Photography

For most, Hasselblad is a name that has been associated with iconic photographs and technical quality — and a huge price that reflects that. However, has Hasselblad always been a premium photography brand, and why are they so expensive? The Swedish manufacturer of photographic equipment and medium format cameras — both analog and digital — is known for delivering high image quality and…

The UN has a new online photo exhibition titled Plastic is Forever. Captured by photographers from around the world, the stark images reveal how mankind’s use of plastic has impacted the daily lives and environments of people and animals across the globe. Crying girl beside the house, Malaysia. This girl is growing up in a squatter settlement around Sabah, Malaysia. Garbage piles collected in…

I find it incredibly fun to use older, especially unique, digital cameras both as a challenge and for sheer enjoyment. I think part of it is psychological. With archaic cameras sporting outdated technology we anticipate subpar results, and so we focus more on what we can control: composition, lighting (when applicable), exposure, and so on — the things we should always be focusing…

The Subaru-Asahi Camera which is installed at the Subaru Telescope dome in Maunakea, Hawai’i captured a rare “meteor cluster” event, an unusual phenomenon where a group of meteors appeared from the same direction in the sky for 10 seconds. The rare meteor event is associated with a meteoroid cluster, which is thought to be caused by a set of meteor particles that break up just before…