Apolis Transit Issue Camera Strap
Apolis worked with expert local leather craftsmen to create this beautiful handmade camera strap ($98), perfect for your vintage film camera, or to bring some warmth to your digital camera. The strap can be adjusted for carrying a camera around your neck or over your shoulder and is composed of 100% USA sourced materials. Additionally, [...]
Inspired By The Night
A nocturne is usually a musical composition that is inspired by the night. Wikipedia writes that “the name nocturne was first applied to pieces in the 18th century, when it indicated an ensemble piece in several movements, normally played for an evening party and then laid aside … Nocturnes are generally thought of as being [...]
The Easy Way To Send Big Files In Style
The photography of GAT co-founder Peter Nitsch of a cable wire in Bangkok is up on WeTransfer! This photo is dedicated to the electricity and telecommunications cables in Bangkok that seems to carry on their own uncontrolled and chaotic lives above the heads of passers-by. At the same time those cables seem to have virtually [...]
Leaving Gaza By Andrew McConnell
Leaving Gaza by photographer Andrew McConnell documents the now 23 surfers – each with their own surfboard and others who borrow boards when they can – documenting their life in a region where the common narrative is conflict and daily life is marked by constant struggle surfing offers a means of escape. “Their Freedom of [...]
Leica M Monochrom Camera
Will this be the future of monochrome digital photography? One can’t ignore that countless iconic black-and-white photographs have been shot with the legendary cameras of the Leica M-System. But will the Leica M Monochrom ($8.000), a black and white only camera with the same body style as the M9, really make the cut? Leica’s niche [...]
Forests By Andrea Altemüller
Whilst staying in the south of Thailand, German photographer Andrea Altemüller would often take long walks in an ancient pine forest to be found close to a temple. “During my walks, the forest would always feel other wordly, somehow dream-like in my perception. I set about to capture this quality with my camera, an inspiration [...]
Light Illusions Using Highly Complex Pyrotechnics
In this photography series Explosion by Joschi Herczeg and Daniele Kaehr, the artistic duo create light illusions using highly complex pyrotechnics. They built a custom-made detonator, which is connected to the cameras and synchronized to snap a photo at the very moment of the explosion. Their bio describes, “In this way, they were able to [...]
Are You Really My Friend?
Photographer Tanja Hollander is interested in how we define friendship and who we let into our private yet very public online lives. So she’s set out to make portraits of all of her Facebook friends (626 when she started the project) in their homes, which are scattered around the country and the world. What started [...]
The Instagram Socialmatic Concept Camera
Since Facebook has bought Instagram for nearly a billion dollars in cash and stock, many users, bloggers, economy experts have thought Instagram could build its first real photo camera. Imagine to pick the Instagram App icon and now imagine it as real camera. This is the main idea of ADR Studio at the base of [...]
iRelease Your Digital Model Release Solution On-The-Go
What is a model release form worth? This one page document can provide you peace of mind, legal protection and increase revenue for your work. Usually this is some extra time of work on your tight photography schedule. But there are some good news: No more paperwork, yeah! If you’re a professional photographer, streamlining your [...]
Versatile Smartphone Tripod Mount Accessory
The Capta ($34.99) is a versatile smartphone tripod mount accessory combining the features of a tripod mount, a phone stand, and a cable management system. It’s for those who take smartphone photography a little more seriously than others. The tripod’s specially formulated pad sticks to the back of your phone for a secure hold at [...]
The Battle We Didn’t Choose
Photographer Angelo Merendino documents his wife’s tragic battle with cancer. Merendino writes about his moving The Battle We Didn’t Choose documentation: “In September of 2007, I married the girl of my dreams. Five months later, Jennifer was diagnosed with Stage 3B Breast Cancer. Completely numb and in a state of disbelief, we entered the world [...]
The iPhone Shutter Grip
Developed by Photojojo, the iPhone Shutter Grip ($40) adds a shutter button and a friendly grip to your iPhone. Since you don’t have to tap your iPhone’s screen you’ll have less shake in your low light iPhoneography pics. And you can shoot without worrying about your phone slipping out of your hands! The device also [...]
