I had a great opportunity to do a “behind the scenes” of a recent portrait feature shoot which my very good friend Daniel Hambury was doing for the London Evening Standard. In fact I was mainly assisting, but couldn’t pass up the opportunity to document what happens as it’s something I’ve always been intensely interested in.
This is useful. The folks over at LEE filters just released a handy little exposure guide app that will help you calculate the right shutter speed when you're using their Little Stopper, Big Stopper, or Supper Stopper ND filters.
Drone Fishing. It's exactly as ridiculous-but-kind-of-fascinating-but-really!? as it sounds. Jaiden Maclean and his friends at Sea Ulcer Aerial Media went fishing for longtail tuna with a Phantom Drone, and captured the entire battle on camera.
I just finished reading Karl Marx’s “Capital” and “The Communist Manifesto”—and I was so amazed to see how modern a lot of his ideas are.
At just 23 years old, Paris-based photographer and Photoshop artist Vincent Bourilhon is already showing more creative chops than some artists two and three times his age. His striking, surreal Photoshop creations explore the meaning and function of everyday objects in strange new ways.
If you're a big Fuji fan, chances are you're waiting with bated breath for the official announcement of the much-rumored X-T2. But while the news hasn't dropped just yet, new images of the upcoming shooter just leaked!
The weather doesn't always cooperate when you're shooting on-location. So what do you if you're faced with a dreary grey sky and waiting for clearer weather isn't an option? This quick tip by photographer David Bergman might help.
Behind the lens, I am no longer Ben Helton, married father-of-2 living in the South. Camera in hand, I become invisible and free: a blank canvas in attendance to take in and document the experience around me as it unfolds.
Nothing like a bit of surprise weaponry and armor to transform a romantic photoshoot into something else entirely. That's what happened to Alex of Alexandria Photography when, in the middle of a romantic engagement shoot, she and her clients were photobombed by an enthusiastic group of LARPers!
One of my favourite places to light paint is inside tunnels, waterways and other curved structures. These structures are perfect for creating spirograph light paintings.
Get to know people, forget the rules, don't read books on composition, embrace imperfection, print your photos, and more... Here are 43 amateurish tips for capturing better images.
Fujifilm just discontinued the not-quite-popular X30, and while some might think this means an X40 is coming soon, they should think again. Fuji may never put another 2/3-inch sensor into an X-Series camera again.
Photographer Andreas Geh wasn't going to enter his photo of a goosander family into any competitions, but friends and fellow photographers insisted. And it's a good thing they did, because Geh's photo earned him the title of GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2016.
Episode 68 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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June 21, 2011. "You want to shoot Prince's European Tour? Need to know ASAP."
Travel photography master Bob Holmes is back in the studio with the folks at Advance Your Photography talking about how to shoot that 'National Geographic style'. In the last interview he was talking about composition, this time he dives into the intricacies of lighting.
The future of wearable camera technology is a contact lens. At least, that's what Google, Samsung, and now Sony seem to think. All three have patented their own contact lens cams in the last 2 years.
If you've heard a single camera sales summary sometime in the last decade, you know camera companies have been struggling. But while Canon's Q1 2016 financial statement did show a dip, the camera company's ILC sales performed better than you might have expected.
The subject of German photographer Stephan Zirwes' series Pools is self-explanatory. But while any straight-down, aerial images of pools captured from a helicopter might make for an interesting photo subject, Zirwes' surreal twist to the images adds something extra.
Copyright infringement isn't just perpetrated by evil corporations and people knowingly breaking the law, laughing as they do. Even the Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery messes up once in a while, as photographer Lynn Goldsmith is pointing out.
Shutter speed is one of the first elements of photography that you learn as a beginner. Learning how to control your camera’s shutter speed to make sure your images are sharp and well exposed is Photography 101. Learning how to use shutter speed creatively to manipulate the look and feel of an image is something else entirely, and something that I continue to experiment with a lot.
Leica has just debuted the much-anticipated and much-rumored Leica M-D (Typ 262). It's the first production M-Series Leica that leaves out the LCD screen—a camera for photographers with a love of simplicity, a dislike of chimping, and a desire to live in the past and future of photography simultaneously.
I’m like a lot of photographers. I want to shoot more often. And one big reason I don’t shoot as much as I like is that I waste too much time reading about gear.
In some sense, you could call photographer Jason Chen's latest work multiple exposures. Except that, instead of capturing two images on a single frame of film, he's literally weaving together two prints in a fascinating exploration of "time, movement, process, and mutation."
Ever wanted to strap a portable telescope to the end of your camera and carry it around? With the soviet-made MTO 1000A 1,100mm f/10.5 mirror lens, you can just about do it. A monster of a lens, Christopher Frost Photography put it through its paces for one of his Weird Lens Reviews.
Capturing the supersonic shockwaves of a fighter jet going faster than the speed of sound might seem like science fiction, but NASA actually captured this phenomenon on camera. Not only that, they did it by using a 150-year-old German photography technique.
