Leigh Schneider

How You Can Create Purposefully With Conceptual Fine Art Photography

A side-by-side comparison: On the left, a woman with her eyes closed is adorned with intricate, dark natural elements and a large moth covering part of her face. On the right, a woman with a serene expression emerges from a white floral and leaf pattern backdrop.

A reason to be, a strengthening force, a ‘guiding light’ -- purpose gives us joy, motivation, and the ability to persevere. As photographers, it may then be beneficial to connect our art form with purpose. In doing so, we may find a more holistic approach to creating -- helping us to sustain inspiration, providing us with variation and challenge, and, most importantly, giving us a sense of fulfillment.

Chris Niccolls

Canon EOS R5 Mark II Review: Canon’s Most Capable Do-It-All Camera

A person with gray hair and a beard holds up a Canon EOS R5 camera against a background of trees. The photo includes a "PetaPixel Reviews" logo in the bottom left corner.

When Canon released its latest flagship camera, the EOS R1, it was fair to say that it was overshadowed by the humble R5 Mark II. Like a thief in the night, the mantle for the most exciting Canon camera of 2024 was stolen by the R5 Mark II, and for very good reason. I got my hands on a full-production model and decided that a road trip was in order.

Jeremy Gray

AI Empowers Fake Photos and Disinformation in Ways Photoshop Never Could

The image shows two logos: Adobe Photoshop (Ps) on the left and Adobe Illustrator (AI) on the right, with a "not equal" symbol (≠) between them. The background is a swirling, abstract design with shades of green, blue, and black.

Since digital image editing tools like Adobe Photoshop hit the scene in the late 1980s, there have been heightened concerns about whether photos can be trusted. This long-time worry has become an increasingly common refrain among artificial intelligence's most ardent defenders, but it doesn't serve as a sound defense against criticisms of AI.

Jaron Schneider
A graph showing the number of photos over time from 1951 to 2023. It features a sharp increase in digital photos since the early 2000s, peaking around 2012, and a decline afterward. An icon of a camera and smartphone is overlaid on the left side of the graph.

The Rise and Crash of the Camera Industry in One Chart

The digital camera industry has endured a lot of changes over the years and is currently at the tail of a huge collapse that is tied directly to the proliferation of smartphones. A new chart that uses data from camera shipments shows just how stark the difference has been between the highs and lows over the last 70 years.

Jeremy Gray
Two images of the same male lion in a grassy savanna. The left image shows the lion partially pixelated with a zebra mane, while the right image shows the lion's natural mane. An arrow and a wand icon between the images indicate transformation or editing.

Adobe’s Magic Fixup is an AI Cut-and-Paste Photo Editor Trained on Videos

Although Adobe routinely releases new artificial intelligence features in its software, the company's research division is always working hard on technological breakthroughs, long before related features make it into consumer-facing software. Adobe Research's latest creation is Magic Fixup, which automates complex image editing tasks.