As a street photographer, I accept that I have a bias towards the kind of work and criticisms I prefer to seek out as an audience to the work of others - although there are examples of landscape or portraiture that I do enjoy it is street photography and photojournalism that take up the majority of my interest.
Dina Alfasi is a mother in Israel who commutes to her architectural engineering job at a hospital. Whether she's walking or riding a bus, train, or airplane, Alfasi is always ready with her iPhone to capture life's beautiful little moments.
Oppo is teasing an innovative new smartphone camera system it has created: one that offers a 10x optical "lossless" zoom. The latest reports say the module is already in mass production and the first phone packing it will be out within months.
Underwater Photographer of the Year has just announced the winners of its 2019 photo contest. Photographer Richard Barnden of the UK won both Underwater Photographer of the Year 2019 and British Underwater Photographer of the Year 2019 for his photo titled "The Gauntlet" (shown above).
Ricoh has announced the THETA Z1, the company's latest THETA 360-degree camera that becomes the flagship camera of the line that was first introduced in 2013.
New York photographer Justin Borucki has been documenting his city with a pop-up tintype studio out of the back of his car. While shooting a portrait for a client recently, Borucki unexpectedly captured a beautiful leaf-like pattern across the photo due to the frigid wind chill causing ice crystals to form.
NASA astronaut Drew Feustel grew up in Detroit and is an avid car and racing enthusiast. So much so that while commanding the International Space Station in 2018, Feustel photographed racetracks from space with a Nikon DSLR before watching the race itself in his free time.
Sony has announced the new RMT-P1BT Wireless Remote Commander, a device that allows photographers to control their camera wirelessly via Bluetooth.
Here’s a simple breakdown of 7 different lighting techniques you can implement next time you shoot portraits with studio lighting. For these examples, we used continuous lights to better illustrate it, but you can strobes as well, of course.
The new L-Mount alliance between Leica, Panasonic, and Sigma is heating up even more. Sigma has announced that it will be releasing 11 of its highly-regarded Art prime lenses for the L-Mount and a new lens adapter.
Sony has announced the new FE 135mm f/1.8 G Master prime lens for its full-frame E-mount cameras. It's a "high-performance tool" geared toward professional portrait, wedding, and sports photographers.
Apple's "Shot on iPhone" photo contest sparked some controversy back in January over whether it would pay winning photographers to use their photos in ads, but the company quickly clarified that licensing fees would be paid. Well, the contest has ended, and Apple has just unveiled the winning iPhone photos.
If you've followed Tennessee basketball, chances are you've seen one of those really cool overhead photos. That top-down, bird's eye view is something you don't see every day, and only very few have access to capturing this unique angle.
NVIDIA's mind-blowing AI that generates faces of people who don't exist recently led to an unofficial website called thispersondoesnotexist.com that lets anyone generate a new random face in an instant. Creative director Mike Solomon has built upon the idea with a new website called Judge Fake People that experiments with letting the public rank the attractiveness of AI-generated faces.
100 years from now, no one is going to care who I am. I know this. I don’t mean that in a bad way and I don’t say it in the hopes someone will contradict me and shower me with praise; this is not said as compliment bait.
Photographer Sean Scott was shooting at a Western Australia beach a couple of years ago when he captured this beautiful photo of two sharks inside a large ocean wave.
If you're a film photographer who loves shooting Fujifilm film stocks, you may want to stockpile some film right now: Fujifilm just announced that major price hikes are coming to its films and papers starting on April 1st, 2019.
Samyang has just announced the XP 10mm f/3.5, the world's widest rectilinear prime lens. The lens beats Venus Optics' Laowa 12mm f/2.8 lens and offers the same focal length as the Laowa 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 FE (a slower non-prime lens).
Kodak launched an on-demand photography service called Kodakit back in January 2017 that aims to connect photographers to brands looking for photography. But there's something all photographers need to know about this "Uber of photography," as it's been called: it demands that you sign over the "entire copyright" to the photos you shoot.
I recently I canceled my PhotoShelter account after being with the service for 8 years, and I wanted to provide a better understanding of the pros and cons of PhotoShelter and Squarespace. I currently use Squarespace and while I wouldn’t say the service is without its faults, I do believe that it is a better service for my needs.
The 2019 Oscars are just a day away now. If you'd like a dose of visual inspiration, check out this 10-minute video by Burger Fiction. It steps through every single film that won the "Best Cinematography" Oscar over the past 90 years, from 1929 to 2018 (and 2019 nominees as well).
Want to use your Canon EF-mount lenses on a Nikon camera... with autofocus? That will soon be possible. KIPON has announced the world's first "CANIKON" lens adapter.
Kenko Tokina has announced the new Tokina opera 16-28mm f/2.8 FF lens for full-frame Canon and Nikon DSLRs.
