Frustrated by numerous photo shoots in their neighborhood, the residents of Broadacres in Houston posted the signs prohibiting photography. It caused a public outcry on social networks, calling out on Broadacres Homeowners Association for such a drastic move. But, the city of Houston has now confirmed that this popular location is in the public right-of-way. Despite the residents’ attempts to ban them, the photographers are officially allowed to organize shoots in this area....

Lead by spunky frontgirl Ashley Miles, Vinyl Rhino is my favorite cover band in Frederick, Maryland. For years, they’ve rocked our bars with high energy hits from the 80’s to what’s current. Saturday night they stopped by Champions and blew the roof off the place. I was there to capture it on the newly re-released Kodak TMAX P3200. Concerts are a perfect subject for the new Kodak TMAX P3200. The film allows you to stop down in dim light and get the most performance from your lens, which is important when your grain is as big and chunky as is par for the course with 3200 ISO films....

When I think of facial recognition, things like surveillance and privacy issues are the first to spring to mind. But like most technology, facial recognition can be used for good, and that’s exactly what scientists at Colgate University are doing. They have developed an image database that uses facial recognition technology to track the seals. It’s a part of a conservation effort, making it much faster, easier, and more efficient to identify, track, study, and ultimately help the animals....

Seagate recently released NAS specific Ironwolf SSD drives. So what makes them so special that they are specifically for use in a NAS? NAS Specific stuff SSDs are great because they are much faster than older spinning hard drives because they don’t have spinning plates. Hard drives with plates spend more time looking for the information on them while SSDs can access the data much faster. The downside of SSDs is that they don’t last as long as older spinning drives....

Bogle family opened up their family sunflower farm to photographers on 20 July 2018. However, the mild boost to Bogle Seeds farm soon turned into “zombie apocalypse,” as the farm owner describes it. A few photos from the farm got viral on Instagram, which caused hordes of selfie-takers to invade the farm and cause lots of trouble for the owners. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4tZrWSK9nQ As The Globe and Mail, the family did the same thing three years ago, when they opened the farm to photographers for the first time....

A few weeks ago, I was in town and I heard a lady say to her friend “That photo you posted of Sebastian was soooooo beautiful. While you’re on maternity leave, you should totally start doing photography as a business…”. Before I write anything else, I just want to say that this is exactly the kind of thing that my friends would tell me a few years back. And it’s lovely when your friends encourage you to pursue your passion and turn it into a business....

A few months ago, the Chinese government reportedly required Shutterstock to start censoring some topics for China-based users. Some Shutterstock employees disagreed, claiming that “blacklisting” search terms wasn’t in accordance with the right of free speech. But one of the executives responded to it by basically telling them to go and work somewhere else. According to NBC News, the Chinese government asked for some sensitive topics such as “Taiwan flag” to be excluded from search results in China....

After Turbosquid and PicMonkey, stock photo platform Shutterstock has acquired another company. This time, it’s Pond5, one of the major stock video platforms in the world. Shutterstock has disclosed the details of the deal, revealing that they acquired Pond5 for $210 million. Pond5 is an online marketplace for royalty-free and editorial videos. Its customers include companies like Netflix, Disney, NBC, and BBC, to name just a few. Its collection includes 30 million licensable video clips, 1....

Sigma has today officially unveiled the new Sigma 100-400mm f/5-6.3 DG DN OS Contemporary lens, their first ultra-telephoto lens designed specifically for full-frame mirrorless cameras. It will become available in both L mount for Sigma, Panasonic and Leica L mount cameras as well as Sony E mount. They’ve also announced two new 1.4x and 2.0x teleconverters for the L mount, too. As well as a new UD-11 USB dock available in L mount and Canon EF-M mount flavours for updating your firmware and customising lens settings....

Singapore photographer and Sony Ambassador Daryl Aiden Yow was recently busted for sharing stock photos and other people’s work as his own. Yow is particularly popular on Instagram, with 104K followers at the moment of writing this and plenty of gorgeous photos. But as it was revealed that the photos aren’t his, the story went viral and even Sony responded to it. Mothership reports that Yow is a “big player” in Singapore’s Instagram scene....

