Shooting speed, increased to 8 fps, can freeze fast movements while retaining high resolution. With a film speed range of ISO 100 to ISO 6400, the EOS 7D has the capability to capture low-light images without a flash. The ISO is also expandable up to...

Larry Sultan, a prominent photographer and teacher in the Bay Area art community, has been chosen as the next artist trustee on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's board of trustees. Sultan, only the second person to be appointed to this role, will be responsible for supporting the museum's director and helping to expand...

Leica has released its latest high-end camera, the S2 Digital SLR. The S2 is equipped with professional-quality 37.5-megapixel resolution and high-speed Maestro image processing, and is compatible with four available S-series lens options.

The Leica S-system, developed specially for digital-format photography, has a 30 x 45mm sensor that is...

Rob Sinclair’s nighttime image of Castle Geyser in Yellowstone National Park is proof that if a hydrothermal eruption happens and there are no tourists there to gawk at it, it’s still beautiful.

Shot in October 2006, the image is part of Sinclair’s ongoing, self-directed project to photograph the wonders of the national park system at night. "I’ve only done three parks, so I’ve got a long way to go," says the Sammamish, Wash.-based nature photographer.

Geysers in Yellowstone, which have been captured easily in countless tourist snapshots since the park opened in 1872, become particularly difficult subjects to photograph once the sun goes down and the mercury drops. Unlike its punctual cousin, Old Faithful, just a short hike away, Castle Geyser is an elusive spectacle...

Life magazine's 160 years of photo archives became available, for free, on March 31 after a two-year project to digitize the publication's expansive photo collection.

Life.com, the online photo archive created by Getty Images and Time Inc., launched with more than 7 million images and plans to add 3,000 new images every day. The database features images from both the Life and Getty photo databases. The expansive collection includes unseen galleries, such as photos from the night of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination; only 3 percent of the images have been previously viewed by the public...

Since creating the popular Black Star Rising blog (rising.blackstar.com), New York-based photo agency Black Star has redefined itself as a popular new source for photographic news and information. The site celebrated the publishing of its 600th post in August.

With 19 contributors from across the United States and the United Kingdom, Black Star Rising encompasses a variety of information from marketing and legal experts as well as many photographers and photojournalists. ...

In July, Associated Press photographer Mannie Garcia joined the copyright lawsuit brought by the Associated Press against California-based artist Shepard Fairey over Fairey's now-infamous Barack Obama poster.

In 2006, Garcia shot a photograph of Barack Obama while freelancing for the AP. In 2008, Fairey used Garcia's image as a reference for his Obama poster. The AP and Garcia are now suing Fairey for copyright infringement, and the courts must determine whether Fairey is protected under fair use laws...

For now, it seems, photographer Annie Leibovitz has won some reprieve from her financial woes.

Her most recent monetary debacle began in December 2008, when Leibovitz took out a $24 million loan from Art Capital Group (ACG), putting up her photo archives, her studio and her two homes in New York as collateral, to help her pay for vendor lawsuits against her for more than $700,000 in unpaid bills. At the same time, Leibovitz signed ACG, which specializes in artist loans, as her exclusive agent through 2011...

For the second time, Colorado-based photographer Louie Psihoyos has filed a copyright lawsuit against Apple Computer for using one of his photographs without permission.

Psihoyos alleges that in 2008, Apple illegally incorporated his image into its first version of the i.TV, a free software application that lets users access their TiVo and Netflix accounts. The photograph in question, a shot of a man sitting in front of a dramatically curved wall of screens, titled "500 TVs‚" was registered by Psihoyos in 2005 and reportedly took him a month and $100,000 to create...

On the cover: Omar Nassih, an interpreter who worked extensively with photographer Rick Loomis in Afghanistan, shares a lighthearted moment in his war-torn country. Sadly, however, Nassih died from an accident in his home while Loomis was away covering the war in Iraq. 

Cover photo: © Rick Loomis