If you've seen the RGB and CMYK color models referenced all over the place but aren't exactly sure how they work or what the difference is between them, check out this short 2-minute video. Express Cards explains why the RGB additive color model is used in digital displays, while the CMYK subtractive model is used for color printing.
Ever wonder how sponsored posts on Instagram work? Reality TV personality Scott Disick's recent Instagram goof up will give you some idea. Instead of posting a surreptitious post with the hashtag #ad hidden somewhere to his 16 million+ followers, he accidentally posted his sponsor's instructions in the photo caption.
Recently there has been a spate of very sad, and ultimately defeatist articles decrying the “death of photography”. We have no shortage of examples. Seriously.
Photographer Kari Wehrs wanted to explore gun culture through photography, and she came up with a really interesting way of doing it. First, she took tintype portraits of gun enthusiasts; then she let them use their own portraits for target practice.
As lens patents go, this one is pretty radical. Canon has filed a patent that shows the optical design for an impressive EF 28-560mm f/2.8-5.6 super zoom. No, this is not a super zoom camera, it's a lens meant for full-frame Canon DSLRs.
What's your deepest... darkest photography secret? Do you occasionally give in and shoot *shudder* Auto? Is your most popular photo taken with *shudder* an iPhone? This silly DRTV video is all about these kinds of "shocking" photographer confessions.
Episode 73 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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In the not-so-distant future, finding the photo you're looking for online may not require you to describe it or know the location or even the photographer... just as long as you can doodle something that looks like it on a scrap of paper.
This strange Raspberry Pi-powered DIY-camera isn't really a camera at all... at least not in the traditional sense. When you press the shutter, instead of showing you the picture you just took, it shows you a similar photo from the Internet instead.
There are only a few people alive as qualified to give photography and composition advice as Huntington Witherill. A former "artist of the year," he studied under the great Ansel Adams and in this video he describes his approach to composing eye-catching images.
A veteran French photographer is facing criminal charges in France over a photo she took during the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, France.
Sad news in the photography industry today: Michael Reichmann, the founder of the popular website Luminous Landscape, passed away yesterday at the age of 71 after a lengthy battle with cancer.
It always staggers me that each time I’m in the shower, or camping in my tent, or having a coffee in a rural town in the middle of nowhere in France, I keep getting fantastic ideas for future projects, blog posts, photographs, travels, discoveries, and world domination.
Fujifilm today announced its new Fujinon Teleconverter XF 2x TC WR, a teleconverter that extends the reach of X mount telephoto lenses.
It may not be the first place that comes to mind, but the Soviet Union is a great place to start if you're looking for a good quality piece of glass on the cheap.... well, what's left of the Soviet Union anyway.
We've shared a number of do-it-yourself camera projects involving Raspberry Pi in the past. If you're interested in trying your hand at one, it's now even cheaper: the ultra affordable $5 Raspberry Pi Zero now has a camera connector.
Over on Tumblr, there's a new blog called Guns Replaced with Selfie Sticks. As the title suggests, the site features movie stills from action films with all the guns Photoshopped out and replaced with selfie sticks.
This is some serious dedication. When wedding and adventure sports photographer Nathan Welton fell through the ice and into a frozen lake while shooting a wedding ceremony in Colorado, he didn't stop or let his assistants take over. Nope... he just kept on shooting.
Accurately selecting a subject's hair is not an easy task; a bit of frizz is enough to make a photographer pull their own hair out. But have no fear, there's an advanced Photoshop tutorial for that.
Several cameras have now been released that feature some type of "high resolution mode"—the Pentax K1's Pixel Shift and Hassy's Multi-Shot, for example. But it sounds like Olympus is planning to change the game with their own high res mode that will work handheld, no tripod required.
It's difficult to discover something fresh in a market as saturated as wedding photography, but Tahiti-based photographer Helene Havard has. Using drones, she captures a fresh, stunning take on couple photography that you probably haven't seen before.
Coldplay just released the official music video for the song "Up&Up," the 3rd single from the band's new album, A Head Full of Dreams. The 4-minute video is filled with creative composites that combines footage in a way that plays with perspective.
The Rochester Institute of Technology is about to send you on a journey through Light, Movement, Emotion, and Connection, as captured over the course of one year by the university's 70 photojournalism students.
At 1:21am on May 6, 2016, SpaceX continued its run of aerospace brilliance with a night launch of its Falcon 9 rocket, carrying its Japanese communication satellite payload to geostationary orbit.
On April 3, The New York Times Magazine photography critic Teju Cole penned a piece largely dismissing the work of renown photographer Steve McCurry. The piece caused a minor ruckus in photography circles with people (like myself) writing in his defense, while others castigated his imperialist eye and amplified whispers of staged scenes.
Gregory Crewdson is one of the best known and influential fine art photographers working today. He is currently the director of the photography department at Yale University where he received his MFA early on.
