Nikon Small World photomicrography competition always amazes us with its fantastic entries. The 2019 edition is no exception. This year’s contest winners have been announced, and they show us just how beautiful and incredible even the tiniest subjects can be. This is the forty-fifth annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Contest. This year’s first place was awarded to microscopy technician Teresa Zgoda and recent university graduate Teresa Kugler for their stunning photo of a turtle embryo....

Rue Crémieux is a picturesque street in Paris, with lovely colorful facades and old houses. And just like Notting Hill: it has become swarmed by Instagrammers and the residents have had enough. They want their peace back, so they are asking the city government to ban photo and video shoots on weekends and evenings. According to Franceinfo, the street is filled with tourists who take snapshots throughout the day. If you search Instagram for the hashtag #ruecremieux, you’ll find over 32,000 posts at the moment....

Advertisements JP: Hey Alexandre! Can you take us through the process here, how did you go about setting this up? What was your lighting placements like etc? AW: The process was really simple, but took more effort on the preparations before shooting actually, like cleaning the forks, spoon, egg and surface, placing all the elements where I wanted them to be and just set the lights after. Cleaning saves a lot of time in post production....

IBC Show, the popular video, cinema and broadcast trade show in Amsterdam is typically held in September. Last year, it was cancelled. This year, it’s been postponed slightly until December 3rd and running until December 6th. They’ve just made an announcement stating that the IBC Partnership Board has decided to continue with the planned event because they believe they can still do it safely. Their aim is to “re-engage the industry after a very challenging year”....

A pair of white papers have been released by Canon exploring the new Canon 1DX Mark III DSLR. The two white papers cover its stills and video capabilities and come in at 59 and 21 pages long respectively. They go into a lot of detail about the overall performance, burst rates, autofocus, metering and flash, image quality, full-frame 4K, 5.5K RAW, the codecs used and more. The stills white paper is particularly interesting because it covers some of Canon’s SLR highlights throughout the years going all the way back to the introduction 1971’s Canon F-1 system, which also debuted the Canon FD lens mount....