Hasselblad Hires Photographer Ming Thein as ‘Chief of Strategy’
Commercial photographer, blogger, and long-time Hasselbald user Ming Thein has been named Hasselblad's new Chief of Strategy, a move that is delighting the photo industry.
Commercial photographer, blogger, and long-time Hasselbald user Ming Thein has been named Hasselblad's new Chief of Strategy, a move that is delighting the photo industry.
Over the past few weeks, the PetaPixel tip line has been flooded by reports of Instagram 'shadow banning' accounts. This practice, ostensibly limited to business accounts, is destroying engagement on these photographer's profiles.
Huseyin Sahin is one of the most talented digital artists you'll find online. Following in the footsteps of other incredibly skilled artists like Erik Johansson, he's got a stunning talent for creating surreal scenes by blending together digital photographs.
One of the best reasons to learn the rules of photography is so you can start breaking them. In this short video, Canon Explorer of Light and music and sports photographer, David Bergman teaches you how he goes about breaking 3 of the cardinal composition rules in his work, using his Bon Jovi portfolio as an example.
Oops. A few days ago, we reported that Target had launched a new, Photoshop-free social media campaign for their new swimsuits. The company has been praised for the move, but some of their ambassadors might not be playing along. A couple of the photos show signs of being 'shopped.
My name is Paul Bruins and I am hopelessly addicted to panoramas. It has now been 48 hours since my last fix. If I don’t shoot up at least one fresh panorama per week, I start to experience severe withdrawal symptoms.
Panasonic camera fans freaked out this week when a report in Japan's largest business newspaper, The Nikkei Asian Review, claimed the company was going to "dismantle," "scale back" and restructure its digital camera division. According to Panasonic, this is not entirely accurate.
Ready for some rapid-fire DIY tips? A team of French photographers who goes by the moniker "Shootr" has put together a simple photo hacks video that offers a few creative ideas for your next portrait shoot.
Photographer Ming Thein recently did something most photographers would consider crazy: he shot a dimly-lit festival, held in a cave outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on a 100MP Hasselblad monster.
Michael McCoy, at age 34, has had two tours in Iraq over five years with the United States Army, and spent time at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. He was medically discharged from the Army in 2008, and has been receiving treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Here's a fun little experiment to try one night this week. Take that box of crackers (biscuits if you're formal), polish off the last few hangers-on, and then use that box to create some interesting DIY lighting effects with your off-camera flash.
Chuck Kennedy is a former White House Photographer and worked as Assistant Director of the White House Photo Office during the Obama Administration.
Credit where credit is due: this is a creative workaround. If you need a way to stabilize your footage, but you don't have any kind of gimbal or steadicam to work with, why not just shoot the thing by hand-holding your drone?
In February, photographer Alex John Beck travelled to refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan to capture a powerful portrait project. In a series of diptychs, he pairs refugee or family of refugees with their most treasured smartphone photography, and the story of that photo.
8K has arrived. Dell's "world's first" 8K monitor that wowed so many people back in January when it was announced is officially on sale—a 31.5-inch monster of a monitor that offers a level of resolution you will drool (and your graphics card will groan) over.
I always say the Universe's favorite hiding place for the most awesome stuff is right behind fear. Isn't that a little unfair? Why doesn't the Universe put the great stuff right before the fear, so everyone can enjoy pure bliss?
One of the biggest challenges a new camera system faces, no matter how innovative, is lens choice. But if that's the reason you're on the fence about Fuji's new mirrorless medium format GFX, listen up, because Cambo has an adapter for you.
The startup Cape calls itself "the world's first online drone flight platform," and they do exactly as the name implies: Cape lets you fly a real drone, in a real-world location, without ever leaving the comfort of your desk chair.
Look at Finland on a map (and squint your eyes a touch) and you'll see a woman, standing strong, defiant, with one hand held high. This was the symbol Finnish photographer Suvi Sievila wanted to capture for her portrait The Maiden of Finland... but first she had to build a dress made of ice.
Episode 162 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Landscape, travel and outdoor photographer Thomas Heaton
Portrait photographers usually focus on the faces of subjects, but photographer Omar Reda wanted to tell the story of people's lives in a different way: he created detailed photos of the palms of their hands.
A couple of years ago, Target got embarrassed by a Photoshop fail that gave a swimsuit model ridiculously long arms (that model was later invited onto Ellen). The retail chain has since learned from its mistakes: its latest swimsuit photos focus on realism and leave out Photoshop "airbrushing."
Want to process your iPhone photos for Instagram on a laptop without having to transfer any files? In the future there may be a crazy new way you can do so. Apple has patented a new "accessory" that transforms a cell phone into a full-fledged laptop.
How important is exposure in photography? What are the components of exposure? What is the "Exposure Triangle"? These are the questions I will attempt to answer in this introductory article about ISO, aperture, and shutter speed -- the components of achieving a properly exposed photo.
