Here's a slow-motion video that's going viral: Nick Colvin captured an Amtrak train arriving at a station where the tracks were covered with a thick layer of snow. What results is a beautiful (and scary) white explosion.
If you're obsessed with classic Polaroid-style instant photos, Phrame is a new picture frame designed specifically for you.
On Wednesday night, a developing story kept popping up on my feed featuring Katrina Ortiz (a photo client) and Desiree Genera (a photographer). Initially, Katrina posted positive feedback regarding her hired photographer after receiving an edited image in digital format.
GoPro has had a rough few years, with its stock falling from over $80 a share in 2014 to less than $10 a share today. Working to turn its fortunes around, GoPro just announced that it has trimmed another 270 jobs in order to reduce expenses.
Natural Rotations is a photo series by Surrey, England-based photographer Simon Painter. Each of the images was created by spinning the camera while an exposure is in progress.
In the 16-minute video above, Gavin Free of the The Slow Mo Guys answers a question he often receives: “Is using a high-speed camera similar to using a normal camera?” The answer is “Yes and No”, and we end up looking into the biggest challenges in using high-speed cameras.
Episode 159 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: USA Today photojournalist and Sports Shooter co-founder, Robert Hanashiro
"Goodbye Apple, hello Windows." It's a phrase many a photographer is considering these days, but if you're afraid to make the jump, have no fear. Photographer Trey Ratcliff has already done it, and he says the water's fine. In fact, he'll explain how and why you should switch too.
There's a simple way to make your subject's eyes pop in a portrait, and it doesn't involve touching vibrance, saturation, luminosity, or any other color-based edit. In fact, you can make the full edit in 30 seconds.
We know it's coming; Fuji's told us it's coming. The Fujifilm Instax SQUARE camera and SQUARE instant film has already made its teaser debut, but today, newly leaked photos give us our fist look at the new camera and its special square film.
I once read a Quora question that went, “What can I learn in one minute that will be useful for the rest of my life?” I don’t know about the rest of your life, but if you're a photographer, head over to the Adobe Creative Cloud YouTube channel and check out their 'Make It Now' one-minute video tutorials on designing (not retouching) with Photoshop CC.
One of the most popular location scouting and photography planning apps in the world is getting its long-(long-long-long-)awaited debut on Android. Android users, meet PhotoPills.
In the summer of 2016, I experimented with creating animated GIFs using multiple cameras. I wanted to animate a moment, frozen in time, from several angles.
There's a new Web app in town, and it might just help you pick between those two lenses that are battling it out for your next paycheck. The app is called 'Lens vs Lens,' and it might be the most comprehensive real world comparison tool out there.
Liquid Dreams is a new personal photo project by Italian photographer Adolfo Maciocco, who shot beautiful upside-down photos of a classical ballet dancer underwater in the sea.
This is the story behind the world's first wide-angle, head-on photographs of a fighter jet. In the video above, photographer Richard Cooke explains how he captured this incredible photograph remotely, on film, essentially shooting blind, back in 1977.
Picture it: it's Saint Patrick's Day, you've run out of Black & White film developer, all the stores are closed down... the only thing you can find is beer. Nothing worse could happen, but don't worry! We have the solution to develop your roll of film.
Photographer Robert Götzfried's latest project captures a musical instrument that is unmatched in both its intricate design and its colossal size: the pipe organ.
Dirt and grime are two of the biggest enemies of the tripod in its natural habitat, grinding the threads and turning even the best of tripods into a malfunctioning mess. That's why photographer Troy Nikolic has put together a video showing you how to get a dirty tripod back to ship shape.
Less than a year after the famous Racetrack Playa dry lake in Death Valley was vandalized with tire tracks, someone has done the same damage to the nearby Badwater Basin salt flats.
My name is Dan Cook, I'm a landscape and nature photographer from the UK. The introduction of full resolution image transfer from camera to the smartphone over wireless technology has been a revelation and increased my ability to share images.
Musician Ryan Adams got into another very public scuffle with a photographer this week. Midway through his set at the 2017 Gasparilla Music Festival, Adams, who suffers from Meniere’s disease, called out photographer Joe Sale for using flash photography and potentially putting the musician's health at risk.
Lighting is the most important element of a photograph. It is essentially the only thing that a picture is truly made of. And it's the quality and type of light that really sets a picture apart from the masses of imagery, or limits a photo's ability to really captivate an audience.
Nick Ut, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist behind the iconic photo "The Terror of War" known by many as "The Napalm Girl," has announced that he is officially retiring.
Sony has just released an interesting new app for its mirrorless and high-end compact cameras. The app, called "Digital Filter," lets you divide your sensor into up to 3 sections and capture each of those parts differently. It's like a graduated ND filter built right into your camera's software.
Here's a typical quick interior photography assignment for a Swiss brand called VIU Eyewear. They contacted me to create three images for their website/social networks. The only rule was to stay in the same style than their other images on their "Stores" page (something simple, white, and luminous with an emphasis on interior design). Here's how I shot it and edited it.
