September 2014
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Lake Superior: Three Favorite Destinations
(© Ian Plant) Lake Superior is the largest of the five Great Lakes of North America, and is the largest freshwater...
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A Stormy Night
Photographing lightning is difficult. The main problem is being in the right place at the right time. You don't want to be in the storm, as you're likely to get wet, and risk being struck by lightning. You need to get a distant view of the storm, which means anticipating where a storm might go, finding a viewpoint, and hoping that the lightning doesn't dissipate before everything comes together. I can't tell you how many times I've set up my camera looking toward a distant storm, only to watch the lightning fizzle out.
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Behind The Shot: Social Scrum
Tony Wu describes how he made this dramatic sperm whale photo in the Indian Ocean, off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka
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Summer Travel Assignment Winner Doug Croft
Congrats to Doug Croft for winning the Summer Travel Assignment! “We took a tour through the Alps in June 2014...
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Boinx Introduces FotoMagico 4.5 to Support Growing 4K Movement
FotoMagico 4 by Boinx Software helps you create multimedia slideshows, mixing photos and videos to present your work to clients...
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“The Lizard” by Brian Klimowski
The Coyote Buttes is perhaps the most well-known part of the 280,000-acre Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, on the border of...
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Seeing Subjects
OP recently put out a story called Seeing Science, written by Amy Gulick and featuring images by Frans Lanting. Needless...
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Into The Sun Assignment Winner Bob Larson
Congrats to Bob Larson for winning the Into The Sun Assignment! “I first discovered this area of the Granite Dells...
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SanDisk Introduces Quick High-Capacity microSD UHS-I card
SanDisk has announced a 64GB SanDisk Extreme PRO microSDXC UHS-I card. With a high storage capacity, U3 rating and transfer...
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Lexar’s 300MB/s Pro SDHC/SDXC Cards
Lexar has announced their new series of Professional 2000x SDHC/SDXC UHS-II cards that offer up to 300MB/s read transfer speeds....
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Argraph Sirui 3T-35 Series Table-Top Tripod Kit
Argraph’s Sirui 3T-35 series Table-Top Tripod Kit folds down to 9.5″ and comes with an attached belt hook for easy portability....
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Hasselblad Announces WiFi Enabled H5D-50c Camera
Earlier this year Hasselblad launched the H5D-50c digital medium format camera using Sony’s 50-megapixel CMOS sensor. Now the company is...
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Phase One and ALPA of Switzerland Announce Partnership For New Fine Art Camera System
With a desire to create a compact medium format camera solution, Phase One and ALPA Capaul & Weber Ltd. have...
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Panasonic Announces Two New Micro Four Thirds Lenses
Panasonic has introduced two new lenses. The LUMIX G 14mm f/2.5 II ASPH is a single focal length lens with...
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Special Capture One Software Developed for Selected Sony Cameras
In cooperation with Sony, Phase One has developed a special version of Capture One Express software that will be available...
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Phase One Releases Capture One Pro 8 Software
Phase One has added several features to the new Capture One Pro 8 software. Familiar tools such as Clone &...
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Panasonic Announces LUMIX DMC-LX100 Compact Camera
Panasonic has delivered pro level functionality in a compact and easy to operate design with the LUMIX DMC-LX100 compact camera....
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Panasonic Announces LUMIX DMC-GM5 Mirrorless Camera
With a magnesium alloy body, the new 16-megapixel Digital Live MOS sensor LUMIX DMC-GM5 by Panasonic uses a Venus Engine...
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Sigma Announces dp1 Quattro and LVF-01 View Finder
Sigma has announced that the dp1 Quattro, with fixed 19mm f/2.8 lens and unique Foveon sensor, will be available starting...
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Fat Stacks of Cheddar
“Gonna make some mad cheddar yo. Fat stacks, dead presidents, cash money. We’re gonna own this city.”—Jesse Pinkman (Breaking...