Here's a fun little tilt-shift, time-lapse video by The Bitter*Girls showing a sumo wrestling match in Japan. The two techniques make the video look almost like a clay animation, with little-big people trying to toss each other out of the ring.
This Canon 5D Mark II-shaped cake is by Studio Cake based in Menlo Park, CA. We're not sure what the back looks like, but it's amazing how much detail they were able to add to the cake. If a photographer in your life has a special occasion coming up, check out your local cake shop -- they might be able to create a similar masterpiece for you!
ViaU is a new photography service by Mariano Pastor, a 25-year veteran of the Madison Avenue photography industry whose clients include L’Oreal and Lancome.
SquareTrade is a company that provides warranties for consumer electronics. As such, it has a good deal of data on digital cameras and, more specifically, how often they fail. After a three year study of over 60,000 new digital cameras, they've published a report with their findings.
An unofficial iPad Flickr app called "Flickr Photos" has been approved for the iPad app store. The $2.99 app, created by Garlic Dumpling, allows you to do download and view both your own photos and your contacts' photos in a minimalistic interface. There's no word on whether the official Flickr application will be ready for the iPad when the store launches, but the iTunes preview page for the official Flickr app already states "Flickr for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store".
Boom shaka laka! If you're familiar with 90s arcade games, you might recall NBA Jam, the over-the-top basketball sim. EA Sports is developing a remixed, updated version of the classic for the Nintendo Wii, to be released this fall. As a major part of their art design, the game uses real photographs of NBA players' heads, attached to digitized bodies.
Last week the web was abuzz with excitement over a demo Adobe created for their upcoming "Content Aware Fill" feature. Well, it didn't take long for parody videos to spring up, mocking how easily Photoshop will soon be able to completely create new "realities". The above video is one such parody, ending with this gem:
It's fairly common for actors to try their hand at directing or producing films, but Aaron Eckhart has created a bit of a buzz by shooting his own photos. The self-described "photo geek" completed a commercial shoot for Molly Sim's jewelery line. Eckhart hopes to go pro soon and have his own exhibitions.
Facity is an online photo project in which photographers from cities around the world submit portraits documenting faces found within their respective cities. The project, which started at the end of 2008 in Berlin, has grown to 88 photographers in 58 different cities, and currently publishes 10-15 new portraits per day.
The Golden Half is a plastic half-size format 35mm camera by Brooklyn 5 and 10, an online shop specializing in "whimsical gifts". The fact that it's half-size (aka half-frame) means each exposure only uses half of the film's intended frame. A 36-exposure roll of film will therefore allow you to shoot 72 different exposures. Here's what the resulting frames look like when you get them developed: …
Quip is an iPhone application that provides simple "private" photo sharing without MMS. A flaw in the service was posted to Reddit a day ago by FlamingZebra90.
Ronen Goldman is a photographer based in Tel Aviv, Israel who specializes in surreal "dream" photography: …
This video, created by PhotoErrant, shows a Canon 7D shooting at 8 frames per second on high-speed continuous mode. This definitely isn't something you should try yourself, since it whacks hundreds of shutter actuations off the lifespan of your camera and exposes the sensor to dust. Luckily for us, there's people willing to do these experiments and upload them to YouTube.
A History of the Sky is an ambitious project by San Francisco-based artist Ken Murphy that aims to create a gigantic mosaic of 365 time-lapse videos of the sky - one for each day of the year.
Over the weekend Apple finally made the iPad Camera Connection Kit available for pre-order. The kit, which will ship "late April", includes two connectors: a USB connector and a SD Card reader. If you use some other memory card, you'll need to plug your existing card reader into the USB connector. So how much do these connectors cost? A mere $29 plus tax.
The Impossible Project has done it again -- in a new Polaroid product revamp, the company has released a brand new Polaroid 600 One model designed by Paul Giambarba.
Knitting is getting quite a bit of coverage on PetaPixel this week. Just a couple days ago we featured the surreal knitting photographs of Daniela Edburg. The above is an creative commercial for natural gas by TBWA Brussels and directed by Olivier Babinet. What's amazing is that all the stop-motion animation you see is done using wool and a team of super dedicated knitters. They've also released a behind the scenes video showing how the commercial was made.
SwankoLab is an image editing app for the iPhone and iPod that features a complete darkroom simulator with chemicals, timers, and the whole shebang.
Lens hoods are ridiculously expensive considering the fact that they're simply fancy plastic tubes. If you'd like to use a lens hood but don't feel like shelling out wads of cash, you can create your own cardboard lens hoods!
What would happen if you hired a wedding photographer to assist with forensics at a crime scene? British show School of Comedy explores this scenario in this charming little sketch.
This faux camera can't take pictures, but it sure can take shots.
You've probably seen in-video advertising, but how about ads placed in images? A company called Image Space Media wants to make sure you do.
Social recommendation engine Hunch has a new Twitter Followers Tool that can analyze a Twitter account's followers and make predictions to what they would answer for certain questions.
