Photographer Jennifer McMahon has created a viral maternity photo that's tugging at heartstrings around the world: it shows expecting mother Veronica Phillips next to her husband Brandon, a member of the U.S. Air Force who has been deployed overseas for nearly all of Veronica's pregnancy.
Now that DJI’s new mini Spark drone has been officially announced, the early reviews are starting to appear. Photo industry personality Kai Wong got his hands on a pre-release prototype, and his video provides a great early look at the drone.
My name is José Ignacio, and I'm a commercial and wedding photographer from Spain. I read a lot of blogs and magazines in search of inspiration -- in this job there is a constant search for new ways of telling stories. The '2.5D' technique always attracted me. I’ve seen it applied in other genres, but I wanted to use it in wedding photography.
The German start-up behind the Panono panoramic ball camera has filed for insolvency proceedings in Berlin, making it very unlikely that backers of their $1.25 million Indiegogo campaign will ever get their hands on their camera.
Episode 179 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Before you read the rest of the article, and it will be a long read, please allow me to share a few thoughts with you. Visiting the abandoned city of Pripyat and the disaster site of Chernobyl was an experience that I was looking forward to for a very long time.
My wife, Vicki, and I are full-time portrait and wedding photographers. But when we aren't shooting these things, some of our favorite concepts are creating dramatic images of people in fantastic surroundings.
The short answer: whatever works for you. In this short video/soliloquy, photography educator Matt Granger takes a break from looking at the best pro photo gear, to help define what exactly "pro gear" means to him, and what it should mean to you.
Commercial photographer Derek Heisler has some key advice for the novice portrait photographers in the audience: don't pose your models. This might seem counterintuitive at first, but Heisler explains why 'directing' your models instead of posing them, will make a huge difference in your photography.
I'm not usually one to talk about celebrities that I keep in touch with from photo shoots. Some of this comes out of professional courtesy, and another part of it is that I'm a bit of a private person. However, a current project and fun day in the studio has made for some new images and behind the scenes video that I think you will all enjoy. Here's a look at the shenanigans that take place when I share the studio with my photographer friend (who plays football), Larry Fitzgerald.
If you're intrigued by the medium format Fuji GFX 50s, but don't like the idea of throwing away all of your full-frame glass once you buy it, Laowa has a solution for you. It's called the "Magic Format Converter," and it will magnify your Nikon and Canon full-frame lenses to fit a Fuji GFX.
There's a new DJI drone taking to the skies, and it's the smallest, easiest-to-use quadcopter the Chinese company has ever created. Meet the DJI Spark, a tiny drone that's packed full of easy-to-use features that make it perfect for the drone novice and aerial selfie enthusiast.
Back in January 1995, I upgraded my Mac 8110 desktop to 256 megabytes of RAM for $6,544. Why? Because Photoshop needed a minimum of 5 times the RAM to work with a 8.5×11 RGB 8-bit color page, and that was 24 megabytes.
Want a crash course in retouching photos in Photoshop? Here's a 4-part video series that clocks in at 4.5 hours in total, making it a very comprehensive guide. There’s something here for everyone — even the most experienced photographers are sure to learn something from the series.
Photo editing software developer Macphun—in case the name isn't enough of a hint—has been Apple-only since it first arrived on the scene in 2008. But not anymore. This Fall, the company is going to be releasing its best-selling photo editing software on PC.
Until the release of the 500-yen coin in 1982, its corresponding paper equivalent reigned for more than 40 years in Japan. In fact, it wasn’t until 1994 that the 500-yen banknote was finally withdrawn from circulation.
Citing a “potential safety issue”, Profoto is recalling the battery of their powerful B1X monolight, which was announced only 10 days ago.
Bjarke Ahlstrand, the so-called "Managing Dictator" of Copenhagen, Denmark-based photography company One of Many Cameras, is extremely well connected in Denmark's photography scene. So when it came time to get married (again), he asked 12 of Denmark's best photographers to shoot his wedding photo.
Does your camera have an Extended ISO function? Using it can help you produce less noisy images than the base native ISO of your camera. Here's a 4-minute video tutorial explaining this.
Microsoft's popular, portable Surface Pro tablet computer is getting a major update. Combine that with a new, souped up Surface Pen, and the Seattle company's newest release is looking really tempting for photographers on the go.
In this great video from DSLR Guide, Simon Cade talks about discontentment: how it can be harnessed as a fuel to keep driving forward, and as a signpost to assure that you’re on the right track.
In an attempt to one-up photographer Aurel Manea, who shot these hand-held Milky Way photos with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II last week, New Zealand photographer Jonathan Usher took his own EM-1 II out for a hand-held long exposure. That's how he shot this unbelievable image: a hand-held 10 second exposure of the Milky Way.
Cone is a beautifully designed iOS app that uses the phone’s camera to pick Pantone colors from the world around you.
Photokina—the world's leading trade show on photography, videography, and imaging—is making some big changes. Starting in 2018, the show will begin to happen every year (currently, Photokina happens every other year); it also plans to 'reposition' itself to cover a broader range of products.
