"That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms
Drone manufacturer Walkera is causing a bit of stir today with the announcement of their Voyager 4: a superzoom drone that boasts a whopping 16x optical zoom camera system.
For his bachelor thesis project, titled "notwinstagram," German artist Daniel Reuber decided to flip Instagram fads on their head. Instead of creating picture-perfect Instagram shots that show (or fake) a wonderful life, Reuber decided to show what those same shots would look like for someone with a very sad life.
NASA just released a timelapse video that will give you an eye-opening dose of perspective. The 3-minute video above shows 1 year in the life of Earth, photographed from 1 million miles away.
Shooting sports can be an extremely challenging experience: translating the intense action you see in front of your lens into awesome imagery isn’t easy. Here are my six tips you can apply right away!
Listen up, because this is a really neat trick. Using a little-known and almost never-used blend mode in Photoshop, Scott Kelby shows you how to align two things perfectly in PS every single time without fail.
Episode 91 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Photo educator and landscape photographer Scott Davenport
Photographer J P Goodridge was whale watching near Sydney, Australia, yesterday when he captured this photo of a lifetime showing a humpback whale explode out of the water right next to another little whale watching boat.
Photographer Oliver Hihn thinks its a shame that so many old cameras sit around on shelves and slowly gather dust, so he decided to take his dad's old Elbaflex VX 1000 35mm SLR out on a hike. Instead of shooting film photos, he decided to photograph landscapes framed in the waist-level viewfinder of the camera.
Before marrying President John F. Kennedy and becoming the First Lady of the United States, Jacqueline "Jackie" Kennedy once earned $42.50 per week as the "inquiring camera girl" for the Washington Times-Herald. Some of her personally used camera gear is now for sale on eBay.
Want to see the composition concepts used in famous scenes from famous movies? Raymond Thi of Composition Cam has been taking still frames and overlaying neon pink lines to show things like symmetry, thirds, quadrants, triangles, diagonals, and more.
Paul C. Buff has announced the new DigiBees strobes, a line of powerful, digitally-controlled, self-contained studio flash units. They're the digital counterpart to the company's popular AlienBees flashes.
Worthy challengers to Adobe Photoshop don't come around very often, so that's why Affinity Photo got the photography world excited when it was launched in 2015. Now the award-winning pro image editing app is getting another major update. Version 1.5 will include a number of powerful new features.
Shoot large numbers of ultra-high-res raw photos on a daily basis? Lifelogging every moment in 4K? Want to store all your eggs in one basket? If you answer yes to any or all of those questions, Seagate has a new hard drive for you. The BarraCuda Pro 10TB lets you store a whopping 10 terabytes of data in a single drive on your desktop computer.
To those who may hire a portrait photographer: …
This video needs very little introduction beyond the headline except to say that yes, it is exactly as cool as it sounds.
It's not all crazy patents today on the rumor mill, this week also brought with it some tantalizing teasers about three of the biggest camera manufacturers. We have a "first" from Canon, a new lens from Nikon, and a new memory card from Sony to tell you about.
Fine Art photographer Pascal Goet has been capturing macro photos for 26 years, but it's only today that his work made its way onto our radar. His series Mask & Totem features some of the most colorful, anthropomorphic insects he's photographed—insects that looks like mysterious, intricate masks.
It took Drew Geraci over at District 7 Media over 80 hours of post-production to create his latest China timelapse. That's because he took all 2500 individual frames he had captured and turned them, one by one, into paintings using the Prisma app. The result is mesmerizing.
Here's another one for the "probably never going to get made but WOW" file. A month and a half after Canon patented a massive 1000mm f/5.6 DO lens and two months after the crazy 28-560mm f/2.8-5.6 patent, the company is at it again. This time they've patented an EF 40-800mm f/4.5-5.6!
Researchers working on atomic-level storage have found a way to store massive amounts of data in a tiny space. With a bit more improving, this technology could mean memory cards with tens of terabytes of storage.
A couple of months ago, BuzzFeed's "Try Guys" released a video in which they got Photoshopped to look like ideal men's body types as seen in movie posters and magazine covers. But today, they kick it up a notch: they're being Photoshopped not like men... but like women.
For street photography, the choice of cameras and lenses is, simply put, huge. So where do we start? What IS the best lens for street photography?
I arrived in Ireland a couple days ago, and I have been taking plenty of photos along the way. I’ll post them in future articles, but there is something more important to discuss for now: the dangerous, idiotic behavior I saw at the Cliffs of Moher.
If you follow just about any major news outlet, you're bound to have seen the photos of "Fukushima Kid." We published them ourselves. But today the photographer behind those shots, Keow Wee Loong, is on the defensive as another photographer accuses him of lying about the photos in search of fame.
Lighting company Aputure just released a light that we're pretty sure will make it into many (many many) photographer and videographer gear bags. It's called the Amaran M9, and it's tiny, ultra versatile, and costs only $45!
I was delighted this week to see that one of my photographs from a recent wedding was selected as an ‘award winner’ in the ‘All About the Light’ category ISPWP’s quarterly competition. Even more so that the founder, Joe Milton, had selected it as his ‘photo of the day’ yesterday! Here is how I made this image.
This complex, built in the end of the 19th century, was on my wish list for a very long time. When the opportunity arose to visit it, I grabbed my chance and carefully planned the exploration.
"The Exposure Triangle" is a catchy phrase meant to encompass the three factors which affect the exposure of a photograph of a scene with a given amount of light. It's often given to new photographers as a learning aid.
If you simply want something, do you just take it? In the world of photography, content is stolen everyday and used without permission. It's too easy, and I'm sick of it.
A new Canon lens patent hints at an interesting future for Canon's high-end point-and-shoot cameras like the G1 X line. Specifically, it seems Canon is considering packing an APS-C sensor into a future PowerShot.
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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Featured: Photographer Nicky Digital
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.
