Over on Tumblr, there's a new blog called Guns Replaced with Selfie Sticks. As the title suggests, the site features movie stills from action films with all the guns Photoshopped out and replaced with selfie sticks.
Coldplay just released the official music video for the song "Up&Up," the 3rd single from the band's new album, A Head Full of Dreams. The 4-minute video is filled with creative composites that combines footage in a way that plays with perspective.
Getty Images has launched a creative new global advertising campaign titled "Millions of Images. Endless Possibilities." The 46-second video above shows a series of famous faces that were reconstructed entirely using various stock photo faces that aren't of those people.
Want to see the world's most advanced selfie stick? Check out the video above, which shows the Automated Selfie Stick.
Photographer Murad Osmann's wildly popular "Follow Me" project features photos of his girlfriend leading him by the hand to exotic locations around the world. Now some folks over in Taiwan are parodying the style with a strange new meme called "Hold My Head."
Iran has arrested 8 models for posting Instagram photos in which the women are seen not wearing headscarves. The move is part of a larger crackdown against "un-Islamic" being shared in Iran through the social network.
Uzbekistani professional photographer Ravshaniya Azulye's signature style involves breaking rules -- not of photography, but of nature. Her portfolio is filled with gravity-defying art photos that combine chaos with elegant form.
Canon relaunched its global website this week with the brand new top level domain name .canon. Instead of canon.com, the address is now global.canon, the first time Canon has used the new .canon top-level domain since acquiring it back in 2015.
Enjoy documentary films about photographers? Here's one to add to your list: Don't Blink - Robert Frank. It's a new look at the life and work of one of the most famous American photographers. (Note: There's some strong language in the video).
Here's a simple tutorial video in which nature photographer Steve Perry of Backcountry Gallery shows his technique for getting tack-sharp images with a telephoto lens on a tripod while having "nearly as much flexibility and movement as hand-holding the lens."
Looking for a weekend project and have some hardware and software skills? Try building yourself an instant camera using Rapsberry Pi and a thermal receipt printer.
After stumbling upon a birds nest with beautiful eggs in his front yard, …
The iPhone 7 has long been rumored to be the first iPhone to feature a dual rear cameras, following in the footsteps of phones such as the new Huawei P9, which has dual cameras engineered by Leica. And like with the P9, purported photos of the dual cameras have now leaked ahead of any official announcement.
Australian newborn photographer Erin Hoskins of Erin Elizabeth Photography was recently hired to do a once in a lifetime photo shoot by a mother who just had quintuplets. That's 5 babies for the price of 1.
Model and actress Jess Adams was posing for an sea-side clothing photo shoot in Malibu last weekend when the DJI Inspire 1 camera drone that was being used flew right into the woman's face.
Actor JD Walsh recently created a Hollywood-style movie trailer... featuring strangers he encountered on the street.
The Dutch Angle (or Dutch Tilt) is a technique that involves tilting your camera to one side, resulting in a frame that isn't level. Jacob T. Swinney of Fandor created this 3-minute compilation video showing the technique being used in a large number of movies.
Minnesota’s Pioneer Public Television made this 12-minute mini-documentary about wet plate photography and photographer David Rambow. Rambow discusses the …
Samsung has announced its new EVO Plus 256GB microSD card, a high performance and capacity card that lets you record up to 12 hours of 4K video.
Canon's original 16-35mm f/2.8L was released in 2001, and the followup Mark II version arrived in 2007. Now, 9 years later, a Mark III refresh is reportedly just around the corner.
Justin Bieber announced this week that he will no longer stop to take photos with fans while out in public. He says things have gotten to the point in which he feels like "a zoo animal" due to the endless impersonal picture requests.
Photographer Garry Cornes of Glasgow, Scotland, attended the demolition of a 24-story building this past Sunday. After joining the crowd there and setting up his camera on the other side of the street, Cornes had his view ruined at the worst possible time when a bus rolled in to photobomb his shot.
Over the past several years, photographer Flo Razowsky of Nogales, Arizona, has been photographing the ultra-long walls that divide international borders around the world. Her project is titled "Up Against the Wall."
Can photo clients tell the difference between a professional photographer and a fake one? Seattle-based photographer Ben Lucas recently decided to do an experiment to find out, and the 5-minute video above shows what happened.
In mid-April 2016, a series of powerful earthquakes struck the Kumamoto region of southern Japan. A number of major camera companies have important operations in that area, and now, weeks later, those companies are still working recover from the disaster.
