Mickey H. Osterreicher is a lawyer who has served as General Counsel of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) since 2006. We had a chat with Osterreicher about his life and the state of photographers' rights.
"Once Upon a Dane" is an ongoing photo project that documents the "life and tales" of a Great Dane named Apollo.
What do you do when you find a good location to photograph, but the time of day isn't right due to strong sunlight and harsh shadows? That's the subject of this 12-minute tutorial by photographer Mike Browne.
Episode 53 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Celebrity and portrait photographer Robert Evans
Here's a beautiful 2-minute video by Great Big Story in which photographer Anuar Patjane talks about what it's like to swim with and photograph whales in the ocean.
Hong Kong is a densely populated city where high-rises are crammed close together and where an estimated 100,000+ people live in 40-square-foot cubicle apartments. Photographer Andy Yeung used a drone to capture this density for his project Urban Jungle.
Wondering where Canon is headed with its most basic entry-level DSLR? Wonder no more: photos and specs of the soon-to-be-announced Canon Rebel T6 (AKA 1300D) have leaked.
My name is Sasha Leahovcenco, and I'm a photographer based in Los Angeles. Last year, my friend (and project producer) Cale Glendening and I traveled to Mongolia to meet an eagle hunter and spend a week documenting his story.
It looks like the future is going to be full of scary-looking weapons that are designed to take down rogue drones. The latest one: a shoulder-mounted anti-drone bazooka.
I personally own the Fujifilm X-T10, but I became curious recently: is the new X-Pro2 worth the upgrade, or is the X-T1 enough of an upgrade from the X-T10?
VSCO has launched a new project called VSCO Academy, a bi-weekly series of free video tutorials on the ins and outs of photography.
If you’re just starting out in photography and photo editing, you may be confused about that strange chart on …
Brandon and Brian Wright, better known as The Brothers Wright, are the identical twins behind the craft film company CineStill Film.
Lee Filters is getting a new neutral density filter called the Super Stopper. It reduces light to your camera by 15 stops, meaning an ordinary 2-second exposure will take over 17 hours to expose through the filter.
Major League Baseball and Snapchat are partnering up to give fans an inside look at what baseball is like behind the scenes. And there's a bat-shaped selfie stick involved, called the SnapBat.
If you’re anything like me, your camera bag tells the story of the many lenses that have come and gone. Very few, if any, have stuck around from the beginning.
"Soul" is a beautiful 5-minute short film about the work of Canadian fine arts photographer Jakob de Boer, who traveled to the Pacific Northwest to capture landscapes with his large format camera.
Want to strengthen your Lightroom skills? Adobe recently launched "Lightroom Coffee Break," an ongoing series of videos that each contain a helpful Lightroom tip or trick, presented in 1-minute or less.
Canon's slogan in the US is "See Impossible," but over in Asia it's "Delighting You Always." To celebrate the 10th anniversary of that slogan last year, Canon decided to... write a song and make a cheesy music video.
The Canon 70D DSLR and the new Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone camera both feature "dual pixel" autofocus, which uses most or all of the sensor's pixels for phase detection AF. But how do the two devices compare head-to-head?
Yesterday evening, I received a troubling email from a student athlete at a Western-Canadian University, who we’re going to call Frank for the purposes of this story. (Frank is obviously not his real name, but I like the name Frank for this purpose).
Want to see what your camera looks like on the inside? FixYourCamera.org is a new teardown website that wants to show you.
Photographer Kyle Froman has had a rather unique career journey. Before becoming an acclaimed dance photographer, Froman was himself a dancer the prestigious New York City Ballet.
"In Anxious Anticipation" is a photo project that's designed to make you feel anxiety and apprehension. Each photo shows something bad on the brink of happening.
The Golden State Warriors are having a historic year in the NBA, and Adobe is taking advantage of that by promoting Photoshop at the home pages in Oakland.
Pentax recently announced the K-1, the brand's first full frame DSLR camera. The company has just released official sample photos showing what the camera is capable of.
Sony just announced the SNC-VB770, a full-frame, E-mount camera with specs that may make photographers and videographers drool. Except it's a surveillance camera.
A box of super-expired E-6 and C-41 35mm film has been sitting in a box in my closet for years, slowly filling up with random rolls collected from friends, found in old camera bags leftover from internships, and the like.
Here's a 3-minute skate video that has an usual perspective: it was shot through the waist-level viewfinder of a Mamiya RB67 medium format SLR camera.
Frustrated with your failures in photography? Here's an inspiring comic titled "Be Friends with Failure" by artist Stephen McCranie of Doodle Alley.
