If you're looking to set up a portfolio website for your photography, New York-based photographer Dalton Rooney has a nice Wordpress template [Update: no longer available] you can download and install. We're of the opinion that portfolios shouldn't be flash-based, and this minimalistic design highlights your work in a simple and easy to use way. Of course, you can always use the template as a base and customize it to your liking.
It's no secret that Polaroid has seen its share of financial troubles over the last few years. This year, Polaroid will be forced to bring some of its historic prints and images to Sotheby's auction block in order to offset debts incurred as a result of its current bankruptcy, the New York Times reports.
Here's a story that's sure to drop your jaws: A Spanish trawlerman named Benito Estevez was recently fishing off the west coast of Europe when his net brought up a digital camera from the Atlantic seabed.
If you're addicted to The Big Picture like we are, then you probably also wish they posted more than two or three times a week. You should also take a look at The Big Pictr, a neat website we just came across. Although it blatantly copies The Big Picture in its name and design, the idea behind the site is pretty interesting.
Just in time for the Winter Olympics, Google announced on Tuesday that Street View now includes imagery of several runs at Whistler Blackcomb ski resort, where many of the events will be held. To capture the photographs, Street View cameras were mounted on a snowmobile that made runs down the slopes.
The Nikon Coolpix site now features an interesting tool for viewing photos, utilizing the viewer's webcam and hand motions to flip through and zoom in and out of images. (Think: that one Spielberg film with Tom Cruise...) …
We're not sure whether it's worth it in terms of cost, but here's a way to print your own gigantic photograph posters using your ordinary photo printer. Easy Poster Printer is a free program by GD Software that automatically prints out a poster of any size (maximum is 20x20 meters) in individual pieces using your photo printer.
Some of you might know that popular photo sharing service Flickr was originally a set of tools built for a massively multiplayer online game called Game Neverending. In November of 2009 we also reported that Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr, had left Flickr and was returning to his original project, Game Neverending.
If you'd like to take nicer looking photographs of small objects, but don't want to spend money buying a real light tent, you can always check out do-it-yourself options. There's all sorts of DIY tutorials on the web, but this paper and binder clip tutorial by Nathan Moroney over at The Mostly Color Channel caught our eye. All you need are some pieces of paper and 4 binder clips.
Nikonians rejoice! Nikon has just announced two new lenses: the AF-S NIKKOR 24mm f/1.4G ED and the AF-S NIKKOR 16-35mm f/4G ED VR.
After Polaroid announced that it would stop producing instant film in 2008, a group called The Impossible Project acquired the last instant film production facility in the Netherlands in a bid to save the beloved medium. This past weekend, the group ran into "an unexpected problem with one of the components vital for production," possibly jeopardizing the project.
This morning Apple introduced the latest version of their photo editing software: Aperture 3. The $199 program ($99 for existing users) adds over 200 new features to the previous version, including the Faces and Places features that were popular in the latest release of iPhoto. In addition, there is now a Brushes feature that allows you to "paint" adjustments onto photographs, much like the feature that was added to Adobe Photoshop CS4. The new version will also run in 64-bit mode, which Apple …
Aaron Gustafson, a Seattle-based artist, has become the first person to ever shoot large format photographs while skydiving. Using a custom large format helmet camera he designed himself, Gustafson made one large format photograph on each jump while traveling at speeds upwards of 130 miles per hour.
A German tourist was recently photographing at Sankt Peter-Ording in northern Germany, and ventured onto the frozen sea to capture the sunset. While out on the sea, he became disoriented and couldn't locate the shore because of the snow. With the air temperature below freezing and the risk of falling through the ice if he took a wrong step, he desperately began to use the flash on his camera to signal for help, hoping someone would somehow notice.
Last week we reported that a photographer was in hot water after photographing public art and selling it as stock photography. It just so happens that a new case has arisen involving just the opposite: sculptors basing work off a photograph without permission.
Today's big story is announcement of the Canon 550D, also known as the Canon Rebel T2i. This camera offers many of the same features as the Canon 7D, including an 18 megapixel sensor, an ISO range of 100–6400, full 1080p video (at 30, 24 or 25fps with manual exposure control), 1.6x crop factor, and a 3-inch LCD screen.
On June 8, 1924, mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set out on an expedition to become the first to ever set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on earth . They were never heard from again, and a 1999 expedition discovered Mallory's body. Now, a new search for Irvine's body may reveal whether the two men in fact reached the summit, 29 years earlier than the two men currently credited with the feat: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
The humanitarian organization, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), recently started a supplemental site, Images Without Borders, in the wake of the earthquake in Haiti.
