When you’re setting up a camera trap in the Amazon Rainforest there a lot of factors to consider: Where to set it up? Is the gear rainproofed? Is it safe from big animals like Jaguars? All good questions, but as Phil Torres of The Jungle Diaries found out, don’t forget to watch out for our …
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Photographer Stephen Wilkes has an incredible style in which he takes thousands of images from a single, fixed location over the period of a day or two and combines them to create stunning images that capture the passing of time. “What if you could capture more than one moment in a photograph?” Wilkes asks. “What …
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Professional climber, photographer and National Geographic Contributor Jimmy Chin recently climbed 1 World Trade Center equipped with his own still camera and a 360 degree video camera, providing an incredible and vertigo-inducing view of New York City for the New York Time’s project Man on Spire. Jimmy Chin’s work is breathtaking and stretches from the …
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What is a National Park? National Geographic asked six photographers to capture Yellowstone in a way that it hadn’t been before, which is quite an amazing challenge considering just how many photographers travel to the Yellowstone area to capture stunning images. In this video, the photographers describe the challenges they faced when trying to capture …
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The Cincinnati Zoo has recently been in the news for a sad encounter between a 4-year-old, a 450-pound gorilla and a rifle, but it shouldn’t for a moment make people forget about all the good work that zoos do in research and conservation for nature. Here, the zoo was able to strap a GoPro camera to …
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The brilliant minds at NOM Creative, LLC have released another fun video and this time they give a full-time and a fake photographer the same equipment and have them perform the same photo shoot, then they see if the model can tell which photographer was the pro and which was the fake. The fake photographer may have …
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Watch this short tutorial as nature photographer Steve Perry from Backcountry Gallery describes his techniques for getting a wide range of motion with a long lens and tripod and capturing sharp photographs without the tripod and gimbal completely “locked down.” As Perry notes, in wildlife photography you want to be able to adjust on the fly …
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A selfie-taking 24-year-old in Portugal is in the news after toppling and destroying a 126-year-old statue while trying to take a selfie. Hopefully he got the last picture of the statue intact… The statue in question was one of child-king Dom Sebastiao and it was sitting atop a pedestal in Rossio railway station in Lisbon for …
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Instagram has constantly been making changes and updates like allowing users to post longer videos, but now they’re making another big change in the form of a face-lift. Instagram has revealed a new logo as well as a completely new app interface, but thankfully the functionality of the app has remained completely intact. The new Instagram …