The battle is over, and full frame cameras have lost the race. Here's why.
They say 'practice makes perfect,' and if you want to practice your photo editing, you need some RAW files. That's where a new site/service called Wesaturate comes in. If you don't have time to go out and shoot your own RAWs, or you want more variety, the site wants to provide a source of free RAW files for everyone.
Do you have the feeling that, nowadays, almost everyone is taking photos? Not even that long ago, photography was much more exclusive.
If you're always on the lookout for great educational, inspirational, or just plain interesting photography content online, you need to visit the School of Visual Arts YouTube channel ASAP.
Photographers using Cactus' new V6 II and V6 IIs wireless flash transceivers are about to get a huge update. Cactus is launching a series of brand-specific firmware upgrades that will allow you to mix and match camera and flash brands without losing TTL or HSS... and they're free!
I finally found the perfect camera. This camera does everything you could ever need or dream of—from capturing the perfect frame and exposure to developing your skill and photographic eye.
20+ students in North Carolina were suspended from school this week over an Instagram post, but it wasn't even a photo they posted. The suspended students are being punished for "liking" the photo, which implied, allegedly as a joke, that the school would be the victim of a shooting.
I was scrolling through my Instagram feed one Friday night when a promoted post popped up and caught my eye (and there wasn’t even a bikini, donut or motivational quote involved).
Instagram made a major announcement yesterday. In an attempt to 'foster a safer, kinder community,' the app will begin blurring content that it considers 'sensitive,' warning users and requiring that you click through to actually see the image.
In April 2009, the Obama Administration made the historic move of uploading 293 photos to a newly minted White House Flickr feed.
Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear bomb tests. For each of those tests, the government used multiple cameras filming at 2,400 frames per second to document things. Over 700 of the films have been declassified so far, and they're currently being uploaded to YouTube.
MENU is a new photo series by photographer Robert Harrison and chef Robbie Postma, a duo who decided to combine food and portrait photography in a strange and creepy new way. The photos show Postma wearing his menu ingredients on his face.
Back in 2009, someone had the bright idea of doing an iconic photo shoot showing Air Force One flying low over New York City. The airplane triggered panic among New Yorkers who thought it was another 9/11-style terrorist attack, causing people to evacuate buildings and run for their lives.
If you use the Canon 5D Mark IV for shooting serious video projects, here's some news that may be music to your ears: C-Log is coming to your camera.
What to see what cell division looks like? Documentary and wildlife filmmaker Francis Chee captured it beautifully on camera. The amazing 23-second time-lapse above shows a frog egg dividing over 33 hours.
xkcd's comic today, titled "Color Pattern," is about the famous moiré pattern in photography, the interference patterns that appear when certain patterns are overlaid on each other.
This guide is intended for concert photography beginners. If you have a DSLR camera and are interested in how to control your camera settings to take great photos at concerts, this guide is for you. If you're an experienced photographer who just hasn't shot shows before, there may be some helpful info in here along with plenty of stuff you know already.
If you're just starting out in photography (or know someone who is), here's a simple 5-minute animation that provides a crash course on the subject of aperture.
Episode 161 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Photographer and Director of Photography, Jackie Roman
Fujifilm has a history of releasing firmware updates so significant that you feel like you're downloading a brand new camera. The company has just announced this type of upcoming update to the X-T2 and X-Pro2: the new firmware will bring a whopping 33 functional and operational improvements.
ISO is one of the three major exposure settings in the exposure triangle of a digital camera -- shutter time, f/number, and ISO. Of the three, it is ISO that is probably most misunderstood. Even more so than f/number. In fact, it is a common misconception that higher ISO settings will cause images to be noisier. In fact, the opposite is often true. Wait, what?
There are plenty of technical posing guides out there, but for their latest educational video, Daniel and Rachel of Mango Street Lab took a more natural approach. Here are 5 posing and directing tips that will keep your couples shoots looking and feeling candid and unforced.
Adobe Research has been working on some pretty interesting photo and video editing features, but their latest research might just revolutionize photo editing as we know it. Imagine if Photoshop could automatically cut out complex subjects in seconds, no matter the background... no pen tool required.
When you think of Saturday Night Live, you probably don't think of photography... but you should. The show takes its photography very seriously—it all-but-coined an iconic style of portraiture—and this video takes us behind the scenes of the SNL Photo Department with photographer Mary Ellen Matthews.
Sony is one of the heavyweights in the camera sensor business and a company that produces sensors for rival camera companies, including Nikon. But when it comes to Sony's best sensor designs, the company apparently keeps those precious sensors exclusively in-house for its own cameras.
Instagram may soon become a solid revenue stream for talented photographers. The app's head of business, James Quarles, has confirmed that Instagram will soon add the option to "book" a business right from inside the app.
