Canon tempts mobile snappers with two new PowerShot compacts

With smartphone cameras improving all the time, spending money on compact cameras seems less and less attractive. Nevertheless, major players like Nikon and Canon are still releasing them, and the latter has just updated a couple of its G-ser… Continue reading Canon tempts mobile snappers with two new PowerShot compacts

Visions of a future city in the 2019 Urban Photography Awards

This year’s CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition asked photographers to envision life in a city of the future. Spanish photographer Alfonso BĂ©jar took out the grand prize with a glorious shot of Valencia’s futurist City of Arts and… Continue reading Visions of a future city in the 2019 Urban Photography Awards

Sublime snaps from the 2019 Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist

Entering its 11th year the Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year is easily one of the world’s most impressive annual astrophotography competitions. This year’s shortlist highlights an exceptional variety of entries including a… Continue reading Sublime snaps from the 2019 Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist

GDome Mobile lets smartphones take "split shots"

You know those cool photos that are half-above the surface of the water, and half-below it? They’re called split shots, and a new underwater housing is designed to let you take them using a wide variety of smartphones…
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Google team's clever tech eliminates face distortion in wide-angle photos

Correcting wide-angle face distortion without ruining the rest of the picture is a tricky problem, but ...

No, it’s not just a simple distortion correction filter. A Google research team has been working on eliminating the face-stretching distortion you get from wide angle lenses, without the ugly bending of perspective lines you get by applying regular distortion filters, The team has presented an algorithm at SIGGRAPH 2019 that does just that.

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Dreamlike shot of Greenland village wins 2019 Nat Geo Travel Photo Contest

Grand Prize winner / 1st Place - Cities. "Upernavik is a fishing village on a tiny ...

A beautiful, almost dreamlike, shot of a tiny fishing village in Greenland has won the Grand Prize in this year’s National Geographic Travel Photo Contest. Chinese photographer Weimin Chu spent nearly a week in the tiny, tranquil town before capturing the immediately iconic, award-winning shot.

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Gallery: Aerial photography turns large-scale farming into abstract art

We’ve all had that surreal experience of looking down out of the window from a plane and suddenly seeing familiar environments from completely new and strange perspectives. This gallery features the work of several photographers who turn larg… Continue reading Gallery: Aerial photography turns large-scale farming into abstract art

Air Pix delivers a cheap selfie drone with full autonomous mode

A few years ago the selfie drone was a fascinating novelty and the AirSelfie was one of the more interesting iterations on the idea. Now the company has released its newest design, the AIR PIX, which is cheaper than ever and finally incorpora… Continue reading Air Pix delivers a cheap selfie drone with full autonomous mode

The Iceberg Series chronicles the sublime shapes of Greenland's sea ice

These incredible iceberg images investigate Tom Hegen's fascination with the shapes, texture and appearance of broken ...

A new series of photographs from award-winning aerial photographer Tom Hegen explores the abstract beauty in icebergs. Shot off the west coast of Greenland, Hegen’s work captures the majesty of these giant white castles.

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