Want to see what radiation can look like on camera? This short 1-minute video reveals what happens when an old cell phone with a CCD camera is pointed at a source of beta radiation.
A fascinating art social experiment unfolded on social media this week after someone shared an actual Monet painting as an AI-generated artwork and asked people to explain what makes the "AI image" inferior to a genuine Monet piece. There was no shortage of "sharp-eyed" critics eager to chime in.
If you've ever dreamed of becoming one with ultra-stabilized cameras, DJI today shared a wild-looking camera support system that makes you look more like RoboCop than a photographer or filmmaker.
The NFL announced back in July 2024 that Sony had become its official technology partner, providing everything from headphones to broadcast and Hawk-Eye cameras used at games. At Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara on Sunday, Sony will again be pushing the envelope in the imaging technologies covering all angles of the game.
A Chinese photographer visiting Spain has gone viral online after he was filmed using a chokehold to subdue an alleged thief who had tried to steal his camera. The whole thing was captured by onlookers standing nearby.
A group of wildlife photographers on an expedition in Nunavut, Canada, were recently treated to an experience of a lifetime when a pack of friendly and curious Arctic wolves approached and cozied up to them.
GuruShots, the "World's Greatest Photo Game," has announced the winners of its "The Power of Minimalism" challenge, which received thousands of entries and over 35 million votes. The "Top Photographer" winner of the contest is Cécile Rivet of France (whose photo is seen above).
English photographer Jimmy Nelson, best known for his portraits of tribal and indigenous peoples, was recently announced as the winner of the $100,000 Special Appreciation Award at HIPA, the world's most lucrative photography competition backed by the crown prince of Dubai. PetaPixel sat down with Nelson to talk about the prize, his life, and his inspiring career.
A wildlife photographer has captured an ultra-rare photograph of an all-black penguin.
New details have emerged in the saga of the iconic portrait of Winston Churchill that was stolen from a Canadian hotel and replaced with a fake before being recovered in Italy over two years later. It turns out an Italian lawyer paid £4,200 (~$5,300) for it at an auction, believing it to be a cheap copy.
HIPA, the world's most lucrative photography competition, announced the winners of this year's Sustainability-themed contest at an awards ceremony in Dubai yesterday. PetaPixel spoke to Chinese photographer Liping Cao, winner of the $200,000 Grand Prize, to learn more about his photo.
The world's most lucrative photography competition, HIPA, announced earlier this year that it was increasing its prize pool to a whopping $1 million. Today the winners of the Sustainability-themed 13th season were unveiled.
Professional sports are almost always photographed with digital cameras these days, but this week one photographer decided to do something unusual: not only did he shoot an NFL football game on 35mm film, but he developed, scanned, and posted the photos before the game had even ended.
Award-winning British photojournalist and combat photographer Paul Lowe has died at age 60. He was killed in a stabbing on a popular hiking trail near Los Angeles, and authorities say his 19-year-old son Emir has been arrested for the murder.
Apple is apologizing after a new iPad Pro commercial sparked controversy for showing a wide range of creative tools, including a camera and lenses, getting crushed to bits by an industrial hydraulic press.
A police officer in Ohio was fired after posting a Snapchat photo of himself using the Ski Mask Lens filter in the app -- a photo the town's mayor says has "troubling racial connotations."
When shooting a PR photo, it can be important to pay attention to small details. The US Navy learned that lesson the hard way recently after sharing an Instagram photo of a warship commander shooting a rifle -- gun-savvy viewers immediately noticed that the scope had been put on backwards.
One extremely lucky photographer recently experienced the find of a lifetime at his local Goodwill thrift store. While looking through the home entertainment section, he was shocked to find a $1,399 professional camera lens priced at just $6.99.
A sports photographer whose $12,000 camera lens was shattered by a 104 MPH baseball will have his gear restored after an outpouring of support by the public and an act of generosity by Sony.
In this week's episode of The PetaPixel Podcast, DPReview Technical Editor Richard Butler joins Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake to share the inside story of what actually happened between DPReview and Amazon.
Apple is reportedly flexing its legal muscle in several countries around the world in order to secure intellectual property rights to images of actual apples, the kind that you eat.
As AI image generators continue to rock visual industries such as photography and illustration, Nikon is taking a stand against AI and on behalf of humans, cameras, and "natural intelligence."
Apple has announced a new Stickers system coming in iOS 17 that will allow iPhone and iPad users to effortlessly create sharable digital stickers using photos (and Live Photos).
The largest supernova seen in over a decade just exploded (from the perspective of observers on Earth), and one lucky photographer managed to capture it in a before-and-after sequence of photos.
