Places where you may need to bring a kevlar jacket and gas mask as a photographer: a war zone, the middle of a violent uprising, and ... the 2016 Republican National Convention. That's right, photographers are gearing up to cover the 2016 RNC in much the same way they'd gear up for a conflict zone.
As iconic lenses go, perhaps no lens is quite as iconic as the famed NASA Zeiss f/0.7 glass Stanley Kubrick used to film a candle-lit scene using only natural light. In this video we get to see the lens, find out about the camera Kubrick modified to use it, and discover some of the tricks he employed to shoot that scene.
Since I got my Nikon D7000 camera 6 years ago I’ve used it almost everyday. That is a lot of shutter clicks, 148,558 to be exact. It looks like I will be in the market for a new camera soon as the D7000 is only factory tested to 150,000 clicks. My dilemma is should I go full frame, or stick with my cropped frame?
Phase One took the lid off of a first for the company earlier today. In partnership with Schneider Kreuznach, they've released the very first 'Blue Ring' zoom lenses: a 40-80mm LS f/4.0-5.6 and 75-150mm LS f/4.0-5.6 that promise prime lens quality.
Episode 90 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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If you’re like me, you’re constantly looking to improve and expand your referral base. Once you’ve got a good number of weddings under your belt your base will be made up of (mostly) previous couples.
Photographer Tim Berry of Practical Photography magazine recently decided to take his camera onto the streets of London, England, to exercise his rights to photograph in public places and to see how people would react to seeing a photographer at work.
Sometimes we, as humans, wrestle with big issues -- large complex questions with no easy answers.
A woman was fishing at Hesperia Lake in Southern California on Wednesday when she reeled in a professional Nikon DSLR. After a search, she eventually discovered that it belonged to a photojournalist who was attacked while covering a story.
Street photography ethics are a touchy subject and I am not talking of street photography rules but rather more how photographers choose to behave. When shooting (candid) street photography in London or anywhere else, many street photographers seem to leave their values at home as soon as they head out to photograph strangers.
In the world of soccer, the rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid burns bright, and it's seen as a conflict between Catalan and Spanish nationalism, respectively. Catalan national TV snubbed Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo in a bizarre way this week: they tried to Photoshop away Ronaldo's famously chiseled abs. What resulted was a glaring Photoshop fail.
Here's a fascinating piece of journalism published today by the New York Times. The 10.5-minute video, titled "Fragments of a Life: A Curbside Mystery," is about how Times reporter Deborah Acosta found an abandoned bag of Kodachrome slides on a street corner. In their quest to solve the mystery, Acosta and her live Facebook audience learn about life, love, and loss.
Philly-based portrait photographer Chris Loupos has a personal project that's tentatively titled "Young at Heart." It's a series of images showing elderly people acting like little kids.
Over in the UK, a police force's announcement this week is raising eyebrows among some photographers. In a statement regarding hate crimes against women, taking photos without permission is listed as an example.
When astrophotography enthusiast Stephen King of Yakima, Washington, asked his then-girlfriend Andrea to marry him recently, he did so in a creative and unusual way: with a 360-degree night sky photo inside a Google Cardboard VR viewer.
I’ve pretty much shot RAW all my life. There are so many benefits of shooting RAW in terms of how much flexibility you have with the files, as well as the raw data in the files. However, as time goes on, I’m starting to lean more towards shooting JPEG and realize the benefits of doing so.
In 2014, brother filmmakers Will and Jim Pattiz launched their More Than Just Parks project, an ambitious effort to celebrate America's 59 National Parks by creating a visual experience at each one. Their latest film showcases Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming in 8K resolution.
Australian adventure photographer and Canon master Krystle Wright is constantly dreaming up new extreme ideas for photos and figuring out how to turn those dreams into actual images.
For a Harry Potter-themed newborn shoot she did recently, photographer Kelsey Clouse made portraits of the tiny baby as a screaming mandrake.
If your mantra in life is "bigger is better," then here's a lens for you. Over in Ukraine, someone is selling a gigantic lens from a Soviet spy satellite on the country's "craigslist".
"The Allegory of the Cave" is a surreal time-lapse short film by Hong Kong-based Visual Suspect. It uses cleverly reflected scenes for a mind-bending and eye-popping effect.
Photographers often use UV filters to protect the front element of their lenses, but tests have shown that impacts that shatter your filter will likely to damage your lens as well. Aurora Aperture wants to change that: they've created the world's toughest filters by using Gorilla Glass.
If you're going to be doing a photo shoot involving a $400,000 sports car, you should probably be extra careful and have an experienced driver handling it. A photographer in the UK just crashed a $400K through a showroom window while trying to set up for a shoot.
