December 2009

As 2009 comes to an end, here’s a look back at 10 of …

This video is an interesting compilation of over 4,600 Polaroid self-portraits taken by Marc Tasman over ten years between July 24, 1999 and July 24, 2009. That's a total of 3,654 consecutive days.

Laura Brunow Miner is the former editor-in-chief of JPG Magazine and founder of …

Light painting is when you use bright points of light and long exposure times to "paint" light into a photograph. You've probably seen numerous tutorials on the technique by now, but if you haven't, we posted a brief tutorial on the technique about half a year ago.

Merry Christmas! It has been a week already since we posted our latest …

Victor Pinchuk, the Ukrainian billionaire who purchased the photograph 99 Cent II Diptychon in 2007 for a record breaking $3.34 million, has launched an international award for artists called the Future Generation Art Prize.

Remember the Nova Concept DSLR? Well this one might be even stranger. Fleximus is a conceptual digital camera that's based on a flexible tube:

About two weeks ago we reported that the “Fathers of Digital Photography” who invented the CCD sensor had …

Something you may have noticed when adjusting your camera’s ISO setting is that as you increase ISO, the number of …

Spanish photographer José Luis Rodriguez recently received the prestigious winning title as the Veolia Environment Wildlife photographer of the year, along with £10,000 (about $20,000 $16,000) in prize money for his image, Storybook Wolf.  The photograph depicts a rare, Iberian wolf hopping a fence to enter a corral where the photographer had placed meat to attract the animal.

Nikon announced today that NASA has placed an order of 11 D3s full-frame DSLRs and 7 Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8 lenses. The bodies each retail for about $5,000 while the lenses cost about $1,800 apiece, so NASA spent about $67,600 on this gear purchase. NASA's budget is currently over $17 billion, so they spent roughly .0004% of their annual budget on this camera gear.

Samsung is releasing a new hybrid digital camera system sometime in early January of next year called the NX Series. The idea is that the new series would combine the advantages of DSLR and point-and-shoot cameras. Before we go into some details, here are a couple photographs of the actual camera that were posted to DPReview's forums.

It's quite a coincidence, but two of the largest images in the world were both announced recently. These images were created by taking thousands of individual high-resolution photographs and stitching them together to create gigantic panoramas.

Nikon recently conducted a survey called "Picture Yourself", and released some interesting findings today, a lot of which reveals things about the way people view themselves. The survey was conducted using random telephone dialing, and sampled 1000 Americans 18 and older.

At CES 2010 next year, photography automation company Ortery will unveil the Photosimile 5000, a device that they claim is the "next generation imaging device for the office." Essentially it's like a copier, except for stock/product photography. You can simply walk up to the machine, place what you'd like to photograph inside, adjust a few settings on the parameter, and walk away with a professional looking product photograph. The computer-operated system automatically adjusts lighting to remove shadows, and takes care of handling white balance.

Update: This giveaway has ended. The winner was randomly selected and announced here. Hello all you awesome readers …

FlickrPoet is a neat little web-app built by …

Recovering your camera after losing it is one of those things that most …

Canon Singapore recently loaned news photographer Dan Chung two pre-production Canon 1D Mark IV DSLRs to try out.

In a move that might spark another Internet debate, Flickr has added India to the list of countries unable to view content rated moderate and/or restricted.

A recent survey of 200 creative professionals in the UK found that 37% admit to illegally using images found on the Internet.

This interesting collection of images by Indonesian artist Agan Harahap, titled “Super Hero”, features famous superheroes (and villains) inserted into …

Personalized mugs with your mug on it, photo blankets, and good ol' fashioned framed pictures are all fine and dandy, but they can get old fast.

We posted a few personalized photo gifts in yesterday's PetaPixel Photography Gift Guide 2009, but here are a few more ideas to get out the old and in with the inspired.

Two days ago, Sankei News in Japan reported that a Nagoya Institute of Technology team led by Professor Yojiro Ishino was certified by Guinness World Records as having built the "Camera With The Most Lenses". The camera boasts a staggering 158 separate lenses.

Some members of the photography industry have been up in arms the past few days over an internship offered …

If for some reason you're against carrying extra batteries around for your digital camera, then this might be just the gadget for you. YoGen is a human powered charger that generates power when you pull on the lawnmower-style ripcord.

The holiday season is upon us! In celebration of the season, we’ve compiled our first holiday gift guide! …

Editor's note: This post contains landscape photographs with a trace amount of artistic nudity.

Ruben Brulat is a 21 year old photographer based in Paris, France. Two of his projects, titled "Primates" and "Immaculate", involve self-portraits taken in landscapes and in the neighborhoods of Paris.

According to a patent filed in June 2007, Nikon is looking into adding an email client directly into their point-and-shoot cameras (DSLR users can breathe a sigh of relief). This would allow people to quickly email photographs from their cameras, rather than have to transfer them to a computer first.

In a post published on their blog yesterday, Tumblr revealed some interesting data on cameras and Canon lenses uploaded to the blogging service, presumably harvested from the EXIF data of each photo.

Here's yet another interesting camera accessory that might make a good present this Christmas season.

Back in April of 2007, Udi Tirosh over at DIYPhotography wrote an article describing how to customize your bokeh using a paper cutout in front of your lens. That do-it-yourself project was so successful that Udi has now turned it into a camera accessory you can purchase.

The technology behind DSLRs, video cameras, web cams, and even astrophotography and medical imaging would not be where it is …

Here's your daily dose of (semi)photographic inspiration: Musical duo Gloobic put together this creative video in which Eric Gunther, one of the two members, dances to a Gloobic track in timelapse.

Back in September we wrote an article discussing how difficult it is to keep digital photographs safe for a really, really long time. We mentioned that storing your images with a reliable service like Amazon is probably much safer than trying to archive data yourself, since you're probably not an expert at doing so.

Here's a little DSLR accessory that might be a great Christmas present for a photographer you know. The Aputure Gigtube is a "remote viewfinder" that allows you to use the "live view" functionality of your camera off-camera. You can either mount it on your hot-shoe, or use it separately as a remote shutter release.

Just came across this hilarious animation of two guys discussing "thinking outside the box". Now, I guess these guys could be anyone from philosophers to painters, but I like to think they're photographers who are trying too hard to be "artistic". Enjoy.

Strobox is a new iPhone application that allows …

Just launched today, FocalPop is a new online …

Google announced a pretty awesome new product today called Google Goggles that has the potential to completely change the way we think about search. It's basically an application that will tell you all sorts of information based on photographs you take with your camera phone.

On December 3rd, Epson announced the PictureMate Show, the “Ultimate Two-in-One Digital Frame …