10 Most Popular PetaPixel Posts of 2010
As 2010 comes to an end, here’s a look back at 10 of our most popular articles from the …
As 2010 comes to an end, here’s a look back at 10 of our most popular articles from the …
Update on 12/18/21: This video has been removed by its creator.
TIME Magazine's latest cover features a photograph of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung Sang Suu Kyi, with the feature story offering a glimpse into her life since being released from house arrest. The above is an interesting video in which Platon, the photographer behind the photo, tells the harrowing tale of what it took to make the photo. It's guaranteed to make most portrait assignments sound extremely boring.
You’ve probably seen the special keyboard covers for Mac keyboards that show you the Photoshop shortcut each key is …
Forget throwing water balloons at people’s faces — if you ever get your hands on a super …
Yesterday the last certified Kodachrome processing facility — Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas …
For the BBC documentary “Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice”, special hidden cameras were designed with unobtrusiveness …
Earlier this year photographer Daniel Morel was shocked when a photograph he captured during the devastating earthquake in Haiti and posted to TwitPic was distributed by Agency France Presse (AFP) and published on the front page of newspapers around the world -- all without his permission.
To add insult to injury, he was then sued by AFP when he sent cease and desist letters in response to the copyright infringement. The dispute has turned into a legal battle over whether images uploaded to TwitPic and shared on Twitter can be freely republished by third parties. In what might be an indication of things to come, a federal court has denied AFP's pre-trial request to have the case thrown out.
After Kodak announced the end of Kodachrome’s production in June of 2009, the number of photo labs that developed …
4K video recording may soon be available to Canon T2i/550D users willing to load a firmware hack onto their cameras. Apparently a guy known as Earz62801 on YouTube will be releasing a firmware hack on 1/1/11 that will give the T2i/550D 4K, 3K, and 2K recording capabilities and bit rates between 45MB/s and 175MB/s. He claims that 91 seconds of footage can be recorded at 2K and 175MB/s, though the time drops down to 6 seconds for 4K.
Wow. People are taking chicken head camera stabilization pretty seriously after the fact that chickens have image stabilized heads went viral recently. Research is ongoing, and people are reporting their interesting experimental findings on YouTube.
If PetaPixel’s very own Leica skin for the iPhone isn’t enough photo geekery for you, there’s also …
Pinhole cameras are usually very low-tech and dumbed-down in their operation, but how would one go about making it fancier like a digital camera? Basil Shikin decided to build his own custom pinhole camera using Lego Mindstorms, adding all sorts of awesome features to an ordinarily simple kind of camera. Features include automatic shutter speed calculation using a sensor, automatic film rewind, and the tracking of how much film remains.
Samsung has announced the NX11, a mirrorless camera nearly identical to the NX10 (released earlier this year) except for …
Pardon the obnoxious watermarks, but Gadget4all is selling this funky USB speaker that …
There's a number of notable iPhone apps out there that add a vintage look to your photographs (e.g. Hipstamatic and Instagram), but what if you want to shoot vintage-looking video? 8mm Vintage Camera is an app that does just that, allowing you to choose between a number of films and lenses. You can also turn on "jitter", adding an extra measure of realism to the look.
When Fujifilm unveiled the upcoming FinePix X100 back in September, the sleek retro design was enough to cause many photo-enthusiasts to start drooling and saving up money. Now, more details about the technological advances incorporated into the camera are becoming available, undoubtedly causing more camera lust. One of the big features offered by the camera is a novel hybrid viewfinder that can toggle between optical and electronic modes with a single touch, which overlays even the optical view with a sweet "heads up display".
The winter hasn’t been friendly this year to certain areas of the US, with flash floods hitting Southern California …
If you love the fact that IKEA furniture is cheap and easy to put together, but hate the fact …
The size and video quality of GoPro cameras opens the door to all …
For Christmas, Kyle‘s girlfriend Sarah wanted to give him something photography related, so …
When photographers Larissa and Trevor over at Ambient Studios needed to come up …
With a huge arsenal of camera gear at their disposal, the folks over at BorrowLenses can do a lot of fun and random experiments that us ordinary folk can only dream about. After first stacking lens filters and then teleconverters, they've gone to the next level by stacking $150,000 worth of camera gear into a Christmas tree.
If you'd like to take "lo-fi" photographs with your DSLR, but don't want to spend money on a pricey specialty lens just for this purpose, you're in luck. In this tutorial I'll be showing you a simple "mod" with which you can get a similar effect for no money at all! You’ll need a piece of scotch tape, scissors and a lens.
While some photo-enthusiasts are content with carrying a camera around with them around the clock, others go a step further and show off their love for the art by having a camera tattooed to their body.
iPhoneography (i.e. iPhone photography) is exploding in popularity, and undoubtedly many people jumping into the craze will want to …
Watch out GoPro -- you've got competition headed your way. The Poco Pro is an upcoming camera by Iain Sinclair Design that claims to be the world's smallest 14 megapixel camera and thinnest 1080p HD camcorder, perfect for action photography and helmet cams.
A couple days ago Flickr published a blog post featuring a handful of member photographs of the December 2010 lunar eclipse. The first image in the post was "The 2010 Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse over Jersey City, NJ" (shown above) by photographer Steve Kelly.
Apparently Homer Simpson is quite handy with tools and savvy with camera repairs. Here he demonstrates the proper technique for getting a broken camera to magically work again... or for installing a custom tripod thread to the top of a camera.
Cameras usually hide what it’s shooting from you when the sensor is capturing light, so you can’t watch slow …
In the present day world of photography, "mainstream" digital cameras aren't nearly as modular as desktop computers since components can't easily be swapped in and out of the camera body. The future might look quite different, and Nikon is taking a step in that direction with a recent patent filing for interchangeable sensors on EVIL cameras. In addition to choosing a particular lens depending on the desired photo, photographers would be able to choose different sensors as well.
“Dueling Cameras” is a… unique little short by Noah Kalina (of everyday fame) …
The "Flutter in Pinhole" is a beautiful concept camera that combines a cardboard pinhole camera with instant film to make sharing memories a breeze, and could be the high-tech postcard of the future.
Now here's a novel way to shoot the moon: stack five separate Canon 2x extenders to boost the focal length of your 800mm lens. Supposedly (and surprisingly) this rig actually captured a decent photograph of the moon.
This was done by the folks over at BorrowLenses, who also did the crazy filter stacking thing we featured recently. When you have as much gear as they do at your disposal, you have a wider range of ways to have fun with gear experiments.
If your wall needs decorating and you have a lot of time on your hands (and we mean a …
Last night there was a total lunar eclipse that just so happened to …
Last week Alexandre Oudin's creative Facebook portrait idea spread like wildfire on the Interwebs, and was even featured by CNN. If you'd like to do the same thing with a portrait or photograph of yours but don't have the time or technical know-how to do so, there's a new website called Pic Scatter that does all the work for you. All you need to do is upload and resize and reposition the image to your liking, and the website will allow you to download all the individual photos for the "hacked" profile pic. The only downside is that a "Made with picScatter.com" bar is added to your image.
In the current world we live in, it’s often the case that one person taking photographs for a group …
Being a photographer for the National Geographic opens the door to all kinds of photo opportunities that other photographers …
Google's new Books Ngram Viewer is a cool new site that allows you to search for words and view a graph of how the usage of that word has fluctuated over time. A quick search of the word "photography" in books published between 1835 and 2008 provides a pretty interesting look at the history of photography.
The soft cases that are often bundled with higher-end lenses are good for preventing minor scrapes and bruises, but …