene. What she means by this is that you shouldn't take a shot or two and then be on your way. Instead, you should study the scene...

 

 

Providing subtle improvements to the original X-A1, the newer Fujifilm X-A2 maintains its spot as Fuji's entry-level X-series interchangeable lens camera. Offering minor updates like a 180-degree tilting screen, more film simulation presets and increased battery life, the X-A2 boasts an affordable level of entry...

 

 

While they weren't trained photographers, the astronauts on the Apollo 15 mission were nonetheless tasked with capturing images in space and on the surface of the moon. Using specialized Hasselblad cameras, the three astronauts on the mission all captured a large variety of images.

In the video below, you can see...

 

 

Leica has announced a new two-tone gray version of their Leica D-Lux (Typ 109) camera. Both the camera body and the lens are now finished in gray, with the lens and dials gaining a silver finish while the body itself has a darker enamel gray finish.

From Leica's product page for the new gray D-Lux (Typ 109): "In...

 

 

We've probably all had the experience of a chance happenstance taking us down a road we had no idea was there. It might be a random encounter with a stranger, or possibly even coming across some object or artifact that reveals a whole history behind it.

That was the case recently for our senior lens technician...

 

 

Photographer and designer Tony Catalano has created an interactive webpage that lets the user interact with shutter speed, aperture, and ISO sensitivity to see how it affects the image. You can also put the camera into shutter speed or aperture priority.

This tool is particularly useful for beginners trying to...