If you ask a photographer if they can give you the entire set of unedited RAW photos from a shoot, there's a very good chance they're going to say no. No, it's not because they don't want you to have all your memories -- it's because they only want to deliver their very best finished work.
This is a question that's been weighing on photographer Jessica Kobeissi's mind, so she decided to make the 5.5-minute video above to share her explanation.
What if a spell turned some of the world's most famous car models into real women? What would they look like? That's what photographer Viktorija Pashuta decided to explore with her latest portrait project, titled "What if Cars Were SUPERMODELS?"
She gathered 12 top supermodels and gave them looks that reflected cars that range from Kia Optima to the Rolls Royce Phantom.
Want a crash course on the history of photography? COOPH just published this …
There are good Photoshop tutorials and there are bad Photoshop tutorials. Tom Trager and Or Paz of the sketch …
Guess who was on the sidelines photographing Super Bowl 50 yesterday? Kevin Durant.
The NBA star (and MVP two years ago) was a credentialed photographer at the championship game, shooting for The Players' Tribune. One day earlier he was shooting basketballs against the Golden State Warriors at nearby Oracle Arena in Oakland.
PetaPixel is a free-to-read blog, so we rely almost entirely on advertising to stay in business. In the past couple of weeks, however, readers have been reporting intrusive and annoying ads that redirect you to other websites while reading PetaPixel on mobile.
No, these are not intentional. We never allow things like pop-ups, pop-unders, ads that auto-play audio, or ads that redirect elsewhere.
Melbourne, Australia-based photographer Alexander Chin recently completed an impressive project that deals with the passage of time. Over the course of 3 years between March 2013 and February 2016, he repeatedly visited iconic locations in Melbourne and captured a timelapse in each season of the year.
He then edited the 4 seasons together into one frame to create the mesmerizing time-lapse video above, titled "The Four Seasons of Melbourne."
Bryan Carnathan is a photographer and the founder of The Digital Picture, one of the leading Canon DSLR gear review websites in the world. We had a chat with Carnathan to learn more about his popular site and his thoughts on the camera industry.
Groupon is being hit with a class action lawsuit that claims the deals company has repeatedly used Instagram photos without permission from the photographers.
Chris Payne is a architectural photographer who focuses his camera on design, assembly, and the built form. For his latest project, Textiles, Payne visited the color-, shape-, and pattern-filled worlds of textile mills in the American Northeast.
Photographer Cecil Williams of Orangeburg, South Carolina, wanted a faster way to digitize 2,000 of his negatives, so he invented a new system called the FilmToaster. It's a $1,699 box that lets you digitize most popular film formats using your digital camera.
Nikon Singapore became the butt of many jokes last week after selecting a clearly Photoshopped photo as the winner of a small photo contest. After the story went viral and appeared in headlines around the world, Nikon and the photographer both apologized and took down the winning photo(shop job).
Seeing an opportunity, Canon Canada decided this week to poke some fun at Nikon's expense, and its tongue-in-cheek Facebook thread has since gone viral as well.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced this week that this year's Super Bowl this Sunday will come with a "No Drone Zone." All drones will be banned in a 32-mile radius around Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, during the football game.
Matrix-style "bullet time" is usually created using an array of cameras placed all around a subject. Swiss professional skier Nicolas Vuignier has been testing a new technique that only uses a single camera: he swings his iPhone 6 camera around using a long rope.
Vuignier calls his iPhone experiment the "Centriphone." The video above contains some awesome shots he made using it while speeding down snow-covered mountain slopes.
If you live in a cold area and have both a passion for photography and a knack for crocheting, here's a fun project for you: photography mittens. Carmen Jacob of Spindle Shuttle Needle has created stylish mittens that have special holes for your thumb and index finger to poke through, allowing you to operate your camera while keeping your hands warm and toasty.
Photographer Dieter Schneider recently built a 4x5 large format camera for wet plate photography out of plywood using his Shapeoko 3 desktop CNC machine. Luckily for all of us, he also documented the entire process on camera.
Back in 2014, the foldable pop-up lightbox called the Foldio2 got over $500,000 of funding through Kickstarter to make product photos easier to shoot.
Now the company behind that lightbox, ORANGEMUNKIE, is back with a new product: the Foldio360. It's a smart turntable that's designed to bring 360-degree photography to the masses.
