The name Pratik Naik is probably already familiar with you. He’s become a bit of a household name for image retouching and if you haven’t heard of his Infinite tools and Photoshop plug-ins yet I am going to assume that you either shoot film with a vintage camera and develop it yourself, or live under a rock somewhere off-grid. What you probably don’t know Pratik for, however, is his photography. But he is in fact (kind of annoyingly) a very accomplished photographer with an artist’s eye....

The World Photography Organisation has announced the overall winners of this year’s Sony World Photography Awards. After announcing Open contest winners and shortlists, as well as stunning National Awards winners, SWPA now shares with us “the best of the best.” Australian photographer Adam Ferguson has won the Photographer of the Year title, but there are more photos to admire. The contest has also awarded Open Photographer of the Year, Youth Photographer of the Year, Student Photographer of the Year, as well as Professional category winners....

You don’t need a medium format camera to shoot medium format photos anymore. Well, sort of. FotodioX RhinoCam Vertex adapter lets you shoot digital medium format photos with your full-frame camera. Mathieu Stern tried this $300 gadget, and it seems to do the trick pretty well. First things first, how does the RhinoCam Vertex work? You’ll need your full-frame camera, a medium format lens, and Photoshop for stitching the images. The adapter lets you attach the medium format lens onto your camera and rotate it 360 degrees to take four photos....

American Museum of Natural History has published an impressive video that will help you understand how our eyes see and our brains perceive color. While color is important to understand in photography, I believe that how we perceive and process it is also a crucial thing to understand about ourselves. You’ve probably learned it back at school: the white sunlight is actually composed of all the colors. It reflects off of objects at different wavelengths, and each of these wavelengths is actually a different color....

Sometimes, you have a camera rig and you need a thing, and there’s just no real commercially available solution out there to give you exactly what you need. So, you make your own. And that’s exactly what filmmaker Maximillian Wasinger did for his Z Cam E2 rig, with this rather fetching looking wooden side handle that also acts as SSD storage. And when we make such things, sometimes we document the process to share with others....