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If you like to live life a little dangerously, the folks over at DIY Photography have just published an article that might be of interest to you and your digital camera. If, on the other hand, you find yourself altering your path to avoid walking under ladders and crossing paths with black cats, you may just want to don your...

Ever since Adobe's announcement that Creative Suite was to become Creative Cloud two weeks ago, a sizeable portion of the web has been in uproar over its new subscription-only pricing.

There are certainly plenty of Adobe customers who buy most or all of the Creative Suite and upgrade at every release, and they're thrilled because they...

 

 

Capping off its earlier announcement that it would purchase photo blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion, Yahoo also unveiled a complete redesign for its Flickr photo sharing service, including offering 1-terabyte of free storage space for users. Yahoo's announcement came at a press event in New York City...

 

 

Clipping Magic is a website that has been making some waves over the last few days for doing one thing simply and extremely well: clipping images. It's a single-serving web app to which you upload your image, broadly mark the foreground and background areas, and out comes a handy, clipped PNG for you to play...

Want to improve your photos and unleash your creativity, all in one fell swoop? As the folks at the popular Strobist blog will tell you, off-camera flash can take your photography to the next level. Photography is all about capturing light, and the more of it you can put on your subject, the more the camera has to work with -- but...

 

 

Yahoo! has announced its plans to acquire popular photo blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion in a move that has many photographers who use the service worried. In an announcement on her own Tumblr page, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer said "we promise not to screw it up," and in a nod to Tumblr's particular style,...

 

 

What is it about GoPro cameras that make them so appetizing to wild animals? In February, we showed you this crazy clip of a lion munching on a GoPro mounted on a miniature robotic tank.

Now, here's a Grizzly trying to make a snack out of naturalist and wildlife documentarian Brad Josephs' GoPro, which he had set...

 

 

It's Monday and that means the start of a whole new week full of camera deals. We've found a handful of great camera bargains, but be sure to check back on the site regularly for more discounts.

• Canon PowerShot ELPH 520 HS - $110 (compare to $280) - Free Shipping
  Best Buy is offering a great low price...

Earlier this week, French software company DxO Labs released an update to its flagship Optics Pro workflow app, right on its regular monthly schedule. Compared to the preceding release, DxO Optics Pro adds support for a number of new camera models including the Canon Rebel T5i, as well as adding a vast selection of new lens modules. It...

A month before public availability of its controversial, subscription-only Creative Cloud product line, including the next-generation Photoshop CC, Adobe has issued a release candidate version of the Photoshop Camera Raw 8 plug-in. As the company promised at the Creative Cloud launch, Camera Raw 8.1 also compatible with the existing...

 

 

The winners of the 4th International Earth and Sky Photo Contest were announced this week and there are some amazing shots of the night sky and the surrounding landscape. The contest was created by The World at Night (TWAN) in conjunction with Global Astronomy Month and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory...

 

 

In six short, excellent videos from the George Eastman House -- each about three to six minutes long -- the history of film photography is told in terms of the processes behind it, from the Daguerreotype to gelatin silver prints. The Eastman House staff, led by Alison Nordstrom, senior curator of photographs, takes...

 

Desert aurora over Death Valley National Park, California on March 17th. 2013. Believed to be related to a CME (Coronal Mass Eruption) solar event that night, which likely triggered what we see. (Photo by Gavin Heffernan)

Normally, to catch a view of the aurora, you either need to be pretty far in the Northern...

 

 

Think Tank Photo's newest addition to their line is an enormous, wheeled bag suitable for carting just about every piece of gear you own out to a shoot with you. The new Logistics Manager 30 is a $500 rolling gear bag, with more than 3,500 cubic inches of storage. It features an expansive inner with customizable...

 

 

It's Friday! We hope everyone has some great plans for the weekend and you're hopefully able to work a little photography into the mix. We've found a handful of great camera deals to start your weekend off right, but be sure to check back on the site regularly for more deals.

• Canon T4i with 18-55mm &...

 

 

Photographer Zach Rose of Driftwood Photography has made his Instagram account massively popular by putting a unique spin on photographs of pets and their owners. Rather than just snapping a cute shot of someone holding their cat, Rose instead uses an innovative combination of forced perspective and multiple...

At its annual Google I/O developers conference, search giant Google unveiled its latest feature updates for the Android operating system, Chrome browser, Google Plus social networking service and more.

Although there were quite a few changes in Android and Chrome that will have a positive impact for both developers and end-users, there...

 

 

Indonesian photographer Hengki Koentjoro spends hours underwater armed with a digital SLR and a pair of flippers but his love of photography began on land with the spectacular American vistas captured by Ansel Adams.

"Ansel Adams is an inspiration for me," Koentjoro has said. "I’ve been studying and learning his...

The Olympus PEN E-PM2 just may be one of the most ideal compact system cameras for budding photographers looking to step up into a more sophisticated, interchangeable-lens system.

The E-PM2 is slightly smaller, lighter and more affordable than its fraternal twin, the E-PL5 -- which we also recently reviewed. It also features a less...