Jack Alexander
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How The Nikon Z 9 Mirrorless Camera Came To Exist, By Those Who Created It
It’s safe to say Nikon’s Z 9 is the company’s most advanced flagship camera yet. Here, you can read into some of the unheard stories from the camera’s development process. This is the behind-the-scenes story of the Z 9 from those who made it. The demand for mirrorless over recent years has been undeniable, and Nikon has, for the first time, revealed the process it underwent, → Read More
Photographer Is Attacked in Attempted Robbery During Shoot With Newlywed Couple
A news station from downtown San Francisco is reporting that a wedding photographer was attacking while working with a couple of newlyweds. During the violent altercation, two men jumped out of a vehicle and attempted to steal the photographer’s camera. It was on the corner of California and Powell, the intersection close to the Tenderloin and south of Nob Hill and Chinatown, → Read More
Photographer Catches Polar Bears Roaming Free at Meteorological Station on Abandoned Island
In one of the most eastern part of Russian Arctic, there lies a deserted island in which polar bears have taken over. Russian photographer Dmitry Kokh has recently released a bunch of beautiful images that show the animals roaming free among the town’s buildings. The animals inhabit a meteorological station that has remained abandoned since the 1990s and is situated on an → Read More
How This Photographer Shoots Light Halos Above UK Landmarks
A photographer with a passion for long exposures has shared an insight into how he creates UFO-style light halos within his landscape images. His posts containing his work have garnered hundreds of thousands of likes on the video-sharing site TikTok. Will Ferguson, a UK-based photographer and filmmaker, has been a fan of light painting ever since he first began taking photos → Read More
Delta Airlines Now Using Hashtag in Order to Grab Rights to Use Customers' Images
In what is becoming an increasingly common practice among commercial brands, Delta Airlines has begun trying to sneakily claim image rights to any photo posted on Instagram with the hashtag #SkyMilesLife. Last year, we reported how UK food delivery company Deliveroo was encouraging users of the social media platform to use a hashtag as a means of gaining the rights to use → Read More
One of the World’s Leading Ocean Photographers Shares Results of New Nikon Mirrorless
Globe-trotting ocean photographer George Karbus shares some of his near-20 years of experience in photography, including how he found using the new Nikon Z fc, and what advice he’d give to those looking to turn professional. Karbus has come a long way since scraping together enough to buy his first point and shoot in the 90s. And it was his move to Ireland that really fueled → Read More
Testing Out the New Nikon Z FC Mirrorless Camera With One of the First Photographers to Try It
26-year-old Constantin Schiller was one of very few lucky photographers to trial the newly released Nikon Z fc. Fittingly for him, the new Nikon Z fc was shaped like the FM2 camera of the 1980s, very similar to the FE2 Schiller grew up using. Here, he shares and talks through his experience of the new Nikon camera, including a photo trip to Japan. Schiller’s passion for → Read More
Teens Sentenced in the Death of Photographer After They Pushed Log Over the Cliff Where She Took Portraits Below
The two teenagers who caused the death of a photographer after pushing a log over a cliff edge have been sentenced. Pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter, they have both been sentenced to three years in a juvenile detention center. On Labor Day last year, Jaden Churchheus and Jordan Buckley, both 17, pushed the log that landed on and killed Victoria Schafer, who was → Read More
Photojournalist's Work Shines a Light on the Suffering and Abuse of Animals Around the World
A photographer is sharing some of her most striking images of animal cruelty from various corners of the world. The heartbreaking photos show the reality of animal slaughter and the conditions animals are left in around the world. Warning: graphic content. Photojournalist Amy Jones, from Lincolnshire, UK, is one of 30 people whose works are being showcased in a new book called → Read More
App That Replicates Effect of a Disposable Camera Receives Huge Investment From Reddit Co-Founder
The new venture fund of Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has made its first investment, in that of a disposable camera app. Known as David’s Disposable, users take photos but must wait until 9am the next day to see them, in order to replicate the real effect of getting disposables developed. David’s Disposable is the brainchild of YouTuber and internet personality David → Read More
