How to Make Instant Film Business Cards
Lomo shooter wn7ant came up with a …
Google to Ax Photovine and Pool Party
Well, that was fast. Just a week after opening up its Photovine photo sharing app to the …
New LG Mouse Can Scan Photos with the Flick of a Wrist
In the future, after you print photos onto paper using your camera, you’ll be able to scan …
Ethereal Photographs of Salt Flats
Photographer Murray Fredericks took sixteen solo trips over eight years to the center of Lake Eyre in Australia, the largest lake in the country and one that forms salt flats every year when the water evaporates. These salt flats provide a perfectly flat, featureless landscape that extends to infinity in every direction, and allow for beautiful abstract photographs.
Get Ready for Newspapers with Moving Photographs
We may soon live in a world where the photographs in newspapers and magazines move like they do in …
Photographer Makes His Own 8×10 Digital Back for the Price of a House
Photographer Mitchell Feinberg wanted to continue shooting 8×10 large format once his Polaroid …
JPEGmini Magically Makes Your JPEGs Up to 5x Smaller
JPEGmini is a new image compression service that can magically reduce the file size of your JPEG photos by up to 5 times without any visible loss in quality. ICVT, the Israeli company behind the service, explains how the technology works in an interview with Megapixel:
Our technology analyzes each specific photo, and determines the maximum amount of compression that can be applied to the photo without creating any visual artifacts. In this way, the system compresses each photo to the maximum extent possible without hurting the perceived quality of the photo.
You can test out the technology on your own photos through the service's website.
Photo Exhibition Held at a Shipwreck 93-Feet Deep in the Ocean
Austrian photographer Andreas Franke chose an interesting photo exhibition location for his project "Vandenberg: Life Below the Surface": a shipwreck 93-feet underwater. It makes sense though -- the project consists of photos Franke took of the wreck last year and subsequently turned into surreal composite photos containing people. The images, encased in 3mm thick plexiglass and mounted on stainless steel, were attached to the ship using magnets that don't damage the ship or affect the sea life.
Photo of Upcoming Fujifilm FinePix X50 Spotted in a Catalog
On Monday we reported that Fujifilm is planning to release a smaller and cheaper version of the popular X100 called the X50. The photo here shows the camera listed in a Promaster catalog, spotted by a person over on the Something Awful forums. The $600 12MP camera is shown to have a fixed f/2 28-112mm (35mm equivalent) manual lens and a "wide and bright optical viewfinder".
Gloomy Crowds Captured as Shadows After Soviet Union Collapse
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, photographer Alexey Titarenko observed how St. Petersburg streets that used to be lively and filled with joyful people had suddenly turned dark and gloomy, with people confused, malnourished, and worn out. He decided to capture this change by shooting the streets at slow shutter speeds, turning the downtrodden crowds into shadowy figures. He titled the resulting project "City of Shadows".
Full-Frame Sensors in Consumer Cameras
As technology improves, features that were once limited to expensive professional models often become available to the masses, but …
Epic Time-Lapse of Lightning Storms Under the Milky Way
Time-lapse photographer Randy Halverson spent three months hunting thunderstorms at night in central …
Sony LA-EA2 Helps Turn Your NEX into an Unwieldy Camera
Lost in the commotion of Sony’s awesome camera announcements was the official unveiling of the LA-EA2 A-mount …
Facebook to Add Instagram-style Filters
Photo filters that turn ordinary pictures into vintage ones are becoming mainstream. How mainstream, you ask? Well, Facebook is …
Artist Mocks the Absurd Poses in Fashion Photos by Showing Them in Real Life
Have you ever noticed how ridiculous many of the poses seen in fashion and glamor photographs are? Artist …
Shooting African Wildlife with a RC DSLR
Last year we featured the work of Matthew and William Burrard-Lucas, two brothers who mounted their Canon …
Dream Job: UN Photographer Post in Paris Pays Six-Figures
When was the last time you came across a photography-related job opening this awesome? The …
Scott Kelby Launches an iPad Magazine Dedicated to the Topic of Lighting
Scott Kelby, the publisher of Photoshop User …
$9000 in Stolen Nikon Gear Recovered Using Serial Number Search
Earlier this year we saw the launch of two search engines -- Stolen Camera Finder and GadgetTrak Serial Search -- that help find stolen cameras by searching photos on the web for the serial numbers. The idea is neat, but no one knew whether it would actually help recover stolen gear or not. Turns out it does work.
Zombie Attack Engagement Photos
Los Angeles-based photographer Amanda Rynda recently did an awesome engagement photo shoot with Juliana Park and Ben Lee, who wanted the photos to show them surviving a zombie attack. Needless to say, it turned out pretty epic.
Sony Hits a Grand Slam, Launches New Mirrorless and SLT Cameras
Sony is serious about this whole "catching up to Canon and Nikon" thing -- the company has announced four new large sensor cameras, and each one is a doozy. The cameras, which hit store shelves in a couple of months, include the NEX-7 and NEX-5N mirrorless cameras and the A77 and A65 SLT (AKA translucent mirror) cameras.
Nikon Unleashes Eight New Coolpix Cameras, “Pro” Model Still in Hiding
Nikon did launch a new Coolpix camera today -- eight of them, in fact -- but the rumored "Coolpix Pro" mirrorless camera was nowhere to be found. The bevy of compact cameras hits store shelves next month, and includes the P7100 -- a more polished successor to the P7000 announced around this time last year, and Nikon's answer to Canon's G-series line of prosumer compact cameras. The 10.1MP camera features a tilting 3-inch LCD screen on the back, manual controls, 720p video, and RAW capabilities. It'll be priced at $500.
Stop-Motion Inside a Stop-Motion with 500 People and 1,500 Photos
Eran Amir created this “stop-motion within a stop-motion” using 1,500 separate photographs and …
Nifty Web App Breaks Down Emotions in Online Photos
Emotional Breakdown is a cool new web app that attempts to gauge the …
CineSkates: Rollerskates for Your DSLR
CineSkates are new patent-pending wheels that attach to JOBY's GorillaPod Focus tripod, allowing you to capture fluid, stabilized video with your DSLR without bulky or expensive equipment.
The History of Copyright Law in the US
Ever wonder how and why copyright law came about? This interesting video will bring you up to speed. It’s …
Twitter Launches User Photo Galleries
Twitter, Google+, and Facebook are one step closer to becoming clones of each other (at least when it comes to photo sharing) -- Twitter has rolled out photo galleries that display the 100 most recent images Tweeted by users in chronological order.
At This Rate, All the Hipsters in LA Will Be Locked Up in No Time
The Long Beach Police Department's hunt for photos with "no apparent esthetic value" quickly became national news last week. Here's a news segment in which Alyona Minkovski of RT speaks out against the erosion of photographers' rights in the United States.
Protect Your High-Resolution Photos from Dishonest Clients
This comment posted (and deleted) by Reddit user WonkoTheLucid shows why photographers need …
Introducing the Polaroid Picture Frame and Mirror
There hasn't been much activity in the PetaPixel Store since we launched the Leica Look-Alike skins in September 2010, but today that changes -- we're pleased to announce the new Polaroid Picture Frame and Mirror! It's an awesome picture frame for your desk that looks just like Polaroid 600 instant film, and when there isn't a photo inside it doubles as a mirror.