It's election day in the United States, so we'll forgive you if you can't stomach any more election-related news. But if you have it in you, this 360° video from the New York Times offers a peek at what it's like to photograph a major presidential campaign.
With the advent of better camera technology and clever processing software, do we really need neutral density filters any more? Can’t we just replicate the effect of filters in Photoshop or even in camera? Isn’t the dynamic range sufficient in my shiny new Sony camera? Well, yes and no…
In about one week, we will mark the anniversary of the most traumatic and violent piece of French history in the last decades. On the 13th of November, 2015, several coordinated terrorist attacks took place in Paris, less than a year after the attacks against the newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
It's an age-old question: how are you supposed to get hired as a photographer when clients are only looking for photographers who already have experience? World-renowned photographer and entrepreneur Chase Jarvis has an answer for you.
The iPhone 7 Plus has a new Portrait mode that artificially blurs backgrounds using info captured by the two rear cameras. If you want a similar look but don't have an iPhone 7 Plus, check out the new Patch app for iOS. It uses neural networks to generate faux depth and blur.
The Leica M-D (the digital rangefinder with no LCD screen)—all hype, or the real deal?
Cuba has long been the go-to location for iconic street and travel photography—its combination of tropical beauty and crumbling textures mixed with a festive population is photo gold. The trouble is, with the recent influx of tourism the floodgates of photographers has opened and it is becoming harder to get that truly unique image.
My name is Nick Fancher and I'm a portrait and commercial photographer who specializes in lighting, specifically with the use of small flash in unconventional locations.
Leica today unveiled the Leica TL, a new mirrorless camera that builds upon the Leica T that was introduced in 2014.
Nikon's high-end camera division hasn't been doing so hot these days, and now a new reports claims that Nikon will be cutting about 1,000 jobs in Japan, which represent about 10% of the company's total workforce. Nikon, however, quickly issued a statement denying the report.
We've all heard or read those tips for getting the most out of your smartphone's limited battery life, but what about us photographers? How do you make sure you're squeezing every last shot out of your DSLR or mirrorless camera? This video will tell you.
The release of Microsoft's Surface Studio desktop made a big splash with the photo community, not least of all because of the stunning launch video Microsoft used to announce the innovative computer. A video that was filmed, it turns out, by an incredible robot arm thingy.
Great news Canon lovers. That new 5D Mark IV you just bought won't be limited to the manufacturer firmware for too much longer. It seems the talented hackers at Magic Lantern have already managed to break into the new camera.
Here's a quick DIY build for cash-strapped studio photographers who are sick of gaffer's tape-ing their reflectors to light stands. YouTuber Joe Edelman will show you how to build not one, but two DIY studio reflector holders for 10 bucks total.
I hold a private pilot certificate, as well as a remote pilot certificate; I am also a photographer. I just wanted to share with you some advice from a budding pilot who comes from the much larger world of flying that is general aviation.
I was 13 years old when I was first bitten by the photography bug, merely as a matter of happenstance. Though I wasn’t completely isolated from photography, as my father was already shooting weddings at the time, he happened to need an assistant one particular day so I tagged along.
Olympus has said the only thing standing between the OM-D E-M1 Mark II and better stabilization is the rotation of the Earth—and so far, the camera's bite is living up to the bark. In fact, the 6.5-stop stabilization is so powerful, it looks like you can capture sharp hand-held 5 second exposures!
Oh dear. Photographer Justin Borucki spotted this facepalm-worthy eBay posting this weekend and shared it with the folks over at PopPhoto. So let's play a game together. Take a look and tell us: what's wrong with this picture?
I’ve got a love/hate relationship with lifestyle photography. Lifestyle photography for me photos that feel like candid moments where a person is looking at you and not your camera. Each photograph feels like the viewer is with them living in the moment with whomever is in the photograph, and I love that.
Episode 122 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Ken Sklute, Canon Explorer of Light
After the new Macbook Pro was unveiled by Apple last month, many people were unhappy about Apple's decision to remove the "cumbersome" SD card slot and only include USB-C ports. In response, to make buying the new laptops a little more palatable, Apple is slashing prices on its USB-C/Thunderbolt 3 dongles -- temporarily.
Olympus this week announced its new STF-8 Macro Flash, the world's first macro flash that boasts durable weatherproofing.
Over a year after announcing its Photoshop Fix photo editing app for iOS, Adobe has finally released the same app for Android users.
Before the NBA basketball game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors on Thursday, Thunder star Russell Westbrook showed up at the arena in style... wearing a bright orange press photographer vest.
Photographer and father Andy Whelan is receiving an outpouring of support from across the globe after sharing a heartbreaking photo of his 4-year-old daughter's fight against cancer.
I've been shooting Canon for the last 15 years and have finally made the decision to move on. The reasons are not really the focus of this article but rather my process for getting into a new system and making that process a creative one.
