A 2.5-Minute Lightning Show Synced to Music
Photographer Ron Risman has created a video that he calls "The Most Spectacular 2.5 Minutes of Lightning." It shows a powerful lightning storm in Kansas synchronized with music.
Photographer Ron Risman has created a video that he calls "The Most Spectacular 2.5 Minutes of Lightning." It shows a powerful lightning storm in Kansas synchronized with music.
This is... different. Casio—not a company we write about much—has just debuted a rugged, outdoor adventure camera in their Japanese market that can actually be broken apart and put back together 4 different ways.
Recently, I had a portrait shoot with the legendary poet, rapper, and actor Saul Williams. It began with a simple stroke of luck: I saw he was scheduled to perform at a local club near my house, and so I did a quick search for the name of his manager. I easily found it and e-mailed them, introducing myself and explained that I would like to take his portrait.
Photographer Jimmy Nelson has spent over 3 decades traveling around the world and taking photos of people and places. He's best known for his portraits of the disappearing tribes of the world. In the 6.5-minute video above (note: there's a bit of nudity), Nelson shares 7 lessons he has learned from his years of photography.
When it comes to critical feedback, knowing who to listen to and who to ignore is challenging. While I am by no means a “known” photographer, I’ve put enough of my work out into the wild that I’ve run into the inevitable criticism that it catches.
If you often take pictures with a "small-capacity" 16GB iPhone, one thing you may often experience is the dreaded popup that tells you you've run out of storage space. It's particularly painful when the popup appears while you're trying to capture a special moment. This 1-minute ad shows that Google feels your pain.
The Samyang summer lens release bonanza continues. Last week it was a super-fast 35mm f/1.2 for mirrorless APS-C cameras; today, we get a new ulra-wide angle, the Samyang 20mm f/1.8 ED AS UMC for full-frame DSLRs and mirrorless cameras.
Backers of the KitSentry Kickstarter by F-Stop Gear are out of luck. Just days after an in-depth report that claimed the company is "falling apart at the seams," F-Stop Gear has officially announced that KitSentry will never be, and seems to have no way of reimbursing backers back.
After showing you how to make a tripod using a piece of string, I’m going to go a little more surreal this time by explaining how an old frying pan can be used to get dramatic low angle images.
News Corp photographer Brett Costello was robbed of $40,000 in camera gear at a cafe in Rio a few days ago. Then yesterday, while covering an event at the Olympics yesterday, Costello spotted the thief pretending to be him.
Episode 96 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Fashion photographer and host Nigel Barker
The folks at National Geographic just did a solid favor for all the adventurous outdoor photographers out there. They put every US Geological Survey (USGS) topographical map from across the United States on one easy-to-navigate site and made them easy to print out at home.
Hey streettogs, if you want to learn some practical tips and techniques when shooting on the streets, check out the video above, or read more to see all 15 tips.
Capturing a solid rocket booster test on video is no small feat. You need a camera that can capture slow motion footage and handle the dynamic range between the booster and the booster plume. Fortunately, NASA now has this super camera in their arsenal!
Photographer and conservationist Sam Trull originally moved to Costa Rica to study primates... then she met her first sloth. It was Slothlove at first sight, which is, incidentally, also the title of her first photo book dedicated to adorable portraits of rescued sloths.
In a video that will no doubt earn him quite a bit of Internet ire, photographer and photo educator Tony Northrup recently took each of the major camera manufacturers to task. From Canon and Nikon to Pentax and Olympus... nobody is safe... except Fuji for some reason.
In this Photoshop tutorial, we’re going to walk through the many different ways to create this pixel dispersion fragmenting effect to make your model or object look like it is bursting into little particles and pieces.
The IOC has a lot to worry about this Olympics: making sure the athletes are safe, making sure the media is safe, making sure the press knows they are NOT allowed under any circumstances to share GIFs... wait, what!? Yes, that's correct, the International Olympic Committee has banned GIFs.
When photographer Jason Shulman first had the idea for Photographs of Films, he was pretty sure it wouldn't work. But his super-long exposures of feature films did work, and the images he's created as part of the series are fascinating.
The opening ceremony hasn't even kicked off yet, and olympic photographers are already having a hard time in Rio. Case in point: News Corp photographer Brett Costello recently had $40,000 worth of camera gear stolen... in broad daylight... in a crowded cafe... in 10 seconds flat.
In this short Q&A exchange, filmmaker Kevin Smith delivers an important message to all creative people—be they photographers, filmmakers, writers, or anything else. The message is this: create work for yourself, not everyone else. (Warning: Video contains some NSFW language).
There's nothing as hard in photography as the thing I'm writing about today. I even don't really know where to start. I'm just going to describe what happened.
Update on 12/28/17: This default opt-in was changed a while ago and is no longer the case.
It's your job as the photographer to make your subjects look their best, and one of the first steps to making this happen consistently is knowing how to find a person's "good side" for portraits. It is possible, and photographer Joe Edelman explains how in this short video.