There are instances when a photographer meticulously plans a wedding photo, and then there is serendipity. Such was the case for Portland wedding photographer Craig Mitchelldyer when he worked a wedding at Gorge Crest Vineyards near the Oregon/Washington border.
In this creative 2-minute tutorial, Ukranian photographer Anya Anti demonstrates how to make an interesting bokeh effect using shapes cut out of a paper backdrop.
Obama White House photographer Pete Souza returned to politics this weekend. No, he didn't decide to join the Trump White House he's been mocking on Instagram, he spent the day with a different president: President Frank Underwood from the hit Netflix show "House of Cards."
After many years of experience using different lenses, I now have resorted to only using a single prime lens. I started with a 50mm, then added an 85mm, 35mm, 100mm, and 28mm to my collection, and I’ve played around with zooms. But now I exclusively use a 50mm lens. No more zooms and no more choices. But why would I volunteer to limit myself?
Instagram is testing a new feature called Archived Posts that will let you pull photos off of your main profile and into a hidden "Archive" section. That way, you can curate a perfect profile without deleting any of the photos you've shared on the social network.
This is some seriously impressive camera work! Take a peek behind the scenes of Oscar-nominated film 'La La Land,' and see how one of the camera men was able to swing a massive camera around like a toy to create perfect in-camera whip pans.
This brilliantly lit commercial for Canon introduces a new campaign that urges the viewer to “Live for the Story”, and rather curiously does not prominently feature a camera at all.
Stop-motion animator Kevin Parry has shared a clever little video illusion titled "Walk in the Woods" that has a lot of people scratching their heads. It's a loop that shows Parry repeatedly walking into a mirror in a forest and emerging out "the other side."
First unveiled to the world back in July 2015, GNARBOX is a new storage device designed to allow photographers and videographers to back up, edit, and share their RAW photos and 4K videos without having to haul around a laptop.
If you're looking to pick up a great ND filter, one of the new(er) brands on the block is NiSi; but how does this relatively young company compare to one of the biggest names in filters? In this video, NiSi Ambassador Imran Mirza pits the NiSi Nano IR 10 stop filter against the famed LEE Big Stopper.
Antelope Canyon had been on the top of my “must-photograph” list ever since I saw the first picture of a sunbeam penetrating the curvy, orange walls of the Arizona natural wonder. This unique beauty captivates most photographers in love of landscape photography.
In this article, I discuss some of the different things that I've personally decided are bad ideas as an artist. Let's dive in.
My name is Ricardo Lozano, and I'm a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. In my project Seldom Bored, I shoot photos to encapsulate what I know about life in New York City.
Pantone’s quest is to become the universal language of color. The Pantone Matching System allows printers everywhere in the world to ensure they’re producing colors accurately. Artist and graphic designer Andrea Antoni has found a different use for this language of color: matching it to photographs taken in his home country of Italy.
Here's a 15-minute video tutorial from photographer Nathaniel Dodson that'll help you learn how to create the perfect black and white image using only Lightroom.
24-year-old Rebeca Brantes of Brazil is a computer engineering student who's one of just 4 women in her class of 60 students. Leaving up to her recent wedding, Brantes realized that she didn't have any girlfriends from school for a bridal photo shoot, so she decided to invite her best guy friends for an unusual photo series.
Canon is offering a steep discount on one of its high-end photo printers. For a limited time, you can pick up the PIXMA PRO-100—formerly $380, and originally $500 MSRP—for just $130 after a mail-in rebate. This price simply can't be beat.
Instagram is the most likely social media platform to cause teenagers to feel depressed, anxious, lonely, and with low body confidence. That's according to a newly published study by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) in the UK.
DJI has been releasing impressive drones at a break-neck pace, and they're planning on releasing yet another new model on Wednesday. This one, according to several reports and this teaser video, is going to be their smallest, most portable drone yet.
This is exactly why DJI is forcing users to "activate" their drones, or suffer the consequences. At a recent baseball game between the San Diego Padres and the Arizona Diamondbacks, an illegal drone slammed into the stands, only just missing a few faultless fans.
Imagine, if you will, that the photography industry is a very large swimming pool. Not one of those backyard models, but rather an Olympic sized pool. And this very large pool is filled with photographers. However, we will call them swimmers, as that’s how analogies work.
On Friday March 24, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet completed a spacewalk of the International Space Station while wearing a GoPro, capturing 8 minutes of stunning video footage of their work far above the blue orb we call home.
ELEMENTS is a new project by Slovakia-based photographer Maria Svarbova. Each of the portraits in the series features some physical, real-world element that has been introduced to add a layer of 3D complexity to the underlying 2D image.
The good news: you no longer have to register your little DJI Phantom or Mavic with the FAA. The bad news: DJI still needs you to register it with them... or else.
In their work with ETH Zurich, MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a drone that simplifies aerial tracking by removing humans almost entirely from the equation.
When the Sigma 135mm f/1.8 was announced, I was very excited and eager to get my hands on it. Although I haven't had much success with adapting autofocus lenses to my Sony a7R II in the past, I thought using the official Sigma MC-11 adapter with the Sigma 135mm f/1.8 would bring me better results, since they are optimized to work together.
