Constant Motion is a breathtaking time-lapse video by Redding, California-based freelance photographer Aaron Patterson that takes HDR to a whole new level. On his blog, Patterson writes,
Google Groups hosts an archive of Usenet discussions from as far back as 1981. These discussions often provide an interesting glimpse at the state of the world and what was considered "state of the art".
For some April Fools fun, we here at PetaPixel went through the trouble of using a new …
This music video for the song "Doubtful Comforts" by Blue Roses is the first music video to employ wiggle stereoscopy to create a 3D effect that does not require special glasses to view.
In January 2010, NASA and the University of Arizona launched HiWish, a way …
This past month Canon Canada ran a promotion where each purchase over $200 CAD came with a …
Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse is a historical consultant in Amsterdam who loves making photographs in …
Kodak has just announced a breakthrough technology called Aromatography, which combines the sense of smell with the visual experience of photography. Recent breakthroughs in Neuro-Optic-Nasal-Sense Imaging (often referred to as NONSense) have enabled the technology, which is also being researched by other camera corporations.
Update: Thanks so much for all the feedback! What we heard about the new design was overwhelmingly positive, so that’s …
Here’s a fun little tilt-shift, time-lapse video by The Bitter*Girls showing a sumo …
This Canon 5D Mark II-shaped cake is by Studio Cake based in Menlo …
ViaU is a new photography service by …
SquareTrade is a company that provides warranties for consumer electronics. As such, it has a good deal of data on digital cameras and, more specifically, how often they fail. After a three year study of over 60,000 new digital cameras, they've published a report with their findings.
An unofficial iPad Flickr app called "Flickr Photos" has been approved for the iPad app store. The $2.99 app, created by Garlic Dumpling, allows you to do download and view both your own photos and your contacts' photos in a minimalistic interface. There's no word on whether the official Flickr application will be ready for the iPad when the store launches, but the iTunes preview page for the official Flickr app already states "Flickr for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store".
Last week the web was abuzz with excitement over a demo Adobe created for their upcoming "Content Aware Fill" feature. Well, it didn't take long for parody videos to spring up, mocking how easily Photoshop will soon be able to completely create new "realities". The above video is one such parody, ending with this gem:
Facity is an online photo project in …
The Golden Half is a plastic half-size format 35mm camera by …
Quip is an iPhone application that provides simple "private" photo sharing without MMS. A flaw in the service was posted to Reddit a day ago by FlamingZebra90.
Ronen Goldman is a photographer based in Tel Aviv, Israel who specializes in surreal “dream” photography: …
This video, created by PhotoErrant, shows a Canon 7D shooting at 8 frames …
A History of the Sky is an ambitious project by San Francisco-based artist Ken Murphy that aims to create a gigantic mosaic of 365 time-lapse videos of the sky - one for each day of the year.
Over the weekend Apple finally made the iPad Camera Connection Kit available for …
Knitting is getting quite a bit of coverage on PetaPixel this week. Just a couple days ago we featured the surreal knitting photographs of Daniela Edburg. The above is an creative commercial for natural gas by TBWA Brussels and directed by Olivier Babinet. What's amazing is that all the stop-motion animation you see is done using wool and a team of super dedicated knitters. They've also released a behind the scenes video showing how the commercial was made.
SwankoLab is an image editing app for the iPhone and iPod that features a complete darkroom simulator with chemicals, timers, and the whole shebang.
Lens hoods are ridiculously expensive considering the fact that they're simply fancy plastic tubes. If you'd like to use a lens hood but don't feel like shelling out wads of cash, you can create your own cardboard lens hoods!
What would happen if you hired a wedding photographer to assist with forensics at a crime scene? British show …
You've probably seen in-video advertising, but how about ads placed in images? A company called Image Space Media wants to make sure you do.
Established in 2008, they're the first and leading provider of in-image advertising on the web. This means relevant advertisements are placed in an overlay that appears over a portion of an image or photograph, just like the advertisements YouTube places at the bottom of most videos.
Social recommendation engine Hunch has a new Twitter …
This video, created by California photographer Jesse Rosten, offers an interesting glimpse at what digital magazine covers might look like for the iPad. Rather than offer a static photograph of the beach as the print version of Sunset Magazine would, this cover is brought to life with both video and animation.
Hot on the heels of the latest Canon coffee mug craze, here’s another fun item for you …
Here's a set of photographs by Daniela Edburg, who creates surreal scenes and landscapes around the theme of knitting.
My dad is an avid stamp collector. While he does have some US stamps in his collection, he mainly focuses …
Francesco Capponi (Dippold on Flickr) has a fun printable template for creating your own nifty-looking 35mm pinhole camera.
Adobe is working on a new feature for Photoshop called "Content Aware Fill", and posted a mind-boggling demonstration of it on YouTube.
The San Francisco Chronicle has a neat story about Ruby Ellenby, a 3-year-old …
I don't know about you, but I often find myself wiping off the LCD on my DSLR or point-and-shoot with my clothes. The unseemly but common practice of wiping gadgets with clothes is exactly what FIFT, a husband and wife design team in Japan, had in mind when they designed the 'Wipe Shirt'.
SnapKnot is a new service that aims to …
Students at the University of Tromso in Norway have created an interactive display wall using 28 separate projectors, which creates a 7168x3072, or 22 megapixel, display. Interactive with the display simply involves placing your hands in front of it. Touching the display itself is not necessary, and multitouch is supported. What better way to demonstrate the capabilities of such a system than zooming through a gigapixel photograph?
The Impossible Project’s new instant film for Polaroid cameras will go …
As online stock photography services and libraries have expanded in recent years, stock photography books have become more and more obsolete.
Advertising and communications corp JWT recently came up with an idea to breath new life into these dying books by transforming them into tools to help teach disadvantaged children to read.
If you're like me, then you have a bazillion cables lying on and around your desk for various gadgets, including laptops, cameras, cell phones, Bluetooth headsets, and the like. Here's a tip for organizing all those cables to always have them neat and ready for action: use binder clips.
Time to dust off your old Polaroid cameras. The Impossible Project has just …
If you need a way to protect your camera gear while on the move, …
Burger King recently partnered up with marketing agency Ogilvy for a unique "Have It Your Way" campaign. In order to convey how personalized the orders are, they used a hidden camera and printer to slap a candid photograph of the customer's face right on the burger wrapper. A separate hidden camera was used to document the reactions of the customers after seeing themselves on their food.
InVisage, a California-based start up company, has announced a new image sensor technology that it claims is up to four times more sensitive than traditional sensor technologies.
Their product, QuantumFilm, is a layer of semiconductor material added on top of the traditional silicon that uses quantum dots to gather light.
Photographer Jon Beard has a terrific set of photos called "Burning Bulbs" in which he breaks lightbulbs and photographs them with the filaments exposed.
Our recent post showing vinyl records at 1000x magnification was pretty popular, and many of you had ideas for things you'd like seen under a scanning electron microscope.
Here's the latest innovation from Pentax: a puppet body for your lens cap! The "Cameraman" is a handmade puppet body that comes with a 52mm lens cap showing a smiley face. It costs ¥2,914, or about $32, and is only available for a limited amount of time.
Well, that was fast. Just a day after removing Version 2.0.3 of the 5D Mark II firmware due to a bug, Canon has released firmware Version 2.0.4, which simply fixes the bug in Version 2.0.3.
Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan has come under fire for a series of photographs in which she dresses up her year-old daughter Faustina as some of history's most evil figures. The series, titled "Potency", has been shown in exhibitions around Europe, and is meant to explore the nature of evil.