Canon will soon be announcing a new Canon EF-M 28mm STM Macro lens. Photos and specs of the lens leaded today, revealing that it will be the first Canon lens to boast a built-in LED ring light.
Mercury just passed between the Earth and the Sun yesterday, a rare "planetary transit" that occurs about 13 times every 100 years. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) spacecraft shot highly detailed photos of the astronomical event, and the beautiful time-lapse above is what resulted.
The film simulation software company Really Nice Images has launched a new iPhone camera app called RNI Flashback. While the app is yet another film simulation app in a market saturated with them, it aims to stand out by adding randomness to the equation.
Over the past couple of decades, CMOS sensors have come to dominate the digital photography landscape thanks to their increasing quality and falling costs. If you're unfamiliar with the differences between CMOS and CCD sensors, CEI-Europe has created a helpful infographic that compares the two technologies.
If you ever try your hand at light painting photography with burning steel wool, be extra careful with safety and legality. Just a few months after a photographer allegedly destroyed a historic shipwreck in California with his sparks, another steel wool photo shoot has burned down a historic 1920s building in a US national preserve.
Want to see what photo studios were like a century ago? Turkish artist Ali Alamedy recently spent 9 months building a 1900s photo studio... as a miniature tabletop diorama.
As video games become more and more realistic, some artists have made names for themselves by shooting artistic in-game photographs (AKA screenshots). Now NVIDIA wants to bring in-game photography to the masses: the graphics company just announced "Ansel," a new virtual photography tool that's ready to appear in many future games.
We reported back in May 2015 that Yongnuo was developing a Nikon counterpart to its cheap 50mm f/1.8 Canon lens. The lens quietly became available recently over on eBay, and the price tag is $82.
Phoxi Friends is a line of cute photography tools designed for those who shoot portraits of kids. Each eye-catching creature features a long tail and the ability to wrap, extend, and squeak.
GoPro has released the first sample footage shot using its new Omni virtual reality camera rig, which combines views from 6 separate cameras to create an immersive 360-degree video experience.
Here's a neat way to take your photos of wedding rings to the next level: include the couple in the reflections.
Berlin-based professional adventure photographer Benjamin Jaworskyj was recently flying to a workshop in Norway when he got a chance to test the low-light capabilities of his Sony a7S II: filming the dim Northern Lights in the skies outside.
What would your camera be like as a person? That's the question Sony Thailand tries to answer in this strange and humorous 3-minute advertisement that was published earlier this month.
If your smartphone serves as a primary camera in your life, you may have come across a Goldilocks-style conundrum when trying to figure out how to stabilize your phone and trigger it remotely. Standard tripods may be too big and bulky, but a selfie stick is too small and not versatile enough for your needs. The MonoShot is a product that fills the gap between the two ends of the spectrum.
Here’s a short and sweet educational video by the YouTube channel What Is… …
Memory card full? Just pull out some DNA storage and keep shooting. Scientists have figured out how to store digital photos in DNA and then perfectly retrieve them afterward.
DJI, the world's leading drone maker, has launched DJI+ Discover, a new mobile app that provides a social network for drone owners to connect with each other, with companies, and with clients.
When you think pinhole lenses, you probably think cheap, low-fi lenses created by hand for DIY photography projects. Zero Optik takes things in the opposite direction: it's a new line of high-quality pinhole lenses that are designed for professionals.
For his new project Lux Noctis, photographer Reuben Wu lit and photographed landscapes at night by mounting powerful LED lights to GPS-enabled drones.
Colorizing retoucher Jordan J. Lloyd of Dynamichrome took vintage photographs of global landmarks under construction and added color to them to give us a different look at history.
We were tipped to an "absurd" wedding photography job listing posted to Craigslist in New York City that apparently ruffled some feathers among photographers.
Whoa. This is pretty big if it's true: a new report says that Sony is working on a new camera called the A9. It's supposedly DSLR-like in its size and will feature unlimited RAW burst shooting.
PetaPixel Photography Podcast host Sharky James just made a guest appearance as co-host on photographer Matt Granger's podcast #TOGLIFE.
Here's an amazing short film titled "The Old New World" by photographer and animator Alexey Zakharov of Moscow, Russia. Zakharov found old photos of US cities from the early 1900s and brought them to life.
We're getting closer to being able to take pictures with cameras built directly into contact lenses. Samsung has been granted a patent in South Korea for a smart contact lens that projects images directly into the wearer's eyeball... and which has a built-in camera that's controlled by blinking.