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Ok, consider this aspiring photojournalists out there: what if you were asked, at the last minute, to photograph one of the biggest sports stories of the year for ESPN?

And what if you were a relative novice who had only been tapped to shoot the breaking news story because the main photographer was out of town?...

Regular readers will be familiar with Iridient Raw Developer, a raw image processor for the Mac OS operating system that we've mentioned many times over the years. Released way back in 2004, the software has just undergone its first major update in a long while, and along with it comes a brand-new name. The app is now known as Iridient Developer 2, and in addition to...

Eager to see how the Nikon V2 mirrorless or Olympus XZ2 premium compact compare perform in terms of image quality? Now's your chance: we've just posted our first test images from both cameras on their respective previews, and have added them to our Comparometer(tm) tool, so you can make direct comparisons to your favorite cameras from...

French software company DxO Labs has unveiled a new release of its flagship Optics Pro workflow software for photographers, and announced an important milestone in its production of the modules that let Optics Pro automatically correct common lens-derived image quality problems such as vignetting, aberrations and distortion. 

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"He was… a photographer of such authority and originality that his work remains a benchmark against which much of the most sophisticated contemporary photography measures itself. The pictures that he made… are seductively and deceptively simple, wholly poised, reticent, dense with experience, mysterious, and pure."...

The White House has released a new presidential portrait for Barack Obama and it has once again been shot by his official photographer, Pete Souza. Compared to Souza's much more dour first official portrait of Obama back in 2009, this new one shows the president smiling.

 

 

You can download the original image here....

Just-released firmware from Pentax today adds a new feature to its flagship APS-C DSLR, the Pentax K-5 II, as well as its low-pass filter free sibling the K-5 IIs.

Available immediately from the Pentax global website, the Pentax K-5 II v1.01 firmware update enables contrast adjustment for the rear-panel LCD monitor, allowing...

 

 

Remember that Canadian astronaut we told you about last week who was tweeting some spectacular images of earth shot from on board the International Space Station (ISS)? Well, apparently there's another astronaut shutterbug on board the ISS and he's also sharing his out-of-this-world space pix on Twitter.
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Celebrity fashion photographer Annie Leibovitz is no stranger to controversy but she may have outdone herself with her new Hurricane Sandy-themed fashion shoot for Vogue magazine. The six page shoot -- which you can see in slideshow form here -- includes an image of models in haute couture walking through the wet...

For several generations now, there's been a clear pattern to Sigma's DP-series of fixed-lens, large-sensor cameras. Each generation has had just two models, closely related and differing mostly in their choice of lens. For the first time in a half decade, the pattern has changed with the introduction of a third DP-series camera, the...

 

 

Here's a cool freebie if you're a fan of Adobe's Lightroom and you have an iPad: it's called Lightroom Magazine and it's filled with tips and tricks for Adobe's popular image management program.

Put together by Lightroom guru Scott Kelby and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, the first issue of...

 

 

The rumors are true: Canon opened its first Canon Image Square location in Calgary, Alberta, Canada yesterday. The location, however, is not a retail store at all, but more of an interactive showroom, where potential customers can touch and try Canon's latest imaging technology.

No cameras, camcorders, or...

 

 

Sigma announced the 35mm f/1.4 DG HSM "A" lens during the 2012 Photokina, the inaugural lens to its new "Art" series of lenses. Designed for an enthusiast market, the lens is also one of the first to be compatible with Sigma's new USB lens dock, allowing users to make fine-tuned adjustments to the performance of...

 

 

From more than 100,000 entries, Imaging Resource randomly selected Randy Licht of California to win a brand new Sony RX1 digital, full-frame compact camera valued at US$2,800 -- a prize graciously provided by our trusted affiliate partner and sweepstakes sponsor, Adorama.

Randy is a professional family portrait,...

Hot on the heels of the Pentax MX-1 announcement, Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells, managing editor Roger Slavens and director of development Arthur Etchells sat down with John Carlson, senior marketing manager at Pentax Ricoh Imaging to discuss the thinking behind the company's first enthusiast compact, why its latest-generation image...

Photographers shooting in raw format with digital cameras based on the Fujifilm X-Trans image sensor now have a new option for processing their images, thanks to an updated release of Phase One's Capture One utility. The update also brings new raw and tethered shooting support for several other cameras from Canon, Fuji, Olympus, and...

 

 

The fallout from Instagram's terms of service controversy last month could be worse than expected, a new report contends. According to AppStats, a statistics tool for Facebook applications, Facebook's Instagram has lost nearly half its daily users since an uproar over a proposed revised terms of use statement swept...

 

 

The 4K-shooting Canon EOS-1D C has been slowly making its way to photographers and videographers who have been showing off its mind-blowing video results at online sharing sites. The latest Canon 1D C clip to hit the Internet is the short film below, shot by videographer Ben Silberfarb, which he has posted on...

 

 

At the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Imaging Resource publisher Dave Etchells, managing editor Roger Slavens and director of development Arthur Etchells sat down with Darin Pepple, senior marketing manager at Panasonic to discuss mirrorless camera technology, the success of the GH2 and GH3...