We'll forgive you if you've never heard of Mifuneyama Rakuen. The Japanese park—home to 200,000 azaleas and 2,000 cherry trees—isn't famous. What it is, is gorgeous, as French photographer Jordy Meow recently captured from both sky and ground.
If you're a Polaroid camera lover, you definitely need to check out MiNT's latest creation. The classic camera purveyor just unveiled the special edition SLR670-S Noir, a Polaroid SX-70 dressed in black and gold and upgraded to offer a ton more control over the photos you're taking.
If you could pick anybody, alive or dead, what photographer would you choose to take your portrait? That's the question DPReview just asked 10 well-known photographers.
"The Blue Moment" is the latest photo series by Hong Kong-based photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagreze. His goal was to capture his city during the beautiful and "fleeting time between day and night when a mystical blue veil envelops the city" -- a time commonly referred to by photographers as "blue hour."
In September 2016, Snapchat changed it’s name to Snap Inc. and introduced Spectacles, a pair of sunglasses with a built-in camera that records 10-second snippets of video and posts directly to your Snapchat Story.
This might be one of those few times when the word "epic" applies. For her latest newsworthy feat, celebrity wedding photographer Suzanne Delawar managed to get an entire wedding—wedding party and guests—to stand perfectly still several times for the #mannequinchallenge.
This past Monday, the world was treated to the largest "supermoon" since January 26, 1948. If you're wondering how the supermoon compared to an average appearance of the moon in the sky, check out photographer Philippe Moussette's comparison photos above.
No glass? No problem! At least that's Hitachi's goal. The Japanese company has announced development of a lensless camera that uses moire fringing and math instead of a lens to capture images. What's more, those images can be focused after you take the shot.
A dark reality exists within photography that few photographers are willing to discuss and many refuse to even recognize. In the name of purity, we tend to see photography as a medium that couldn’t -- shouldn’t be able to -- do harm.
When a total solar eclipse occurred back on March 20, 2015, photographer György Soponyai decided to capture it in a creative way. He shot a series of photos of the sun traveling across the sky above Norway, and then stitched the images together into the above "little planet" photo of the sun being eclipsed.
There's not much to this video that isn't covered in the headline: a guy attached a GoPro Hero Session to the end of an arrow, shot it at a variety of things and people, and then stabilized the output into some really cool footage.
Perfect WiFi—much like "jumbo shrimp" and "effective government"—is usually an oxymoron; when it comes to your photo studio or home office, it can also be a huge pain. But have no fear, Google has come to the rescue.
Google scientists are brewing technology that could one day help you to "enhance!" photos with sharper results than current software on the market. Called RAISR, the system uses machine learning for intelligent upscaling.
Which popular digital camera produces the most desirable JPEG photos straight-out-of-camera? The folks over at TheCameraStoreTV decided to do a shootout between top models and use a "blind(ish)" test to see which JPEGs photographers prefer.
It’s like I hit a wall. Not hit, actually... fell through. And everything on the other side was magic. This past year has been the most creatively transformative year I’ve had since I first picked up a camera.
When photographer Catherine Panebianco noticed her beloved dog Benny begin to show the signs of old age, she did what any photographer and dog lover might do: she picked up a camera. She began chronicling the last year of Benny's life, photo by intimate photo.
Apparently, total domination isn't quite good enough for DJI. It's not enough that the Mavic has received rave reviews, beating the GoPro Karma so badly they started falling out of the sky in embarrassment. Today, DJI revealed two new drones that practically have aerial filmmakers wetting themselves.
Photo scanning smartphone apps, watch out... Google just peed all over your turf. With the release of the new PhotoScan app, the tech giant is swooping in to help people quickly and easily digitize that old box of prints languishing in the attic.
Sensor dust is a pain, but it's also easy to take care of in most images. This quick tutorial from our friends at Sleeklens covers what is probably the most-used method for clearing sensor dust spots in Adobe Lightroom.
Photographer Christoffer Relander collects landscapes... literally. Using medium format film, he's capturing some of his favorite landscapes inside mason jars using in-camera double exposures.
Seagate has announced the world's largest capacity mobile drive. The new Backup Plus Portable can store 5TB of data in a small and lightweight case that can easily be carried around in a camera bag.
Sigma is continuing to extend its Art series with the new 85mm f/1.4. The long-awaited lens received lots of attention when it was first announced at Photokina 2016.
Creativity. It’s something I’ve been toying with in my own mind for the last couple of years. The question of ‘how can I develop and grow my work/art?’ is a problem that I think plagues most creative people. With creativity, there aren’t essentially any simple answers.
Everybody knows tilt-shift lenses can be used to get a "miniature" effect, but many photographers are oblivious to their other, more traditional applications, and even fewer understand exactly how these lenses work. The folks at LensPro ToGo are here to clear things up.
