Here's a tutorial on how to do non-automated HDR for real estate photography using Photoshop CS5. The first thing you'll need is a sturdy tripod with a level. The closer you are to a leveled image, the less correction you'll have to do later.
When Fujifilm said that the X-Pro1's sensor "resolution and low noise will surpass rival 35mm full size sensor[s]", they weren't kidding. Photographers Christian Fletcher and Michael Coyne have both been testing out the camera, and have extremely positive things to say about it.
Evan Sharboneau over at Photo Extremist shot this crazy photograph of “a room …
Ever wonder why camera manufacturers these days are describing often sensor sizes with fractions instead of millimeters? Roger Cicala …
France-based photographer Fabrice Wittner has a neat project titled "Enlightened Souls" that consists of ghostly portraits created by light-painting with stencils (which are themselves created from actual portraits). Wittner first started the project in May 2011 after the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand.
While many photographers swear by optical viewfinders, it’s clear that much of the camera industry is shifting over to …
17-year-old filmmaking student Sacha Powell shot this powerful slow motion film using a …
Say hello to the latest item in the PetaPixel Store: the Instant Photo Pendant Necklace! This beautiful pendant is designed to look exactly like a 1-inch tall Polaroid picture. Insert your favorite 0.8-inch square photos through a slot in the side, and keep it safe and snug with a clear plastic square (included). The copper and iron pendant is coated with white and comes with a silver-colored 18-inch chain. Buy one while supplies last for just $10 from our store (shipping is free for US residents).
Photographer Alicia Rius bases much of her work around searching for "hidden treasures". One particular series is titled "From the back seat of my car", and consists of unplanned photographs taken from the back of abandoned cars.
Elizabeth Giorgi of Being Geek Chic made this step-by-step video tutorial teaching …
Canon's president Tsuneji Uchida announced today that he will be stepping down to pave way for a younger management team as the company fell short of expectations for the second straight year. Canon's stock price dropped 19% last year while Nikon's grew 4%. The total number of Canon cameras sold dropped 4% last year, likely a result of both a shift away from consumer cameras and the shortages caused by Japan's earthquake and Thailand's flooding.
Photographer Scott Sexton created this cinemagraph showing …
Dame di Cartone ("Cardboard Ladies") is a project by Swiss-Italian photographer Christian Tagliavini in which he creates portraits of women that mimic the look of historical paintings. The styles include 17th century, fifties, and cubism.
Photographer and developer Ben Syverson has created an iPhone camera app …
If you have an old mount for attaching a GPS or cell phone to your windshield, you can upcycle …
German scientists have been awarded a Guinness World Record for “fastest movie” after successfully capturing two images of an …
In a paper published in Science this week, Japanese researchers reported on a discovery that jumping spiders use a method for gauging distance called "image defocus", which no other living organism is known to use. Rather than use focusing and stereoscopic vision like humans or head-wobbling motion parallax like birds, the spiders have two green-detecting layers in their eyes -- one in focus and one not. By comparing the two, the spiders can determine the distance from objects. Scientists discovered that bathing spiders in pure red light "breaks" their distance measuring ability.
MoneyMaker is a suspenders-style camera strap by HoldFast that lets you shoot with three cameras at the same time while looking like a cop from old movies.
French humorist Rémi Gaillard created this lighthearted video showing what happens when you …
The New York Public Library has a massive collection of over 40,000 vintage stereographs (two photos taken from slightly different points of view). To properly share them with the world in 3D, the library has launched a new tool called the Stereogranimator. It lets you convert an old stereograph into either an animated 3D GIF (which uses "wiggle stereoscopy") or an anaglyph (the kind that requires special glasses).
Babak Tafreshi of The World at Night …
Nikon is now including the D700 in the discontinued products section …
A couple weeks ago, 17-year-old Canadian teens Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad successfully sent a Lego man and four cameras to the edges of space on a weather balloon and captured photographs of the figurine posing with a Canadian flag at 78,000 feet -- three times the cruising altitude of jets.
A clearer picture is emerging of what the Fujifilm X-Pro1 will cost when it’s finally on store …
Earlier today my friend and fellow photographer posted a link to a craigslist ad from a woman in Seattle looking for a wedding photographer. The woman was upset because she thought that $3,000 for a wedding photographer was “wack” because all we do “is hang out at a wedding taking tons of photos and editing them” and that we are “making so much money it's crazy.”
Here’s a cool sneak peek at some of the new features coming to the next version of Adobe Camera …
Pentax released a new compact camera today called the Optio VS20, which offers a feature we haven’t seen before …
French wedding photographer Béatrice de Guigné has a fun set of photographs showing what Barbie and Ken's wedding photographs might look like if captured by a trendy contemporary wedding photographer.
Light painting enthusiast Ian Hobson created this psychedelic long-exposure photo entirely in-camera. Can you figure out how it was created?
NASA has released another Blue Marble photograph of Earth. It calls this one the “most amazing, highest resolution image …
Yesterday we wrote that Steve Jobs had been interested in Lytro's novel camera technology during the final years of his life.
Photographer Martin Schoeller traveled to the annual "Twins Days Festival" in Twinsburg, Ohio to photograph pairs of identical twins in his trademark close-up style.
Last week we featured an amazing video by a girl named Madeline who documented 2011 by recording …
If you’re a photographer in the UK, you might want to think twice about shooting and selling a photograph …
Creating tiny planets by projecting panoramic photographs onto a sphere is something you've probably seen before, but Dutch photographer Wouter van Buuren creates his planets a bit differently. rather than shoot panoramas from the ground, van Buuren climbs to the top of towers, cranes, skyscrapers, and bridges and points his camera in every direction below. He then takes the resulting photographs and arranges them into compact worlds.
Design director Wayne Ford has written up a great piece on the career of American photographer Arnold Newman, who was in the vanguard of the "environmental portrait" movement that emerged in the early 1940s.
Crippled by its recent financial scandal, Olympus is in need of a bailout and has been open …
Here’s something that’ll blow your mind (sorry that it’s an ad): stare at the colored dots on this girl’s …
Heavier tripods are generally more stable than lighter ones — wind doesn’t affect them as much — but hauling …
Update: This giveaway is now over. The winner was randomly selected and announced below.
VSCO Film has been getting a good amount of attention recently, with professional photographers saying that the software indeed makes digital photographs look like they were shot with a film camera. Today we're going to be giving away two copies of VSCO Film Studio 01 worth $199 each! This package has ACR and Lightroom presets designed specifically for Canon and Nikon cameras, in addition to the universal ones. You can watch a video intro of the software here.