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Over the course of the last two years, photographer Brendon Wainwright has kept his camera trained on Table Mountain National Park in Cape Town, South Africa. The resulting time-lapse video is comprised of a whopping 7,530 individual frames and showcases the stunning geography as well as the dynamic weather and...

 

 

Spencer Cox has written an article about looking "Beyond the Obvious Shot" for Photography Life. Some landmarks are so famous that many photographers visit them and they all capture similar images. To try and capture unique images, Cox says that you often have to, perhaps quite literally, go the extra mile.

Many...

 

 

by IR Reader Peter K. Burian

One of my favorite locations in the Southwestern US, Valley of Fire State Park in Nevada is particularly beautiful in early morning and late evening, when the sandstone formations virtually glow when lit by the warm light of the sun. Prior to one visit in early March, I decided to...

 

 

"The art of street and urban landscape photography is often strenuous and lonely, and for the most part unrewarding from a monetary standpoint," says New York City-based photographer Alvin Valentierra in an article he wrote for the Huffington Post. So why do it? For Alvin, it's a therapeutic way to express himself....

 

 

Congratulations on your new Canon DSLR! This new camera will enable you to take gorgeous photos for years to come. 

Many folks purchasing a new camera pay little heed to lenses, treating them as an afterthought. But with the right lineup of lenses, you'll be able to capture wide-open landscapes, gorgeous...

 

 

Great news, Sony A7 II owners: New firmware is coming very soon that will gift some important features from the higher-res flagship Sony A7R II to your own camera. (In fact, it's good news even if you don't already own the affordable A7 II yet. At US$1,700 new or as little as $1,360 used, the full-frame shooter...

 

 

Alongside the SP 45mm f/1.8 VC lens we reviewed earlier, Tamron also introduced a wider 35mm lens -- the SP 35mm f/1.8 VC. After testing the longer version, with very pleasing results, we were excited to take the 35mm prime out for a spin and put it to the test in our lab. The Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 VC is a rather...

 

 

French photographer Mathieu Stern just kicked off a new video series called "The Weird Lens Challenge." In this series, Stern will be using "only the weird lenses, the old, the crazy ones" and mounting them to a mirrorless camera.

His first antique optic for the series is a 1910 folding camera lens, an Eastman...

 

 

Glancing at our most popular cameras this morning over coffee I couldn't help but notice one rather interesting fact. While the list is populated by a variety of camera types from fixed lens zooms to ILC's, and by a variety of sensor sizes ranging from 1" all the way up to 35mm, they all share one common aspect...

 

 

National Geographic confirmed today that 180 employees are being laid off. This layoff amounts to 9% of the company's workforce. 21st Century Fox acquired a controlling stake in NatGeo less than two months ago for $725 million.

While details are scarce, former National Geographic photo editor Sherry L. Brukbacher...

 

 

We thought the megapixel war was over, or at least winding down some. But then earlier this year Canon surprised the photo world with a pair of 50.6-megapixel full-frame DSLRs! The Canon 5DS R and 5DS cameras serve a more specialized segment of the market: those photographers demanding high-resolution images for...

 

 

Getting high-quality images in low light may soon become easier as a team of engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a flexible silicon phototransistor which they claim could lead to improved image quality in low light conditions. In addition, the new silicon phototransistor could help to...

 

 

Underwater photographer Keith Ellenbogen and MIT theoretical physicist Allan Adams might seem unlikely partners, but the pair have just teamed up to produce high-speed videos for the New England Aquarium. If the early results are anything to go by, that's very good news for ocean research!

The two met at a dinner...

 

 

As photographers, we all strive to improve our work and capture the best images we can. But can we try so hard that we lose sight of what makes photography such an enjoyable endeavor? An insightful post by photographer Eric Kim on his blog (warning, NSFW language) offers sage advice on how to ensure that you don't...

 

 

AnOther Magazine's Sam Johnson has written an excellent article that gives an overview of seven unsung heroines of photography, all of whom lived and worked in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The impetus for the article is an exhibit being held in Paris, France until January 24th, 2016 which highlights...

 

 

When we first came up with the idea of posting reader stories, a big part of our thinking was that IR readers would almost certainly have some unique experiences and perspectives to share. This piece by legally-blind photographer and IR reader Mark Nicol goes beyond anything we'd expected, though.

For most of us,...

 

 

Thanks to the astronomers at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum in Germany, you can now view a 46-billion pixel image of the Milky Way. This massive new image is currently the largest image of space ever created!

The image, which was created using 268 separate sections, each of which was captured over the course of...

 

 

While visiting Seattle with his wife, New Orleans-based professional photographer and real estate agent Anthony Posey accidentally left his camera in the downtown Seattle Public Library. Although he realized his mistake within a few minutes, the camera and the 1,700 images on the card were gone.

Within...

 

 

I've been using the Panasonic 42.5mm f/1.2 Nocticron lens with the Panasonic GX8 that I am field testing and wow, this lens is impressive! The lens itself has an all-metal construction, a very smooth focus ring, and even a built-in aperture ring near the front of the lens barrel. The lens has a nice 67mm filter...