Film fanatics have a new app to drool over today. Mastin Labs—purveyors of the self-styled "only" Lightroom and Photoshop presets "that truly match film"—is taking their obsessive devotion to accurate film emulation into the world of smartphone photography.
Recent announcements from Sigma have made a lot of portrait and landscape photographers very happy. The question is, can the Sigma 85mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art and the Sigma 12-24mm f/4 DG HSM Art replace the current favorites from Canon and Nikon?
Back in May, four filmmakers were caught on camera walking all over the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park, sparking widespread outrage. This week, we found out that three of the men could potentially spend time in prison for their crime.
Photography is our playground. We play in it everyday: with our phones, DSLRs, mirrorless cameras, etc. We love discovering more about it... we love to hate it.
Strapping a smartphone onto a POV 'necklace' is soooo last season. If you want the newest, coolest way to receive weird looks on the street, the Smabow baseball cap with camera mount is definitely the way to go.
Get ready for a serious photo history lesson. Starting November 17th, TIME Magazine will begin what they're calling "an unprecedented exploration" of the 100 most influential images of all time. From Tank Man, to Babe Ruth, to the JFK Assassination.
The headline might seem more at home in a totalitarian country, but it comes from right here in the United States. Several journalists and documentary filmmakers are facing serious felony charges and decades of prison time for filming oil pipeline protests in North Dakota and Washington State.
"What was your first camera?" The answer to that question can reveal a lot about a person. Did you start on digital or film? Was it an SLR, a point-and-shoot, maybe even a medium format camera? Was it your mom's camera? In this fun video, 10 top industry photographers share what their first camera was.
Few mayoral photographers can list a billionaire and possible presidential candidates as subjects in their retrospectives. Ed Reed is one of the few. His career over the last 30 years — and five administrations — has documented the highs and lows of this nation’s largest city.
For his latest project, titled "The Blood Forest," French photographer Philippe Echaroux shot a series of photos showing portraits of indigenous Brazilians projected onto the trees of the Amazon rainforest.
In 2013, 8 wedding photographers, scattered around the UK, decided to get together and take an October trip to Paris. We were to live together for a few days, wander the streets and dedicate each day to street photography. In the evening we would review and critique each others work.
This is the archerfish from Asia. These amazing fish have the unusual habit of feeding on land-based insects. Even more unique is their method of hunting their chosen prey: they spit a powerful jet of water at their dinner knocking it from overhanging foliage into the water, where the fish quickly gobbles them up!
Chinese smartphone maker Huawei today announced its new Mate 9, a large "phablet" that features a new design for a dual Leica rear camera.
The Chicago Cubs finally won the World Series last night after 108-year drought. But what has some photojournalists talking are the cover photos published by two of Chicago's biggest newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.
Want to be a wildlife photographer but find it hard to get out of the city? Try shooting urban wildlife. Here's an inspiring 13-minute Nat Geo Live! talk in which photographer Bertie Gregory shares stories about his adventures in capturing wild animals on camera in England's urban jungles.
Drone lighting is a technique that's taking off in the world photography. After seeing photographer Reuben Wu photos of landscapes at night that were lit using an LED-equipped drone, photographers Ryland West and Paul Heran were inspired to take the technique to a new level with a project titled Highlight.
Episode 121 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Featured: Portrait photographer Hannah Couzens
Forget those dinky HD "cameras" attached to tiny quadcopter "drones," if you want to capture really amazing aerial shots, you have to do what Polish photographer Miron Bogacki did: build your own heavy-duty octocopter and slap a high-end full-frame DSLR on that bad boy.
There's finally a convenient way to take your dual screen setup on-location, and no, we're not talking about a hard-shell case for your Apple Cinema Display. We're talking about the Spontaneous Pop-Up Display (SPUD) that's currently blowing up Kickstarter.
Photographer Tse Kao calls these photos 'Blendscapes,' and they're not created using Photoshop. These odd images are captured by taking a photo of a landscape, using that photo to create clothing, and then photographing those clothes against the same exact landscape.
When Apple unveiled its latest Macbook Pro laptops last month, one change photographers immediately noticed is the absence of a built-in SD card slot. While it hasn't caused as much of a hoopla as the removal of the headphone jack from the iPhone 7, the design decision does have a lot of photographers talking and some photographers griping.
Photographers pining for their very own Top Model-style reality show can stop now, Nigel Barker's show Top Photographer has officially arrived. And you can already watch the first episode right here on PetaPixel.
Instead of capturing a night sky time-lapse with the stars spinning overhead, Windston attached a GoPro HERO4 to his star-tracking telescope rig and shot the 1-minute video above that show's Earth's rotation in a different way.
DJI's drone manufacturing factories are normally hidden from the public, but occasionally workers forget to delete test videos from memory cards before they ship in drones. These "found" videos offer a peek into the place where the world's most popular camera drones are made.