Between Flickr, 500px, and other major photo sharing sites that post EXIF data alongside photos, there's a wealth of information online about the cameras, lenses, and settings photographers are using. Explorecams puts that information in an interactive, easy to digest infographic.
Verizon will be the new owner of Flickr. The telecom giant announced today that it will be acquiring Yahoo's core Internet business -- including Flickr and Tumblr -- for $4.83 billion in cash.
Want a taste of the future? There's a new web app that uses advanced "deep learning" research to magically auto-colorize black-and-white photos.
FStop is a new web app that's trying to do for photo shoots what Tinder did for dating. It's basically a matchmaking app that helps to connect those involved in a shoot: photographers, models, retouchers, makeup artists, and stylists.
Cameras are often pitted each other in the area of image quality, but long exposure sensor noise generally isn't something that you can easily compare online. So photographer Brendan Davey took it upon himself to create such a resource, and the Sensor Noise DB is what resulted.
Using the right hashtags to get your work noticed on Instagram is an art in and of itself, that much we already know. But if this article wasn't enough help, a simple new Web tool called Dehaze makes finding the right hashtags a cinch!
The website Clear Dark Sky has been mentioned in a few tutorials posted here on PetaPixel, but if you've never heard of this incredible weather resource for photographers you're in for a real treat.
Have a broken or malfunctioning camera or lens and want to try your hand at a DIY repair? If you're intent on ignoring the manufacturers warnings about doing so, you should check out the YouTube channel mikeno62.
Have a virtual reality headset and enjoy browsing Instagram photos? Instamuseum is a new app that lets you combine those two things: it turns Instagram accounts into a virtual reality museum that you can "walk around" in.
Twitter announced a big change today that may help it become a much stronger player in the photo-sharing space: the company will no longer be counting photos toward the 140-character limits for Tweets.
The New York Public Library has launched a new online resource called the Photographers’ Identities Catalog (PIC). If researching the world of photography is your thing, then you'll love this site: it features the biographical info of over 100,000 photographers and other businesses in the industry.
Just a few days after launching a notifications feature to its Web interface, Instagram has made yet another addition: an explore tab.
In the process of changing its feeds to curated instead of chronological, Instagram today took yet another step towards becoming more like its parent company, Facebook: the website has been updated with a drop-down notifications tab.
Adobe today announced Technology Previews for Lightroom on the Web, allowing photographers to test drive new features before they're officially released. First up: search.
If you're looking for videos to watch to quench your thirst for photography, YouTube has a great selection. If you've never really poked around before, we've put together a list of 13 channels you should follow.
VSCO has launched a new project called VSCO Academy, a bi-weekly series of free video tutorials on the ins and outs of photography.
Want to see what your camera looks like on the inside? FixYourCamera.org is a new teardown website that wants to show you.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York just launched its first free and massive online course for the general public. Titled "Seeing Through Photographs," it's a 6-session class on Coursera that's designed to help you go beyond simply seeing photos and advance to truly understanding them.
Yahoo announced yesterday that it will be cutting 15% of its workforce, or about 1,700 jobs, in an effort to bring the flagging Internet company back into profitability. The company will also be trimming and shutting down weak and non-essential businesses to focus on core products.
Unfortunately for photographers, Flickr will reportedly be one of the businesses that will see some cutbacks in the very near future.
ISS Transit Finder is a new web app that's designed to help astrophotographers figure out when and where the International Space Station will fly across the face of the Sun from a vantage point on the ground.
If you're looking to build an online portfolio website to showcase your best photos, Adobe Portfolio is a new option for doing so. Launched today, it's a tool that helps creatives build simple yet beautiful portfolio sites.
The Digital Camera Comparison Chart is a simple new web app that plots digital cameras on the market using their price and resolution.
Google's Street View cameras have gone to the ends of the Earth, from under the sea to desolate deserts, in order to document the world in photos. The project is grand, but its latest effort is on a much smaller scale -- literally.