A European starling murmuration is one of the most beautiful natural phenomena on Earth—each bird reacting to its 7 closest neighbors, the whole flock an ever-shifting mix of patterns and shapes. So how in the world could you recreate something that intricate with stop motion photography?
Foto Nouveau is a new watch and accessory brand that offers designs inspired by vintage and modern camera designs.
If you've been using a channel mixer adjustment layer to help you properly dodge and burn portraits, listen up. You've been doing it wrong, and retouching expert Daniel Hagar wants to explain why.
Before last week, I hadn’t talked about this outside of my circle of close friends, but I can no longer afford to keep it quiet. As a woman shooting assignments around male photographers on a daily basis, I commonly feel the need to act with bravado in order to prove myself worthy around other -- primarily older, primarily male -- photographers.
When you think of modern app design, clean lines, a minimal aesthetic, and a sleek interface probably comes to mind. Imagine the exact opposite of that and you've got A E S T H E T I C A M, the self-styled "World's Worst Camera App."
It was another normal Saturday walk in the park. My camera was carelessly hanging from my right hand as I walked with a few not-that-great shots on the memory card. By that time I already had made peace with the fact that the day would not bring me any amazing images, but then something caught my attention.
Edelkrone's new Povie is one of those inventions that makes you think "this is crazy... why didn't I think of that!?" The ... necklace mount? ... holds an iPhone at neck level for POV photo and video purposes, and while it looks weird, it also looks very useful.
A week after being slapped with a $1 billion copyright-related lawsuit, Getty Images has been served with another suit. This time it's by Zuma Press, an independent press agency that accuses Getty of infringing on over 47,000 photos.
If you've fallen in love with Sony's new high-end G Master line of lenses for the full-frame mirrorless A7 series, this should make you very happy. A reliable source is confirming that the next G Master zoom lens will be a 16-35mm f/2.8.
This is nuts. Curious what 24-4000mm equivalent zoom will get you? This demo video, shot with the 83x optical zoom Nikon P900 superzoom, will show you.
It's not glamorous, but the first glimpse we get of the long-awaited GoPro Hero 5 may be this super short how-to video that shows you how to connect the unreleased action cam to your smartphone. Still, even at just 9 seconds, there's plenty to be gleaned by this "sneak peek."
Back in June my poor little Nikkor AF 50mm F1.8D (and attached body) took a tumble off our patio table.
Episode 95 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Photojournalist Heath Holden
Ever since the Prisma app swept people up in a frenzy of photo-to-painting simulation, people have been waiting for Prisma to release the video version. They're working on it, but a Russian company has actually beat them to the punch.
Remember KitSentry? The security-focused camera bag ecosystem raised over $27,000 on Kickstarter back in 2015. Now it appears that both the product and f-stop, the well-known company behind it, are failing.
Word that Hasselblad is making a powerful camera attachment for Lenovo's Motorola Moto Z phones has been in the rumor mill for months, but today we're getting our first substantial look at the unconfirmed MotoMod.
Imagine how crazy sharing a picture of your dinner with your friends would have been back in the 18th century? Actually you don't have to imagine, IKEA did it for you in this tongue-in-check nod to sharing the perfect dinner shot.
While flying over the Pu’u O’o crater of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, Mick Kalber of Tropical Visions Video captured an unusual shot of what appears to be a glowing smiley face looking up at him.
I attended the Palm Springs Photo Festival last week for the first time. I have heard for years what a great event it is but never could get my schedule to work so that I could participate. Well, this year worked out and I was so happy that it did.
The people from Lume Cube recently contacted us to do another review after it had been successfully launched. You can check our original coverage here before it was launched. I wanted to see if it was possible to use this very small device for portrait photography lighting.
Researchers in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are quite literally letting you reach in and touch pieces of an image using just a few seconds of video and their "Interactive Dynamic Video" technology.
Think Getty's Canon DSLR arsenal at the Rio 2016 Olympics is impressive? Check out Canon's official stockpile.
After seeing the trailer for Inception years ago, photographer Patrick Gilbert of North Bay, Ontario, recently decided to recreate the surreal "folding landscapes" in a series of drone selfies. The project is titled #BendNorthBay.
Accurately colorizing a photo usually takes hours upon hours of research followed by the same in Photoshop. But now, thanks to fancy new neural network technology, you can do an amazing job in no time.
In addition to capturing all kinds of photographs, traveling press photographers also have a nice advantage when it comes to finding new Pokemon in the wildly popular game Pokemon Go. This 1-minute video shows a sports photographer who was recently spotted dividing his time between capturing photos and capturing Pokemon.
For his project Ornithographies, Spanish photographer Xavi Bou wanted to capture images of birds in flight that the human eye simply could never see on its own. That's how he struck on the idea of using an age old technique called "chronophotography."
