Do a search for the world's most famous landmarks, and you'll find an endless stream of photos captured by tourists from all kinds of angles. But the photos you'll find probably don't look like photographer Oliver Curtis' images. For his project Volte-face, Curtis visited iconic landmarks and pointed his camera in the opposite direction.
In a recent article, I spoke about the best ways to perfectly light your background with colored gels. We covered the best things to keep in mind if strong and vibrant colors across your backdrop are your objective. It turns out that gelling your background is actually relatively simple -- it's keeping those strong vibrant colors that's actually the tricky part.
Have a broken or malfunctioning camera or lens and want to try your hand at a DIY repair? If you're intent on ignoring the manufacturers warnings about doing so, you should check out the YouTube channel mikeno62.
If you're a photographer shooting with Eyefi's older generation Wi-Fi memory cards, here's something you should know: your card will soon become more or less useless.
Snapchat's "lenses," more colloquially known as selfie filters or just "filters," may seem like a totally inane feature. But it turns out the facial recognition technology behind them is advanced, impressive... and a tad scary.
If you're a camera collector you better go collect your bib, because this one will make you salivate profusely. An eBay user selling off their late grandfather's camera collection on eBay has just posted a very special camera: the 87th Nikon F to come off the production line back in 1959.
Three days ago, Hasselblad said that developing appropriately compact zoom lenses for the X1D would be "almost impossible theoretically." Well, now they're taking it back. CEO Perry Oosting is issuing a correction: there will be zoom lenses.
A little while ago, I was shooting the icebergs on the black sand beach by the Jokulsarlon Glaicer Lagoon, Iceland with a rental EF 24-70mm F2.8L II. Iceland is notorious for being windy, and while I was shooting there was blowing winds carrying ocean spray and water splashes all over me and my camera + lens.
Hasselblad broke new ground with the X1D: the world's first digital mirrorless medium format camera. But according to trusted sources, Fujifilm is going to rain on Hassy's parade very soon.
Episode 85 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Toronto photojournalist Victor Biro has taken it upon himself to do an upleasant job that he believes must be done. He spends all night listening to a police scanner and covering tragic crime scenes and gut wrenching accidents... because nobody else will.
In Banovina, Croatia, on top of Čukur hill, there sits a giant camera lens sculpture. Featuring shattered glass around a single bullet hole, the lens is a memorial dedicated to Croatian photographer Gordan Lederer.
The enlarger lenses used by film photographers to create prints from developed negatives are not meant to be used on a camera. Of course, that doesn't mean you can't use one... or that you shouldn't try.
It seems Canon has got a real winner on their hands with the impressive (and expensive) Canon 1D X Mark II. In fact, it's now the highest rated Canon sensor DxOMark has ever tested! Move over 5DS...
A rare Nikon 1200mm f/11 lens recently appeared on eBay. The earliest Nikon non-refractive long lenses were the Nikkor-Q 400mm f/4.5, Nikkor-P 600mm f/5.6, Nikkor-P 800mm f/8, and Nikkor-P 1200mm f/11. All of them were on the market around 1964 and withdrawn in the mid-1970. These lenses are actually lens heads and require a focus unit to be functional.
At some point, Facebook became the de-facto hub to share a photo... or two... or sixteen with your friends. Unfortunately, the interface is poorly designed for scrolling through multiple photos. Enter Facebook's new 'Slideshow' feature.
When spring rolls around in Japan, cherry blossoms (known as "sakura") cause an explosion of bright pink colors in the natural landscapes. Photographer Danilo Dungo took his camera to various parks and captured gorgeous photos of the blossoms flooding the waters.
Whoa... We've all seen the so-called "Droste effect" in action—an image that contains itself, so it becomes a photo, in a photo, in a photo, etc. But now you get to look out from inside one! Turns out, it's just as trippy as it sounds.
A future version of Photoshop may include some pretty powerful automatic selection tools if the technology in this new paper by researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Adobe Research pans out.
Apple has been awarded a US patent for a system that could disable iPhone cameras with infrared signals, allowing photography to be remotely banned in locations such as concerts and sensitive sites.
For his project "Shots Fired," photographer Mark Teiwes created images of gunshots. Instead of shooting the images with a camera, however, he shot the photo-sensitive paper with bullets.
I think it's safe to say that the cat is out of the bag, the secret's been blown... there's a DC-3 plane wreck in Iceland.
For photographer Nick Carver, photography is not about likes or comments or followers on your social network of choice; photography is about taking photos you love, printing them, and getting them up on your (or someone else's) wall.
I recently bought a stack of foreign Vogue magazines for inspiration, and inside of Vogue Italia I saw an amazing photo of Alessandra Ambrosio on a beach at night. I tucked it away in a manila envelope labeled "Possible Shoots".
The golden ratio (or golden mean, or golden section, or divine proportion, or whatever you want to call it) is the subject of heated debate among photographers. But if you love using the golden ratio when you shoot, you should definitely check out this creative little pocket-sized card.