The company just announced Street View for the famous Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany, the world's largest model railway. To shoot the images, Google mounted tiny cameras to tiny vehicles (they also had a tiny Street View car look-alike drive around).
This week, the New York Public Library announced that it has released 187,000+ high-resolution digital images of public domain items in its collection.
Want to see which of your Instagram photos made the biggest splash in 2015? 2015bestnine is a new website designed for just that. There's no login or registration required: simply enter the account username you'd like to see, and the site will spit out the 9 most liked photos of the year.
Photographer David Hobby is best known for his popular blog Strobist, which has introduced countless photographers around the world to the art of shooting with off-camera flashes. Today, Hobby just officially announced a new endeavor called The Photographer's Oil Collective (POC): it's a service that turns photos into one-of-a-kind, hand-painted oil reproductions -- a tangible product that pro photographers can be proud to present to clients.
Some photographs have the power to burn themselves into our memories for a long time, while others are easily forgettable after they're seen. Scientists are MIT have been researching the science behind memorable images, and now they've created a web app called LaMem that can analyze any photo and assign it a memorability score.
Polaroid is teaming up with professional photographers to launch Polaroid University, an online photography education program that provides a crash course in digital picture making.
Between 1985 and 1991, ABC, A&E, and The Travel Channel aired a weekly half-hour TV show for photographers titled "World of Photography." The show was a big influence on a generation of photographers, exposing them to new photographers and photography techniques.
If you were a fan of the show back then, there's some great news for you now: hundreds of segments from the show can now be found on YouTube.
Back in August, Instagram made a lot of photographers very happy by announcing that it will no longer force all photos into a square aspect ratio -- by allowing rectangular images, photographers can now share their photos in their original form.
Now Twitter is following suit: the company is announcing that photos in Twitter timelines will no longer be cropped.
Flickr could soon find itself with a new owner. Yahoo is reportedly considering a sale of its struggling core Internet business, in which the photo sharing service Flickr -- acquired back in 2005 for around $25 million -- is just a small piece of the pie.
There are a number of websites and apps out there that help you track sunset and sunrise times so that you can plan your shoots around specific golden hour lighting. SunsetWx is a new website that takes things to the next level: it can forecast the quality of the upcoming sunset in your area (in the United States).
Photographer Dave Cross has been a well-known Photoshop educator since 1990. Today, he just launched a new stock photo service called CompositingStock, which uses a collapsible safety cone in order to help photographers figure out how big subjects should be on backgrounds.
Understanding the exposure triangle of shutter speed, aperture, and ISO is one of the first steps in learning photography. To help people wrap their heads around the concept, photographer Tony Catalano has created the Interactive Exposure Tool, an online tool for experimenting with how changing camera settings affects the resulting photo of a scene.
Akiwi is a new website that's designed to help you keyword photographs with minimal effort. It's a semi-automated image tagging system that is easier than manually tagging and more accurate than automatic image recognition.
Yahoo is rolling out a revamped image search engine today that now includes photo results from its Flickr service. As long as you're signed in, the personalized Flickr results will include your own collection of Flickr photos, photos from people you follow, and other top public photos on the service.
picsbuffet is a new visual image browsing system that lets you explore and search millions of photographs through an interface that feels like Google Maps.
Google announced yesterday that Google Photos has just crossed the huge milestone of 100 million active users per month. The news comes less than half a year after the May 2015 announcement of the the standalone service, which provides people with free and unlimited photo sharing.
The free browser-based photo editor Polarr is expanding its reach yet again. After launching version 2 of its online photo editor back in February and a wildly popular iOS photo editing app back in June, the company today unveiled version 3 of its flagship photo editor and the company's expansion to Chrome and Windows 10 Desktop.
Back in July 2015, we reported that 500px had raised an additional $13 million in funding led by China's equivalent of Getty Images, the Visual China Group. The move suggested that 500px was working hard to offer its massive archive of 55 million images to photo buyers in Asia.
Today, 500px announced that it is officially expanding into China with the unveiling of a new website, 500px.me.