Induro has created a new design for mounting cameras on tripods with the GH-series of gimbal heads. Ideal for large, telephoto-lens cameras, the GH mount factors in the weight of the camera and the lens to balance the entire unit’s center of gravity.

With such a system, a heavy camera becomes seemingly weightless. Vertical and horizontal tracking can be quickly adjusted with...

Amherst Media has released a revised second edition of “The Freelance Photographer’s Handbook: Success in Professional Digital Photography” by ad and travel photographers Cliff and Nancy Hollenbeck.
The 112-page book is significantly updated, packed with information about the world of freelance photography, and illustrated with images covering a wide variety of photographic specialties...

On the cover: After more than 50 years, Melvin Sokolsky continues to push the envelope of the fashion world with his unique vision and dramatic set design, as seen in this image for Vogue Deutsch.

Cover photo: © Melvin Sokolsky

Adobe has created a Photoshop.com application for the iPhone, offering convenient photo editing and sharing capabilities on mobile devices.

Editing tools, such as crop, rotate and flip, are all correlated with the iPhone’s finger command controls. Users can adjust saturation, tint, exposure and vibrancy, and convert images to black-and-white, as well as use other Photoshop effects. Both the account and the...

Animoto, an online slideshow program, has upgraded its system to allow video clips to be incorporated into shows along with still images. Video clips can be taken from cameras or phones and can be enhanced with cinematic artificial intelligence technology that matches video clips, photos and text to a soundtrack. Slideshows can also be embellished with stock photos from Getty Images and iStockphoto.

Animoto produces videos that can be downloaded or shared online through...

Since we publish PhotoMedia just three times a year, a lot can happen of interest to those in our industry between issues. For instance, soon after our Fall 2009 issue was distributed in October, several legendary photographers passed away, with Irving Penn heading the list. Canon and Nikon also introduced new flagship DSLR cameras. More recently, the nation of Haiti was devastated by one of the most destructive earthquakes in modern history, prompting a mobilization of photojournalists to transmit images of the catastrophe throughout the world.

As Haiti begins its slow process of recovery, the experience has made it clear once again that photographers play an influential role in chronicling the experiences of our civilization...

Irving Penn, the man whose stark, minimalist black-and-white fashion images adorned the cover of Vogue for many years, died in October 2009 at the age of 92.

Born in 1917, Penn was a renowned celebrity fashion and portrait photographer. Beginning his artistic career as a painter and designer at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, he quickly transitioned into photography when he was offered a position as a fashion photographer for Vogue in the 1940s. Within a short period of time, Penn's modernist portraiture style landed him a...

Seattle photographer Daniel Beltra was named ABC News' Person of the Week in November 2009 for his conservation photography of endangered regions throughout the world. Focusing on the effects of climate change on the world's rainforests in the Amazon Basin, Congo, Borneo and Sumatra, Beltra's images were recently featured as part of the Prince's Rainforests Project (rainforestsos.org), an environmental organization founded by England's Prince Charles, with offices in London, Paris, Berlin and New York City.

The 2009 International League of Conservation Photographers League Award went to Boulder, Colo., photographer James Balog for his outstanding achievements in conservation photography. Balog's recent work includes his "Extreme Ice Survey," which documents the effects of climate change on glaciers around the world.

Frans Lanting's "LIFE: A Journey Through Time" will be displayed through February 2010 as part of a multimedia orchestral performance in Italy, Mexico and England.

A collaboration between National Geographic photographer Frans Lanting and composer Philip Glass ("La Belle et La Bete," "Dracula," "Les Enfants Terribles"), the performance was first conceived as part of the Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 2006 as a means to create "a lyrical interpretation of life on our planet." The final show of the...