This $3,500 Camera Can Help Your Car Shoot Google Street View Photos
Google has just certified the Insta360 Pro 360-degree 8K camera as the first "Street View Auto Ready" camera, capable of contributing to Street View after being mounted to a car.
Google has just certified the Insta360 Pro 360-degree 8K camera as the first "Street View Auto Ready" camera, capable of contributing to Street View after being mounted to a car.
Do you think you can tell the difference between full frame and crop sensor photos of the same scene and subject? Photographer Manny Ortiz did a shootout that you can use to test your eyes.
ON1 just announced a new version of its Photo RAW photo software, which is using crowdsourced ideas to become an ultimate RAW processor. This latest version has a number of new features and improvements, including HDR, panorama stitching, and more.
I recently attended Nikon's first-ever Fan Meeting event in Japan and one of the interesting things I was able to see and learn there was Nikon's history of equipment being used by NASA in space.
When I first began posting my photos online, I started getting comments like "Wow, you must have a great camera!," or "Anybody can take photos like these with expensive gear," or "I can’t take photos like these because I can’t afford an expensive camera like yours."
Two months after the US Army ended its use of DJI drones due to "cybersecurity" reasons, DJI has just launched a new privacy mode that allows operators to fly completely offline. DJI says the goal is to provide "enhanced data privacy assurances for sensitive government and enterprise customers."
For years now, I've been looking at using the Lexar Hub to efficiently transfer multiple SD cards to my iMac. The reason I never pulled the trigger was that it seemed like it was a bit much. The Lexar hub is pretty large and it requires its own power source which is an inconvenience while traveling and having to back up cards on your laptop. I think I finally found the solution!
When photographer Scott Kelby posted photos of Atlanta's new $1.6 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium, a lot of his viewers started wondering about his workflow. In response, he just shared an entire 11-minute walkthrough of his Lightroom editing process.
An Indiana couple has admitted to stealing over $1.2 million worth of cameras and other electronics from Amazon.
It’s 7:15 am on Sunday morning. I’m driving through the middle of Newcastle on my way to shoot wedding prep at a venue just over an hour away from my home. I pull over to the hard shoulder. Head in hands, crying and asking myself: “Chris, What the f**k are you doing?”
In this article, I'll be sharing 10 macro photography tips for beginners who are just starting out in the genre.
In this 12-minute tutorial by PiXimperfect, learn how to use alpha channels in Photoshop to make "insanely difficult" selections. An example situation for which you may need to employ this technique could be selecting pieces of the sky from behind a tree on the horizon.
A plus-size Texas woman says she was fired from her job last week after a steamy "body-positive" boudoir photo shoot she did went viral online.
The GoPro HERO6 is finally here and many of you are probably wondering if it's worth the upgrade or not. In this 13-minute video, the Canadian camera store Vistek compared the HERO6 with the HERO5 and came up with some startling results.
The XPan was the first Hasselblad camera to 35mm film and was able to shoot ultra-wide panorama negatives. Photographer Jordan Lockhart decided to mount an action camera to his XPan to capture what it's like to frame the world and shoot with this unique camera.
There are plenty of ways you can color correct an image, but here's a technique you might not have learned before. this technique from In this 6-minute tutorial by f64 Academy, learn how inverting the colors in your photos can help you effectively remove color casts.
Episode 216 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Fine art, travel and landscape photographer, Athena Carey
Apple has quietly acquired a new French technology startup, Regaind, which specializes in AI and computer vision for analyzing photos. Apple's Photos app is already able to search through images using keywords like "dog" or "tree" and pull out the relevant images, but this acquisition may indicate further AI developments for the app.
There's a new anime series coming out in Japan that may have the most accurately depicted cameras of all time. The reason is because Canon was recruited a consultant for ensuring that all the cameras and photography in the show are realistic.
Lightroom's adjustment brushes allow you to apply local adjustments to specific areas in your photos -- great for landscape photography. In this 18-minute tutorial from PiXimperfect, learn how to use the brushes to "shape light" in landscapes.
One way portrait photographers like Annie Leibovitz light large-scale group photos is by lighting smaller groups by themselves and then compositing everyone together into a large group. Photographer Barry Harley recently employed this technique with relatively affordable gear for a group photo with friends while on vacation.
In this 6-minute video, photographer Mark Denney talks through the Orton Effect and how it can be used to make dreamy landscape photos in an instant.
Wedding photo shoots usually happen around the time of a wedding ceremony, but a couple in Brazil is showing that it's never too late to create memorable photos for a lifetime. They just did their wedding portraits 60 years after they got married.
I have been a very happy Sony customer for the last 2+ years. My a7R continues to serve me well, but I am inching closer to an upgrade. I know the a7R II is an awesome camera. I've read the reviews. There are photographers I follow and respect who rave about it. I've held it in my hands and it feels good. And there's even the recently rumored a7R III.
Bald people can pose a bit of a difficulty for photographers, particularly because of the shine that can come off the skin in the studio. To illustrate this problem, Kalem from DSLR Video Shooter shaved his head for this 7-minute tutorial filled with tips for lighting bald people.