Canon uses a red ring on its L series lenses to signify quality. Leica just turned an entire lens red. It just unveiled a new limited edition version of the APO-Summicron-M 50 mm f/2 ASPH, the first ever Leica lens to come in a red finish.
Apple just released a $300 photo book. Titled "Designed by Apple in California," the sleek white book chronicles the company's product designs over the past two decades.
Last night, talented photographer and MIT researcher Andrea Fanelli went out to capture the epic supermoon we're currently experiencing, only to arrive at his chosen spot too late for that standard 'moon over the skyline' shot. So he got creative... and captured something WAY better in our opinion.
We've all seen photographs before of light trails through various forms of light painting—cars passing by, flashlights, pixelsticks, wool spinning, etc. But have you ever seen someone use fire inside a gym to create light trails?
If you're a wildlife photographer, always aiming for more reach without sacrificing sharpness or shutter speed, this is a question you've probably asked yourself: Is it better to use a full-frame camera with a teleconverter, or switch to a crop sensor camera instead? Photographer Steve Perry has your answer.
Unless you've been on an Internet fast for the past week, you've probably seen this incredible clip from the upcoming BBC nature documentary Planet Earth II. The harrowing 'chase scene' has gone viral online, and now the BBC are giving us a peek at how their crew captured this spectacular footage.
While playing baseball at the age of 21, an ill-advised slide into third base cost Loren Worthington the use of his limbs. 30 years later, he's now a talented sports photographer whose work earned him a job capturing adaptive sports at the Rio Paralympics.
'Spray and Pray' photography is being taken to as yet un-dreamt-of heights thanks to a new sensor from CMOSIS. This full-frame sensor not only packs 48MP worth of resolution, it can apparently capture 8K video at 40fps, and 4K at 60.
Dear Photographer, …
Let's start the week on a creative note. Our friends at COOPH have released a fun new video packed full of tips and ideas that will help you break out of that creative rut and flex your instant photography muscle.
Episode 124 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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The #MannequinChallenge is a new viral obsession that has been taking off over the past couple of weeks. It involves shooting a short video in which everyone in the shot stays perfectly motionless like mannequins, frozen in time as they go about their lives. Above is an example by Julian Restrepo.
President-elect Trump met with President Obama for the first time this week, and the short press conference afterward can be seen in the 3-minute video above. But politics aside, the video has people talking for a different reason: everyone's pointing out how loud and obnoxious the press photographers' DSLRs are.
If you're both a photography lover and a Netflix subscriber, there's some good news for you today: Canon Australia's Tales By Light TV series is now available through the streaming service.
It seems that Leica has a new M10 digital rangefinder up its sleeve. New leaked photos show a camera with that model number and a new physical design.
Want to see the state of cameras and photography back in 1948? Check out the 15-minute training film above, created by the US Navy in 1948. It's titled "Fundamentals of Photography: The Basic Camera."
For his project "The Spirit of Iron Man," photographer Dan Votjech visited the world's hardest triathlon, the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, and shot portraits of the competitors using a large format Polaroid camera.
Canon has launched a new look for the Rebel T6 entry-level DSLR. The new gray version features a silvery body and a brown grip that are reminiscent of retro metal cameras with leather coverings.
Camera companies often slice cameras and lenses in half to show off the inner workings at trade shows. If you're wondering how the slicing is done, check out the 3-minute video above that shows a Canon EOS ELAN 7E 35mm SLR getting cut in half by a 60,000 PSI waterjet.
Jack Morris (@doyoutravel) and Lauren Bullen (@gypsea_lust) are both travel photographers and Instagram's favorite travel power couple! With a collective following of 2 million people, you can imagine they've developed quite a great following! Rightfully so, the work on their accounts are beautiful and they travel quite religiously.
Over at Adobe MAX 2016, Adobe gave a sneak peek of a new technology they're brewing called SkyReplace. The feature makes it extremely easy to replace the sky and look of a photo with just a few clicks and zero Photoshop knowledge. You can watch it in action in the 5-minute demo above.
Snapchat's new Spectacles camera glasses just went on sale today. Instead of offering them through an online store, however, Snapchat is selling them through pop-up "Snapbot" vending machines that show up in various locations for a single day.
South African photographer Ursula Tocik started her career shooting weddings. In October 2012, Tocik's life and career took an unexpected turn when she suffered two massive strokes that paralyzed the left side of her body.
While shooting recently in Kamchatka, Russia, Dutch photographer Tomas van der Weijden captured this remarkable photo of an erupting volcano and a streaking meteor being reflected in a lake.
A .22 caliber bullet moving at 1,200 feet per second slices through an apple in the classic high-speed shot. This photo was created recently by Nasser Albahri at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
