Educational Archive

05.22.12: Flashed Face Distortion Effect Makes Ordinary Portraits Look Hideous
05.21.12: Tree Leaves as “Pinhole Cameras” During a Solar Eclipse
05.21.12: The Economics of Leica Camera Pricing
05.18.12: What the Fujifilm FinePix X100 Looks Like Completely Disassembled
05.17.12: Photographs of the World’s Oldest Living Things
05.17.12: The Earliest Surviving Photograph of an American City
05.16.12: The Longest Photographic Negative in the World Measures 129 Feet
05.16.12: Creating Still Photographs by Extracting Frames from HD Video
05.15.12: Is This Britain’s Most Photogenic Face?
05.15.12: How Digital Camera CCD Sensors Work
05.13.12: Hardcore Durability Test Looks to See Just How Much the Canon 7D Can Take
05.12.12: LitUp Episode 1: An Introduction to Lighting With Photographer Joel Grimes
05.12.12: Behind The Scenes at a Photo Shoot With The Cascades Raptor Center
05.11.12: A Moving Mole: Why Abraham Lincoln’s Portrait Was Flipped for the $5 Bill
05.11.12: The Making of the Limited Edition Leica M9-P “Edition Hermès”
05.09.12: The Famous Tiananmen Square Tank Man Photo From Slightly Different Views
05.09.12: HD Video Explained: Why 720p is Better than 1080i
05.08.12: A Behind The Scenes Look at The Making of a Lee Filter
05.08.12: A Peek Inside the New York Times’ “Lively Morgue” Historical Archive
05.07.12: A Photographer’s Experience Traveling Covertly with President Obama
05.06.12: Lens Diffraction and How It Affects Your Photos
05.04.12: The Frozen Face Effect: Why You Look Worse in Photos than in Video
05.03.12: Trippy Example of Hitchcock Zoom Shot on a Beach
05.03.12: Photographers’ Liability Insurance and a $300,000 Ancient Figurine
05.02.12: How to Take Great Pictures in Space
05.01.12: The 10 Most Popular “Photographers” on Instagram
05.01.12: You Don’t Own Anything Anymore: Copyright Law in an Internet Age
04.30.12: An 8-Bit Explanation of the Three Basic Components of Exposure
04.30.12: The Only Anonymous Photo to Ever Win the Pulitzer Prize
04.30.12: The Afghan Box Camera: Not-So-Instant Instant Photography
04.29.12: Claude Glass: The 18th Century Version of Instagram
04.26.12: Exploding Photographers, Disappearing Clothes, And the Development of Film
04.26.12: How Large Format Cameras Are Made
04.26.12: Photograph the Left Side of People’s Faces to Capture More Emotion
04.20.12: Behind the Scenes with Camera and Lens Testing Service DxO Labs
04.19.12: How Optical Lenses Are Manufactured
04.17.12: The Human Eye Can See in Ultraviolet When the Lens is Removed
04.17.12: Advanced Image Sensor Concepts Explained with Beer
04.17.12: A Revolving Self Portrait Created in 1865
04.16.12: Google Doodle Commemorates Street Photographer Robert Doisneau
04.13.12: John Cleese on How to Be Creative
04.13.12: Miroslav Tichý’s Homemade Camera
04.11.12: It Started with Muybridge: A Short Film Made in 1965 by the US Government
04.10.12: Nikon D4 and D800 Designed by Italian Car Designer Giorgetto Giugiaro
04.10.12: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Lensbaby
04.02.12: A Simple Explanation of F-Stop Numbers
04.02.12: How Carl Zeiss Lenses Are Stress Tested
03.30.12: How Three New Internet Movements Are Changing the World of Art
03.27.12: Documenting the Human Condition: A Documentary on Street Photography
03.27.12: 55-Hour Exposure of a Tiny Patch of Sky Reveals 200,000 Galaxies