Sometimes, if we’re lucky, we shoot an image that takes on a life of its own. It becomes bigger than just us or our circle of friends and clients. That’s what happened to New York based Italian photographer Michele Palazzo. Winter Storm Jonas allowed photographers to capture some amazing imagery. One particularly striking shot was Pallazo’s photograph of the Flatiron Building in NYC. He recently spoke at B&H to give some insight into how his life has changed since the image went viral....

Gudsen has just launched their new MOZA Mini-P. It’s a $199 gimbal that works with everything from action cameras and smartphones to compacts and small mirrorless cameras. And it folds up small to pack away when you’re not using it, too. A prototype of the the new MOZA Mini-P was first shown off in September last year at the Beijing International Radio, TV and Film Exhibition (BIRTV). It seemed pretty promising, even as a prototype....

There is a lot of advice out there. But which advice should you take and what should you jettison? I’ve read through the books that I own (by authors and photographers including Demetrius Fordham, Haje Jan Kamps, and Lara Jade) and trawled the net and put together a summary. You can think of it as a portfolio of portfolios, if you like. Hardcopy or digital? Your first portfolio question is going to be ‘Hardcopy or digital format?...

Do you take selfies or they annoy you? We have recently reported about a study that shows people are ready to accept selfies as a tool. But another study shows an interesting twist when it comes to selfies. It seems many people are willing to take them, yet not so many want to look at selfies of others. Sarah Diefenbach and Lara Christoforakos of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich conducted a research, and the results were published in Frontiers in Pshychology....

One of the biggest problems with action cameras today is their ability to deal with very low light. Or, to be more accurate, a lack of ability to shoot under very low light conditions. The new Aurora from US-based night vision company SiOnyx is a new action camera that claims to be able to shoot under light levels as low as moonlight. The camera was launched on Kickstarter where it smashed its $50,000 goal in a mere 4 hours....