I’ve avoided writing about Pokémon GO for a whole four days, trying my best to keep from inundating the Internet with yet another think-piece. However, something interesting has happened the last two times I have played the game with friends: I have taken some exceptional photos.
Tether Tools has announced TetherBoost Pro, a product that lets photographers shoot with a tethered USB 3.0 connection of up to 65 feet without any frustrating signal drops.
For several years now, Camranger has been pretty much the only choice if you want to tether your Nikon, Sony or Canon DSLR wirelessly to your phone or tablet.
Faroe Islands is an island country halfway between Norway and Iceland. It features some of the world's most beautiful roads, but those routes haven't been traversed by Google's Street View camera cars. So, the country decided to take matters into its own hands by mapping the island with sheep-mounted 360-degree cameras. It's called Sheep View 360.
"We love your style! So we're going to hire you to do something completely different!" If that sentence makes you laugh, then the 30 statements in this post are going to hit home.
Want a taste of the future? There's a new web app that uses advanced "deep learning" research to magically auto-colorize black-and-white photos.
I covered Tim Duncan during countless games, including their three NBA Finals titles in 1999, 2003, and 2005. I probably took thousands of photos of him, but on the occasion of his quiet retirement, I picked a few out just for this article.
Photographer Matt Taylor was shooting with the 4K photo mode on his Panasonic Lumix G7 on a recent evening when a bolt of lightning flashed across the sky off camera. Taylor's resulting photos show how much the bright flash from a lightning can illuminate a nighttime scene.
I remember when I was sitting in my cubicle at work, dreaming and lusting after a digital Leica M9. I imagined that after buying it, all of my life’s problems would be solved.
"Wake Up" is an inspiring 2-minute short film by landscape photographer Thomas Heaton about how his craft is so much more than just going into the great outdoors and taking pictures.
DJI today announced the Zenmuse Z3, the company's first aerial zoom camera and one that's geared toward still photography.
Episode 89 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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The Polaroid brand has launched a new free mobile app called Polaroid Swing. It's "an innovative moving photo app" that opens the door to a "new visual medium for the mobile era."
Should you ever give a client photos in exchange for "exposure"? That's the question discussed in this 6-minute video by NYC-based portrait and fashion photographer Jeff Rojas. He shares 3 things you can turn exposure into money.
After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was devastated by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the nuclear disaster caused a major evacuation and the creation of an exclusion zone around the old plant. Five years later, a photographer has ventured into the zone to deliver photos to the outside world.
FStop is a new web app that's trying to do for photo shoots what Tinder did for dating. It's basically a matchmaking app that helps to connect those involved in a shoot: photographers, models, retouchers, makeup artists, and stylists.
Amidst a barrage of violent imagery in the past week graphically illustrating the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five Dallas police officers, Jonathan Bachman’s image of a protest in Baton Rouge has emerged as iconic.
Here are random observations from my time as staff photographer for Dean for America. I wrote this some time ago as advice for somebody who was going to be a campaign photographer.
"Vorticity" is a new time-lapse short film by Mike Olbinski, a storm-chasing wedding photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona. Olbinski spent 18 days driving 20,000 miles across 9 states and shooting 60,000 frames to create what you see in the 6-minute video above.
This is pretty big: Adobe today announced a major update for Lightroom for Mobile, and one of the exciting new features is the app's new ability to open any type of RAW file that can be opened on Lightroom for Desktop.
Peak Design and photographer Trey Ratcliff have found a winning formula in the world of camera bags. Their Everyday Messenger bag raised nearly $5,000,000 on Kickstarter in July 2015 when it was unveiled. Now they're back with a set of new bags that expand the Everyday lineup: a backpack, tote, and sling.
Prisma is a new camera app that transforms your photos to look like paintings by famous artists. It goes beyond the film simulation filters that are widely available these days to offer a surprisingly realistic painting filter.
Photographer Robert Moore was documenting the protests in Dallas on July 7, 2016, when shots rang out. During the shooting that took the lives of 5 officers, Moore was shielded by a young police officer as they took refuge behind a car. Thanks to Moore's photos and account of what happened, that officer is now being hailed as a hero.
In this article, I'll discuss seven reasons why I'm still a Nikon DSLR user... plus three reasons why I could be convinced to move on.
Advanced camera stabilizers are becoming cheaper and cheaper these days, but if you're the type of person who enjoys building the things you use, here's a neat tutorial for you. Product Tank released a 7-minute video showing how you can create a DIY stabilizer using LEGO pieces.
Karen X. Cheng created this 1.5-minute "tiny planet" video that shows what the city San Francisco looks like through this unusual perspective.
Check out this amazing photograph of a barn owl flying overhead, captured in August 2015 by nature photographer Roy Rimmer. It's a shot that took an incredible amount of planning and perseverance to pull off.