Test: Capture The Moment With Nero Multi Trigger
I am completely fascinated by this versatile device for photographers to take special photographs by triggering your SLR or external flash. The Nero MultiTrigger has been designed based on microcontroller technology. For my test of the porcelain statue drop of a German Shepherd Dog I have chosen the extremely sensitive Sound Trigger function with 100 [...]
Little Bramper – Smooth Exposure Control For DSLR Time-Lapse
“One of the main problems facing time-lapsers is how to adjust exposure during the course of the time-lapse. The normal modes of a digital SLR only allow the exposure to be changed in relatively large steps – causing very unpleasant exposure jumps in the resulting time-lapse. Find a sunset time-lapse on youtube and you’ll probably [...]
What’s In My Bag (On-The-Go)
Peter Nitsch‘s background is located back in the early eighties of the German Skater scene. Nitsch has won several international awards both as designer (New York Festival, BDA …) and photographer (Los Angeles International Photography Award, Hasselblad Masters semifinalist …). Furthermore he is co-founder of ‘get addicted to … DAILY MIX OF CREATIVE CULTURE’. Often being [...]
Rewilding By Cass Bird
Over the past ten years, Cass Bird has established herself as one of the foremost portraitists of contemporary America. Her photographs of young women and men casually draw attention to the fluid expression of gender roles and androgyny in today’s youth culture, and to what she has described as “the convergence of alternative lifestyles with [...]
Giant 6mm Nikkor Fisheye For $160k
According the British Journal of Photography and Amateur Photographer a rare extreme wide-angle Nikkor Fisheye lens goes on sale for $160k. This lens can look backwards! Grays of Westminster lists the details of the auction as the following: “Nikon stunned the photographic world at Photokina in 1970 by introducing a 220 º fisheye Nikkor with [...]
One Third – A Project On Food Waste
“I am the sugar at the bottom of the English cup of tea. I am the sweet tooth, the sugar plantations that rotted generations of English children‘s teeth. There are thousands of others beside me that are, you know, the cup of tea itself. Because they don‘t grow it in Lancashire, you know. Not a [...]
The Brooklyn Camera Bag
Inspired by the classic 1940s school bag, the handcrafted premium Brooklyn Camera Bag ($309, 100% vegetable-tanned leather) by Ona bags is a vegetable-tanned leather camera bag that’s designed to protect an SLR with an attached lens and up to 3 additional lenses or small accessories. A slit pocket along the back of the bag is [...]
Los Angeles By Skateboard
Ian Flanigan‘s Los Angeles by Skateboard series can be seen as a reminiscence on the art of objet trouvé, a form of found art. This used to be an art movement founded by Marcel Duchamp which uses undisguised, but often modified, objects that are not normally considered art materials, except that Flanigan did not pick up [...]
The All-In-One Camera Connection Kit For iPad
Forget Apple’s official iPad camera connection kit, with its separate USB and SD card slots. This little buddy gadget by M.I.C. (Made-In-China) lets you transfer files via CF up to 600x speed, SD cards up to Class 10, microSD and USB all in one dongle. According to the product description, M.I.C. have been able to overcome [...]
Truly Cinematic – Blackmagic Cinema Camera
This is what I call a sophisticated and truly cinematic camera with the latest digital cinema technology giving your work a timeless feature film look. Blackmagic Cinema Camera’s ($2,995) hand held design features a machined aluminum chassis, interchangeable optics, high resolution 2.5K sensor, 13 stops of dynamic range and uncompressed 12-bit RAW uncompressed and compressed [...]
Three-Dimensional Sculptures By Hong Sung Chul
1969 born Korean artist Hong Sung Chul, represented by HADA Contemporary in London, is using various media and modern technology. Hong’s current body of work revives his string concept – a visual representation of what ties humans together from the earliest stage of life – the umbilical chord. Gallery owner Tom Woo and Tony Pontone [...]
