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Last week, we kicked off this new weekly series, 'In Other News.' The series highlights interesting stories from around the photo world. This week, Adorama has a new contest with a great prize package. Nikon might be in trouble. Joe Biden's official photographer gives a great interview. Facebook improves its photo...
Facebook and RED Cinema announced a partnership to create the world's first commercially available camera to capture scenes with six degrees of freedom (6DOF), the next generation of virtual reality. Facebook has had their feet in the door of this space for quite some time, especially after the acquisition of Oculus. Now...
If you've hired a wedding photographer and it didn't work out to your satisfaction, and you have the urge to go on an online hate campaign, you might want to think again. In a recent court ruling in Dallas, Texas, local wedding photographer Andrea Polito was recently awarded $1.08 million as a result of a defamation...
Facebook strips metadata from photographs and images when you upload them. The popular social site has not officially commented on this, but there are some potentially good reasons for their doing so. The site is used by over a billion people per day and many of them upload photos with potentially private information,...
Facebook is constantly researching new technology and sometimes it release the results of its efforts to the public for coders to work with. Facebook released three of its image identification algorithms recently in a move that they hope will "help rapidly advance the field of machine vision."
Users of the social media...
Dzvonko Petrovski over at Light Stalking has an article discussing the use of photo sharing sites as portfolios.
Websites and platforms such as 500px (which does offer a premium personalized portfolio service), DeviantArt, Flickr, Instagram, and Facebook can act as social networks for photographers. Instagram and...
Almost five years after Instagram launched and just nine months after announcing it had reached 300 million users, Instagram has announced it has officially hit the 400 million user mark.
This landmark achievement comes on the heels of the announcement that the Facebook-owned photo sharing site was opening up its ad platform to all, further...
In the age of the internet and always-connected devices true privacy (and anonymity) is becoming harder and harder to come by. Thankfully, more often than not, there are means by which we can protect our privacy and adhere to anonymity through the removal of data; particularly geolocation and other information integrated into the metadata of many of...
Earlier this year, we shared with you PixBuf, an online platform that helps you simplify the process of sharing your images across multiple social networks, most notably Facebook, Flickr, 500px and Twitter.
Towards the end of the article we mentioned PixBuf would soon be releasing a built-in analytics tool to help you get an overview of how your...
Moments ago, Instagram announced it’s releasing Instagram 7.0, an update that will further help users connect with and explore the world around them. Both the Explore section and the Search section of Instagram’s apps have received a major overhaul the includes a new list of trending Tags and Places, and a more robust search that better finds the...
Facebook has unveiled Moments, a new standalone mobile app that’s meant to simplify the process of building and sharing collaborative photo albums.
Available for both iOS and Android, the app groups together photographs from your smartphone using time, people and location. Using Facebook’s facial recognition technology, the app can automatically...
If you’re a constant user of social media, be it for personal or business reasons, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Buffer, a service designed to efficiently schedule and plan out content on a multitude of social networks.
Buffer is a wonderful resource, but the problem is it’s meant mostly for links and text...
Yesterday, Instagram announced it will soon beef up its advertising platform.
Specifically, the Facebook-owned social network said it will soon allow marketers to display multiple images inside their sponsored ads using a dedicated ‘carousel’ format. Additionly, Instagram said these advertisements will also feature a...
Creating a good hyperlapse video can be a lot of fuss. The defining feature that makes the technique so much more interesting than a simple time-lapse is camera motion, but simply moving your camera by hand or shooting from a moving vehicle isn't enough. The accelerated playback speed of hyperlapse means that even...
Cloud-based photo storage services keep popping up like dandelions in the spring. Over the past couple of weeks alone, Dropbox announced a new photo-centric service, Flickr updated its mobile apps to act more like Instagram, and Eye-Fi has even announced a service. How do you even start to figure out which one is the...
Facebook has freshly announced a new app for browsing through your news feed. Dubbed Paper, it looks to be a very different way of interacting with the things that people post on the social network. And a big part of that is that it'll take photos from being small thumbs to large, expansive, and interactive elements.
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With the two printers Canon announced earlier today -- the Pixma MG7120 and MG5520 -- the company has for the first time made photo printing an integral part of the social networking that hundreds of millions of people use daily. This is important, not only for Canon and users, but the industry as a whole. Canon's...
Nikon has announced "My Nikon World," a Facebook app that allows photographers to upload, view, and share images — and receive badges for doing so. My Nikon World is almost a social network inside of a social network, letting photographers connect, share, and participate as a microcosm inside of Facebook.
Once users...
Yesterday, Facebook announced a major new feature for the insanely popular Instagram: video. That's right, everyone's favorite photography, filtering, and image sharing network can now do all those same things, but for video footage, too.
Much like Vine, Instagram allows you to record a short set of footage, in this...
Check out the below image of the International Space Station (ISS) going past the moon. Look a bit familiar? As Star Trek's George Takei pointed out on his popular Facebook account, the ISS resembles the (fictional) USS Enterprise in this shot.
"My goodness, from this angle it looks like a certain starship I once...