Now this is clever: a group of street artists in Russia have "deleted" the graffiti covering a dumpster and abandoned car with a clever anamorphic illusion. Using paint, the artists covered the graffiti with Photoshop's transparency checkerboard to make it look like someone had cut out the graffiti from a layer in Photoshop.
Artistic filmmaker Thomas Blanchard is back with another mesmerizing experimental video, combining forces with Oilhack to create this otherworldly 2 minute film.
I was nervous and excited. I had just left my 9 to 5 cubicle career and jumped head-first into full-time photography. Over the next 2 months, I would be traveling all over the world with a friend in order to build my portfolio. At this point, though, my sedentary lifestyle had caught up to me and I was about 25lbs overweight.
Japanese artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi has a project titled Layer Drawings that creatively uses photography to explore time, space, and 3D art installations. Each piece is a series of photos on a series of transparent acrylic sheets.
What would Salvador Dali eat for brunch? Designer Kyle Bean recently teamed up with photographer Aaron Tilley and food stylist Lucy-Ruth Hathaway to answer this very question by recreating the works of Dali and other artists using various brunch ingredients.
It’s not uncommon in any field to find yourself in a creative rut at some point. In this 10-minute video, photographer Sean Tucker discusses how he overcomes his main sticking points, and keeps creating new work week-in and week-out.
In this great video from DSLR Guide, Simon Cade talks about discontentment: how it can be harnessed as a fuel to keep driving forward, and as a signpost to assure that you’re on the right track.
Photographer Gabor Kasza has unveiled a new photo book titled Concrete passages about closeness and coldness… and a couple of songs. It's a study of unfinished concrete buildings and surfaces, and the book comes with an unusual physical form that mirrors its content: the slipcase is made of concrete.
"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." – Henri Cartier-Bresson
If you take a drive down the Gene Autry Trail in California sometime before April 30th, you'll run into an unusual set of billboards. Rather than ads, you're greeted by a landscape photograph that, for a fleeting moment as you drive by, will blend perfectly into the mountains in the distance.
It’s understandable that the great unwashed masses of the larger population might not appreciate contemporary art. But you’d think that photographers, who are creatives in their own right, would appreciate the art and creativity of others in all of its various forms. What I’ve seen instead is that, when it comes to much contemporary art, most (but not all!) photographers tend to dismiss the work outright.
“Perfect photographs do not move the heart.”– David DuChemin, The Vision Driven Photographer
This is one of my favourite photography quotes, in fact one of my favourite quotes generally.
I will probably get a bunch of hate for this article, but whatever. Hopefully, my message will help someone. I realize this site is frequented by enthusiasts, professionals, camera geeks, etc. but this post is pointed more at people that want to make it as a portrait or fashion photographer.
If you appreciate visual art and aesthetics—and, if you're reading PetaPixel, chances are good that you do—then you absolutely must watch the new Netflix original docu-series "Abstract: The Art of Design."
On May 2nd, 2016, Melbourne, Australia-based independent photo lab Hillvale developed its 50,000th roll of film since opening its doors in 2013. To commemorate the milestone, the lab decided to crush its massive stockpile of empty canisters into cube pieces of art.
Visual effects artist Roy Perker is tired of people saying that VFX and digital compositing "looks fake." So he created this fun little video to show off his own compositing skill, and educate people on what it takes to seamlessly blend real footage and computer generated imagery on screen.
Sigma is still on a roll when it comes to its high-end Art lenses, and the latest accolade is impressive: DxOMark just awarded the new Sigma 85mm f/1.4 Art lens the highest score the benchmarking company has ever given.
Classical art meets modern-day drudgery in artist Alexey Kondakov's ongoing series Art History in Contemporary Life. For the past two years, Kondakov has been delighting his fans by expertly Photoshopping figures from classical art into modern-day photos.
Holocaust memorials are somber places designed to honor the memories of the millions who lost their lives in the genocide, but tourists at the memorials can often be seen posing for lighthearted and disrespectful photos. Jewish artist Shahak Shapira has created a project called Yolocaust to speak out against this.