Want to see what a passionate photographer looks like? Just look at the life and work of 25-year-old Indonesian professional photographer Achmad Zulkarnain. Despite being born without hands and legs, Zulkarnain became interested in photography and has since made a name for himself as a photographer and retoucher.
Vitec Photographic, the company behind the Manfrotto and Gitzo brands, is joining forces with Sony to create a brand new line of products for "professionals who demand utmost quality and high performance." The products will be developed exclusively for Sony's Alpha line of cameras.
If you'd like to capture close-up drone footage of the Statue of Liberty, you're going to have to do it very soon. The FAA has just announced that drones will be banned from flying close to the famous statue as well as 9 other landmarks. The restriction takes effect October 5th, 2017.
Blocker is a new augmented reality app that could change the way you plan your next shoot. The app allows you to "shoot" with a variety of over 400 different virtual camera types, introducing objects into the real scene in front of you via your smartphone's camera.
Episode 215 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: B&W fine art photographer, Julia Anna Gospodarou
This is the story of how I recently almost lost a Nikon D850 DSLR to a scam on eBay. Scammers are now targeting higher value eBay sales with fake PayPal phishing emails.
The GoPro Fusion is a new 360° camera that captures an immersive experience in 5.2K resolution at 30fps. It was announced by GoPro today alongside the new HERO6 Black camera at the company's launch event in San Francisco.
Photographer Kilian Schönberger shot a series of otherworldly photos showing the "earth pyramids" found in the province of South Tyrol in northern Italy. These are unusual and beautiful natural formations caused by erosion.
GoPro has just announced the HERO6 Black. The new action camera offers 4K video resolution at 60fps, as well as 2.7K at 120fps and Full HD 1080p video at 240fps -- perfect for high-resolution slow-motion video clips.
A few weeks back I ran some tests on the RAW files taken with the latest iPad Pro. Frankly, I was pretty impressed, the quality was indeed considerably better than what’s possible on my “soon to be replaced iPhone 6S Plus”. Those test results got me quite excited because I fully expected to find the DNGs produced by the new iPhone 8 Plus would be a small step further step up the quality ladder.
To the untrained eye, the difference between the vibrance and saturation sliders is not immediately obvious. Jesús Ramirez of Photoshop Training Channel explains the subtle difference between these two useful tools in this 5-minute video.
Hello, photographers. Here's a giant list of 194 photo editing tools and photography apps you can use in your photography.
If you think the $799 iPhone 8 Plus' photo quality is impressive, get this: the camera modules are estimated to cost just $32.50 in materials.
Want to spice up your photography and try some unorthodox methods for getting unusual photos? This 1-minute video may be the inspiration you need. Photographer Dan Watson runs through 5 neat accessories that will let you "hack" your way to creative photos.
Hasselblad just released this 1-minute video introducing its new A6D-100c, a 100-megapixel industrial camera designed specifically for aerial photography.
People's eyes are more attracted to areas of photos that have more "meaning" than areas that "stick out." That's according to a newly published study by a team of researchers at UC Davis' Center for Mind and Brain.
I confess: I’m a photo gear junkie. I’ve bought dozens of cameras and lenses, way too many tripods, camera bags and backpacks, and many thousands of dollars’ worth of filters, flash units, and other accessories. I’ve tempered my obsession over the last few years, mostly because there's only so much room to store these things, but from the flood of new products hitting the market recently I'd say I slowed down just in time.
The popular JOBY GorillaPod has a new challenger. Tenikle is a new three-tentacled and suction-cup-covered tripod that's jumping into the flexible, portable tripod market.
BBC Earth has just released a 5-minute prequel for its upcoming natural history TV series Blue Planet II. Watch the video above for an eye-dazzling dose of visual inspiration.
Nikon's marketing says the $3,300 D850's autofocus components are the same as the $6,500 D5, but how do the two cameras stack up in real-world autofocusing? Photographer Matt Granger decided to put the systems to the test, doing a shootout to see how the two cameras' focus and tracking abilities compare.
Photographer Rich Johnson recently completed a photo project for a local childhood cancer nonprofit in Orlando, Florida. Titled #NoMoreOptions, it's a series of portraits of people who lost a loved one to childhood cancer.
Conventional synthetic camera straps may be either comfortable or attractive, but it can be difficult to find one that's both. Enter KIKI. Photographer Kishor Krishnamoorthi is producing a line of designer camera straps that are crafted in India from a breathable and soft, yet strong, cotton fabric.
Snapchat has been rolling out a continuous stream of new filters, but the latest ones are rather unusual. Following the trend of Snapchat working with augmented reality, the new additions will totally transform a boring blue sky into something far more dramatic.
Getty Images has banned photos that contain subjects whose body shapes have been retouched to make them look thinner or larger. The move comes in response to a new law in France that requires that Photoshopped weight be clearly labeled.
Photographer Mathieu Stern has been doing shootout comparisons showing how the same models look when captured through different vintage lenses. For this 5.5-minute video, Stern used the Konika Hexanon 28mm f/3.5, the Minolta 100mm f/2.5, and the Industar 50mm f/3.5.