This video, created by California photographer Jesse Rosten, offers an interesting glimpse at what digital magazine covers might look like for the iPad. Rather than offer a static photograph of the beach as the print version of Sunset Magazine would, this cover is brought to life with both video and animation.
Hot on the heels of the latest Canon coffee mug craze, here's another fun item for you to drool over: a Canon mode dial vinyl decal for your laptop. What better way to show your love for photography and/or nerdiness by displaying a cryptic circle of symbols for the world to see? It's available for $15 + shipping from suzieautomatic's Etsy store.
In 1927, a young photographer bought a print at San Francisco's East West Galleries for $10 -- roughly $125 today. Bernice Lovett could not pay the full price of the image at once, so she paid for it in monthly 50 cent installments. Lovett's family held on to the photograph for over 80 years.
Here's a set of photographs by Daniela Edburg, who creates surreal scenes and landscapes around the theme of knitting.
My dad is an avid stamp collector. While he does have some US stamps in his collection, he mainly focuses on older stamps from China.
Francesco Capponi (Dippold on Flickr) has a fun printable template for creating your own nifty-looking 35mm pinhole camera.
Adobe is working on a new feature for Photoshop called "Content Aware Fill", and posted a mind-boggling demonstration of it on YouTube.
The San Francisco Chronicle has a neat story about Ruby Ellenby, a 3-year-old photographer who is celebrating her first photography exhibition. 22 of her photographs are mounted as 8x10 prints on the walls of Moshi Moshi restaurant in San Francisco.
I don't know about you, but I often find myself wiping off the LCD on my DSLR or point-and-shoot with my clothes. The unseemly but common practice of wiping gadgets with clothes is exactly what FIFT, a husband and wife design team in Japan, had in mind when they designed the 'Wipe Shirt'.
SnapKnot is a new service that aims to make it easy to search for and compare local wedding photographers.
Students at the University of Tromso in Norway have created an interactive display wall using 28 separate projectors, which creates a 7168x3072, or 22 megapixel, display. Interactive with the display simply involves placing your hands in front of it. Touching the display itself is not necessary, and multitouch is supported. What better way to demonstrate the capabilities of such a system than zooming through a gigapixel photograph?
The Impossible Project's new instant film for Polaroid cameras will go on sale later this week, but the British Journal of Photography has already gotten their hands on a pack of PX100. They were mailed a comprehensive press kit that included a box of the black and white film, and promptly exposed the film with a SX-70, publishing the results on their blog.
As online stock photography services and libraries have expanded in recent years, stock photography books have become more and more obsolete.
If you're like me, then you have a bazillion cables lying on and around your desk for various gadgets, including laptops, cameras, cell phones, Bluetooth headsets, and the like. Here's a tip for organizing all those cables to always have them neat and ready for action: use binder clips.
American vacationers John and Patti Muldowney took a snapshot during a snorkeling excursion off the coast of Aruba last fall, and turned up a photo that shows what appears to be human skeletal remains.
After a bit of confusion, Adobe has released and confirmed the Lightroom 3 Beta 2.
If you're yearning to take photos of the great outdoors, the BBC Wildlife Magazine website now offers free downloadable Masterclasses.
Earlier today, several sources, citing a press release on DPReview, reported that the Adobe was going to release an updated Lightroom 3 Beta, which included a video feature, tethered shooting capabilities, and several other improved features.
Time to dust off your old Polaroid cameras. The Impossible Project has just unveiled its new PX100 and PX600 instant films for Polaroid cameras, after a three year effort to save Polaroid photography from extinction. The $21 packs, available starting Thursday, will each provide 8 black and white images. Color film packs are also expected to be released sometime this summer.
If you need a way to protect your camera gear while on the move, then this giveaway is for you.
Burger King recently partnered up with marketing agency Ogilvy for a unique "Have It Your Way" campaign. In order to convey how personalized the orders are, they used a hidden camera and printer to slap a candid photograph of the customer's face right on the burger wrapper. A separate hidden camera was used to document the reactions of the customers after seeing themselves on their food.
InVisage, a California-based start up company, has announced a new image sensor technology that it claims is up to four times more sensitive than traditional sensor technologies.
Lady Gaga's most recent music video for "Telephone", featuring Beyonce, is like most modern music videos: rife with product placement. But among the most prominent products was Gaga's own employer, Polaroid, which gets a 10-second spot.
According to the Canon Japan website, the company is experiencing a shortage of the EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS II USM lens. The company says demand for the lens, which was announced in January and released recently in the US, was much higher than expected.
Photographer Jon Beard has a terrific set of photos called "Burning Bulbs" in which he breaks lightbulbs and photographs them with the filaments exposed.
Our recent post showing vinyl records at 1000x magnification was pretty popular, and many of you had ideas for things you'd like seen under a scanning electron microscope.
Here's the latest innovation from Pentax: a puppet body for your lens cap! The "Cameraman" is a handmade puppet body that comes with a 52mm lens cap showing a smiley face. It costs ¥2,914, or about $32, and is only available for a limited amount of time.