Uber-Style Photo App Snappr Lets You Book Photographers in Real-Time
After landing $10 million in Series A funds, a new app has launched which allows users to hire photographers using an Uber-style system. Initially based in cities and metropolitan areas, a photographer can be booked only hours ahead of when you need them, with some available for hire for as little as $89 each session. There have been rumors of such apps for a number of years, → Read More
A Group of Historians Is Arguing to End the Coloring and Modernization of Old Historic Photos
As per Wired, a number of historians are making calls to stop the colorization and modernization of images from decades past. Updating photos to resemble modern eras “obscures” history, they argue. An increasingly popular service over recent years, advances in technology have allowed for the colorizing of old photos and video footage, giving a fresh insight into scenes from → Read More
IKEA Uses CGI-Generated Model Instead of Real Human for Its Latest Campaign
It’s no secret that IKEA makes full use of CGI for its catalogs, but it has now gone a step further. For its latest campaign, the Swedish furniture giant used a CGI model instead of a human for IKEA Japan’s most recent advert. Featured within the campaign is CGI model Imma. The story is that she lived within an apartment for three days, which was furnished entirely with IKEA → Read More
Wedding Proposal on Brooklyn Bridge Upstaged as Photographer Collides With Cyclist
Every couple wants their engagement proposal to be memorable. But for Chris Pain and his fiancée, it may be for all the wrong reasons, after their photographer was hit by a bike on Brooklyn Bridge, disturbing the key moment, and it was all captured on video. What should have been a romantic moment for Pain and his fiancée ended up with everybody in fits of laughter. Right as → Read More
Daredevil Photographer Sits on Cargo Door to Take Pictures of Jets Flying Directly Behind Him
The Royal Saudi Air Force has released incredible footage of a photographer positioned at the edge of the cargo door of a plane, photographing fighter planes flying directly behind and giving them direction as he takes photos. It was as the rehearsal of an air show took place that the Royal Saudi Air Force arranged for popular aviation photographer Ahmed Hader to come on → Read More
Teen Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter in the Death of Photographer Killed During a Photoshoot
A 17-year-old has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in regards to the death of a photographer, who lost her life in the middle of a photoshoot after she was struck by a log at the bottom of a cliff. The teenager has now been named in the case as the one responsible for pushing the 74-pound log off the cliff. The log hit Victoria Schafer, 44, a mother of four, as she → Read More
This $3,300 Scorpion Themed Chair Is the Ultimate Experience for Editing Photos
What you’re seeing here is a scorpion-shaped chair designed for maximum comfort and productivity when editing photos and videos. The customizable chair currently retails at $3,300 and even re-adjusts so that you can work lying down. Appropriately titled the Cluvens Scorpion Computer Cockpit, it is an arachnid shaped design, right down to the fact the chair has eight legs. The → Read More
Unauthorized Photographer Passes Joe Biden's Secret Service Security Team to Gather in Press Pit by Plane
A press photographer was removed by the Secret Service after managing to find his way past security and get close to Presidential candidate Joe Biden a number of days ago. The photographer, who is yet to be named in the media, got as far as the press pool directly underneath Biden’s plane. This occurred in Pennsylvania, at Johnstown-Cambria County Airport, on Friday. The → Read More
San Diego Zoo Installs Underwater Camera to Show the Interesting Way Flamingos Eat
The San Diego Zoo has released a video of the intriguing eating process of flamingos, with the footage showing what happens underwater as they use their beaks to feed off the water bed. The zoo installed the underwater camera to capture what goes on beneath the surface, in what they are calling "Flamingo dining." Writing about the video, San Diego Zoo said: These pretty in → Read More
109-Year-Old Camera Store Burned Down in Jacob Blake Riots, Site Visited by Trump
A camera store that had been trading for 109 years got caught in the crossfire of riots taking place in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake. President Trump has visited the former site of Rode’s Camera Shop after it was burned to the ground during the protests. Current owner Tom Gram had been an employee at the store for 41 years before taking the reins → Read More