Do you use hotkeys when you edit in Photoshop or Lightroom? If you don't and you're a professional photographer editing tens or possibly hundreds of images per session, this short demo might convince you to start.
“D” is digital. “X” is cool and mysterious. And “1” is, well, number one. Since the introduction of the Nikon D1x, camera manufacturers have been riffing on these three letters. Canon has their 1D X, and most recently Hasselblad introduced the X1D. But how do all these cameras compare?
You might be forgiven for thinking that the most photogenic part of Australia is the Sydney Opera House, but if you are under this misguided impression, you need a dose of drone photographer Gabriel Scanu's work ASAP.
The Kennel Club, the official kennel club of the UK and the oldest kennel club in the world, has just announced the winning photos for the Dog Photographer of the Year 2015 contest, the largest dog photography competition in the world.
Watch your step recent photography graduates, because famed photographer and director Chase Jarvis is about to drop some serious advice. It comes in three parts, and its aimed at those of you who recently got out of school and jumped into the creative 'real world.'
Of all the photographers on the 2016 US presidential election campaign trail, Clive Earle may be the youngest. The 5-year-old boy, who loads and shoots his own film, has attended and documented the rallies of the leading candidates on both sides of the aisle.
Digital Bolex burst onto the scene four years ago through a highly successful Kickstarter campaign for its first cinema camera. But despite the admiration they've earned from cinematographers since March of 2012, the company has announced that it will soon close up shop.
The photo software company ON1 drummed up some excitement back in April by announcing Photo RAW, the first new RAW processing software to be released in a decade. To make sure the software is exactly what photographers want, ON1 has just launched The Photo RAW Project, an effort to crowdsource the best ideas for what the software should be like.
Google Maps and Google Earth just got a whole lot sharper thanks to NASA and its Landsat 8 satellite. Using beautiful high-res imagery captured by the new satellite, Google has built a better high-res cloud-free mosaic of the world based on some 700 trillion pixels of data.
Ted Forbes of The Art of Photography made this 7.5-minute video in which he talks about a brutal truth of photography: the fact that "nobody is interested in seeing your photographs. Nobody cares about the work that you're doing as a photographer."
The low-light capabilities of modern cameras allow us to photograph wildlife in ways that would previously have been impossible. Over the last year or so, I have pushed my cameras to the limits in order to take striking images of nocturnal African animals.
During a photo shoot last summer under the hot sun in the South of France, photographer Nède strapped a GoPro HERO4 Black to his chest to document what the wet plate collodion photography process is like from the practitioner's perspective. He was shooting with a Chamonix 8x10 large format camera and a Industar-37 300mm f/4.5 lens. You can find examples of Nede's wet plate photos on his website.
What unusual tactics do you have for nailing the perfect portrait? Over in East Asia, a set of viral photos circulating on the Web shows what some wedding photographers are doing to get the shot they're picturing in their minds.
So you want to learn to take stacked images like the one above? Great! You’ve come to the right place -- just read on.
Today in interesting scientific breakthroughs, researchers at a university in Germany have managed to 3D-print a three-lens camera the size of a grain of salt. A camera so small it can be injected using a standard syringe.
Developing your own color negative film at home might not be as scary as you think. With a simple developing kit, a few accessories, and a short tutorial, the folks at the Film Photography Project will show you how to do it in just 10 minutes.
What is the best camera for street photography? What do you recommend? That is the question I get asked most.
Canon has released an official service advisory for the 1D X Mark II that you'll want to pay attention to if you're one of the few already using the new camera. Apparently, some SanDisk CFast 2.0 cards don't play well with the 1D X Mark II; in fact, they'll corrupt some of your images.
The U.S. Marine Corps has officially corrected photographic history this week. After a formal investigation, the Corps is admitting that one of the men in AP photographer Joe Rosenthal's iconic WWII photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" has been misidentified for the past 71 years.
Fisheye lenses are often considered a ‘no-no’ among professional landscape and cityscape photographers. People see them as not much more than a gimmick. I often hear complaints about fisheye lenses because of ‘that ugly distortion’.
A lot of people have asked us why we only shoot “Victoria’s back” and why we rarely ever show her face. Believe it or not, we actually have a reason why we shoot a lot of faceless imagery, and we wanted to write it down, once and for all, so you can reference it any time you want.
How has Hollywood's idea of female beauty changed over the past century? Here's a collection of averaged portraits that tries to answer that question.
We've seen some pretty interesting and quirky photography-themed tattoos in the past—from lens diagrams to a Canon "L" red ring tattoo. But tattoo artist Andrey Lukovnikov's work isn't photography-themed, it's photography-inspired... double exposure photography-inspired to be exact.
Lapsiere Rouge is a free desktop app that can sum up your time-lapse projects in a single image.
There's something incredibly touching about a photograph of a mother-to-be cradling her belly and gazing sweetly at her unborn child. Unfortunately, thanks to these beer ads, you're never going to be able to look at those photos the same way again.
