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NASA Helps Wisconsin Monitor Wildlife With 5000 Remote Trail Cameras
Ron Leach  |  May 30, 2016

The state of Wisconsin is teaming up with NASA and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in a unique project to identify the state’s wildlife populations with the installation of 5,000 strategically placed trail cameras. The “Snapshot Wisconsin” initiative employs remote sensing satellites and a global crowd-sourced database to create what aims to be the “richest and most comprehensive caches of wildlife data for any spot on our planet.”

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8 Essential Tools for Landscape Photography: Here’s the Gear You Should Have In Your Field Bag
Josh Miller  |  May 27, 2016

While nothing beats practice and time spent in the field waiting for perfect light, there are a few essential tools that should be found in every landscape photographer’s bag. These photo accessories might not be as exciting as that new camera we all dream of, but they will help you take your photography to the next level much quicker than upping your megapixel count.

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Three For the Road: The Bag Man Looks at His Three Favorite Photo Bags From Pelican, SOG & FUL
Jon Sienkiewicz  |  May 26, 2016

Every once in awhile I discover a photo bag or backpack and something just clicks. It becomes part of my routine—my “go to bag” when I have somewhere to go to. So if you’ll kindly overlook my dangling preposition, I’ll tell you about three bags I don’t want to be without. 

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Weird Lens Guru Reviews the Russian-Made Jupiter-9 85mm F/2 & the Results Are Amazing (VIDEO)
Dan Havlik  |  May 26, 2016

Our favorite weird lens guru Mathieu Stern has been testing out some unusual Soviet-era Russian lens and the results have been surprisingly impressive. In fact, in the below video, Stern pairs the Jupiter-9 85mm F/2 portrait lens on a Sony A7 II mirrorless camera and some of his still photos and video are actually quite amazing.

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Canon EOS 80D DSLR Review
Joe Farace  |  May 26, 2016

The EOS 80D is the latest iteration of Canon’s APS-C-chipped DSLRs that began with the introduction of the (no kidding) three-megapixel EOS D30 in 2000. I’ve owned and shot with every camera in this series through the 60D. I so dearly loved my Canon 50D, now converted to infrared-only operation, that I couldn’t imagine anything better, at least until I got the 60D. What happened to the 70D? I guess I must have missed that one. No matter, I was eager to put the new EOS 80D to work because of the specs and features it offered.

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Adobe Previews Content-Aware Crop Feature to Auto Straighten Horizons & Fill in the Blanks
Dan Havlik  |  May 26, 2016

Don’t you hate it when you straighten a horizon in Photoshop and ended up cutting off important parts of the photo in the process? Well, Adobe has an answer for that with its upcoming Content-Aware Crop feature for Photoshop CC.

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Crazed Geniuses Use Drones to Create Awesome Star Wars Aerial Dogfight (VIDEO)
Dan Havlik  |  May 25, 2016

We’ve covered how photographers and videographers are using flying drones to capture amazing aerial footage but we’ve never seen anything quite like this.

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Olympus Intros Stylus Tough TG-Tracker “Experiential” Camera with Ultra-Wide Lens, 4K Video & Field Sensors
Dan Havlik  |  May 24, 2016

Olympus introduced an unusual new durable compact camera this morning: the Stylus Tough TG-Tracker. Olympus is billing the Stylus Tough TG-Tracker as the company’s “first rugged experiential camera,” which combines a 204-degree ultra-wide-angle f/2.0 lens with Ultra HD 4K 30p video capture and an “advanced Field Sensor System” to shoot action video while recording related activity data.

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Wide Eyes: How a Young Photographer Finds New Angles in His Landscape Photography
Barry Tanenbaum  |  May 24, 2016

The photography critic and historian A.D. Coleman once noted that the most common mistake many photographers make is thinking that what they’re experiencing while making a picture is what’s being captured by the camera.

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Final Shot: Our Favorite Reader Photo of the Month
Staff  |  May 24, 2016

Shutterbug reader Michel Hersen has taken several trips through the backcountry of Monument Valley in Arizona with Fred Cly, a renowned Navajo guide who knows the area like the back of his hand. In this photo taken in January 2015, Cly graciously agreed to pose for this silhouette on the lip of the Teardrop Arch.

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