I shoot digital. I don’t do film, and I have never touched a film camera. I have never spent hours in a darkroom waiting for a print to appear under red light. My photography career began entirely digital, and I have grown to appreciate the possibilities it offers. Every modern camera provides clarity, precision, and control that film could never fully deliver. Every detail, every color, every expression is there, ready to tell the story as it happened.
A photo of a leopard seal with its jaws wide open has taken home the top prize in the Underwater Awards Australasia 2025.
Photographer Nick Ut was honored last night at Visa pour l'Image, the International Festival of Photojournalism, in France. The honor came just days after the news broke that Netflix acquired The Stringer, the explosive documentary that alleges Ut did not capture "The Terror of War," one of the most famous photos in history. Ut received a lengthy ovation and further defended himself against the documentary's allegations.
The latest James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image delivers a "glittering glimpse of starbirth," the European Space Agency explains.
Designed for use with the Lab-Box system, the M-Box promises to streamline film development by automating the agitation process.
In e-commerce, photography isn’t just a picture—it’s the customer’s only connection to the product. A shopper can’t hold the glasses, feel the texture of the frame, or judge the true glossiness of the metal. When the image doesn’t reflect reality, the result is disappointment, higher return rates, and ultimately, a loss of trust in the brand.
In response to a flaw with the Nikon Z6 III's C2PA functionality, Nikon has suspended its Nikon Authenticity Service.
Way back in 1904, the Gerhard Sisters captured a portrait of famed Apache warrior, Geronimo, during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri. Over 100 years later, a conservator at the Library of Congress noticed a hidden detail in the portrait: the photographer sisters reflected in the warrior's left eye.
NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover has been exploring Jezero Crater on Mars since it landed on the planet on February 18, 2021. Since then, it has made many remarkable discoveries and captured hundreds of thousands of incredible photos. A recent photo shows a close-up of a Martian rock, it looks a lot like a turtle.
There are small pieces of information that can make a big difference to your enjoyment of photography and your success at taking better pictures.
We put Luminar Neo to the test, not as a standalone app, but as a plugin designed to enhance your existing editing photography workflow.
Last week, I received multiple emails from different case makers showing supposed designs for the iPhone 17 series. Then this week, that ramped up to Dbrand, Moment, UGreen, and basically every case maker at IFA showing the same thing, all flaunting the same design. Apple is historically excellent at keeping a secret, so what changed this year?
A "blood moon" lunar eclipse will dazzle viewers this weekend, September 7-8, and provide photographers their second chance of 2025 to capture incredible total lunar eclipse images.
Over the Labor Day weekend, rumors swirled about President Trump's health. On Monday, Getty Images photographer Andrew Caballero-Reynolds captured a grainy image of Trump leaving the White House.
Warner Bros. Discovery has launched a lawsuit against the AI image generator Midjourney, accusing the latter of copyright infringement.
UGreen has announced its next-generation MagFlow series of wireless chargers. Using Qi2, which has 25W charging versus the 15W of the previous generation, these new accessories work with both new iPhone and Android devices.
A few weeks after the Hubble Space Telescope captured an incredible photo of comet 3I/ATLAS as it screamed through the solar system at a blistering 130,000 miles per hour (209,000 kilometers per hour), the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South in Chile set its sights on the comet, capturing a gorgeous, colorful photo unlike anything seen before.
During a livestream from the United States Geological Survey's (USGS) V3cam at Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, the stationary camera caught sight of an incredible event that the USGS calls a "volnado."
Brightin Star’s new 50mm f/1.4 III APS-C lens promises sharp optics, creamy bokeh, and cine-style controls at an affordable price. It is available for a surprisingly wide variety of mounts.
Nikon's first major firmware update for the Nikon Z6 III arrived last week, adding bird-detect autofocus, Auto Capture, and C2PA Content Credentials.
Audiio, a music licensing platform in the same vein as Epidemic Sound and MusicBed, announced an integration with AudioShake, an industry-leading sound-separation technology that can break any track into a broad variety of instrument stems even if the original music had never been multi-tracked.
Adobe has an official Chrome Acrobat extension designed and marketed for viewing, editing, and filling PDF files inside Google’s popular web browser. However, as a photographer discovered, the extension enables some far-reaching Adobe Express integration that makes removing watermarks from photos an AI-assisted cakewalk.
As I passed through the airport security in Managua, Nicaragua, on December 30th, 2024, my heart sank -- the LowePro camera bag had been flagged and was being taken aside for checks. The handler found what he was looking for: my DJI Mavic Pro Drone.
Earlier this year, PetaPixel reported that DxO PureRAW's Beta support for Fujifilm X-Trans was misleading, leading the company to acknowledge the poor communication surrounding the highly anticipated support. Now, five months later, DxO may have made up for its mistake, as X-Trans support is complete and looks excellent.
The Behold Cam-1 is a stylish new wildlife camera that promises to make the traditional trail camera experience much more accessible.
Google is adding Veo 3 to Google Photos, allowing users to turn their still images into higher quality short video clips.
Adobe is taking another crack at mobile video editing by bringing its professional video editing app, Premiere, to iPhone later this month for free and Android later down the line.
In an effort to learn to love the 35mm full-frame focal length, I took the latest Meike 35mm f/1.8 Pro lens out for a spin. The Meike 35mm f/1.8 is an affordable take on the popular focal length, but it has some handy tricks up its sleeve that belie its lower cost. Many creatives who are looking for a compact and sharp lens will find the Meike 35mm ideal for street photography and travel. I carried it on a little road trip around southern Alberta, and it proved to be a handy companion.
A new budget-friendly prime lens has arrived for Sony full-frame shooters, adding another option to the growing third-party market. 7Artisans' new AF 35mm f/1.8 prime is compact and designed for both photography and video.
Stephen Shore is most famous for his instantly recognizable photos of Andy Warhol and his superstars at the Factory in New York, but before that he was a literal child wandering the streets with a camera.