Skydio has announced R1, a self-flying AI-powered drone that will follow you on your adventures. Skydio R1 is fully autonomous, equipped with 12 navigational cameras. It shoots 4K videos, and the company says it features the most advanced tracking and navigation system ever flown. Adam Bry, CEO and co-founder of Skydio, explains that the company has spent the last four years working on the technology. They have solved the problems in robotics and AI to make fully autonomous flight possible, and R1 is the result of these efforts....

Last week it was reported that 3 Canadian YouTube vloggers had died whilst swimming at the top of Shannon Falls in Squamish, British Columbia. The trio were part of content creation channel High On Life, which has a current following of 560,000 subscribers, and a further 1.1 million followers on Instagram. As the tragic news broke, so did the influx of comments across news sites and social media. What should have been an opportunity for public unity and a shared value of life, soon became a shocking and inexcusable insight into how certain people view social media influencers....

Six years after it was first introduced, Sony A7 has now been marked as discontinued. The concept lives on in its later iterations, but the original A7 is no longer available through major online camera retailers. The Sony A7 was announced in October 2013. Honestly, I wasn’t even working in this field back then nor I was much into gear (I still am not). However, even I remember the buzz this camera caused back then....

Recently, there was a report which gave astrophotographers some hope that the Sony’s “Star Eater” issue has been resolved. Still, after some new tests, it seems the problem still exists. The guys from DPReview have tested the spatial filtering in the new Sony a7R III along with Jim Kasson, and the results are not encouraging. According to their findings – Sony a7R III still eats stars. As DPReview writes, the photos they shot in the field show at least some improvement over the ones taken with the Sony a7R II....

Sony has just launched the $12,000 lightweight monster FE 400mm f/2.8 GM lens, which was rumored last year. Matt Granger got his hands on this lens to test it out and see how it performs in different situations. And not only that, but he compared it to respective Nikon and Canon lenses to see how the Sony stacks up against them. Matt used three lenses for the comparison: Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 400mm f/2....

The green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’ made world-famous by Steve McCurry’s 1985 National Geographic magazine cover has arrived in Italy after the Italian Prime Minister answered her call for help in leaving Afghanistan following the takeover of the Taliban in August. Sharbat Gula was a 12-year-old refugee when McCurry photographed her in 1984 at the Peshawar refugee camp. The rest, as they say, is history. Her haunting eyes captivated the world when National Geographic ran the image on their front cover....

Print this image on 8.5 x 11″ paper with zero margins and use as a template to create a Mini-Bouncer for your hotshoe flash (choose “original”, 595×770 size and print at 70 dpi, 99 or 100% scale on 8.5 x 11 paper). Use heavy weight photo paper or cardboard, or cut from two sheets of heavy white & black vinyl, then heat seal or glue together at folds and edges with cut up cardboard pieces sandwiched inside....

There always seems to be some controversy or other with photo competitions these days. This time, it’s two competitions. Swiss photographer, Madeleine Josephine Fierz entered the above image into two competitions. She won first prize at the Moscow International Foto Awards and second at the Fine Art Photography Awards earlier this year. The only problem was, her winning image wasn’t hers. The image, along with several others, were created by Thai photographer Sasin Tipchai....

According to Photorumors, Tamron will be releasing a 28-75mm. f/2.8 Di III RXD lens on April 27th. The company hasn’t mentioned anything about how much it’s going to cost yet. However, Sonyaddict reported in March that the pre-sale price listed in China was Y5,300.00 (about $840) on Taobao.com. If that value is accurate, it’s going to be $1,349 cheaper than Sony’s very own 24-70mm. There’s no doubt that Sony full-frame cameras have become a gamechanger in the industry in the last few years....

Even though Facebook shut down its facial recognition system, it still might get it into legal trouble. Texas Attorney General recently sued Facebook’s parent company Meta over using Texans’ biometric data without their consent. And if Texas wins the lawsuit, it could reportedly cost Meta over $500 billion. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the lawsuit against Meta on Monday. In the lawsuit, he alleges that the number of Facebook users in this state was estimated to 20....