Veydra Optics—the California-based lens manufacturer who made their name by releasing the first series of Micro Four Thirds cinema primes—fell victim to a huge theft this weekend. 200 of their "Mini Primes," a large chunk of their total inventory, were stolen this weekend.
Actress and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson spent International Women’s Day hiding feminist books around NYC while she wasn’t giving a speech at the HeForShe Arts Week launch.
As the digital marketplace grows, the demand for good content and eye catching media increases with it. More and more brands and entrepreneurs are taking the photography in-house to keep up with demand, while keeping production costs down.
Running a shoot from start to finish can be pretty demanding—working with creative staff, managing your camera, adjusting settings, directing, and ensuring that everything is going smoothly. It can be pretty daunting with the prospect of trying to handle all of this right?
Whether you're interested in lifestyle photography, real estate imagery, or something in between, knowing how to capture great photos of interiors is a skill all beginners should master. Here are 5 quick tips that'll help up your interior photography game.
Photographer Dale Sharpe is a determined guy. It took two rings and two trips to the arctic circle, but he finally got engaged to the one person he loves, capturing the epic moment on camera while the northern lights danced above their heads.
Drone manufacturer DJI is speaking about about the FAA's drone rules. In a white paper released last week, DJI stated that the FAA’s present regulations about what size drones pose a risk to humans are based on, "poorly chosen data and deeply flawed assumptions."
While researching locations for a series on Russian Palace Architecture, photographer David Burdeny discovered beauty in an unexpected place: the metro. Russia's Stalin-era metro stations stunned Burdeny, leaving him no choice but to photograph them for his 2014-2015 series RUSSIA: A Bright Future.
Full-time attorney and occasional Uber driver Jesse Bright had an interesting run-in with North Carolina police last month. During a strange traffic stop, Bright was told by two officers that there was a "new law" that made it illegal to record police; however, as an attorney, he felt confident calling the cops' bluff and continued recording.
Episode 158 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Famed photojournalist, Nick Ut
Olympus has officially announced that it's killing off its Four Thirds mount lenses and focusing instead on the Micro Four Thirds mount.
The word "photography" derives from Greek and literally means "drawing with light". It is a combination of the Greek words "photo-" (φως), meaning "light," and "-graphia" (γραφή), meaning "writing" or "drawing". The same goes for the word "cinematography".
While shooting for a conservation film about rhino poaching in South Africa, cameraman Garth De Bruno Austin was approached by a wild rhino who was apparently in search of a nice belly rub. The unusual encounter was captured in the 15-second video above.
If you're just starting out in Photoshop and would like to learn the art of making difficult selections to isolate things in photos, check out this great video tutorial by Tutvid. It's a 37-minute lesson with 10 tips and tricks on methods that range from beginner to advanced.
I am colorblind. And I am a photographer. In my particular case, and in the majority of those that are "color challenged", being colorblind doesn't actually mean we cannot see colors. Or at least, without borrowing your eyes and brain for a while and comparing what we see, I don't believe this to be the case.
A French court has ruled that American appropriation artist Jeff Koons infringed the copyright of French photographer Jean-François Bauret in creating one of his celebrated sculptures, Naked (1988).
If you have a film or digital camera that can shoot double exposures, there's a free do-it-yourself accessory you can use to get creative with the technique: it's the half lens cap.
Anything can happen when cameras are rolling for live TV, and sometimes hilarity ensues. For a daily dose of humor, check out this video that shows what just happened today during a live broadcast of BBC News.
My name is Alex Brock, and I'm a photo enthusiast living in South Florida. I spent many nights last summer chasing storms through swamps and along the beach attempting to learn to shoot lightning, and I'd like to share some things I learned to help others who are starting out.
Photographer Aydın Büyüktaş has published a new series of photos as part of his delightful Flatland series, which shows landscapes folding upon themselves like something out of the movie Inception.
NASA has just released new raw photos of Saturn's tiny moon Pan, captured on March 7th, 2017, by the Cassini space probe from about 15,000 miles away (~24,500km). The photos reveal a bizarre-looking moon -- one that looks like a giant ravioli floating in space (or a dumpling or walnut or "paper mache mini-planet").
I recently collaborated with food typographer Danielle Evans. She approached me with the idea of doing a beauty shoot except the jewelry would be made out of candy that she crafted. I was intrigued and immediately began planning.
Canon made an unusual move in 2017 by announcing the Canon 77D as the first camera in a new line that fits between the 80D and the 800D (AKA the Rebel T7i). If you're scratching your head about what makes the 77D different, check out the 4.5-minute video above by ZY Productions about 8 differences between the 77D and 80D.
Japanese camera manufacturers dominate the digital photography landscape, so it might come as a surprise that the used film camera market is also thriving in Tokyo.
