Fourteen years ago I took an interest in street photography. I went looking for resources and information on this amazing genre, unfortunately to no avail, until I came across a great free ebook in 2006 called “Street Photography for the purist” by Chris Weeks.
A San Francisco-based photographer is facing some legal backlash from the Golden Gate Bridge District over a photo that they claim he took from a restricted area. The photographer says the District is simply "hunting for money" by searching the Internet for pictures that they believe were taken from restricted areas.
Someone at ABC is taking a lot of heat for the editing in a recent episode of the popular TV show "The Bachelor." During a Cosmo magazine shoot that was filmed for the show, editors tried to "extend" the revealing bikinis worn by two of the contestants, and the results look like they were done with MS Paint.
Photoshop turns 30 years old today, and in honor of this most feared of millennial milestones, Adobe has released a major update for Photoshop on both the desktop and the iPad, improving some of the most-used and important features on both platforms: Content Aware Fill and Object Selection.
PolarPro—maker of high-quality filters for full-sized cameras and drones—has just launched the LiteChaser Pro: a filter system for all three iPhone 11 models that includes a case, four filters, and a grip that doubles as a tripod and accessory mount.
I’ve always laughed when, as a photographer, people ask me if I can deal with a difficult client or shoot in a difficult situation. But even still, things are never going to be as bad as the conditions on my most recent trip – after this, I feel like I can shoot anywhere.
Ever wonder what it would be like to use a high-end telephoto prime to shoot portraits? Daniel and Rachel of Mango Street have, and so they decided to rent the $12,000 Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS III USM IS lens and take it for a joy ride shooting their particular style of urban portraiture.
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri recently revealed the answer to a question that many IG users have been asking for years. No, not "is the chronological feed coming back" (he already answered that one a while back). He explained why Instagram, after all these years, still doesn't have a proper iPad app.
Facial recognition is an incredibly useful consumer tool for organizing our burgeoning photo albums. Companies like Google and Apple have slowly integrated machine learning algorithms into their consumer photo products, which allow you to search by keywords without the need for manual tagging, or to simply click on a face to see more photos of that person.
If you're just getting into landscape photography and you're not sure what lenses you actually need for this genre, photographer Mads Peter Iversen is here to help. In one of his most popular videos to date, Iversen lays out the only 3 lenses you "need" for landscape photography."
Nikon has released a major firmware update (Version 3.00) for the full-frame mirrorless Z6 and Z7, adding some focus tracking improvements, additional CFExpress support, and one major new feature: Face and Eye "Animal Detection" autofocus for dogs and cats.
Israeli defense technology company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd recently released a demo of their special "Drone Dome" counter-drone defense system. A car-mounted anti-drone solution that can fry unwelcome drones from miles away using a high-powered laser beam.
Shooting street photography without a project in mind is like shopping for food when you’re hungry. You might get a few nice treats, but ultimately you get back and find there is nothing to sustain you.
In a political story that's stranger than fiction, the home of a former official photographer for the UK Parliament's House of Commons was raided by the Metropolitan police earlier this week. The cops were reportedly looking for "furniture from the House of Commons and a lamp."
Yesterday, Topaz Labs—the software company behind popular photo editing plugins and software like DeNoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Gigapixel AI—announced that it will start charging for product upgrades. Users are understandably upset.
It's Valentine's Day and a good opportunity to grab some flowers and celebrate our love for photography with another creative project. I didn’t want to miss my chance, so I grabbed some red roses and in today’s post I will share my set-up for a Valentine's Day 'Refracted Rose' photo.
When it comes to technology, consumers have been conditioned to expect notable feature changes with version numbers increases. The iPhone 11 Pro, for example, not only included the snappier A13 Bionic chip, it also sported a three lens array and significantly better low light performance.
PetaPixel has learned that the CP+ 2020 expo in Japan—one of the largest photo industry trade shows in the world—has been cancelled due to fears over the recent coronavirus outbreak. An official announcement from the show is expected shortly. (UPDATE: Confirmed)
Photographer Ryan Mense put together a completely (purposely) ridiculous video "exposing" Canon for making the new 1D X Mark III ... too good. How so? Well, it turns out that, at full speed, it'll only take 8 hours 40 minutes and 48 seconds of continuous use to "kill" the Canon 1D X Mark III's shutter.
When they were young, my children used to get very excited about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. But they saw through those by the time they were six. So why has the myth of saving JPEG files at 72dpi lasted far more than six years?
After unveiling the Galaxy S20 Ultra with its monstrous (or ridiculous?) 108MP image sensor, Samsung has decided to pull back the curtain and reveal some details about this chip and the technology that made it possible.
Panasonic recently partnered up with India's Dentsu Aegis Network to create something really cool. Following in the footsteps of those glasses that "reverse" certain types of colorblindness, the company created a Panasonic G90 with a specially designed viewfinder lens that lets colorblind photographers see color.
16 years after founding the New York-based stock photo giant Shutterstock, CEO Jon Oringer has announced that he will be stepping down in April. Oringer announced the news in an open letter published this morning, just as Shutterstock unveiled a so-so financial report for Q4 of 2019.
Less than two weeks after officially shutting down its last cloud platform, Canon is launching another. So say goodbye to Irista, and hello to image.canon: a new "camera cloud platform" that's less about storage and more about keeping your camera in sync with PCs, smartphones, and other Web services.
Fujifilm is following Kodak's lead and warning photographers about the new CT scanners being used at many US Airports starting this year. In a notice posted to the Fujifilm website, the company says the new scanners "may provide more damaging to unprocessed film and Instax film than previous generations."