Belgian photographer fotoopa ("photo grandpa" in Dutch) shoots ultra-high speed photographs with laser rigs he builds himself. He tells us: …
For the past two weeks, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi has been beaming down photographs of Earth from the International Space Station using his TwitPic account. The photographs, taken with a Nikon D2Xs, show various cities and landmarks around the world as the ISS flies roughly 200 miles overhead at an average of 17,227 mph.
If you've ever wondered just how much editing goes into a particular photograph, there's now a super easy way to find out for yourself. Image Error Level Analyser is a simple web application that takes a URL to a JPEG photo and returns an image showing differing "error levels" in the image. Here's an example they give: …
Most of you probably know that JPEG is lossy compression method, meaning compression permanently throws out data and detail. Luckily, a typical compression can save 10 times the space of an uncompressed image without sacrificing much noticeable quality. However, if the image is repeatedly compressed and saved, artifacts introduced during compression become more and more obvious.
Last week, we posted news that Oren Lavie's music video for "Her Morning Elegance," filmed using stop-motion by photographer Eyal Landesman, was nominated for a Grammy Award. Though the video did not win the award, Landesman has already garnered several photo accolades as a commercial and documentary-style photographer. Landesman is based in Israel, but his work has also been shown internationally, including exhibitions in Boston and Budapest. His print stills for "Her Morning Elegance" are on …
At the beginning of the week, Hasselblad announced the H4D-40 medium format DSLR, and stated the camera would be unveiled next week at the February 10th worldwide launch. Well, details of the camera were leaked onto the Internet, leading Hasselblad to lift the February 9th embargo it had request. Today Hasselblad officially released photos and features of the new camera.
Looking for a neat new way to show off your photographs? Foldplay has a cool web application that can help you print and fold your very own kaleidocycle, a moving paper sculpture that turns endlessly.
Our latest giveaway for a Tamron AF18-270mm is now over, and it was by far our most popular giveaway ever. We received 909 entries via comments and 543 entries via Twitter, for a grand total of 1452 entries.
The Shorty Awards now have a prize dedicated to Twitter photography: The Shorty Award for Real-Time Photo of the Year. The winner of the award will be invited to the special awards ceremony on March 3rd, 2010 in New York City.
This news might come as a buzzkill for some Facebook users: Facebook's unofficial viral celebration, Doppelganger Week, during which Facebook users change their profile picture to a photo of their celebrity lookalike, could violate the social site's Terms of Service, notably: You will not post content or take any action on Facebook that infringes or violates someone else's rights or otherwise violates the law. Not so fun for Facebookers eager to boast their resemblance to Brad Pitt or Big Bird …
In February 2008, Seattle-based photographer Mike Hipple received a letter from the lawyers of sculptor Jack Mackie that one of his stock photographs infringed upon Mackie's copyright. Shown above, the photograph includes a portion of Mackie's "Dance Steps on Broadway", a public art piece created in 1979 with public funds.
Billionaire Michael Dell's investment firm MSD Capital, L.P has purchased the entire New York print archive of renowned photo agency Magnum Photos, totaling nearly 200,000 images. The collection includes some of the most iconic images throughout history, including photos of world leaders, celebrities, and major events such as World War II. Though the price was not disclosed, the collection was previously insured for over $100 million.
If you have slides you're planning on throwing away, why not upcycle them into a unique lamp shade? New York based artist and design Sabina Batelman did just that with hers.
Our Facebook page has been pretty popular since we started it months back. Up to this point, we've only been showing PetaPixel articles as entries on the page wall. We're now opening up the wall for all of you to submit and share your own content with the PetaPixel community. Have a photograph you'd like seen? We'd like to see it! Have a link you'd like to share? Feel free to post it! If you have any questions regarding photography, you could ask on the wall as well. Of course, you can always …
For the past month or so Hasselblad has had a cryptic countdown on their website. The countdown reached zero today, and Hasselblad announced the H4D-40, a camera the company claims will bring "ultimate image quality to an entirely new generation of photographers". Since medium format digital cameras have been around for quite a while now, we're hoping this means a significant drop in price. However, at the bottom of the countdown page, there's the message "Hasselblad Medium Format DSLRs start …
We came across some work by Maciej Leszczynski the other day, and wanted to share it with all of you. We'll let the photographs speak for themselves.
Some weeks ago I was walking around in Emeryville (where Pixar is based) and came across a store window with a lenticular display (when the image changes depending on your angle). What caught my attention was how disfigured the model in the advertisement was from my angle, since I was seeing half a face from two different images. The above image probably isn't what you want potential customers to see when advertising a beauty product.
Here's an idea for those of you who are looking for photography clients of any kind: Offer portraits and other kinds of photographs at your local farmers market for a nickel.
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