June 2010

Looks like the leaked photos of the Sony A290 we published last month were of the real …

Here’s a fun story that might convince you to snap all the photos you can of your kids: Alex and …

Olympus Japan released a notice to customers yesterday warning that 1,709 of their Stylus Tough 6010 point-and-shoot cameras were accidentally shipped preloaded with a worm. While the camera is not at risk, Windows users may be infected when the camera is connected to their computer via USB.

News agency Reuters is being accused of biased reporting after it was discovered that photographs released by the agency had …

There seems to be a growing trend of professional photographers teaming up with developers to create the "ultimate" photography application for the iPhone. In September 2009, photographer Chase Jarvis teamed up with Ubermind to create The Best Camera, an ecosystem that revolves around the Best Camera iPhone application.

For all you pixel peepers out there, Apple has posted a …

Google has a new feature that photographers may enjoy: you can now customize …

Engadget and MacRumors were covering Steve Jobs' keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2010 this morning, where Jobs announced the next-generation iPhone that everyone has already seen through the multiple, highly-publicized leaks in the past couple months.

The leaks suggested that the iPhone 4 would have a new front-facing camera as well as an LED flash in the back, and both these things were confirmed at the keynote today. In addition, the phone will feature a 5 megapixel camera, and high-definition recording at 720p and 30 fps.

I came across an interesting post over at The Guardian a while back that discussed whether Google's ranking algorithms are good at gauging art, and whether the top result for an artist accurately reflects the artist's "best work".

I decided to do the same experiment with famous historical photographers. The following images are the top results when typing the photographers' names into Google's image search:

Berenice Abbott

Brenda Priddy is one of the world's preeminent automotive "spy" photographers, whose work has appeared in many of the top automative publications and websites. Visit her company website and Facebook page.

PetaPixel: Could you tell us a little about yourself and your background?

Brenda Priddy: 18 years ago this month I was a part-time photographer (weddings / small commercial), bookkeeper at a jewelry store and mommy to 2 young toddlers. Then, in July of 1992, I spotted an early (1994) Mustang prototype and the rest is history. I originally took the photo just to show my husband, but it soon it ended up on the cover of Automobile Magazine (November 1992)!

Light Warfare is a demonstration of what's possible with light painting and stop motion given enough time and dedication. It was created by Freddie Wong, who also published a tutorial for creating light painting photographs on his website. This amazing 1-minute video required a whopping 13 hours of shooting over two days. Each frame needs to be individually "painted" and -- seeing how complicated some of the scenes are -- must have required pretty long exposures.

Here's an interesting behind-the-scenes video by CNN showing Mario Testino in action. Testino is one of the world's most sought after fashion photographers, and this three part series gives a short but interesting peek into Testino's life and work.

Kyle McDonald is a programmer working on building open source utilities for realtime 3D scanning using structured light, a technique that requires only a projector and a cheap camera.

If Nikon sticks to their regular schedule, the Nikon D4 should be announced sometime in the summer of 2011, 4 years after the announcement of the D3. About 24 hours ago, someone on the Nikon Rumors Forum posted a few links to what they claim is the upcoming D4.

If you need to fix some red-eyes in a photo, but don’t have …

Gosh, if I had access to a HD camera capable of ultra-slow motion, …

Just last week we wrote that the Museum of London had released an augmented reality iPhone app …

"I Am Sitting in a Room" is one of the best known works of experimental music composer Alvin Lucier. In the piece, he records himself speaking, plays it back while re-recording it, and repeated until the words become unintelligible and simply "the pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself".

After the enormous success of the Canon 70-200mm Coffee Mug, it was only a matter of time before Nikon-branded cups joined the party. Nikoneans can now rejoice -- a 24-70mm coffee cup has just appeared on eBay as a pre-order for $50. It doesn't appear that Nikon has anything to do with this 1:1 replica cup, but those who have been eagerly waiting for such a thing to appear can now pounce on this awesome (but unofficial) accessory.

Zoriah Miller, commonly known as Zoriah, is an award-winning photojournalist and war photographer whose work has been featured in some of the world's most prestigious galleries, museums, and publications. Check out his website, blog, one-on-one photojournalism workshops, and Wikipedia article.

PetaPixel: Can you tell us a little about yourself and your background?

Zoriah Miller: I began photography when I was 15 years old and within the first year of shooting I won a national award and was pretty into the idea of becoming a photojournalist. Three years later I was shooting abroad and had all of my equipment stolen...well, actually I had everything stolen and ended up having to spend some time in a homeless shelter until I could get money and documents to get out of the country...but that is another story. The point was that my camera and lenses were gone and I pretty much gave up. I graduated college, moved to New York, was in the music industry for six years, gave that up to go abroad and study disaster management and humanitarian aid to developing countries, hated that and then picked up a used camera and a plane ticket and have been shooting ever since then.

Apple recently announced that they’ve passed the 2 million mark for iPads sold, …

“Leave Me” is an award-winning short film (~3 minutes) by …

The above video was recorded by Shawn Nee for Discarted, a blog that fights for photographers' rights to shoot in public locations. It shows Nee getting into a verbal exchange with a police officer over whether or not he can legally photograph the officer.

Update: This giveaway is now over. The winner was randomly selected and announced below. Howdy y’all! We’re giving away …

After shooting the engagement session of Tori and Austin, wedding photographer …

Two weeks ago we shared a futuristic concept Sony DSLR designed by Tecnofotografia, and now they've done it again, with a concept design for a compact Samsung camera.

Early last month we shared a creative viral video Google made to show off the fast rendering …

Brian Auer is the blogger behind the photography blogs EpicEdits and FeelingNegative.

PetaPixel: Can you tell us about yourself and your background?

Brian Auer: 28 years old, one wife, two kids, and no super powers that I know of. Grew up in southern California, moved to north Idaho around age 12 and finished growing up. Went to college and grad school at the University of Idaho, took my first job in New Jersey, switched jobs, and now I'm in San Diego. All in all, my background is relatively unexciting. Now I have the office day job and all of my free time is spent with my family and/or working on my photography hobby.

Upside Downy Face is a creative series of portraits by …