There are a number of oft-repeated photography tips out there that have guided new photographers over the years. Here's a 10-minute video in which Kai Wong examines 10 of the most popular tips and discusses whether they should be kept or killed.
A woman has sparked controversy and a discussion about sexism and privacy in our photo sharing age after posting a photo of her doctor without his consent to comment on his looks.
Autos is a project by street photographer Nick Turpin, who photographed the lines of cars under the glow of big city billboards.
Earlier this month, NASA conducted a study in Norway that resulted in out-of-this-world night sky photos and which had photographers in the area scratching their heads.
Want a powerful off-camera flash but your camera of choice is a smartphone? LIT Flash is an innovative new handheld wireless Xenon flash that's designed specifically to meet your needs.
The Pulitzer Prize has just announced the winners for 2019. In the area of photography, Reuters' photography staff won in the Breaking News Photography category for photos of migrants journeying to the US, and photographer Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post won for his photos of the famine in Yemen.
Photographer Markus Hofstaetter just completed an ambitious project in which he spent 6 months working to shoot stereo 3D photos on large format wet plates.
Self-taught programmer Martin Fitzpatrick of Two Bit Arcade has created the world's first Etch A Sketch digital camera. It captures digital photos and then outputs them by drawing them onto the Pocket Etch A Sketch "screen" found on the back.
Want to see how cameras automatically adjust shutter speed to compensate for changing light conditions? A simple experiment with a ruler can help you visualize it in an interesting and unusual way.
Canon is apparently looking into building continuous LED lights into the pop-up flashes on DSLR cameras, something that could come in handy for certain situations when shooting photo or video.
Huawei's new P30 Pro smartphone has jaw-dropping low-light abilities and industry-leading image quality. The company has been touting its quad camera system as being co-engineered by Leica, but here's an interesting piece of info that isn't being widely publicized: all the imaging sensors were made by Sony.
In 1914, German documentary photographer August Sander captured a famous photo titled Young Farmers, which shows three dapper men walking along the rural countryside. In this 9-minute video for PBS's The Art Assignment, famous author John Green dives deep into the photo and the story behind it.
Brands spent an estimated $2 billion on marketing through Instagram "influencers" in 2017, and that number is expected to balloon to $10 billion by 2020. The game has become so lucrative that many people are finding all kinds of ways to fake influence in order to reap the rewards. Popular photographer Trey Ratcliff has written a new book that exposes these "cunning tricks."
The Military Visual Awards (MVA) has selected the winning photos its photo contest celebrating the best of worldwide military photography. Photographer of the Year was awarded to photographer Michel Sauret.
The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet, the first privately funded Moon mission, crashed onto the lunar surface yesterday, but not before successfully taking this selfie with the Moon in the background.
If you have a fast and expensive lens, it may feel like a waste to shoot portraits stopped down to f/8, f/11, or f/16. But in this 20-minute video, photographer Miguel Quiles explains why he often opts to shoot stopped down instead of wide open for increased depth of field and finer details and textures.
Visual China Group, the "Getty Images of China" and owner of 500px, has sparked an outcry after it attempted to claim copyright to the first-ever black hole picture that became a worldwide sensation this week.
Getty Images photographer John Moore has won the prestigious World Press Photo Contest for 2019 for his photo titled "Crying Girl on the Border." The photo was selected from among 78,801 submitted by 4,738 photographers.
Weather-sealing in modern camera lenses is great at keeping things like water, sand, and dust from getting inside the (often pricey) gear. But it seems that it may be no match for flies.
Modern Collodion has just announced the winners of the 2019 Wet Plate Competition, the second annual contest for wet plate collodion photographers around the world after launching last year.
Robot photographers may be coming soon to a wedding near you. An AI-powered photography robot named Eva just shot her first wedding over in the UK.
After finding success with its layer-based image editor for iOS and Mac, Pixelmator is now bringing a powerful new RAW photo editor to the iPad. Called Pixelmator Photo, the app competes against the likes of Adobe's Lightroom CC for iPad.
If you're a photographer who posts edgy or risqué photos to your Instagram account, you may now see your popularity and view counts plummet. The photo sharing service just announced that it is demoting inappropriate content even if it doesn't go against the Community Guidelines.
The first-ever picture of a black hole was unveiled yesterday, generating a huge amount of interest and excitement across the world. But how exactly was this picture captured? Well, it definitely wasn't as simple as "pointing and clicking" a giant camera.
Sony has just released firmware version 3.0 for the Sony a7R III and a7 III mirrorless cameras. It's a major update that adds Real-Time Eye AF, Animal Eye AF, and Time Lapse features to the cameras.
Want to be able to quickly switch between lenses with the flick of your wrist? The Multi Turret is coming to help. It's a turret lens system that allows you to mount three different lenses onto one camera.
