Famed portrait photographer Platon has some really incredible stories to tell. He's photographed some of the most powerful people in the world... once with guns trained on him. But his most powerful political portrait wasn't of a powerful person at all.
Ricoh has announced that it's acquiring Eyefi's Cloud service, the photo hosting product that was launched in April 2014. Eyefi will continue to own and sell its Wi-Fi-enabled SD memory cards, now called the Mobi Pro, which it has long been known for.
Canon made lens replica mugs a big thing when it started handing them out during the 2010 Olympics. The market was soon flooded with all kinds of realistic lens-shaped mugs. But there's a new one on the market that shakes things up a bit -- literally.
Examining fingerprints is one of the key techniques in forensics, allowing investigators to identify suspects and build a case against them. In the same way, checking "camera fingerprints" could soon be a major tool in helping photographers fight copyright infringement, and a project called ToothPic is working to make that happen.
When politicians talk about the gap between the rich and poor or racial divides, they're usually not being literal. But as Cape Town-based photographer Johnny Miller shows with his startling photo series Unequal Scenes, the gap in South Africa is literal... you just need to get airborne to see it.
When he's not out shooting commercial assignments for outdoor, travel, and lifestyle brands, German photographer Lars Schneider makes time to shoot for himself. In February, a camera followed him on one of these personal trips to the Faroe Islands to document his "other life" as a photographer.
Photographer Ludgero Filipe recently spent two years living in Paris, shooting tourist portraits to make money while roaming the city for street photography. The 5-minute video above is a short film with some memories and some of his favorite photos from his time there.
If you have a bunch of 35mm, 120, and even large format negatives lying around in your attic, slowly succumbing to the ravages of time, Ricoh has a solution for you. It's their newest "film duplicator," and it'll let you digitize all that film using your DSLR or digital medium format camera.
Hasselblad is milking the hype surrounding its Wednesday announcement for all. it's. worth. They've released one teaser image and told us this camera is a "game changer" that will supposedly have us "over the moon." Now they're telling us it's a "world's first."
Episode 82 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Photographer RC Concepcion
Today, a week after an exhibition titled ‘Bourne and Shepherd: Figures in Time’ came to a close in the plush locality of south Delhi, India, Bourne and Shepherd, Asia’s first and the world’s longest functioning photography studio, is closing up shop in Kolkata after 176 years.
When the Apple Watch first came out, Apple saw no reason to make it bulkier by putting a camera into the tiny device. But according to a patent published this week, the company may have changed its mind.
Since Hasselblad confirmed they would announce a "game changer" on June 22nd, speculation and unconfirmed specs have been flying around the photo industry with the kind of un-bridled fury that usually precedes a big let down. Thing is, the more we hear about the upcoming camera the more intrigued we are.
Buying a professional portrait lighting setup like the much-loved Kino Flo lights is just not within everybody's budget, especially if you want LEDs. But you can actually build a reasonable alternative for just a couple hundred bucks and about an hour of manual labor.
You open the box and there it is; a new digital camera. You’ve wanted to be a professional photographer for a long time and now is your time. This camera is the symbol of your next step.
Mia McCormick and RC Concepcion, two of the most beloved photo and video educators in the world, are starting fresh. After being laid off from Kelby Media Group in February, RC and Mia have become co-owners of Fotopromos, where they'll bring their expertise to bear adding a top-notch educational element to the website.
While shooting in the Galapagos Islands a few years ago, a friend said to me, "Dennis, you shoot from the heart." We had been traveling together for several days by then and this was the beginning of one of many conversations we had about photography.
The Jupiter 21M is the real deal... assuming you have the biceps to wield it. A 200mm f/4 lens from the Soviet era, it captures exquisite details and will only set you back between $30 and $100 on eBay.
Almost all the rumors surrounding Apple's upcoming iPhone 7 said that at least one of the models would come with a dual lens camera, opening up all manner of photography applications. But the Cupertino giant may have just scrapped those plans entirely.
This made us very sad. According to a new report published in the Journal of Science Advances, one third of humanity and approximately 80% of North Americans can no longer see the Milky Way from where they live due to light pollution.
When I was a little boy my mother taught me the first and most important rule of photography: always keep your back turned to the sun. It’s a funny thing I’d grow up to develop a romantic relationship with backlight. These are the confessions of a backlight lover, and how you can start your own amorous episode with it.
We wouldn't use the word "prosumer" to describe Hasselblad, but fresh reports claim that might be changing very soon. It seems Hassy will be breaking into the prosumer market with a brand new camera, and it could happen as soon as the middle of next week.
Struggling to understand your love life (or lack thereof?), this funny little photography meme helps explain things in terms us photo nerds understand: camera lenses.
Avast, best known for its antivirus software, has announced a new iOS app that's designed to help iPhone users free up space when snapping a lot of photos. It's called Photo Space, and it's designed to increase your photo storage by 7x.
