There's an expression in relation to investment banking I've heard which I think translates quite well into advice for documentary photographers: "it's not timing the market, its time in the market."
A content creator for Moment -- an online marketplace for photo and video gear -- has shared why he ditched shooting in RAW and more often than not will shoot with his Fujifilm JPEG files, making most of the different ways to post-process in the camera, instead.
On August 3, Ancestry.com -- the largest for-profit genealogy company in the world -- updated its terms and conditions to include new language that gives it the right to use any family photos uploaded to its system for anything it likes, forever and without limits.
The UN has a new online photo exhibition titled Plastic is Forever. Captured by photographers from around the world, the stark images reveal how mankind's use of plastic has impacted the daily lives and environments of people and animals across the globe.
For most, Hasselblad is a name that has been associated with iconic photographs and technical quality -- and a huge price that reflects that. However, has Hasselblad always been a premium photography brand, and why are they so expensive?
It seems there's a food photographer out there that deserves a raise. A woman has sued McDonald's after claiming that a cheeseburger ad photo she saw was so tempting that it caused her to break her religious fast during Lent.
Canon and Sony made up a vast majority of the camera sales in 2020, which saw a 40% dip in market size globally during what was an incredibly rough year for the industry and the market is only predicted to shrink further.
Shortly after taking delivery of the new Nikon Z MC 105mm f/2.8 VR S lens, I made a series of photographs to test its diffraction and bokeh characteristics using the 45MP Nikon Z 7II camera in a real-world situation.
Photographing insects in the field demands higher shutter speeds, a steady hand, and a smaller aperture to ensure sharpness.
Episode 347 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Is Apple actually snooping on your photos? Jefferson Graham wrote an article last week warning this based on the company's child safety announcement. An attention-grabbing headline? Certainly. Accurate? It’s complicated.
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!
I find it incredibly fun to use older, especially unique, digital cameras both as a challenge and for sheer enjoyment.
The beauty dish is one of the most commonly used light modifiers for beauty and portrait work, but being popular doesn’t mean that it’s an easy-to-use modifier without any quirks and intricacies. In fact, you can only harness the true magic of the beauty dish if you know the principles behind it inside-out. In this article, I will explain everything you need to know when using a beauty dish.
TTArtisan has announced a new $235 50mm f/1.4 lens for multiple full-frame mirrorless systems: Sony E, Nikon Z, Canon RF, and Leica L.
Just one day after Apple confirmed that it plans to roll out new software that will detect child abuse imagery on iPhones, WhatsApp's head took to Twitter to call out the move as a "surveillance system" that could be abused.
Every day, the PetaPixel Instagram account is sharing excellent photography from our readers and those who inspire us. Here’s a look at some of our recent favorite posts and the photographers behind the lens.
Canon has filed a patent for a system that expands the battery indicator of a camera to also display the remaining life of a connected USB-C battery supply.
For the past five years, I have organized an annual photographic Tableaux Vivant based on classic paintings. I have included anywhere from 15, or in the instance of my 2021 construction, No Vaccine for Death, 90 collaborators.
Waves are some of the most rewarding subjects for photography that I know. For starters, if you miss one, another will be along very soon! Of course, they are also unpredictable and can be dangerous.
The photos on your iPhone will no longer be private to just you in the fall. The photos are still yours, but Apple’s artificial intelligence is going to be looking through them constantly.
We all love soft light because it adds that dreaminess to food and drink photos that will always be great. However, recently I have been seeing more people use hard light in their food and drink photography.
Joerg Daiber -- the German filmmaker behind "Little Big World" -- has created a mezmerizing, miniaturized showcase of the Ore Mountains in Germany using a tilt-shift perspective.
Event photography is an art form, and it takes a while to achieve what you’re looking for. Not only does shooting an event require you to be constantly on the move, but it’s also necessary to know how to fully use each setting on your camera.
The Subaru-Asahi Camera which is installed at the Subaru Telescope dome in Maunakea, Hawai'i captured a rare "meteor cluster" event, an unusual phenomenon where a group of meteors appeared from the same direction in the sky for 10 seconds.
New tripod manufacturer VuePoint has launched a travel tripod that it claims is lighter than most smartphones, yet can safely support up to three and a half pounds of gear.
Serif has released its latest 1.10 update to its image editor suite, Affinity Photo, alongside Affinity Designer and Publisher, which claims to bring "superpowered performance" with a completely re-engineered architecture.
Following a report earlier today, Apple has published a full post that details how it plans to introduce child safety features across three areas: in new tools available to parents, through scanning iPhone and iCloud photos, and in updates to Siri and Search.
A group of scammers is reportedly abusing Instagram's protections against self-harm and impersonation and will target and ban nearly any Instagram account they want seemingly at will. Anyone can pay for the "ban-as-a-service," and it costs as little as $5.
Photographer Anna Isabella Christensen has been working on a series of self-portraits over the last four years but has spent the last several months working specifically in Iceland, capturing dramatic images near the erupting volcano there.