Episode 8 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Want to know the most popular photo spot among Instagrammers in each state in the US? The travel Busbud recently decided to do some serious digging to find out. The map above shows the findings. The markers show where the most popular spot is found, and the state is color coded by location type.
Larry Johnson is a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based photographer who specializes in cat portraits. He has photographed animals for over 20 years now. These days, in any given year, Johnson travels to over 35 major cities around the world to capture feline portraits at major cat shows.
Back in July of 1956, Kodak printed a helpful photography guide for Disneyland visitors. The pamphlet was titled: "Kodak Camera Tour of Disneyland" and featured colorful illustrations, technical camera tips, and sample photos.
Los Angeles-based photographer Dave Hill was recently commissioned to shoot a print campaign for the 2015 Jeep Wrangler. He ended up doing most of the shoot on 35mm film after doing some test shots on digital.
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Photographer Kotama Bouabane of Toronto, Canada, has a camera that attracts strange stares when he uses it in public. He shoots with a coconut.
We've shared a number of times in the past about how NASA uses Adobe Photoshop to create many of the dazzling space photos released to the public. Earlier this week, Adobe also published an interesting article that reveals 4 different ways the space agency uses image editing software to "reveal the unseeable."
The Tiny1 is a new camera that's being developed by a three-person startup called TinyMOS over in Singapore. The tiny aluminum-bodied camera aims to do for astrophotography what the GoPro did for action video, bringing space imaging to the masses.
I have a weakness for photography travel. My trips often start with a simple phone call or email from a friend checking to see if I might be interested in photographing somewhere. In the case of my recent visit to China, however, there was no message from a friend… just a single image from a place called “XiaPu” that I ran across and that really inspired me to travel there.
Back in May, we featured a clever hack by photographer Paul Adshead that involved using an IKEA storage box as a $6 laptop sun shade for outdoor shoots. Now he's back again with another nifty photo trick: using a smartphone and a car phone mount for photographic lighting.
Fujifilm today announced the new Instax Mini 70, a sleek instant camera that features a new selfie mode and a high-performance flash for snapshots in low-light situations.