Canon has let the EOS R5 cat out of the bag. After a very detailed (and accurate) leak last month, Canon has officially announced the development of an advanced EOS R with IBIS, 20fps continuous shooting, 8K video, and two card slots.
Canon released a new kit lens for the RF Mount tonight. The new RF 24-105mm f/4-7.1 IS STM promises to be an affordable and versatile lens for photographers who love the new EOS R system, but don't want to spend more on a lens then they did on their camera body.
Canon has unveiled its latest latest "Rebel" DSLR, the Canon T8i (AKA the Canon 850D), and it's got a few new tricks up its sleeve. The latest Rebel features Face and Eye Detect AF, 4K video capability, a better button layout, and support for vertical video.
Canon surprised everyone tonight by releasing... a portable printer? Tucked between the release of an affordable RF Mount lens, a new Canon Rebel DSLR, and a full-frame mirrorless monster, was the launch of the Selphy Square: a pocket-sized photo printer that'll take on Fuji's Instax Share SP-3.
Now these are some cast portraits we can really get behind. On-set photographer Wilson Webb recently got the chance to photograph the entire cast of Best Picture nominee Little Women, but instead of shooting glitzy studio portraits, he decided to stay historically accurate and capture wet plate collodion portraits instead.
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain—the world's biggest trade show for smartphone makers—has officially been cancelled for 2020. The news comes after several of the biggest exhibitors pulled out of the show at the last minute due to fears about the spread of the Coronavirus.
The OM-D E-M1 Mark III was the big release of the night for Olympus, but the company also had two other products up its sleeve. The first is the surprisingly compact 12-45mm f/4 PRO lens; the second the PEN E-PL10 camera that was already released in Asia four months ago.
In addition to unveiling the flagship Nikon D6 DSLR, Nikon also released two new Z-mount lenses for its mirrorless system tonight: the NIKKOR Z 20mm f/1.8 S and the NIKKOR Z 24-200mm f/4-6.3 VR.
Olympus has officially unveiled the OM-D E-M1 Mark III: a lightweight and compact Micro Four Thirds camera that packs a 20MP sensor, new image processing tricks, and "the world's best image stabilization" that combines in-body and in-lens technology for up to 7.5 stops of compensation.
After a development announcement last year and a lackluster teaser campaign, Nikon has finally unveiled their latest flagship full-frame DSLR for sports shooters and photojournalists: the Nikon D6.
The Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition just named the winner of this year's LUMIX People's Choice Award, and the perfectly-timed photo by wildlife filmmaker and photographer Sam Rowley is just too good to keep to ourselves.
The National Park Service is warning that Yosemite's famous Horsetail Fall may not deliver for this year's natural "Firefall." Though the park is preparing for an influx of photographers by implementing significant restrictions, an alert on the NPS site says the fall has "little to no water" right now.
Samsung had its big "Unpacked" event today, where it revealed a fancy new folding phone and not one, not two, but three versions of the Galaxy S20. And for photographers wanting the most advanced camera tech in a smartphone, the Galaxy S20 Ultra is worth a very close look.
Sony has unveiled a Software Development Kit (SDK) that will give developers remote access to "key camera controls and still image data," so they can develop their own third-party applications for controlling Sony's mirrorless full-frame cameras remotely.
Nokishita has gotten their hands on some leaked, official product photos for the sort-of announced Nikon D6... which is good, because Nikon just wrapped up its teaser campaign for the camera by posting six videos that all feature the Nikon D5 instead.
Sigma has played a big part in making high-quality glass more accessible with its exceptional ART series lenses, and it sounds like it has no intention to stop. In a recent "Ask the CEO" video from Sigma UK, Mr. Kazuto Yamaki revealed several interesting tidbits about the company's plans moving forward.
Adobe has just unveiled its "February Photography Releases" for both versions of Lightroom across all devices—a slew of workflow and performance updates that include more support for GPU acceleration, better secondary display support, support for .PSB files, and more.
As a part of the launch of the Fuji X100V, Fujifilm posted a video on their YouTube channel of Japanese street photographer Tatsuo Suzuki at work. Suzuki’s aggressive style rubbed people the wrong way, and within the week, he was scrubbed from the campaign, and then erased from the Fujifilm website.
Photographer and educator Serge Ramelli recently shared a brilliant little post-processing tip that he's calling "the best kept secret to Dodge and Burn in Lightroom." It's a simple technique, but it could end up saving you a lot of post-processing time.
Nissan recently teamed up with professional driver and "automotive video expert" Mauro Calo to transform a Nissan GT-R into what they've dubbed "the ultimate high-performance camera rig." The result should appeal to video and car geeks alike.
Over three years ago, I tested out the Fuji X100F and was introduced to the pleasantries of carrying around a capable point and shoot. Today’s agenda is the fifth installment of Fujifilm’s X100 line of cameras: the Fuji X100V.
It seems Tamron is going to have a busy 2020. As part of its 2019 full-year financial report, the company has revealed that it has five total lenses planned for this year, three of which haven't been announced yet.
Sigma's full-frame mirrorless camera with a Foveon image sensor has been sent "back to the drawing board" and delayed indefinitely. In an update posted to the brand's website, Sigma's CEO apologized for the delay, saying that he was "not in a position to offer any specific release plan."
So you’re about to shoot someone’s wedding. That’s amazing -- it’s an incredible opportunity to be part of one of the most intimate and beautiful experiences in human love. But between photography and videography, which medium gets the job done?
A Reddit user running the Mac application Little Snitch 4 discovered that Skylum's Luminar photo editor is "calling home" to Facebook while the app is in use, allegedly for "analytics purposes."