Here's a common story: one day you become enthusiastic about photography, and find yourself jumping at every opportunity to take photos and to improve your work. You keep this up for a while, but slowly the enthusiasm you once had starts to fade. You start feeling like you've stagnated in your growth, and that you're just doing the same old thing, over and over again.
Bill Wadman is the New York-based portrait photographer behind the 365 Portraits project. You can also visit his blog and online portfolio.
In this post I'll briefly explain how to take photographs like this one.
Sam Javanrouh is the photographer behind daily dose of imagery, a photoblog that has won Best Photoblog and Photoblog of the Year in numerous publications.
Our giveaway for a free license to onOne Software’s Plug-In Suite 4.5 is now over. We received 93 entries total, with 59 through the comments and 34 through twitter. This is less than our previous ones, but is probably due to the fact that it was only open for four days instead of seven.
This is another post geared towards ideas and experimentation, rather than practicality and general photography.
Gayla Trail is photographer behind Making Happy. She is also the founder of Fluffco and You Grow Girl.
Here's an unprocessed portrait I took a couple days ago.
Update: This giveaway is now over. The winner was randomly selected and posted here. Thank you to everyone who participated! …
Here's a quick idea for you to try if you're looking for some photo inspiration (after all, we have a whole section devoted to this kind of thing). I haven't spent much time hashing out this idea, so it's pretty undeveloped compared to some of the other walkthroughs I've written. Maybe one of these days I'll go out with my assistant (AKA my brother) and really shoot this concept.
Pierre Pallez is the photoblogger behind hotpixel.
A big thank you to everyone who participated in our latest giveaway and shared your favorite photographers with us. We received 191 comment and tweet entries this time (a new record!), and I'll share the results of the question in a bit.
One of the things that never ceases to catch my eye is when people are framed in interesting ways within tunnels of light. That sounds a little confusing, so let me show you some examples...
Valerie J. Cochran is the photoblogger behind your waitress.
Crater Lake in Oregon is such a beautiful place that post-processing isn't really even needed for photographs taken there. Here's an unprocessed photograph I took there this past summer on a road trip with friends: …
Today I'll be doing a post-processing walkthrough with the following photograph I took about a week ago: …
Fredrik Olsson is the photoblogger behind smudo.org.
Update: This giveaway has ended, and the randomly selected winners were posted here. Thanks to everyone who participated! Stay tuned for more awesome giveaways! …
As a lot of the interviewees we've had on PetaPixel have shared, a great way to improve in your photography skills is to experiment. Even though many of the experiments I share on PetaPixel have nothing to do with directly improving your photography skills, they've definitely helped me gain a deeper understanding of various aspects of photography, post-processing, and manipulation, and I hope they can do the same for you. Today, I'll show you how to take photographs of multiple yous. Let's get …
Phil Bebbington is the photoblogger behind terrorkitten.
My college friends and I used to enjoy taking group portraits in and around the Berkeley campus.
One of the results of always carrying around my camera is that I end up with a lot of portraits of my friends. I had lunch with a few of my buddies last Sunday, and snapped this photograph while waiting for a friend: …
David Nightingale is the photographer behind Chromasia, an award winning photoblog that was selected as "Best Photoblog" by numerous publications, and was ranked as the 6th most influential blog in the UK by the Financial Times.
A big thank you to everyone who entered our latest giveaway. The winner of the free QuikPod handheld tripod is: …
Tomorrow is the 4th of July here in the United States (well, everywhere actually), which means there's going to be FIREWORKS! Huzzah! …
Faisal Sultan is the photoblogger behind friskyPics.
I was over at Lake Tahoe attending my brother's soccer tournament this past weekend, and took this photograph from behind the opponent's goal: …