It's a big day for rumors and leaks. In addition to details about Canon and Olympus, photos of the upcoming Leica M-D Typ 262 have leaked, and they show the first production M-Series digital Leica without an LCD on the back.
I found them on the bottom of a box in a New Jersey antique shop filled with photographic junk from years gone by. They were just sitting there, four faded yellow boxes mixed in with haze covered filters, dirty lens caps, ancient darkroom thermometers and broken cable releases.
We've seen people do some cool things using NASA's beautiful images of Earth captured from the International Space Station (ISS). But Armand Dijcks' 4K space cinemagraphs might just take the zen-like cake.
It's been nearly three years since Olympus debuted the popular OM-D E-M1 to the world in September of 2013, but those hoping for a replacement may not have to wait much longer. According to fresh reports, the E-M1 Mark II is set to debut at Photokina touting better sports photo capability.
There was a time when what you consider your "day-to-day," with all its errands and monotony, was new and fresh. A time when each trip outside was a foray into the great unknown. That's the feeling that photographer dad Aaron Sheldon and his 4-year-old son capture in their photo project Small Steps Are Giant Leaps.
Getty Images is making waves today after filing a formal complaint against none other than search and tech giant Google with the EU Antitrust commission. The complaint accuses Google Image Search of promoting piracy, "resulting in widespread copyright infringement [and] turning users into accidental pirates."
The Canon 5D Mark IV is one of the most anticipated DSLR releases on the horizon, and yesterday we got our first peek at what kind of specs the full-frame SLR may be sporting when it finally makes its debut in about 4 months.
To me, creativity is all about cross-pollination of ideas in novel ways.
Most drone cameras are all about giving you crazy aerial perspectives or carrying heavy and expensive camera gimbals, but the Hover Camera is not that kind of drone. Created by Zero Zero Robotics, the little drone cam is more like a tiny hovering friend that'll follow you around taking pictures and video.
Ever since his video Alone in Paris got massively popular, people have been asking photographer and filmmaker Mathieu Stern to share some behind the scenes tidbits. Today, he obliged those requests.
Sick of Camera RAW and Lightroom? Want a brand-spanking-new RAW photo processor and non-destructive editor to work in that isn't made by Adobe? Your wish is ON1's command.
Facebook's engagement numbers have been slipping, and a new report from the Wall Street Journal points to one way the social media behemoth intends to try and win back users who are sharing less and less through the platform: a stand-alone camera app.
Chernobyl and the nearby city of Prypyat is a common subject, particularly for URBEX photographers who go there to document the deserted town. But photographer Alina Rudya's project/book Prypyat Mon Amour is different. Her family was there when the infamous accident happened, and when she returned to photograph the people whose lives were changed, she returned 'home' as it were.
It's not Photoshop. That's a real bug (not alive... thankfully), and that's a real model. It's part of photographer Marc Lamey's series "The Beauty is Inside": a series that combines beauty and macro photography into a strange hybrid photo series that's somehow captivating.
Despite rave reviews, the Nikon D750 has been plagued by several issues since its release in September of 2014. And even though Nikon did issue a recall of certain models due to a well-documented flare problem, it seems another potentially-related issue with the shutter is being reported in the forums.
In the beginning of 2014 I was invited by a non-profit religious group to travel more than 150 miles from Belém (the capital of the state of Pará in northern Brazil) to a small city in Marajó Island, Bagre. I knew about as much about Pará and its culture going in as I know about brain surgery: nothing.
In what is, as far as we can tell, one of the first successful hacks of the Sony Alpha system thus far, a person who goes by the moniker Ma1co has managed to crack Sony's 30 minute video limit and break into several Sony Alpha cameras' language menus.
Levon Biss's exhibit Microscuplture is one of the most entrancing macro photography projects we've run across. A "unique visual experience," the series and exhibition is made up of unimaginably detailed macro photographs of insects captured using a microscope lens.
It's a sad fact for us Mac-lovers, but dollar for dollar, an Apple computer can't keep up with a custom-built PC. And if you have any doubts about the veracity of that claim, a new report by the folks at SLR Lounge should put them to bed.
The 5MP Omnivision camera module was the Raspberry Pi's very first add-on, but in the three years since it was release it hasn't gotten a single update... that is, until today. The Rasberri Pi Foundation has officially announced the arrival of a new and improved Sony module (actually two), and it won't cost you a penny more than the last one.
Colin Smith of photoshopCAFE recently got kicked off his Southwest Airlines flight. And according to Smith, it wasn't because he was carrying something dangerous or causing a scene or taking pictures when he wasn't allowed—no, he was kicked off for being a responsible drone owner.
Like many photographers, Matias Posti of Posti Photography sends out a mailer to clients and prospective each year. This year, his creative "No More Selfies" ads caught our eye.
Impossible Project founder Florian "Doc" Kaps is not happy with Fuji. After several letters and detailed proposals on how his company SUPERSENSE would keep peel-apart packfilm alive, Fuji has declined his proposals and refused to work with Kaps. Our final hope, it seems, may sit with the company CatLabs.
There’s a book by Seth Godin called The Dip that explores something every entrepreneur asks themselves every morning: …
