December 2011

Apple’s doing it. Adobe’s doing it. Now Dropbox wants …

Kodak is burning through $70 million every month and desperately trying to stay alive by selling off …

Slide Light is a wall light designed by SUCK UK that provides low level background room lighting that's customized using slide film. Adding different photographs to the light provides different moods.

Smartphones are taking huge bites out of the compact camera market. A recent study by market research company …

Photographer and craftaholic Parul Arora sells beautiful Polaroid picture ceramic coasters through her …

What would you pack if you were assigned to cover a war from the inside? The photo above shows what photographer Umit Bektas decided to pack in his camera bag for his embed with a US military unit in Afghanistan.

If you’re a photographer and not an architect, why settle for boring ol’ gingerbread houses this holiday season? Gingerbread …

What you see above is reportedly what the upcoming Nikon D800 will look like from the side. The leaked …

Reading a camera’s user manual is a great way to become familiar with all of its features and functions, …

Wedding photographer Joe Simon learned about copyright the hard way recently after his video of Tony Romo’s wedding went …

Want to travel the world through photographs? Wander is a new free app …

It looks like Microsoft is finally putting its war chest and brilliant minds to good use: the company has …

Here’s a fun idea for a weekend project: take pictures of smoke, think …

Sony’s NEX-7 mirrorless camera has been extremely difficult to find due to manufacturing being disrupted by the …

Black-suited investigators raided and searched 20 different sites today over Olympus’ ongoing accounting scandal. Among the sites …

Photographer Anthony Chang created this amazing image of a liquid rose without any computer-generated trickery. He hung a glass rose upside down and snapped photos while pouring food coloring onto it.

Back in September we featured a project called This Was Found that promotes art by leaving framed prints out and about in the UK. Now, printing company Jondo is taking it to the next level with a project called Art Heist. They've left 26 gigantic, museum-quality 40x60inch canvases in various secret locations around Los Angeles. Find one, and you're free to take it home. Just make sure you have a good way of bringing home the massive photo!

Olympus has something big up its sleeve. In an interview with Impressjapan, manager …

Colin Mika and Brandon Vedder of All Cut Up Films created this amazing …

EXIF data embedded in an image file can shed quite a bit of information about a photo, including how it was created and the owner of the copyright. It's useful, but can be easily stripped away. A new consortium led by three organizations (IPTC, 4A's, and ANA) is pushing to make metadata permanent.

QR codes have become an extremely popular way of linking to digital things from the physical world, and more and more businesses are displaying them in order to direct customers to their websites. Photographer David Sykes (whom we previously featured here) decided to take advantage of the craze to promote his new website and blog. Instead of an ordinary QR code, however, he decided to create an 8-foot square model of the code using things such as boots, calculators, briefcases, boomboxes, and champagne bottles. He then photographed the code on film and mailed out limited edition prints.

Polaroid and Chase Jarvis teamed up to create this “Will It Blend“-style advertisement …

Christmas is almost upon us, and for the second straight year PetaPixel's gift guide comes incredibly late. Think of it as a general guide to nifty photo-related gifts that have emerged over the past year rather than a Christmas gift guide -- after all, gifts are great to receive year-round, right?

Gav of The Slow Mo Guys made this interesting video comparing different high-speed …

Want to go beyond using ordinary wrapping paper for your Christmas gifts? You can make some DIY wrapping paper …

Beauty dishes are pricey, and so are dedicated cases for carrying them around. If you want a cheap and …

Here’s a neat idea for photographic experimentation: create a pinhole camera out of photographic paper by folding it into …

16-year-old photographer Jules Mattsson has won a settlement from the London Metropolitan Police after being stopped and …

Here’s a brief video in which Los Angeles-based photographer Mike Kelley shares his …

Now here’s an absolutely bizarre statistic if it’s actually true: 76 percent of Facebook photos with tagged Britons show …