About a year and half ago, after what seemed like a lifetime of living paycheck-to-paycheck (paying off student loans and other debts) my wife and I were sitting in the office of a financial advisor with money to invest. After hearing the options to best set us up for retirement, he asked, “What are your goals?”
Arranging camera equipment to look like a gun is not a novel idea, but photographer Jason Siegel's art project Shoot Portraits, Not People takes this provocative idea to a new level by building all sorts of weaponry and combat materials using hand-picked pieces chosen from over 200 pounds of camera parts.
The kind of photography I do begins as a moment of theft. Finding the scene, finding your angle, and stealing the moment for yourself. Some photographers are creators. They build a scene, a still life, or arrange their models and angle their lights and create an image from nothing. I’m not one of those photographers. I’m a thief.
Belgian artist Vincent Bal has a fantastic ongoing project titled Shadowology. Each photo is a clever mix of an object, its shadow, and a hand-drawn illustration that creates a whimsical scene.
French freelance photographer and graphic designer Sebastien Del Grosso has created a series of beautiful artworks based on the Star Wars universe. It might not look like it, but photography played a big role in the project.
Here's the before/after shot I promised yesterday which showcases the not-too-shabby dynamic range and noise control of the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV. But I don't want to talk about it any longer. Instead, I'd like to say this.
We first told you about the living work of artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey back in 2012. Their unique brand of portrait 'printing' involves literally growing a photo onto a wall of grass and displaying the result. Now we get to hear from the artists themselves in this revealing video.
Want one of the coolest and priciest pieces of art for your home or studio? Leica's "Family Tree" camera display will soon be hitting the auction block. The display features 107 cameras arranged in a tree, and is expected to sell for about half a million dollars.
For his project "Shots Fired," photographer Mark Teiwes created images of gunshots. Instead of shooting the images with a camera, however, he shot the photo-sensitive paper with bullets.
Sigma has received glowing marks for its Art series of lenses, but the fact that it's a 3rd party lens maker still has its shortcomings. Case in point: Sigma has found that a few of its lenses don't play nicely with the new Canon 1D X Mark II.
I'm old. Believe me, I know it. I'll be 70 in a few months. That fact may make it hard for you to take me seriously, but bear with me for just this post. With age comes wisdom, right? What I want to write here is that I think the field of photography by those making art is changing in a disturbing way. Read on.
A while back we shared the world's smallest tintypes, created with a tiny modified camera. Now here's a look at the opposite end of the spectrum: the world's largest tintypes, shot using a colossal room-sized cameras.
Uzbekistani professional photographer Ravshaniya Azulye's signature style involves breaking rules -- not of photography, but of nature. Her portfolio is filled with gravity-defying art photos that combine chaos with elegant form.
No brush stroke, no accidental blotch of paint, no hidden nuance of a great painting by van Gogh or Monet can hide from the ultra-high resolution Google Art Camera.
Want to see what photo studios were like a century ago? Turkish artist Ali Alamedy recently spent 9 months building a 1900s photo studio... as a miniature tabletop diorama.
I do a lot of product photography and there are two places I go to when I need to prepare supplies for a shoot: one is the hardware store to get some tiles and the other is our local bookstore/art/office supply store.
Be honest: you'd do it too if you could. Artist Jasper St Aubyn West, better known as Tail Jar, recently embarked on a sketch challenge, transforming his "same old photos" of the "same old places" into something special... by adding monsters!
Video games are becoming more and more realistic, and the quality is getting so good that some screenshots and clips may trick you into thinking you're looking at a photo or video of the real world.
Sigma's Art series of lenses has received high praise for its leading image quality and relative affordability. A 24-70mm f/2.8 lens may soon be added to that family.
Want a camera that captures point-of-view video of the happiest moments in your life? Check out the Smile Camera.
Frustrated with your failures in photography? Here's an inspiring comic titled "Be Friends with Failure" by artist Stephen McCranie of Doodle Alley.