Photographer AnaHell has a curious and creative photo project titled Secret Friends. Each photo shows a strange creature with an egg-shaped head and torso. What you're actually seeing is a person bent over, face to their knees, with a face drawn onto their exposed back.
During a family game of hide-and-seek last year, Dan Iverson and his wife strapped a GoPro camera to their …
Want to shoot underwater photos with your Leica M camera but don't want to use those bulky underwater housings out there? Subal has a perfect, albeit pricey, solution for you.
The company recently announced the Subal Leica M, an underwater housing for Leica M rangefinders that looks just like a giant Leica M rangefinder.
Brides magazine recently published an article titled "Which Vendors Do You Have to Feed at Your Wedding?" In the piece, wedding planner Sandy Malone gives brides advice on which vendors they're responsible for feeding at a wedding, and which you can leave out of your plans.
Her "general rule" is that wedding photographers don't need to be fed, and photographers aren't happy about it.
GoPro just announced the financial results of its latest quarter, and things aren't looking very good for the flagging camera company. Investors were already bracing for the worst after GoPro slashed 7% of its workforce in January and announced a huge drop in camera sales.
Quarterly revenue has dropped ~31% from a year ago to $436.6 million, and the company lost $34.4 million in the quarter, GoPro says. In response, GoPro says it will be cutting down its camera lineup to offer just 3 main models starting in April 2016.
If you have a mirrorless camera that lacks a viewfinder but has a tilting LCD screen, here's a neat "hack": you can give your camera a pseudo-viewfinder by mounting an old waist-level viewfinder to the screen.
Katerina Plotnikova is a photographer based in Moscow, Russia, who creates beautiful dreamlike portraits of models getting up close and personal with all kinds of animals, from snakes to wolves to giant bears.
And here's what's amazing: Plotnikova uses real animals for her photo shoots rather than creating digital composites with Photoshop.
GoPro just released another video with sample footage captured with its not-yet-announced Karma drone. This time the company gave a Karma drone to American freestyle skier Bobby Brown and some of his friends to test out at Aspen Snowmass in Colorado. The short 1-minute video above is what resulted.
Yahoo announced yesterday that it will be cutting 15% of its workforce, or about 1,700 jobs, in an effort to bring the flagging Internet company back into profitability. The company will also be trimming and shutting down weak and non-essential businesses to focus on core products.
Unfortunately for photographers, Flickr will reportedly be one of the businesses that will see some cutbacks in the very near future.
Panasonic today announced a trio of new CMOS sensors that offer extreme dynamic range, incredible light sensitivity, and a global shutter.
A week ago, Nike released a new viral video (shown above) titled "Ousadia Alegria." Promoting new soccer boots made for Barcelona superstar player Neymar Jr., the video uses a "flo-motion" hyperlapse technique that combines time-lapses and a rapidly changing point of view.
Now one of the major pioneer photographers of that technique, Rob Whitworth, is crying foul. He says that Nike ripped of his work and the work of Australian filmmaker Selina Miles in its new video.
Here's a video you need to watch if you enjoy seeing and learning about photography history. The folks over at Objectivity recently paid a visit to The Royal Society, where they were shown a set of priceless items from photography history.
In addition to a set of super expensive early photos from the 1850s, they were also shown one of the earliest descriptions of photography: a 1839 paper by William Henry Fox Talbot titled: "Some Account on the Art of Photogenic Drawing, or: the Process By Which Natural Objects May Be Made to Deliniate Themselves Without the Aid of the Artist's Pencil."
National Geographic today announced the winners of its 2015 International Photography Contest for Kids. A total of 17,530 entries were submitted from young photographers from around the world (between the ages of 6 and 14). There was also simultaneously a US-only contest.
Sony today launched an entirely new brand of interchangeable lenses: the G Master. This line will represent the best of what Sony has to offer in terms of optics.
The brand will launch with 3 new E-mount lenses: the 24-70mm f/2.8, 85mm f/1.4, and 70-200mm f/2.8.
Sony today announced the new a6300, a mirrorless camera that boasts the world's fastest autofocus speed and the world's highest number of autofocus points.
In September 2015, Turkish photographer Nilüfer Demir came across the body of 3-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi on a beach. Her photo of Kurdi's body spread across the world, drawing the world's attention to the migrant crisis and becoming a symbol of the widespread suffering.