ASMR videos have exploded in popularity over the past few years. Capitalizing on this trend, photographer Noe Alonzo of South Korea made this 6-minute tongue-in-cheek video titled "Camera ASMR" with sounds photography lovers will appreciate (you may need to turn up your sound for the full effect).
Canon has announced the new EOS Rebel SL3 DSLR, called the 250D in some regions on the world. It's a successor to the entry-level SL2 from 2017 and is described by Canon as a body that's "light in weight, heavy in features."
This is the first photo ever captured of a black hole. It was revealed today after years of international collaboration between over 200 international astronomers.
Flickr has just announced a new partnership with the image monitoring and legal-tech service Pixsy to create the world's first fully integrated end-to-end solution for combating photo theft.
Mercedes has filed lawsuits against four artists after they accused the car company of infringing upon their copyright by including graffiti murals in the backgrounds of car photos posted to Instagram.
Making selections is one of the most basic things that you do in Photoshop, but there are many handy features and tricks that can help you work with selections. Here's a 2-minute video by Adobe with 7 helpful tricks, some of which you may not have known before.
Nikon introduced the Nikon F SLR back in April of 1959, so this year is the 60th anniversary of the popular camera system. To celebrate, the Nikon Museum in Tokyo created a poster with a timeline of F-mount bodies.
Profoto has been publicly accusing Godox of stealing its A1 round-head flash designs for the upcoming Godox V1, going as far as to send threatening letters to retailers warning them of legal trouble if they stock the V1. But Godox isn't letting Profoto thwart its V1 launch.
Landscape photographer Rachel Lerch spent the past three years selling some of her photos through stock agencies. In this 20-minute video, Lerch shares all the truths she has learned about how the story photo industry works and whether it's worth getting into.
Here's a 6-minute short animation by The Royal Ocean Film Society that offers a cynical and tongue-and-cheek account of how the camera came to be.
Photographer Anita Sadowska made this helpful 14-minute video in which she shares tips and tricks for photographing women who don't have any experience modeling and posing for the camera.
We've been receiving an increased number of reports of bad ads such as redirects and popups ruining the PetaPixel reading experience on mobile. No, these ads aren't intentionally being served, and we'd love to remove them, but we need your assistance. If you're one of the many who has been seeing these ads, you can help us identify and block them if you have a few seconds to spare.
PUTPUT is an artist duo based in Copenhagen, Demark, that works at the intersection between still life photography and sculpture. Its goal is to "create distinctly ambiguous images that challenges the viewer to look twice."
Sony has announced new ultra-tough, high-speed external SSD drives geared toward photographers, videographers, and other creatives who want peace of mind while storing large amounts of data on-the-go.
Something curious seems to be brewing over at Yashica. The company has been teasing a new Yashica-brand C-41 negative film through a series of enigmatic messages, photos, and images... and it seems photographers couldn't care less.
Photographers have captured many awe-inspiring photos of solar eclipses in recent years. But Earth isn't the only planet photos are being shot from: NASA's Curiosity rover has captured some beautiful solar eclipse photos over the past few weeks from the surface of Mars.
Panasonic has announced the new Lumix G95, a rugged hybrid mirrorless camera that aims to offer the best of both worlds when it comes to shooting photos and video.
Photographers and other creatives often bemoan being asked to work for free in exchange for "exposure." But with the rise of Instagram and social media, many photographers and "influencers" are turning the tables and making the same types of requests... to the annoyance of businesses.
The upcoming Godox V1 has drummed up quite a bit of excitement by promising to be a more affordable alternative to the innovative Profoto A1 round-head flash. It has now come to light that the V1 will be priced at just $259, or about 1/4 the cost ($995) of the A1.
Skylum has announced Luminar Flex, a new plugin that brings Luminar's powerful AI-based tools to third-party apps like Photoshop and Lightroom.
Well-known New York City-based fashion photographer Dani Diamond was contacted by a fan in 2017 after the fan spotted one of Diamond's photos featured in a Lufthansa in-flight magazine ad promoting a "Bellevue Swiss Made" watch. Problem was, Diamond had never licensed his photos for any such use.
After purchasing a DJI Mavic Pro 2 drone earlier this year, photographer Karen Jerzyk began using it to achieve a different perspective for her surreal style of photography. The resulting project is titled "Earth from Above."
Professional birth photography has been emerging as a niche over the past decade. But when wedding photographer Megan Mattiuzzo gave birth last month, she didn't hire a photographer to document the momentous occasion -- she decided to shoot the actual delivery herself...
One of Photoshop's most impressive features was just added to After Effects. Content-Aware Fill is now available for automatically removing unwanted elements from video.