Researchers at Stanford University want to give your drone superpowers. Okay maybe not superpowers, but they have developed a drone that can land on walls and ceilings, clinging there like a robotic insect.
Getty Images has launched a creative new global advertising campaign titled "Millions of Images. Endless Possibilities." The 46-second video above shows a series of famous faces that were reconstructed entirely using various stock photo faces that aren't of those people.
How many photos did you come home with from your last professional shoot? Whether that number is several hundred or several thousand, that's a lot of photos to cull through, and a new Artificial Intelligence software called Picturesqe thinks it can help.
Want to see the world's most advanced selfie stick? Check out the video above, which shows the Automated Selfie Stick.
Photographer Murad Osmann's wildly popular "Follow Me" project features photos of his girlfriend leading him by the hand to exotic locations around the world. Now some folks over in Taiwan are parodying the style with a strange new meme called "Hold My Head."
Portrait photographer James Allen Stewart wants to show you how to break the old rules of composition... with some new rules. In a recent video, he introduces two of his own rules that have helped him compose more interesting, dynamic images.
When you focus your camera, the area around the focal distance will also be in focus. But this can fall off to blur quickly or slowly. The acceptable amount of in-focus area around what's you are focusing on is called depth of field.
A popular Taiwanese model and amateur diver died on Monday after reportedly suffering an asthma attack during an underwater photo shoot. Her death has shocked the diving community, and many are wondering if human error is to blame.
Iran has arrested 8 models for posting Instagram photos in which the women are seen not wearing headscarves. The move is part of a larger crackdown against "un-Islamic" being shared in Iran through the social network.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear... or so the saying goes. And while that saying definitely rings true for photography, it doesn't mean you can't turn your crappy snapshots up a few notches with some carefully selected adjustments.
Uzbekistani professional photographer Ravshaniya Azulye's signature style involves breaking rules -- not of photography, but of nature. Her portfolio is filled with gravity-defying art photos that combine chaos with elegant form.
We've seen the upcoming Fujifilm X-T2 from almost every angle. And just yesterday, a video of the unreleased and unannounced camera went up online. But this isn't a Fuji marketing stunt; it seems the company is frantically trying to find the source of the leaks.
Canon relaunched its global website this week with the brand new top level domain name .canon. Instead of canon.com, the address is now global.canon, the first time Canon has used the new .canon top-level domain since acquiring it back in 2015.
Now THIS is a sunrise timelapse. Captured by astronaut Jeff Williams on the International Space Station as a way to celebrate the station's 100,000th tour around the world, the video is breathtaking in the way only images of our planet from space can really be.
When taking a photography workshop, it’s important to perform some due diligence to ensure you’re investing your money wisely. Whether you’re a brand new or seasoned photographer, one things holds true — if you belong to any website, photography Facebook group, or have photographer friends, you are likely to get bombarded on a weekly, maybe even daily, basis with educational opportunities and workshops.
The folks at AwesomenessTV are paying homage to "Instagram Bros" and their quest for the perfect coffee cup photo. You know the one: a crisp white cup sitting on a reclaimed wood table next to your passport, a copy of Kinfolk magazine, and some sort of Apple device.
Enjoy documentary films about photographers? Here's one to add to your list: Don't Blink - Robert Frank. It's a new look at the life and work of one of the most famous American photographers. (Note: There's some strong language in the video).
No brush stroke, no accidental blotch of paint, no hidden nuance of a great painting by van Gogh or Monet can hide from the ultra-high resolution Google Art Camera.
The convergence of motion and stills in advertising productions has been on my radar for a while now. More and more, I’m being asked to create video content alongside stills productions for clients and, while this comes with many additional challenges that most clients aren’t aware of, I really enjoy shooting motion as much as stills and have tried to find ways to create both types of content that has a consistent look and feel that brands require for ad work.
BuzzFeed's "Try Guys" are just average guys. But in this new video, they put themselves at the mercy of professional makeup artists, photographers, and (of course) some Photoshop retouching masters to see if they could recreate photos of buff, sexy male celebrities... and find out how those photos made them feel.
Here's a simple tutorial video in which nature photographer Steve Perry of Backcountry Gallery shows his technique for getting tack-sharp images with a telephoto lens on a tripod while having "nearly as much flexibility and movement as hand-holding the lens."
The group of traveling filmmaker/photographers were caught on camera disturbing the delicate ecosystem of Yellowstone's iconic Grand Prismatic Spring for the sake of a few pictures this past weekend, and now they're paying the price.
A former Olympus marketing employee from Pennsylvania is making headlines today after a 17-month investigation allegedly revealed that he had stolen over $330,000 in promotional gear and sold it on eBay.
Profoto may have started the battery-powered monolight trend with the B1, but they're not the only major player in the game anymore. Earlier today, Broncolor officially announced two new 'Siros L' monolights that draw power not from a bulky external unit, but from a lithium ion battery built right into the light itself.
