Awesome Photography

Remo Tech’s OBSBOT Tail is a camera with powerful automatic tracking modes. It tracks the subject’s face, body shape and posture to keep it in the frame. It can even track a group of people. You can also manually set its tracking. It shoots 12MP stills and up to 4K/60fps video.

Apollo VII – XVII showcases the photography of the astronauts who were part of the Apollo missions. The book contains 225 photos in large print format. The Collector’s Edition also tackles the astronauts’ photography training and equipment.

Our old pals Mario and Fafa are joined by Gorilla to provide a lesson on how photography used to work before we had a digital camera in every smartphone. Anyone else out there remember going to get rolls of film developed at the Fotomat?

This optically-clear sphere is made from the same K9 glass crystal used to produce camera lenses. When properly used, the resulting shots can be quite stunning, with the image in the ball perfectly focused, and upside-down against a softly-focused background.

Artist Thomas Blanchard provides a tempting video for coffee drinkers, with a series of macro visual compositions filled with the colors of coffee and cream. Now before you dream of drinking it all up, there’s also a bit of oil and paint mixed in for effect.

During his journey on the International Space Station, astronaut Alexander Gerst captured thousands of images to create time-lapse footage of sunrises, auroras, cloud movements, and other amazing sights that can only be seen from space.  See more of Alex’s images here.

Hong Kong video production company Visual Suspect created this awesome time-lapse footage by sending a drone into circular flight trajectories around Folegandros Island, Greece, resulting in a unique and awe-inspiring perspective on the world below.

To celebrate the International Space Station’s 20 years, the ESA released this 15-minute continuous time-lapse video captured by astronaut Alexander Gerst, as the ISS orbits the Earth two times over. The clip is comprised of 21,000+ images captured over about 3 hours.

Macro Room calls this video “Everyday Objects From Inside”, but it’s more of a continuation of their Everyday Objects in Macro. Except this time, all of the shots are zooming out from impossibly tight angles. We’d really love to know how they did it.

Photographer Ron Risman’s latest time lapse photography is an ode to the ever-changing beauty of the sky. The time-lapse film features everything from clouds bathed in sunlight, to clear night skies, to storms and tornadoes bursting with rain and wind.

Photographer Joerg Daiber of LittleBigWorld recently traveled to North Korea, where he managed to capture tilt-shift, time-lapse images of its enigmatic capital city. Politics and human rights concerns aside, the vibrant imagery belies most impressions of the country.

Bagsmart’s Xpedition backpack uses modules that attach to an X-shaped frame using Fidlock magnetic snaps. This not only keeps your items compartmentalized, it also distributes weight evenly, reducing strain when carrying the bag. You can choose from three module sets.

The stop-motion music video for Said the Whale’s pop track features a meticulously planned and edited sequence of 2250 still photos which were sequenced to create the illusion of motion within the frame. It took a team of 6 over 80 hours to put together the clip.

The Holga Printer is a foldable analog device that lets you print photos from your smartphone onto Fujifilm’s Instax Mini film. All you need to do is place your phone over the printer, press the shutter button and turn a crank. An optional app lets you add effects to photos.

Aquatech’s housings turn your iPhone into an underwater camera. They have models that work with the iPhone 7, 7+, 8, 8+ and X. The housings are impact-resistant and can be used down to 33 ft. The company also offers a variety of compatible lenses.

Kuvrd improves on its bestselling stretchable silicone lens cap. The Universal Lens Cap 2.0 is now made of a more durable and stretchable silicone . It’s also now washable and temperature-resistant. It’s available in two sizes to fit as many lenses as possible.

Sony’s Cyber-Shot HX99 compact camera measures only about 4″x 2″x 1″, yet packs an impressive 30x optical zoom (24mm to 720mm). It has an 18.2MP CMOS sensor and can shoot up to 4K/30fps. It also has a flash, an OLED EVF and a 180º tilting touchscreen.

Insta360’s new One X is a standalone 360º action camera. It shoots videos at up to 5.7K/30fps and photos at up to 18MP RAW. It has electronic image stabilization and a variety of shooting and effect modes such as bullet time, drift, and a variable hyperlapse.

Diver Phill Gordon captured this incredible, but all too short footage of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef using his GoPro Fusion 360º camera, switching into “overcapture” mode to produce a spherical projection of the fish as they swim around his fellow undersea explorers.

The Fujifilm GFX 50R mirrorless camera is significantly lighter and thinner than its predecessor, the GFX 50S. It has a 51.4MP CMOS medium format sensor, a weatherproof body, an EVF, a more durable shutter, and Bluetooth file transfer.

The Atom is a 3-axis gimbal for smartphones that folds down to nearly half its size when not in use. It also has a button for switching between landscape and portrait modes, a programmable slide button, 360º rotation, and lets you charge your phone while it’s docked.