Chase Jarvis, a world-renowned commercial photographer, recently launched an iPhone application, book and online photo community to convince everyone that the best camera is the one that’s with you and absolutely anyone can snap a remarkable image.

Stefan Hobmaier, a photographer from Germany, has a new series of photos called Dorfjugend that covers young people growing up in small towns.

There’s something about 3-D imaging that keeps people coming back for more.  For well over a century, inventors have pursued the seemingly impossible goal to create the perfect illusion of depth through stereoscopic imaging.  Fujifilm’s latest prototype digital camera continues that tradition with a point-and-shoot equipped with two lenses.  It’s called the “FinePix Real 3D System” and Fujifilm hopes they can carve out a market share better than their current standing at 6.7% in the digital camera field by creating an entirely new market.
Fujifilm’s new 10-megapixel camera can use the two lenses to create simultaneous images of a single scene [...]

In the past month, a debate about photographic techniques has developed over the best method of capturing an image effectively.  A recent essay on the New York Times Lens Blog argues that so-called “slow photography” allows the photographer to find the right moment and frame everything precisely.  Fred R. Conrad discusses more in his essay, Slow Photography in an Instantaneous Age:
One advantage of using larger formats is that the process is slower. It takes time to set up the camera. It takes time to visualize what you want.
When doing portraits, it enables the photographer to talk and listen to subjects, [...]

Getty Images partnered with Flickr last year to create a database of photos intended for commercial licensing.  After months of sorting through the thousands of candidates, the editorial staff of Getty Images picked their favorites.  The catalog of Flickr’s 3 billions images from more than 35 million members is truly daunting, but Getty Images is hoping to add thousands of new photos to the new Flickr Collection every month.
The images are meant to be a living collection and are a selection of vibrant moments captured on camera.  Flickr has a wonderful collection of spontaneous portraits and individualistic images that hold [...]

Microsoft’s Photosynth technology originally debuted two years ago, but it continues to impress us with its implications for photography in user generated digital environments.  When the developer, Aguera y Arcas, spoke to the crowd at the 2007 TED conference, he described the Photosynth project as taking “data from the entire collective memory of what the earth looks like…All of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent—greater than the sum of their parts.”
Photosynth technology was recently seen implemented on a massive scale during the inauguration, when CNN asked viewers to contribute their own photos to create an enormous [...]

The Polaroid Corporation, best known for their instant film camera from the 1970s which they recently discontinued, has updated their product for the digital age.  The new PoGo, unveiled at the recent CES conference, is a new digital camera that will print a full color 2 x 3 inch photograph in under 60 seconds directly from the camera body.  We wrote about this when it was announced, but it looks like Polaroid is finally putting it into production.
This new iteration of instant prints uses ZINK ink-free printing technology and utilizes a special paper embedded with heat activated dye crystals.  While [...]