June 2016

Do you know your colors? Like REALLY know your colors? Because the "The Great RGB Guessing Challenge" wants to put your color competency to the test!

The very recently leaked Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 12mm f/1.4 ASPH lens for Micro Four Thirds has officially arrived. Ultra-wide and built to withstand some punishment, the 24mm equivalent lens is the widest prime the company offers that isn't a fisheye.

The photo above of a wild genet is a single 73-second exposure that took many hours, tons of patience, and a bit of technology to capture. In this post, I'll share how I combined wildlife photography with light painting.

How do you capture a photo of a wild, people-averse, flighty great white shark in the murky green waters off of Cape Cod? If you're NatGeo photographer Brian Skerry, you pull out all the stops.

Animator Drew Christie of Whidbey Island, Washington, was recently commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to create a set of animated short films that tell the story of famous photography pioneers.

Want to shoot off-road racing from a creative perspective under a vehicle flying through the air? You should probably get permission to deploy some remote cameras. You probably shouldn't crouch in a dip on the track and wait for racers to whiz past above your head.

If you've bought any photos from the "Spaghetti" or "Apples" photo agencies through Facebook lately, watch out. Getty Images is after you. The photo agency is suing a man who allegedly sold thousands of stolen "Spaghetti" (an alias for Getty) images through a Facebook group.

After helping resurrect direct positive photo paper back and then making it available for 120 film cameras to boot, Galaxy is at it again. And this time, they're aiming their crowdfunding-powered resurrection ray at dry glass plate photography.

Pretty much any photographer will be familiar with GAS: gear acquisition syndrome. As much as I hate to admit it, when I’m holding a new lens or camera body I can’t help but feel an exciting feeling.

Flickr generated a lot of bad feelings back in March 2016 by making its Auto-Uploadr app a Pro-only feature. If you're not Pro but would still like the convenience of automatically uploading new photos, you can build a custom gadget that does it for you.

Photographer Paul Richardson of Manchester, UK, just released a time-lapse short film that's garnering high praise on the Web. It's titled "Patience," and is a 4K journey around Europe that took a great deal of patience to create.

Although my work ranges from dangling people off the edge of rooftops, to tying them down in underwater shipwrecks, to lighting them on fire—I recently discovered four steps in the process that have remained consistent year after year.

The folks at Digicame-info (translated link) have gotten their hands on a couple of leaked images of an exciting new Micro 4/3 lens from Panasonic: a super-wide angle Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 12mm f/1.4 ASPH.

Hey PetaPixel! Let's talk about taking pictures of lightsabers. How to make 'em look good, specifically.

Apple just unveiled iOS 10 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today. Among the new features is a smarter Photos app for making, storing, sharing, and revisiting your memories.

A couple of weeks ago, my team and I pulled together a weekend poolside shoot with models, perfect weather, and a drone. I operated the drone and got some beautiful footage. Magnificent footage. Award-winning footage.

Storehouse, the app for telling beautiful stories through photos, is shutting down. Competing against larger photo sharing services out there, Storehouse wasn't able to gain traction among the general public.

BrushKnob is a new control device for Photoshop that aims to speed up your workflow by putting two extra physical controls at your fingertips: a knob and a button.

Traveling and photography go hand-in-hand, but without the right gear it can also be a pain. Fortunately, there's some great affordable travel photography accessories out there that will make traveling with a camera a joy.

As Barack Obama nears the end of his 8-year tenure as President of the United States, White House photographer Peta Souza has been looking back at the nearly 2 million photos he's taken of the sitting president. But Souza may have only yesterday taken his most widely-seen photo of the president... a photo he likely wishes he never had to take.

Netherlands-based photographer and videographer Chung Dha made this quick 2-minute video showing how he fakes the look of drone shots using a light stand and action camera.

Facebook launched its new Moments photo-sharing app back in June 2015. Now the social networking giant is pushing hard to get users onto the new app... by threatening the deletion of auto-synced photos.

While shooting a wedding back in December 2014, New Jersey-based wedding photographer Tom Harmon strapped a GoPro to his camera to show what the experience is like. The footage and final shots were turned into the 4-minute video above.

Professional Photographers of America, the world's largest pro photography non-profit trade group, is launching a big lobbying campaign in order to see the creation of a copyright small claims system in the United States, something that's "vital to your photography business," PPA says.

The compact Cambo Actus view camera is popular among photographers using Sony A7 series cameras. Clyde Butcher migrated from large format film to an Actus and Sony a7R. Admittedly, I am an oddball photographer: I use the Actus with an Olympus Micro Four Thirds (MFT) camera.

This is one of the most informative, technical, and (if you're a camera nerd) awesome walkthrough's we've ever stumbled across. In it, photographer Patrick Murphy-Racey shows you, step-by-step, how he lights a whole massive basketball arena with four powerful strobes.

Move over Huawei P9, because Hasselblad and Lenovo are planning something that promises to dwarf that Leica-branded dual camera. According to recent reports, the newly announced modular MotoZ phone will soon boast a powerful Hasselblad camera attachment that snaps right on!

Forget the dark side of the moon (except the album... never forget that album), this photograph released last week by NASA shows you the dark side of a different celestial body: Pluto.

A mis-named marketing gimmick is bringing together 360° photos and ... beer? Yep. Beck's beer has launched a special edition bottle that comes complete with a "CapCam," a 360° lens you can pop off and attach to your smartphone.

In mid-April, we told you that Canon was allegedly working on a full-frame mirrorless model they could release as soon as Photokina in September. Today, that rumor gets a bit more oomph thanks to a Canon lens patent that was recently published.

There's no shortage of smartphone lenses out there to choose from, but these two from DynaOptics promise to be both special, and unique. Designed with their patented 'free-form' technology, the OOWA smartphone lenses claim they are "the highest-quality lens attachments ever created for mobile photography."

The Dutch company TomTom is best known for making GPS navigation devices, but did you know that it's also a player in the action camera market? The $300 TomTom Bandit action camera just got a software update that makes it even more attractive for underwater shooting: it can now auto-correct colors while submerged.

Many prime lens lovers will tell you they don't need no stinkin' zoom lenses, just "zoom with your feet" as they say. But there is a point to zoom lenses, and it's not just the versatility of having multiple focal lengths—it's the ability to tell different stories with the same lens.

"Las Vegas In Infrared" is a new 4-minute short film by Philip Bloom, who visited Las Vegas with a Sony RX100 IV that had been modified for infrared photography through having its filter removed. Most of what you see was shot from a moving vehicle with 2 second bursts at 250fps through a 665nm filter.