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What Does a Future of Retro Camera Apps Look Like?

Is our nostalgia for groovy camera filters or kinder photo algorithms?READ»

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Twitter to Integrate Photos and Videos Into the Stream

Twitter is working on a new feature that would integrate videos and photos directly into the stream of updates. If they move forward, it'd mean a drastically different feel for Twitter.READ»

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Google Poaches Flickr's Photo Editor by Acquiring Picnik: It's ON! (But Not Really)

According to a blog post from Picnik, Google has today finalized the purchase of the online photo-editing startup. There's no word on the exact terms of the acquisition, but judging from the enthusiasm positively bursting from this ...READ»

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Flickr Lays Off Engineering Talent

After posting some ugly first-quarter results last week, Yahoo was due for change. CEO Caol Bartz announced that the company would be cutting around 700 jobs, and the layoffs have begun already. First on the docket: a number ...READ»

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Under the Radar Conference Preview: Pixelpipe

Once you start to use even three social media services--and who among us isn't on Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr, to name three -- managing them can become a huge pain. Enter Pixelpipe.READ»

Did you forget to look for the obvious?

We all tend to wait for “special moments” to pull out our cameras and start clicking. Somehow, we need to be transcended above the everyday to get a great photo. Where do these special occasions come from, and what about the ...READ»

7 Points for Learning Photography Composition

Photography is such a technical subject that many photographers get caught up in it, or snarled up in it, as the case may be. Cameras are such wonderful contrivances that we can get lured in by the latest gadgetry. While it ...READ»

A Simple Tip to Improve Your Photography

I’ve taught hundreds of students how to improve their photography; I’ll be passing tips to help you get better shots right away. First of all, simply take more shots! I don’t mean go out and take random shots. The curse ...READ»

12 Things you'll Learn About Photography

My interview with Michael Adams was intentionally directed towards what I knew were key points in Ansel’s books having read these in my teens and then recently re-read them with the digital age in mind. There is no doubt about ...READ»

PhotoCycle: New Show Launched on FastCompany.TV

Well folks, today we at FastCompany.TV launched PhotoCycle, which Robert Scoble, Rocky Barbanica and I have been working on behind the scenes for months. Here’s the short version of the back-story: Robert brought me on as a ...READ»

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PhotoCycle's Rare Glimpse into Ansel Adams Work at Yosemite

For our first episode of PhotoCycle we visit Yosemite Valley with Ansel's son Michael Adams. Michael tells us about Ansel's process, workflow and his joy of being a photographer. In rare unreleased footage, we ...READ»