This month, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei decided to recreate that haunting photo by posing for a picture while lying face down on a pebbled beach in Lesbos, Greece. The resulting photo, captured by photographer Rohit Chawla for India Today, is now drawing both praise and criticism.
Ethan Field and Ron Campbell were hiking off-trail in Oregon's Columbia Gorge last week when something shiny caught their eye. Bending over, they discovered an old camera that was mostly covered by rocks, dirt, and vegetation.
Daniel and Gina of Sunrise Odyssey recently completed a 1 year journey across Asia that spanned 12 different countries. Throughout the trip, the couple documented major locations with a series of photos of them jumping in front of the camera.
Those self-portraits were then turned into this wonderful hyperlapse video showing the duo running across the continent in just 3 minutes.
The YouTube musical channel AVbyte created this short video titled “Selfie: The Musical.” …
With today's unveiling of the Canon 1D X Mark II and the recent announcement of the Nikon D5, both major camera companies have now revealed their latest and greatest technologies in their flagship DSLRs.
Here's a look at how the two top tier cameras compare to one another... at least on paper.
Canon's new 1D X Mark II flagship DSLR can shoot at a staggering 16 frames per second in Live View mode with the mirror locked up. Here's a hands-on video by e PHOTOzine that shows just how fast this rate of fire is.
Backing up your data properly is a critical responsibility for digital photographers these days, but if you use certain Seagate hard drives in your setup, you may want to think about alternatives.
Seagate was hit with a class action lawsuit today by consumers who claim that the company's hard drives "failed to live up to the advertised promises" by failing and causing the loss of data.
A 3-year-old boy named Jacob Bellis recently won £2,000 in a photo contest after taking a selfie with his father, David, and a grinning horse in the background. Now the owner of the horse is demanding a share of the money for the role his horse's photobomb played in the photo.
Canon today announced the 1D X Mark II, its latest flagship DSLR. Canon calls the camera a "remarkable combination of innovation and refinement" that combines both power and speed.
Here's a short 2-minute feature by Great Big Story about the life and work of photographer Steven Erra, who isn't allowing his loss of vision and eventual blindness get in the way of his light painting photo work.
Photographer Victoria Will received both attention and praise last year for her gorgeous tintype photos of Hollywood celebrities at the Sundance Film Festival.
This year, Will returned to the festival on assignment for Esquire magazine, but instead of tintypes, Will was tasked with creating animated GIF portraits with a dash of movement -- commonly referred to as cinemagraphs.
Forget anti-drone rifles and drones that catch other drones with webs and giant nets. Police over in The Netherlands have just come up with the craziest way to deal with illegal drones: specially trained eagles.
With each new iPhone model, Apple has been gathering some of the world's best photos captured with its phone for its global "Shot on iPhone" ad campaigns. Last year we shared 20 of Apple's favorite photos that were captured with the iPhone 6.
Today Apple is launching a new World Gallery titled "Shot on iphone 6S." Here are 17 of Apple's favorite portrait photos captured with its latest phone camera.
We shared back in November 2015 that David Beckham's 16-year-old son, Brooklyn, is considering pursuing a career in photography rather than follow in his father's footsteps in the world of soccer.
Well, Brooklyn just took a huge step in that direction: he was hired to shoot a Burberry campaign this weekend.
The China National Space Administration, China's NASA equivalent, has just published a new set of high-definition true color photos of the Moon's surface. They were captured by cameras on the Yutu rover, which traveled to the Moon on the Chang'e 3 spacecraft back in December 2013.
Here's a music video that took quite a bit of planning and endurance for a photographer to shoot. Created for the song "A Carta" by the rapper V1RUZ, it's one continuous hyperlapse through the city of Lisbon, Portugal, that comprises 5210 photos shot over the course of a 25-hour marathon shoot.
One of the big stories in the photo world this past weekend was the fact that Nikon Singapore selected a clearly Photoshopped image as the winner of a recent contest. After a wave of relentless mockery from photographers around the world, both Nikon and the winning photographer have since apologized for what happened.
If you're closely following the 2016 US presidential race, here's a blast from the past that may be interesting to you: these are photos of the major candidates from their teen years.