Where I am in the UK, each year, there’s a big battle between the supermarkets over who makes the best Christmas ads. Much of the population waits for them to appear in order to praise or criticise. It’s abit like the Superbowl commercials in the USA. But UK supermarkets aren’t the only ones making great […]
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe is tasked with the mission of obtaining a sample of 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. Discovered in September 1999, Bennu has a 1-in-2,700 chance of hitting Earth at some point. But, if it does, it’ll happen long after we’re all gone at some point between 2175 and 2199. OSIRIS-REx arrived at […]
So, with Fuji, Sony and now GoPro picking up the “we’ll just add new features in future firmware” trend, it looks like this is just the way of things now. GoPro’s announcement today adds a few features to the GoPro Fusion, increasing functionality for filmmakers and 360 content creators. There’s also a new Fusion Studio […]
To those who follow my work closely, you may know that I consider myself a large format photographer. I will photograph with a medium format camera, particularly when Im trying to save weight on a backpacking trip or save time when Im teaching a photography workshop, but 35mm has been somewhat shunned in my arsenal, […]
Nature can often present us with some rather wonderful and rare sights. Sights such as spinning ice circles in slow-moving rivers. One particularly giant and impressive example popped up in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine recently. Fortunately for those of us who live nowhere near Maine, Todd McKee, founder of Bulldog Aerials, managed to […]
Photographer Andrew McCarthy has recently published a breathtaking image of the Solar System. The photo is a composite made from the images he took, but what makes it even more impressive is that all the photos were taken from his own backyard. Andrew shared some details with DIYP and explained how he got all the […]
Photographer Hugh Lloyd recently had his gear stolen at Rome Ciampino airport in Italy. And as if it werent bad enough, in his gear bag there were memory cards with all the photos of his friends wedding. The distressed couple has made a public plea to the thieves to at least return the memory cards, […]
Architectural photography is something that many of us try at some point in our photographic lives. I certainly have, on a number of occasions, although the results have never really been that good. No doubt I’ll give it another go the next time I find myself in some beautiful town or city. But this time, […]