Adobe has announced Lightroom for iOS version 2.2. Among the improvements is a highly-requested one: the mobile photo editing app can now handle full resolution photos.
This is bizarre: two photographers in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, have been charged by police with smashing the glass at 70 bus stops around the city -- locations they had been photographing for a photo book.
Back in 2014, Denver Post photojournalist AAron Ontiveroz's boss asked him to travel to Russian to cover the Sochi Winter Olympics, Aspen for the Winter X Games, and NYC for the Super Bowl.
What do you think of when you hear the words "light painting"? Colorful and squiggly lines over a dark background? An explosion of glowing sparks?
Did you know that you can also add photo-realistic images to your long-exposure photos by painting them in with light?
France's national police force is warning parents to stop sharing photos of their kids through Facebook, saying the practice could expose the children to privacy and security issues.
Geotagging is usually done using a built-in GPS system, but in the future it might be possible to figure out where a photo was shot just by showing the picture to an artificial intelligence program.
Episode 52 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Portrait and wedding photographer Joey Hernandez
Between the 1950s and 1980s, large-scale residential districts were built in and around Paris, France, to provide affordable housing for a booming population. Known as "grands ensembles," these sprawling complexes were sometimes poorly planned and constructed, causing some to have many empty units as residents found other places to live. Others, however, remain populated and are bustling with life.
In both cases, there are senior citizens who call the housing projects home. For his project Souvenir d'un Futur, photographer Laurent Kronental documented these strangely beautiful buildings and the seniors who live in them.
When the Leica camera was born in the early 1900s, it was the first practical 35mm camera to use standard 35mm cinema film. In 1930, Leica introduced the Leica I Schraubgewinde, which used an interchangeable lens system based on the Leica LTM (Leica Thread Mount) 39mm screw thread.
Want a peek of the inner workings of Leica's early LTM camera? Today's your lucky day.
Leica caused quite a stir last month by jointly announcing with the Chinese smartphone company Huawei that they're partnering up to "reinvent smartphone photography."
Now, newly leaked photos of an upcoming Huawei P9 smartphone show a dual camera system that reportedly is the first to feature Leica glass.
For the latest episode of their Pro Tog, Cheap Camera Challenge series, DigitalRev invited fashion photographer Paul John Bayfield to shoot street and fashion photos using a super cheap (and badly reviewed) Vivitar DVR 781HD action camera.
The prestigious World Press Photo photojournalism contest was rocked by scandal last year after 20% of finalists were disqualified and the grand prize winner was stripped of his award, leading to the establishment of a new Code of Ethics.
Did the negative publicity and new guidelines do anything? Well, you can be the judge: World Press Photo has revealed that 16% of finalists were thrown out this year.
Two pixels on a hard drive were having a conversation. Here's how it went...
Here's something that's both punny and bright. Polaroid has created a new handheld light called the... wait for it... BrightSaber. It's an LED lighting wand that photographers and videographers can use to light up their subjects and scenes.
Actress Lena Dunham, the creator and star of the HBO show Girls, is apologizing to the Spanish magazine Tentaciones today after publicly accusing them of Photoshopping her body for their latest cover photo. It turns out the magazine wasn't to blame.
On the day after Spotlight won the Oscar of Best Picture for celebrating hardscrabble journalism that uncovered decades of sexual abuses by the Catholic Church, a Secret Service agent grabbed the neck of a 58-year-old photojournalist and threw him to the ground.
The photojournalist, veteran Christopher Morris, tried to move outside the “press pen” to photograph hecklers who were being escorted from a Donald Trump rally at Radford University in Virginia, but was blocked by the agent. Morris shouted obscenities and allegedly shoved the agent before being taken down.
The SD Association has announced its latest SD memory card specification. SD 5.0 features the fastest speed class so far, known as Video Speed Class. The cards will be able to support 4K, 8K, 3D, and 360-degree video recording (in addition to blazing-fast photo shooting speeds).
MagMod is back with another novel lighting product for photographers. Called the MagBeam, it's both a revolutionary flash extender and a gobo projector.
As a product photographer, I've always had a problem with finding what to use as a background. Even more so when I need to go to my client to shoot their products.
Before, I was limited to shooting on a black granite tile. Then I added some do-it-yourself wood planks into my props collection, but carrying the wood planks was a big problem, as they were too heavy and I could only limit myself to about 2 wood planks per shoot.
In December 2015, Donald Trump held a campaign rally not too far from my house. I didn’t go, but it drove home the idea that the election was coming, and elections mean news. It also got me thinking about shooting the news again.