Author: Gannon Burgett

TIME photojournalist appears to be slammed, arrested by Secret Service at Trump rally in Virginia

Gannon Burgett

Today, at Donald Trump’s rally at Radford University, in Virginia, a photojournalist was seen being taken down by a Secret Service agent while capturing the activists protesting the rally. In a video posted by reporter Joe Perticone, a photojournalists believed to be TIME’s Chris Morris can be seen being taken down by a man believed […]

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The end of an era: Fujifilm kills off FP-100C, the last of its instant peel-apart paper

Gannon Burgett

Today is a sad day, ladies and gentlemen. Fufjifilm has announced it is officially killing off FP–100C, the last of its instant photography peel-apart paper. This news comes roughly two and a half years after Fujifilm decided to discontinue its faster, monochrome sibling, FP–3000B. This discontinuation marks the end of an era, as Fujifilm will […]

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The incredible eating habits of a professional food photographer (and competitive powerlifter)

Gannon Burgett

While everyone on Instagram might think of themselves as food photographers, there are those who actually get paid to travel around the globe and capture decadent delicacies. One of those individuals is Bon Appetit’s Alex Lau, a professional photographer and competitive powerlifter. One question Lau gets a lot is whether or not he gets to […]

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You can now censor parts of video directly in YouTube’s Creator Studio

Gannon Burgett

Today, YouTube unveiled a new custom blurring tool to its online video editing platform Creator Studio. This new tool lets you select an object to blur and keep it blurred throughout the entirety of the video. The new tool is located under the Enhancements portion of Creator Studio. Simply choose the custom blurring option, let […]

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Ugandan schoolchildren go crazy as they watch a drone fly for the first time ever

Gannon Burgett

While watching a drone buzz through the sky might still be an impressive act to watch, I don’t think any of us could be as excited to see a drone fly as these schoolchildren from rural Uganda. Shot by Mark Brandon Smith, a gentleman who was working in northwestern Uganda with non-profit IMOutreach.org, the one […]

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Lab2Cam turns Impossible Project’s Instant Lab into a manual SX-70 instant camera

Gannon Burgett

In 2012, the Impossible Project launched the Instant Lab, a contraption that turns your iPhone snapshots into Impossible instant prints. While awesome on its own, analog aficionados SUPERSENSE decided to further improve the usefulness of the Impossible Instant Lab by creating the Lab2Cam Conversion Kit, a manual Polaroid SX–70 lens lens attached to a mounting […]

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How to create custom keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop

Gannon Burgett

Photoshop is an extremely powerful tool for editing images. In fact, it’s so rich in features that many of the most used features are oftentimes behind a handful of clicks and adjustments. One solution to streamlining your workflow is to create keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop so that you can easily apply your most used actions […]

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How to take better photos with your iPhone (or any other smartphone)

Gannon Burgett

Smartphone photography might seem straightforward. But the truth of the matter is there are plenty of people out there who could benefit from learning at least the basics involved in capturing quality images with a smartphone. Here to break down those basics is MacRumors in a four minute video aptly titled, ‘How to take Better […]

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Meet the PhoDOGraphers, a team of adorable canines taught to take photos of their owners

Gannon Burgett

If you’re anything like me (and the rest of the internet) it’s safe to say you have hundreds, if not thousands of photos of your four-legged child, Fido. It’s not at all uncommon to take photos of your pet, either for the sake of sharing them with the world or archiving them so you can […]

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Oppo claims to have developed the world’s first, smallest sensor-based OIS for smartphones

Gannon Burgett

Yesterday, Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo announced it has developed a SmartSensor, a smartphone sensor Oppo claims contains ‘the world’s smallest optical image stabilization technology.’ Teaming up with smartphone camera innovators MEMS Drive, Oppo has created a 3-axis sensor-based image stabilization system. Much like the systems found in Olympus and Sony mirrorless cameras, the SmartSensor compensates […]

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