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Watch a would-be photographer get charged by an elk in Yellowstone

In an attempt to capture a close-up photo in Yellowstone, one woman paid the price when an elk cow came charging towards her.
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Bug in iOS Photos app lets you zoom into every pixel of your photos

A recently-discovered bug in Apple's iOS Photos app gets around the limited zoom capabilities during playback, by rotating the image 90 degrees.
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Hockey player mistakes lens for puck after it falls on the ice during NHL finals

During Wednesday night's Stanley Cup Finals game, a photographer had his 15mm fisheye lens knocked off his camera and mistaken for a puck.
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Nikon rumored to be working on a large-sensor mirrorless camera

New info shows Nikon has registered a new camera in Indonesia. Is this the full-frame mirrorless camera Nikon users have been waiting for?
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You can now view your Instagram photos inside a virtual reality museum

Instamuseum turns Instagram photos from any account into a virtual reality museum gallery that can be explored by using a VR headset.
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Time-lapse condenses 8 hours of the Indy 500 into only 60 seconds

The Indianapolis 500 lived up to the hype, with record-breaking attendance and a rookie taking victory lane. Here's a visual overview of the historic race.
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Canon shows off camera's super-zoom lens in a creative Instagram campaign

Canon Asia teamed up with advertising agency Dentsu Singapore to create an incredibly immersive advertising campaign using nothing more than Instagram
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Photographer shares tips on how to deal with online criticism

Photographer Sean Tucker shares his personal experience with online trolls, who criticize his work harshly and sometimes personally.
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This dead-simple DIY GoPro backpack mount costs almost nothing to make

YouTuber Kyle Martin shows how a few dollars in materials and an hour of time can make for an extremely effective backpack mount for your GoPro camera.
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23 tips to help take your street photography to the next level

Street photographer, Thomas, Leuthard, shares "23 ninja tips for your next photo walk" – a guide to street photography.
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‘Manhattanhenge’ arrives this weekend, here’s how to best capture it

Find out what is "Manhattanhenge," and how to capture the event with a camera.
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Sony abandons audio-video-editing software, sells business to Germany's Magix

Sony announced it is selling off nearly all of its Sony Creative Software programs to Magix.
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Adobe's amazing new crop tool for Photoshop CC can intelligently fill in backgrounds

Adobe teases an upcoming feature that lets users crop and rotate an image without worrying about losing the edges to whitespace.
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Canon breaks apart a super-telephoto lens to show why it costs $11,000

Canon gives an inside look at one of its most impressive and expensive lenses, the $11,000 Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS
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Ditch the scanner, this iPhone app digitizes and restores faded photos

Unfade is a new iPhone app that scans old prints with your iPhone’s camera and brings them back to life by restoring the vibrant colors of the image.
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Canadian police using DSLRs and scopes to catch distracted drivers

Canadian Mounties are adding DSLRs to the scopes, to catch distracted drivers.
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Pocket Tripod keeps your smartphone photos steady, fits neatly in a wallet

This little tripod hopes to end the era of terrible mobile tripods with a clever design and convenient size.
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GoPro, Red Bull announce tighter bond in exclusive multiyear partnership

Red Bull is teaming up with Red Bull in a form of an exclusive global partnership.
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Update: Twitter will no longer count links, photos toward 140-character limit

After months of speculation, Twitter has officially announced that links and photos will no longer count toward its 140-character limit on tweets.
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Getty Images uses random stock photos to re-create 4 famous faces

Getty Images' latest ad campaign uses its massive archive of stock photos to recreate portraits of four famous people, using photos of random people’s faces.
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MuseCam unlocks iPhone camera’s potential with manual controls and editing

MuseCam brings along a plethora of features to help you get more out of your iPhone’s camera than you ever thought possible.
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American Eagle’s Aerie lingerie brand soars after banning retouching in ads

Since launching its Photoshop-free #AerieReal campaign, the company has seen impressive growth year-over-year.
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Purdue U. system lets police crowdsource cameras to keep eye on crime

Purdue researchers have developed a new surveillance system capable of allowing law enforcement to tap into unsecured cameras and pinpoint their location.
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Photojournalist could face trial over photo of victim in Paris terrorist attack

French photojournalist Maya Vidon-White is facing charges over a photo captured of the aftermath of November’s terrorist attack in Paris.
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Make your own DIY Polaroid camera with a Rasberry Pi and a receipt printer

This clever instant camera made from a Raspberry Pi computer and a thermal printer, stuffed inside a cardboard box.
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Use your iPhone’s camera to turn textbooks from boring to easy to read

Summize, the scanning app for iOS that summarizes textbook text, has returned with improved tools and a new look.
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Scientists develop program that matches doodles with photographs

Scientists have started work on a computer program that will be able to take a doodle or sketch of an image and find a matching photograph.
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FindFace is a new facial recognition app that could end public privacy

FindFace is a new facial recognition app that uses profile photos of Russia’s leading social network to find their identity.
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Cinema Palettes shows how colors are used to set mood of iconic films

The Cinema Palettes Twitter account showcases still shots of iconic films alongside the color palettes that make up the mood of the movie.
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Xiaomi’s YI Action Camera 2 can film in 4K for two hours

Xiaomi has unveiled the YI 4K Action Camera 2, their latest action camera that combines the best of what GoPro’s Hero4 lineup has to offer at half the cost.
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18 years and 2.8 billion miles later, the ISS celebrates its 100,000th orbit with an incredible sunrise time-lapse

To celebrate 100,000 orbits around Earth, U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams shared an incredible time-lapse video showing the sun rising above Earth
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Google code hints of RAW+JPEG photo capture support in Android camera app

A few lines of code in Google Camera's APK shows Nexus devices might soon have the ability to capture RAW+JPEG photos inside stock photo app.
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Blips ultra-thin lenses that turn any smartphone into a microscope

BLIPS are a new pair of paper-thin lenses that give your smartphone's camera micro and macro superpowers
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RemoteCam lets you wirelessly trigger your iPhone camera with flick of the wrist

RemoteCam is a new Apple Watch app that will snap selfies when you shake your wrist.