PetaPixel is Moving Down the Block
When we launched back in 2009, I decided to host PetaPixel on the same hosting plan as my personal …
When we launched back in 2009, I decided to host PetaPixel on the same hosting plan as my personal …
In 2007, Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten conducted a social experiment in which he recruited one of the world's great violinists, Joshua Bell, to play in a Washington D.C. subway station. Just two days prior to the experiment, Bell had played in a sold-out Boston theater in which ordinary tickets sold for $100 apiece.
Israeli singer-songwriter Oren Lavie teamed up with photographer Eyal Landesman to create an imaginative music video for "Her Morning Elegance", which was recently nominated for the Best Short Form Music Video Grammy award.
A judge announced this past Tuesday that artist Shepard Fairey is under criminal …
Above is a trailer for Betrayed, a new short film shot entirely with the Canon 5D Mark II. It's co-written and directed by Joshua Grossberg, and the cinematography was done by NYC-based photographer Robert Caplin.
Steve Jobs unveiled the Apple iPad today, igniting tech news with excitement, skepticism, and prolific ragging on its name.
Canon doesn’t seem to want Nikon to have all the fun with articulating LCD screens. After Nikon included such a …
In 1836 Louis Jacques Daguerre, a French artist and chemist, invented the first practical camera, the …
Update: This giveaway is now over. We’ve randomly selected a winner and posted the announcement here. Thanks for …
Last Friday an anonymous poster on the photography board of 4chan sparked a discussion that rippled into the blogosphere after freezing their camera to see whether ISO performance improves at lower temperatures.
Have an ugly thermostat in your home that you wish you could hide when not in use? Hanging photographs …
Nikon just announced the winners of the Nikon Festival short film (140 seconds or less) contest a few hours ago, with the grand prize winner going to Marko Slavnic for his Chicken VS Penguin film embedded above. The win comes with a cool $100,000 and a Nikon D5000 DSLR kit.
Our jaws dropped when we came across Matthew Albanese’s work. He uses everyday materials to create astonishingly detailed small-scale miniatures …
Based on patents recently filed with the United States Patent Office, Canon seems to be working on technologies that could …
This past Saturday, over 2,000 professional and amateur photographers gathered at Trafalgar Square …
Asian American blogger Joz Wang, of jozjozjoz.com wrote a post titled "Racist Camera! No, I did not blink... I'm just Asian!" last year when she discovered a user-unfriendly feature on her Nikon Coolpix S630.
This past Monday, Japanese lens corp Tamron launched a new 12 week video series on their YouTube channel geared towards helping beginners understand their equipment. Each video is 1 minute long, and will cover topics such as white balance, RAW vs. JPEG, and more. Once this introductory series is complete, they plan on posting intermediate and advanced videos as well.
Can’t wait for Polaroid to make its grand comeback this year? You can use your current camera like a …
On January 15, 1885, a Vermont farmer named Wilson A. Bentley combined a bellows camera and a microscope and …
In early 2008 Sony unveiled a new technology called TransferJet that allows wireless data …
Here's a novel idea: using an audiovisual slideshow as a medium for poetry. Journalists at the Knight Digital Media Center created a project for the Oakland School for the Arts, featuring a student's poem, The Eternal Sea. Check it out here.
3D technology was featured somewhat prominently this year at CES, with companies unveiling televisions …
About a month ago we reported that José Luis Rodriguez had come under fire after winning the …
German film director and photographer Wim Wenders created this short film for Leica …
Samsung recently announced five new digital cameras due for release sometime in February. Two of these cameras, the ST60 and …
Hasselblad has had a cryptic countdown displayed on their promotions page for a couple weeks now, and we’re about …
Remember the days when a 5 megapixel digital camera was considered top-of-the-line? I do. Remember the days when 570 megapixel digital cameras were the size of cars? That's a question people might ask years from now, when the most basic pocket cameras boast hundreds of megapixels, and when we have petabyte external hard drives.
A few days ago we came across this brilliant trick for protecting your valuable camera gear while flying. Most airlines don't allow you to fly with your luggage locked, but there's a clever way around the rule -- bring a gun.
Back in 2005, a student in England named Alex Tew launched The Million Dollar Homepage, through which he sold the pixels of a 1000x1000 grid for $1 each. Although it was an extremely simple idea, the unique project attracted enormous amounts of press coverage, and eventually earned $1,037,100 in a matter of months. It also spawned countless copycat websites that virtually all failed, since the idea was no longer novel.
Freezelight is a Russian group that creates light painting photographs and animations. They have a pretty interesting blog showcasing their work, and opened up a Vimeo account a few days ago to showcase their films.
David Baker is the photoblogger behind milouvision. PetaPixel: Can you tell me a …
Update on 12/18/21: This video has been removed by its creator.
The past two days have been filled with increasingly grim news following the catastrophic magnitude 7 earthquake in Haiti. If you had a chance to catch MSNBC's coverage of the aftermath in the video above, there are some very powerful images.
Photographers often go through hours, days, or weeks of work to achieve certain photographs, and the dedication is usually reflected in the end result. That might seem like a lot of work to you if you typically only spend a few seconds framing and snapping a photograph, but what if I told you that a crew from BBC spent two years working on a 60 second clip?
Job portal careercast recently released a ranking of 200 jobs from best to worst for 2010. The Wall Street Journal republished the data in a nice, sortable chart as its Best and Worst Jobs 2010 list. Since you're reading this, you probably want to know how jobs involving photography rank on the list. The answer: pretty low.
Here's a dose of creative inspiration: a hand animated video of parkour. Created by Serene Teh and Noel Lee, parkour motion reel is a pretty unique take on the flip book style of animation.