The Eastman Kodak Company announced on Wednesday that Jeff Clarke is stepping down as CEO after serving for five years at the helm. Clarke is leaving the company.
Russian-born, London-based visual artist Helga Stentzel has an imaginative series of photos showing animals that she created out of various foods.
The classic charades-inspired word-guessing drawing game Pictionary is entering the digital age, and light-painting photographers will feel right at home. If you need some fun practice before you head out with your camera, the upcoming Pictionary Air involves drawing in the air with a light pen.
Light and Sony have announced a new partnership to advance a future of smartphones with four or more cameras on the back.
Ricoh has officially launched the GR III, its latest high-end compact digital camera that's designed to be the ultimate tool for street photographers.
When it comes to photography, it can be easy to blame our bad images on our gear (or lack of it). The truth is, while gear can make your job easier, there is no substitute for the time and effort spent on learning to perfect your craft.
Samsung today kicked off a new mobile category with its pioneering Galaxy Fold. The device features a 7.3-inch folding screen and 6 cameras. It's a smartphone and tablet "folded into one."
Episode 313 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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I very often have this strong negative reaction when a newsletter arrives in my inbox or I see an online article where the heading reads: “5 rules to follow when composing an image” — or something to that effect.
Samsung has announced its latest flagship smartphone lineup, the Galaxy S10 series. The new phones feature improved cameras and a dedicated Instagram mode.
For my latest project, titled RAW, I shot a series of UV portraits revealing the true appearance beyond the visible. Composed of twenty photographs divided into ten diptychs, the series illustrates the raw and natural character of the human being, revealed by the technique of ultraviolet photography.
Swiss photographer Fabian Oefner has created an eye-popping new photo showing a 1972 Lamborghini Miura SV disintegrating with its individual components exploding in all directions. Here's what's crazy: Oefner actually photographed the $2 million car, spending nearly 2 years shooting and stitching the parts.
In a world where everyone gets a trophy just for participating, I feel the need to point something out. You probably already know this, but l’m gonna say it anyway: You will fail.
900 dpi prints?! That’s kinda crazy, right? You just need to print at 300 or 240 or 200 because somebody on the Internet told me no one can tell the difference.
A prominent Houston socialite is the subject of a viral video this week after she was filmed losing her cool over a baby's first birthday photo shoot on public property.
For those of you that are unaware, a couple of weeks ago, the U.K. online photography retailer WEX photographic, quietly announced that Bowens was coming back and to many, myself included, this was a huge surprise.
LensRentals founder Roger Cicala is known for disassembling camera gear and sharing his findings on his company blog. Now he has done the opposite: he's sharing how he built (from scratch) a prototype 4.9mm f/3.5 "hyperfisheye" lens, the widest fisheye lens ever made. It's a lens so wide that it can literally see behind itself.
A little more than 10 years ago, I had a realization that would one day change my life forever. During an evening stroll in the local woods with my camera in hand, I became aware of just how much I love photography and what it means to me; it was at that moment I knew it would be a part of me for a long time to come.
Tamron has just announced the development of two new full-frame DSLR lenses (the 35-150mm F/2.8-4 Di VC OSD and SP 35mm F/1.4 Di USD, and one new full-frame mirrorless lens (the 17-28mm F/2.8 Di III RXD).
Prior to Canon releasing its first full-frame mirrorless camera, I wrote an article discussing how Canon will dominate the mirrorless industry. Many of you made fun of the title, which was fair enough; the comments did make me chuckle.
Sony's new a6400 is set to hit store shelves on February 28 in the US, but the camera is already available over in Thailand. But one photographer who just bought the camera found an unexpected issue: the top of the camera body states that it's an a6300.
To shoot directly into the sun is both challenging and fun. Challenging because it can be difficult to control the light and, not least, our images are very often marred by sun flare. One simple way of avoiding flare is to shoot an extra exposure with one finger or more obscuring the sun.
The sailor who was photographed kissing a nurse in Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic photo V-J Day in Times Square has died. George Mendonsa was 95.
Check out this incredible photo of the moon. It may look like it was captured using some ultra-advanced (and expensive) equipment, but it was actually created by astrophotography enthusiast Andrew McCarthy by capturing and combining 50,000 photos.
If you were annoyed by Apple's pronunciation of the word 'bokeh,' then you may be doubly peeved by the company's latest iPhone ad. This 38-second TV spot turns 'bokeh' into a verb.
NVIDIA got the world talking in December 2018 after showing off a new AI that can create ultra-realistic photos of people who don't actually exist. Now there's a website that lets you generate these imaginary portraits yourself. It's called thispersondoesnotexist.com.
Briefing a photographer can be challenging, especially if you haven’t hired one in the past. A good brief provides all the key information about your project that a photographer will need to make logistical, technical and creative decisions.