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Chinese smartphone maker Huawei today announced its new Mate 9, a large "phablet" that features a new design for a dual Leica rear camera.

Want to be a wildlife photographer but find it hard to get out of the city? Try shooting urban wildlife. Here's an inspiring 13-minute Nat Geo Live! talk in which photographer Bertie Gregory shares stories about his adventures in capturing wild animals on camera in England's urban jungles.

Forget those dinky HD "cameras" attached to tiny quadcopter "drones," if you want to capture really amazing aerial shots, you have to do what Polish photographer Miron Bogacki did: build your own heavy-duty octocopter and slap a high-end full-frame DSLR on that bad boy.

There's finally a convenient way to take your dual screen setup on-location, and no, we're not talking about a hard-shell case for your Apple Cinema Display. We're talking about the Spontaneous Pop-Up Display (SPUD) that's currently blowing up Kickstarter.

Photographer Tse Kao calls these photos 'Blendscapes,' and they're not created using Photoshop. These odd images are captured by taking a photo of a landscape, using that photo to create clothing, and then photographing those clothes against the same exact landscape.

Photographers pining for their very own Top Model-style reality show can stop now, Nigel Barker's show Top Photographer has officially arrived. And you can already watch the first episode right here on PetaPixel.

Instead of capturing a night sky time-lapse with the stars spinning overhead, Windston attached a GoPro HERO4 to his star-tracking telescope rig and shot the 1-minute video above that show's Earth's rotation in a different way.

DJI's drone manufacturing factories are normally hidden from the public, but occasionally workers forget to delete test videos from memory cards before they ship in drones. These "found" videos offer a peek into the place where the world's most popular camera drones are made.

To hear startup Glide tell it, your smartphone camera is just too difficult to reach at a moment's notice, sitting there in your pocket. The next step in the evolution of the portable camera must be attached to you, which is why they developed CMRA: an Apple Watch strap equipped with not one, but two cameras.

My wife and I have always loved photographing large, dramatic gowns. Anything big and flowy has always been fun to photograph, especially outside. We've always loved the contrast of the beautiful gown against the natural backgrounds we have nearby.

When I was in college, I lived for a while in a crappy little rental house next to a cemetery. Neither I nor my roommate, Brad, knew how to cook anything, and we ate bologna sandwiches pretty much all the time. Eventually, someone gave us a cookbook so simple that even a half-starved English major could learn a few basic dishes--the first page actually had step-by-step instructions, with pictures, for making toast in a toaster.

The Macro Room YouTube channel is quickly becoming a PetaPixel favorite. It started with dissolving pills, moved on to burning steel wool, and now the channel is revealing the odd textures and patterns of everyday objects when you look at them up close.

Our friend Roger Cicala over at LensRentals recently put the highly-praised Nikon 105mm f/1.4 through its paces, and it seems the world's fastest 105mm lens may also be the world's sharpest f/1.4 lens. MTF charts don't lie.

Adobe announced an update to Photoshop CC today that brings a collection of new features and enhancements that photographers can use to improve the way they work.

Reuters and Adobe have teamed up to beef up the content available through Adobe's stock content service. The world's largest international multimedia news provider is making its editorial content and 60+ million asset archive accessible through Adobe Stock.

If you want a neat example of creativity in action, look no further than photographer Andrew Tihi's recent portrait adventure. Watch as he uses a backlit bus stop advertisement to help him capture a glowing portrait against a white backdrop.

Here's a simple composition tip that promises to help add depth and impact to your images. Instead of thinking of light and lines separately, try to combine the two by having your strongest light source and your leading lines work together.

My name is Timothy Jones, and I'm a Bristol-based photographer currently serving as a British Army Photographer. I was also just awarded Photographer of the Year by the Army Photographic Competition 2016 for my photos showing military life over the past 12 months.

I am a street photographer currently based in Manila, the Philippines. I prefer to photograph the streets alone or with a non-photographer, but on the occasions when I do shoot with fellow photographers, I tend to find myself painfully trapped in conversations about gear.

It is estimated that over 99% of all species that have lived on Earth have gone extinct, and a number of notable ones have disappeared just over the past century. Thanks to the existence of cameras, however, we have a more accurate visual record of what some recently extinct animals looked like.

If you've ever dreamed of spending even just 15 minutes floating around the International Space Station—of staring out at Earth through the Cupola with a DSLR in your hand—then NASA's got a Holiday season treat for you.

CSSCO is a new free and open source project that offers VSCO-style retro photo filters made and used entirely with CSS.

I recently returned home from my trip to Egypt, and with my wife due any day now, I had some time to squander on lens hunting. A local craigslist post revealed that one of the camera shops in town was having a yard sale to clear out all of their old stuff in preparation for moving to a new location. I wasn’t about to pass up on a camera shop yard sale!

The New York Times is launching a big project to bring its journalism to the world of immersive 360-degree videos. With "The Daily 360," the Times will now be sharing one 360-degree video per day to report on stories around the world.

The ability of art to influence humanity’s collective consciousness has somewhat been masked in a veil of uncertainty. While it has been widely agreed upon among scholars of art history that art has always held an important role in the influence of beliefs, as in religion and popular opinion, it is important to try and understand art’s role in that influence.

The world of the fantasy, fine art photographer typically involves a healthy helping of Adobe Photoshop. But if digital art and crazy composites are on one end of the spectrum, then photographer Adrien Broom is on the other—no Photoshop, just incredibly intricate hand-made props and sets.

Photographer and CreativeLive founder Chase Jarvis dropped a serious truth bomb in this short clip from one of his classes. And the bomb is this: you will never turn a $500 client into a $5,000 client... the best thing you can do is move on and find a new, $5,000 client.

We don't usually recommend taking a band saw to your $2,000 lens... in fact, we still don't recommend it. But that's what it took for nerd hero of Mythbusters fame Adam Savage to get a broken filter off of his friend's Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L II lens.

Back in 2014, San Diego-based startup Lume Cube unveiled its eponymous cube LED light that can output 1,500 lumens while small enough to fit in your pocket. Now the company is launching its next product, a followup light called the Life Lite.

Ernest Brooks was the first official photographer appointed by the British military, and he ended up shooting over 1/10 of all official British photos made during World War I. The 8-minute video above is a look at photography during the "Great War" and the life and work of Ernest Brooks.

Fossil's Q smartwatches contain a feature that lets you take pictures with your smartphone camera by simply pressing one of the watch's buttons. To promote this watch and feature, Fossil created the above followup to the Instagram Husbands video that went viral last year.

Here's an inspiring video in which renowned adventure photographer Cory Richards discusses why he believes vulnerability is the key to making great art.