Sumo Wrestling in Tilt-Shift and Time-Lapse
Here’s a fun little tilt-shift, time-lapse video by The Bitter*Girls showing a sumo …
Here’s a fun little tilt-shift, time-lapse video by The Bitter*Girls showing a sumo …
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.
The Golden Half is a plastic half-size format 35mm camera by …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Established in 2008, they're the first and leading provider of in-image advertising on the web. This means relevant advertisements are placed in an overlay that appears over a portion of an image or photograph, just like the advertisements YouTube places at the bottom of most videos.
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 …
In 1927, a young photographer bought a print at San Francisco’s East West Galleries for $10 — roughly $125 …
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 …
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.