Want an easy way to back up your memory card to any external hard drive without having to pull out your main computer? A Raspberry Pi computer can help you do just that.
Sebastian Weiss is an architectural photographer based in Hamburg, Germany. His passion is finding beautiful shapes, patterns, and colors in the architecture of buildings found across Europe.
Instagram boasts over 400 million users now and has never been more popular. But even though user growth charges forward, the interaction rate by users appears to be trending downward. A new study reports a 33% drop in Likes and Comments over a one year period.
Kristina Lechner of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a fake-food photographer (not to be confused with a fake food-photographer). Her project Food Not Food is a series of tasty photos in which everything in the frame is something inedible that was found around the house.
After exhausting all other avenues of complaint with Nikon, a D500 user in Germany has filed an official complaint and sent Nikon a "cease and desist," claiming Nikon is engaging in false advertising when the company says its D500 has "integrated WiFI."
Photography company VSCO has released a new film pack that may finally woo the film emulation hold-outs among us. It's called the "VSCO Film Essentials" pack, and it'll nab you 14 of VSCO's most popular presets for just $59.
She's done a fashion shoot mid-skydive and mid-BASE jump, but supermodel and extreme athlete Roberta Mancino's latest exploit doesn't involve dressing up in fancy clothing while plummeting to the Earth. Instead, she strapped some GoPros to herself and took a wingsuit flight over an active volcano.
Official White House Photographer Pete Souza recently sat down with BBC Newsnight to reflect on his experience photographing President Obama. By the time Barack Obama finishes his eight years in office, Souza estimates he will have taken nearly 2 million photographs of the President.
GoPros are for recording crazy stunts and extreme action, but how are you supposed to control the GoPro while you're BASE jumping or surfing or riding a dirt bike? The GoHawk proposes an interesting hands-free solution: use your teeth or tongue instead.
Episode 81 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Photographer Timothee Engel
Using the moon as your main light source for late-night photography can be beautiful, surreal... and challenging. But photographer Karl Taylor has a neat trick up his sleeve that can save you hours worth of test shooting in this situation—the trick is called "math."
Canon called the EOS-1D X Mark II a "remarkable combination of innovation and refinement" when they announced it back in February, but they should have just posted this video instead. Sure, that violates the space-time continuum, but I'm sticking by it.
Researchers at Radboud University in Holland have managed to do something pretty crazy. Using hundreds of thousands of photographs, they've trained a neural network to take a hand-drawn sketch and create a photorealistic portrait from it.
Setting up your first portrait studio and wondering what color backdrop to get? If you can only choose one color, you might want to think about getting a gray one. In the 6-minute video above, photographer Joe Edelman explains why he thinks gray is the best color.
The Queen of England decided to wear a solid green outfit for her 90th birthday celebration last Saturday, and Photoshoppers across the Internet all smirked in unison before taking full advantage of this "green screen" opportunity.
Remember the Filmomat automatic film processor that went viral in December 2015? If you said "want!" when you saw that machine, there's good news for you: a new personal automatic film processing machine has already hit the market: it's called the Osiris F1.
London's new mayor Sadiq Khan was only elected last month, but he lost no time fulfilling a big campaign promise. Now that he's in office, Kahn is officially banning all ads that "conform to an unrealistic body image" in the London transit network.
MoMo is a new soft-focus lens for digital cameras by the Japanese lens company Yasuhara. Inspired by a 100-year-old Vest Pocket Kodak's meniscus lens, the Momo has a blurry quality that can be adjusted by changing the aperture.
Nick Ut's 'Napalm Girl' photograph is one of the most iconic conflict images of all time, and this short video shows you the horrifying moments before and after the photograph was taken. (Warning: The footage in this video is graphic and upsetting -- proceed at your own risk.)
Do you know your colors? Like REALLY know your colors? Because the "The Great RGB Guessing Challenge" wants to put your color competency to the test!
I hear a lot of chatter about how the decreased volume of camera sales is going to make some camera makers leave the market, or get absorbed by another company, or worse. Most of that speculation is all wrong for one very simple reason: it ignores the goals of the companies.
The very recently leaked Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 12mm f/1.4 ASPH lens for Micro Four Thirds has officially arrived. Ultra-wide and built to withstand some punishment, the 24mm equivalent lens is the widest prime the company offers that isn't a fisheye.
Felix Hernandez's photographs are other-worldly. Using intricate miniatures and macro photography techniques, he takes his dreams and translates them into reality through the camera. His latest project, The Wardrobe, is no exception.
The photo above of a wild genet is a single 73-second exposure that took many hours, tons of patience, and a bit of technology to capture. In this post, I'll share how I combined wildlife photography with light painting.
How do you capture a photo of a wild, people-averse, flighty great white shark in the murky green waters off of Cape Cod? If you're NatGeo photographer Brian Skerry, you pull out all the stops.
Animator Drew Christie of Whidbey Island, Washington, was recently commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to create a set of animated short films that tell the story of famous photography pioneers.