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Ever wonder how school photographers are able to get children to smile, shot after shot after shot? Well, here's a charming short video entitled "School Portrait" about the opposite dilemma: a grumpy school photographer trying to make kids frown by telling them about the horrible things going on in the world today.

According to Wired, which interviewed the film's...

Ok, you could say we're fairly obsessed with shooting photos with our iPhone, which is why something like the iPhone Shutter Grip makes perfect sense to us.

As most iPhone users well know, there are only two basic ways to shoot a photo with Apple's phone: either touch the camera button on the screen or, if you're running iOS5, you can use the phone's "volume up" button to...

One of the pleasures of photography is the solitude it offers. When I’m shooting on the street, I am enclosed in my own Henri Cartier-Bresson photo bubble space.

Yet that space is too quiet. I want to have a soundtrack for my shooting life. Sure, I have an iPod Nano but I hate the stupid earplug cord that wraps itself annoyingly around my hands and gear. Why can’t I enjoy...

Well, we're setting another record for lateness, creeping into May and only just now getting around to voting on the POTD winners for March. Our apologies to those of you who've been waiting--we'll try to get caught up a bit with April's winners over the next week or two, but in the meantime, check out the fine photos below.

From 31 great photos, "Bella," "My Baby Girl,"...

Only three weeks after the last update shipped, Paris, France-based DxO Labs has released Optics Pro v7.2.3, keeping up the fast development pace of its flagship image processing application.

According to the official release notes, DxO Optics Pro 7.2.3 fixes the most common crashes on both Windows and Macintosh platforms, as well as some other minor issues on the Mac. It...

Ever grab the wrong lens in your bag in the heat of the moment? Yeah, join the club. Well, the folks at BlackRapid have come up with a good solution for that: the LensBling Cap System, which features easy-to-see graphics and labels giving you the focal length of the lens on the rear lens cap.

We know BlackRapid from the company's popular Camera Sling strap and its...

The Sigma 150mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO updates an existing (and now discontinued) 150mm macro, redesigning its array of lens elements and adding optical stabilization to the mix. As Sigma excels in doing, the lens plugs a hole in other manufacturers' lineups, offering a medium telephoto macro solution with integrated optical stabilization. We've run the lens through its...

Adobe has today finalized the latest updates to its DNG Converter application and Camera Raw plugin, both of which were issued as release candidate versions some eight weeks ago.

On release, Adobe has revealed that this is to be the last update of Camera Raw for Photoshop CS5. That's worth bearing in mind if you've been considering upgrading to CS6, although as new...

One of the more contentious debates to spring up from the increasing popularity of photo editing and sharing app Instagram concerns how people are capturing their images.

On the one hand, you have a group you might call Instagram "purists," who believe the whole point of the app is to shoot and share images captured with the adequate but still limited cameras in iPhones...

We got our first “new” Canon EOS 5D Mark III cameras today, the ones with the light leak fixed. You know me, I thought perhaps it would be a good idea to take one apart and see what was different. I had photos from the ‘prefixed’ 5D IIIs from a previous post, so comparison would be easy.
Let me say it here first: I knew this was going to be the fix since the first time I...

One of the main advantages of mirrorless camera designs such as those pioneered with Olympus and Panasonic's Micro Four Thirds format is that they allow more compact bodies and lenses than would be the case with a standard SLR camera. There's only so much that can be done, though, and longer lenses can be fairly bulky even for mirrorless models.

At the CP+ show last...

Created by Antonio Vicentini and entitled "The Camera Collection," this whimsical animated movie takes a minute to show the evolution and development of the modern camera.

Enjoy.

We've just posted our first test shots from the Nikon D800E, and the results are impressive. Click here to go to the Nikon D800E landing page for both JPEG and RAW samples compared to D800 output at ISO 100. We'll be posting our full set of crops soon, comparing the D800E and a few rival cameras, but feel free to take a look at all our sample shots for yourself by going to...

It’s been a while since I wrote a history article and two or three people seemed to like them. Since I’m one of those two or three people, and it’s my blog, I figured it was about time to do another one. I’ve pretty much covered the development of early cameras and lenses so it’s time to consider the way we recorded those images so other people could see them. No, I’m not...

We've written about cable/app-based devices that let you trigger your camera with your iPhone before but Triggertrap Mobile could be one of the most sophisticated yet.

Available in the iTunes App Store in a free basic version or a full version for $9.99, Triggertrap Mobile works in conjunction with a special Dongle ($9.99) and connecting cable ($9.99) to help you remotely...

You want to archive your photo collection, right? You want an onsite copy and an offsite copy, right? You know, so one disaster doesn't lead to another.

But why should you buy a bunch of external hard drives that will just sit around on a shelf?

Why not save a few bucks and just buy the bare drives and one dock like the WiebeTech UltraDock that you can plug them into...

History is the tale told by the winners and nothing proves this better than, “Prague through the Lens of the Secret Police” a collection of “surveillance” photographs taken between 1970 and 1989. Published in 2009, these are pictures made by nearly 800 secret police whose job it was to roam the streets of Prague and photograph suspicious behavior.
 
And as such, they are...

If you've been around photography for any length of time, you'll doubtless have heard some variation on the truism that it's not the camera which makes the photo, it's the photographer. The theory is that a real pro can get a great photograph no matter what gear he or she is using. A new iOSapp from Belgian developer Michael Hardaker takes this theory and runs with it,...

There have been a lot of interesting crowd-funded Kickstarter projects so far along with some more laughable ones. Add the Brydge + iPad project to the interesting category. (Actually make that the very interesting category.)

Ever since we got our iPad, we've searched high and low for a good solution for adding a keyboard to Apple's tablet so we could type more quickly....