10 Most Popular PetaPixel Posts of 2011
As 2011 comes to an end, here’s a look back at 10 of our most popular articles from the …
As 2011 comes to an end, here’s a look back at 10 of our most popular articles from the …
Curious as to what Sony’s A77 pellicle mirror looks like on the inside? Here’s an interesting look at the …
Here’s a quick and simple tip for better portraits by Reddit user rmx_: …
Filmmaking brothers John and Richard Ramsey came up with the brilliant and hilarious idea of unearthing some old home videos and adding directors commentary over them. It's a great way to have a laugh with family members, and could make a fun present.
Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse is a photo series by photo instructor Carrie M. Becker that shows what Barbie's dollhouse would look like if she was a compulsive hoarder and complete slob. The scenes ares 1/6th scale models, the objects are either repurposed Barbie toys or made by hand. Becker used a Nikon D40 with the on-camera flash.
Etsy seller missquitecontrary sells her fine art photographs printed onto vintage dictionary pages.
Steve 21 has an interesting trick for finding good available light: he places …
Accidentally expose an entire roll of film to light? Instead of throwing it away, you can turn it into …
Here’s an inspiring video in which we hear war photographer Joao Silva discuss the biggest fight of his life: …
News photo agencies EPA, AFP, and Reuters have all issued kill orders for a photo of Kim Jong-il's funeral procession released by the Korean Central News Agency, the state news agency of North Korea. The photo (above at bottom) raised red flags after a comparison with a Kyodo News photo taken just seconds earlier revealed that a number of people had vanished from the scene. The New York Times writes,
A side-by-side comparison of the full images does point to a possibly banal explanation: totalitarian aesthetics. With the men straggling around the sidelines, a certain martial perfection is lost. Without the men, the tight black bands of the crowd on either side look railroad straight.
Perhaps it was a simple matter of one person gilding the lily.
Astrophotographer Stéphane Guisard captured this time-lapse video showing …
Before We Begin is a project by photographer Christopher Jonassen (whose frying pan photos we featured here) that consists of diptychs showing clouds and cloud watchers. The images capture peaceful "moments of reflection between thought and action."
For his project titled "Unrealistic Scenes", photographer Nathan Spotts composited his own landscape photographs with digital artwork of planets floating in the starry night sky.
I've always been captivated by the beauty of our world, and often dream of the things that lay just beyond what we can see. I wanted to create images of scenes that are not-quite real, but that almost could be.
Back in the spring of 1980, Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson began to photograph the subway system in NYC for …
Earlier this month we shared some advice from an anonymous airline baggage handler, who revealed that hard-sided …
A Swedish hacker and robotics student named Björn Mabrö is claiming that he has successfully developed a custom firmware for the Canon 5D Mark II that adds Apple's Siri voice assistant to the DSLR. Mabrö claims that the hack allows the camera to respond to 124 different voice commands that control everything from the shutter to changing values in settings.
Looking for a lost camera on the web by searching for its serial number in uploaded photos is nothing …
Qamar Hashim is an eight-year-old boy who works as a professional photographer in Iraq. He’s a local celebrity, and …
After damaging the pellicle mirror in his Sony A55 with cleaning fluid, a guy named Dario decided to look …
This photo shows what 5MB of hard drive storage looked like in 1956. The IBM 305 RAMAC hard disk …
Over the past year, there have been a number of jaw-dropping (and viral) time-lapse videos created from the amazing …
Here's an interesting video in which acclaimed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris (the guy who directed The Fog of War) talks about the issue of truth in photography, and how he thinks we've forgotten that there's a connection between photos to the physical world.
Nikon's firmware got decrypted last month, and now an unofficial firmware for Nikon DSLRs has emerged. Rather than offer useful adjustments, the firmware is purely for geekiness: it gives Nikon D5100 DSLRs a Star Wars theme.
Here’s a crash course on how to work with models as a photographer. Photographer Mark Wallace discusses tips for …
Love music just as much as you love photography? Want an extra music stand? You can make a makeshift …
The photographs in Nadav Bagim's project "WonderLand" might look like paintings or computer generated images, but they're actually real photographs captured at home using ordinary objects and creative artificial lighting. His tools and props include things like vegetables, plastic bags, flowers, and leaves, and he captures the images using a Canon 60D and 100mm f/2.8 macro lens. Getting his "subjects" into the positions and poses he wants requires countless hours of patient encouraging.
If families always listened when photographers say, “look natural”, this is what nearly every Christmas card would look like.
For 25 years, YouTube user spoonito‘s father would record footage of spoonito and …
Olympus recently filed a patent in Japan for a vari-angle LCD screen. While that's not exactly groundbreaking, the illustrations in the patent appears to show some kind of medium format digital camera. What's more, it looks nearly identical to the Samsung digital medium format prototypes that emerged earlier this year.
Flickr user Chris captured this remarkable photograph of the Eiffel Tower at night …
Kodak is burning through $70 million every month and desperately trying to stay alive by selling off …
Slide Light is a wall light designed by SUCK UK that provides low level background room lighting that's customized using slide film. Adding different photographs to the light provides different moods.
Smartphones are taking huge bites out of the compact camera market. A recent study by market research company …
Photographer and craftaholic Parul Arora sells beautiful Polaroid picture ceramic coasters through her …
What would you pack if you were assigned to cover a war from the inside? The photo above shows what photographer Umit Bektas decided to pack in his camera bag for his embed with a US military unit in Afghanistan.
If you’re a photographer and not an architect, why settle for boring ol’ gingerbread houses this holiday season? Gingerbread …
What you see above is reportedly what the upcoming Nikon D800 will look like from the side. The leaked …
Reading a camera’s user manual is a great way to become familiar with all of its features and functions, …
Wedding photographer Joe Simon learned about copyright the hard way recently after his video of Tony Romo’s wedding went …