Photography News

Ancestry, the largest for-profit genealogy website on the planet, has integrated an automatic colorization feature that it says lets users bring make black and white photos more lifelike. The company says it already enables the ability to capture, digitize, retouch, and preserve old family photos, but it is now adding the ability to colorize them

Photographer Anthony Reed was one of the last people allowed outside in Shanghai before a draconian lockdown for Covid-19 came into place in early April. Owing to living in a compound that was one of the last to go into total lockdown, the British photographer was fortunate enough to wander the normally buzzing metropolis when

A British wildlife photographer completed the Everest marathon while wearing a tiger suit in order to raise over £100,000 ($126,198) to help protect the endangered predators. Paul Goldstein spent more than 12 hours running the grueling Everest marathon carrying the nine-foot tiger costume that weighs about 15 kilograms (about 33 pounds). The race starts at

[embedded content] Samsung’s 200-megapixel smartphone sensor has not yet made its way into a consumer device but the company has already begun hyping what it can do by printing a massive 616 square meter (2,021 square feet) photo taken with it. The 200-megapixel Samsung ISOCELL HP1 was announced last September and is the industry’s first

Marcus Yam flying on an Afghan Air Force UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter on a resupply mission in Gardez, Afghanistan, on May 9, 2021. Exactly a year later, he earned a Pulitzer for his coverage of the fall of Afghanistan. Photo by Nabih Bulos of the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times roving foreign correspondent and photojournalist

[embedded content] Insta360 has released a video celebrating the iconic F1 Monaco Grand Prix, which takes place this weekend, by using several of its cameras to film a lap of the historic circuit. The action camera company attached at least five of its lightweight cameras to the classic 1974 Ferrari 312 B3 which is piloted

The winners of the eighth international Mountain Photography Contest have been announced that features stunning images from outstandingly skilled adventure photographers. The Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea (CVCE) mountain club from San Sebastien in Spain has organized the prestigious contest for eight consecutive years, and thousands of photographers entered from around the globe. The jury

[embedded content] A posing coach and portrait photographer has a mission to help people who believe they aren’t photogenic. David Suh, from Sacramento, California, runs a course entitled “How to be Photogenic in 30 Days,” as well as sharing quick and easy tutorials from his TikTok page. @davidsuh Had this cool guy at the studio

[embedded content] To celebrate Google Street View’s 15th birthday, the tech giant has rolled out its historical Street View imagery to mobile after it was previously only available on desktop. Mobile users will now be able to view Google Street View’s historic images of the location they’re looking at, by tapping on the screen while

Rotolight has announced what it says is the world’s first electronic “SmartSoft Box” for its AEOS 2. According to materials provided to Amateur Photographer, the company says this world-first electronic “softbox” has been developed to save creatives time and money on set by allowing users to control the diffusion, focus, and spread of the light

Clearview AI is facing a £7.5 million (about $9,444,250) fine after the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found the company has broken data protection laws. The US-based Clearview AI collected more than 20 billion images of people’s faces globally to create an international online database for facial recognition. The majority of its database came

Photographers are tasked with making their subjects feel relaxed for great-looking shots, and one Canadian photographer has a novel approach to her work: asking her clients to pretend to be drunk. Myriam Ménard posted a video of herself on TikTok where she asked a couple she was photographing to walk down a hill “as if

VSCO has updated its app to include the ability to create different types of collages, an enhancement that goes beyond the typical single image editing that most know the app for. The popular mobile app says that as technology has improved and magazine cutouts have given way to digital assemblage, collage has become a mainstay

An astrophotographer is facing two years imprisonment after he admitted to defrauding and stealing from a professional photographer’s association in Australia. Formerly-respected photographer Mark Culley used his Photoshop skills to forge bank statements and financial reports to fake the signature of an accountant in order to steal a total of $16,120 over the course of

Social-media behemoth TikTok is rolling out a new feature that encourages users to credit the appropriate creator who inspired a video. A fresh button will allow TikTokers to tag, mention, and credit a video within the description of a post, TikTok says. The platform hopes that influential creators will receive the recognition they deserve. “It’s

A total lunar eclipse wowed viewers around the world this week and in one timelapse video, it can be seen dramatically cutting the light of the night sky to such a degree that the Milky Way suddenly bursts into view. The awe-inspiring video was captured by the Gemini Observatory’s All-Sky camera at its facilities in

A ringside photographer saved a boxer from a serious injury after he was sent crashing through the ropes and out of the ring following a brutal knockout. The incident happened during John ‘Scrappy’ Ramirez and Jan Salvatierra’s super flyweight bout in California’s Toyota Arena, at a Golden Boy Promotions boxing show broadcast on DAZN on

DNP has launched a new action-oriented camera system called the Action Capture. Designed for adventure-style businesses, it addresses the desire for selfie photos in environments where taking one with a smartphone might prove difficult or dangerous. DNP Imagingcomm’s Action Capture system allows revelers to press an inviting red button at the perfect moment so a

[embedded content] Dragonfish are a species of deep-sea predator and while there are many types of dragonfish, this particular bronze-colored species is incredibly rare. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) recently captured this exceedingly rare footage of a bronze-colored highfin dragonfish, or bathophilus flemingi, during a science expedition on its Western Flyer research vessel.

Adobe has announced new performance updates for Premiere Pro that include new hardware encoding support for macOS and AMD GPUs on Windows, which it says results in much faster export times. Faster Exports and Other Speed Improvements Adobe says that it dramatically improved export times on M1 and Intel-based Macs, with up to 10 times