‘Everything is Gold’ T-Shirt Features the Golden Ratio
Here’s a geeky shirt that’s relevant to photography: today’s Woot shirt of the day is titled “ …
Here’s a geeky shirt that’s relevant to photography: today’s Woot shirt of the day is titled “ …
Here’s a helpful tutorial by Jay P. Morgan of The Slanted Lens on …
Here’s an amazing time-lapse created using NASA’s Earth Observatory photographs of our planet.
Here’s some interesting color footage showing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1939.
Just launched this week, Lighting Diagram is another simple web-based tool …
Fujifilm officially unveiled the XS-1 today after details and photos of the camera first appeared last month. Unlike the X100 and X10, the XS-1 isn't a rangefinger-esque mirrorless camera but is instead a beastly bridge camera. The camera packs the same 12-megapixel 2/3-inch sensor as the X10, and features a 26x zoom lens that's the 35mm equivalent of a 24-624mm lens. As if that range wasn't enough, they also decided to include a macro mode that allows the camera to focus from just 1cm away.
For her 3rd year dissertation project Katy Beveridge set out to find a …
Want a super simple macro lens for your phone without shelling out big bucks? You can use 3D printing …
Here’s an amazing clip from the BBC series Frozen Planet. The film crew …
The George Eastman House in Rochester, NY is the world’s oldest museum dedicated …
You know you’re addicted to analog photography if your fridge has more film than food. Image credit: …
Jasna Hodzic, the photo editor of the student run newspaper at UC Davis, has been covering the Occupy UC Davis movement since its inception -- before the pepper spraying incident became international news.
Here’s a quick tip for if you ever have a hard time removing a lens filter from …
Picture Post is an interesting (and NASA-funded) citizen science project that turns photographers into citizen scientists, crowdsourcing the task of environmental monitoring. Anyone around the world can install a Picture Post:
A Picture Post is a 4”x4” post made of wood or recycled plastic with enough of the post buried in the ground so it extends below the frost line and stays secure throughout the year. Atop the post is a small octagonal-shaped platform or cap on which you can rest your camera to take a series of nine photographs.
People who walk by can then use the guide on the post to capture 9 photos in all directions, and upload them to the Picture Post website. The resulting panoramas can then be browsed by date, giving a cool look at how a particular location changes over time.
In the past week, two different lens dial camera cases have been announced for iPhoneographers: a Holga …
Last week we reported that starting with Adobe CS6, only people who own the previous major release …
Photographer Radu Dumitrescu was shooting in an abandoned house in Bucharest, Romania when …
Update: This giveaway is now over. The winner was randomly selected and announced below.
We have a fun giveaway for y'all this week: three lucky winners will each receive 15 sheets StickyGram magnets made from Instagram photos. Each sheet contains 9 magnets and costs $15, so you'll be receiving 135 magnets worth $225!
Xerox is showing off a new tool called Aesthetic Image Search over on …
Fine art photographer Mitch Dobrowner wanted to photograph storm systems, so he partnered up with Roger Hill -- regarded as one of the top storm-chasers in the world -- and was introduced to Tornado Alley. Dobrowner writes,
Words are inadequate to describe the experience of photographing this immense power and beauty. And the most exciting part is with each trip I really don’t know what to expect. But now I see these storms as living, breathing things. They are born when the conditions are right, they gain strength as they grow, they fight against their environment to stay alive, they change form as they age… and eventually they die. They take on so many different aspects, personalities and faces; I'm in awe watching them. These storms are amazing sights to witness.... and I’m just happy to be there—shot or no shot; it's watching Mother Nature at her finest. My only hope my images can do justice to these amazing phenomenona of nature.
His images certainly do them justice -- the stormy landscape photographs Dobrowner has made through these trips are jaw-dropping.
If you had the task of choosing some photos that represented Earth and mankind to extraterrestrial life forms, which photos would you select? NASA had to do this back in 1977 when it launched the Voyager space probes, which are now the farthest human-made objects from Earth. A committee led by Carl Sagan eventually settled on 116 images:
[...] a collection of 116 pictures (one of which is for calibration) detailing but not limited to human life on earth and the planet itself. Many pictures are annotated with one or many indications of scales of time, size or mass. Some images also contain indications of chemical composition. All measures used on the pictures are first defined in the first few images using physical references.
Among the photos chosen was Ansel Adam's famous Snake River and Grand Tetons photograph.
Address Is Approximate is a beautiful and creative stop-motion video by Tom Jenkins of …
An earlier post here on PetaPixel showcased a wonderful image of a flock of cell phones and the method used to create it. In a rather snarky comment, I said to get back to me when they started tossing babies, and linked to my daughter merrily jumping in her crib with her toys. Mike was kind enough to approach me about writing up a small walk-through on how I created my image, and who can honestly turn down a chance to show off their baby daughter looking so cute?
Just days after Holga announced a new iPhone case with 9 lens filters in a rotary dial, …
Rodney Smith of The End Starts Here has written an interesting piece on the topic of smiling, and argues that smiling is a "false sentiment" that separates a casual photograph from a portrait.
Photographer Carolyn Marks Blackwood's Birds project contains photographs in which birds dominate the frame.
What if framing a scene with your fingers actually caused photos to be created? Air Camera is a clever camera concept by designer Yeon Su Kim that would make that idea a reality. It consists of two components: a ring-like camera worn on the thumb, and a tension-sensing device worn on the forefinger. If the tension unit senses that you're making a camera gesture, it triggers the camera to snap a photo. Make a video camera gesture, and it begins recording video! The resulting photos would also be synced automatically with your smartphone.
We've seen that Google Street View imagery is capable of winning photojournalism awards, but how would the camera-equipped cars do as fine art photographers? Photographer Aaron Hobson has a fascinating gallery of fine art-style photographs found in Street View -- cinematic photos that would look great blown up and exhibited on museum walls.
Last week we featured Jason Hull’s awesome nightlights created out of old (and cheap) vintage cameras. If …
French animator and photographer Micaël Reynaud took a large number of black & …