A photographer in the UK has managed to get up close and personal with puffins by wearing a humorous puffin disguise to put the birds at ease.
A Formula 1 racing fan attending the recent Miami Grand Prix was told at the gate that he couldn't bring in his mirrorless camera, so he came up with an unusual alternate plan: he instead decided to shoot the race with a floppy disk camera made in 2000.
Photographer Jason De Freitas has combined his passions for flight and film by mounting a 1960s Super 8 motion picture camera onto a modern first-person view (FPV) drone, and the resulting footage (seen in the 3-minute video above) is magical.
A wildlife photographer in Africa captured a photo that powerfully illustrates "a mother's desperation" in protecting her offspring from harm.
A wildlife photographer in Africa is melting hearts online after sharing a photo of the adorable photo assistant he brought along on a recent outdoor adventure.
This mind-bending photo of a bird is making the rounds on the internet, and people's brains are having a hard time processing what exactly the photo shows. It is a real single-exposure photo, though, and not the result of Photoshop manipulation.
A wildlife photographer hunting for a famous crocodile named "Croczilla" in the Florida Everglades finally had her patience pay off when she stumbled across the gigantic creature at a pond.
A photographer has stirred up fresh controversy and debate after his artificial intelligence (AI) image won first prize at one of the world's most prestigious photography competitions. He has since declined to accept the prize while the contest has remained silent on the matter.
A 21-year-old National Guardsman was arrested yesterday in connection with the leak of hundreds of highly classified Pentagon intelligence documents. It has since come to light that the suspect was identified thanks to photos of him that had been shared on Instagram.
A South African wedding photographer this week received what he calls the craziest request he has heard in his career. A woman whose wedding he shot four years ago in 2019 is demanding a full refund for the wedding photography because she got divorced and "doesn't need the photos anymore."
Photographer Nina Wolfe shoots gorgeous photos using forced perspective to show the Moon illusion, the optical illusion that causes the Moon to look much larger when it's closer to the horizon than when it's higher in the sky.
Sony has released the first photo captured by its new Star Sphere satellite, which aims to allow ordinary people to have access to a camera in Earth orbit and shoot their own space photos.
A Massachusetts couple tasked with cleaning out a storage unit was blown away after finding that it contained roughly 2,000 vintage cameras and lenses.
An unusual and humorous situation unfolded during an NBA basketball game on Saturday after a Lakers player took a photographer's camera to the ref as "photo evidence" of a blown foul call.
A government agency in Colorado received a surprise recently when it checked on a wildlife trail camera and found that out of hundreds of photos captured, a majority of them were "bear selfies."
During COVID lockdowns, artists stuck at home were forced to find new ways to exercise their creativity. For one photographer in Detroit, that meant creating a silly paper mache person and putting it at the center of a collaborative project done with other artists.
A wildlife photographer in Nebraska has captured a photo that proves the birds from the hit game Angry Birds really do exist in the real world.
One of the gorgeous niches of nighttime landscape imaging is aurora photography, which shows the dazzling natural light shows seen in the sky when charged particles from the Sun ripple across Earth's magnetic field.
Catching the International Space Station crossing the face of the Moon is quite challenging these days even with advanced cameras and relatively affordable telescopes, but one photographer decided to take things to the next level by catching an ISS lunar transit on 35mm film.
A photographer has used AI to create a series of portraits showing what some celebrities may look like a few decades from now.
Talented "backyard astrophotographer" Andrew McCarthy has captured an incredible photo of the International Space Station passing in front of one of the Moon's brightest craters.
A photographer in Wisconsin has captured a series of stunning photos of a fox after the curious creature decided to take a closer look at his homemade camera trap.
Here's a video that should put a smile on your face and a fuzzy feeling in your heart: a home security camera in Washington State has captured footage of a raccoon trying to catch snowflakes falling from the sky.
Film photography may be enjoying a resurgence in popularity, but worldwide supply chain issues are now holding back the industry's return. Fujifilm is warning that its 35mm films are expected to be in short supply "for the time being."
Canon has announced the new Speedlite EL-5, a powerful and portable flash unit for advanced photographers that's the company's first flash designed for the Multi-Function Shoe found in the latest EOS R mirrorless cameras.
Venus Optics today announced two new ultra-fast Laowa lenses in the Argus lineup. They are the Laowa Argus 18mm f/0.95 APO lens for Micro Four Thirds cameras and the Laowa Argus 25mm f/0.95 APO lens for APS-C crop sensor cameras.