Category: news

Another day, another person getting whacked in the head by a drone

John Aldred

It’s getting to become a pretty common occurrence lately.  Somebody flies a drone, somebody else gets hit in the head by it.  Well, when they’re not being speared out of the sky. This time, however, it is believed that it wasn’t pilot error or a drone malfunction, but simply mother nature doing her thing as the drone collided […]

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80% of consumers think their photography is “Excellent” and pet photography is more popular than selfies

John Aldred

It turns out that May is National Photography Month and to celebrate, Canon USA have revealed a few current consumer trends in the world of photography. Consumers are showing more confidence behind the camera than ever, claiming that 80% of them rate their photography skills as “good to excellent”.  It certainly goes some way towards explaining […]

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Historically-inaccurate drone speared out of the sky by renaissance festival actor

John Aldred

As if eagles and nets weren’t already enough for drone users to worry about, now we have to deal with javelins, too. The eagle eyed amongst you might’ve noticed the historically-inaccurate porta-potties in the background of the image above, but it seems they managed to escape the wrath of participants at a renaissance festival in Russia recently, unlike this […]

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Instagram ditches retro hipster camera icon for a bold new colorful rebrand

John Aldred

Today, Instagram have introduced a new look.  While a little more flashy than the previous polaroidesque icon, they state that the new one represents a simpler camera with the familiar rainbow living on in gradient form. While the icon itself seems to have gotten more outgoing, the app has been cleaned down to a more […]

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France: Sharing photos of your kids could land you in jail

Udi Tirosh

If you are a French parent who likes posting their kid’s photos all over the internet, we have same bad news for you. The Telegraph noticed that the privacy laws in France are pretty strict. How strict, you ask? Strict to the point that your offspring can sue you for infringing on their right to […]

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Nikon call an early end to the current rebate programme due to the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes

John Aldred

Earlier this month Nikon announced a free battery grip offer for the Nikon D610, D750 and D810 cameras initially set to last until the end of the month.  As a result of the earthquakes in Kumamoto, this has been cut short, with the offer now expiring on May 14th. A couple of days ago, all […]

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Monroe Station in Big Cypress reduced to ashes after steel wool spin shot gone wrong

Udi Tirosh

Now, this is why we cannot have nice things. While I am not enjoying saying this, it looks like photographers are slowly earning the bad cred that authorities are giving them. After shuttering a 126 old statue for a selfie, it is now revealed that the fire on The Big Cypress Monroe Station last month was […]

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We are giving away a Wacom Intuos Pro and a $2500 coupon to best compositor among you

Udi Tirosh

It is time for a mega contest and a mega giveaway. We want to give you a Wacom Intuos Pro and everything in our texture store (about $2500 worth). But we are not just giving this away. We are going to hold a little challenge. Do you know our CC-BY sampler package? It is a package […]

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Person takes a selfie takes with a 126-year-old statue and breaks it to pieaces

Udi Tirosh

Humans 1 : statues 0. Looks like we are winning the battles against still objects. More so, we are killing those statues by taking selfies. Or at least this is the score at the latest battle between man and the 126-year-old statue of Portuguese king Dom Sebastiao. According to the New York post, the 24 year old, […]

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NVidia presents Ansel, “The World’s First in-game camera system”

John Aldred

For those who hate having to actually get up off their computers and leave the house, photography can be a potentially tricky prospect.  Now, Nvidia have presented the world with a possible solution to this problem in the form of Ansel; An in-game “camera system”.  Ok, so it’s not really photography, but it is quite an […]

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