We wouldn't use the word "prosumer" to describe Hasselblad, but fresh reports claim that might be changing very soon. It seems Hassy will be breaking into the prosumer market with a brand new camera, and it could happen as soon as the middle of next week.
Struggling to understand your love life (or lack thereof?), this funny little photography meme helps explain things in terms us photo nerds understand: camera lenses.
Avast, best known for its antivirus software, has announced a new iOS app that's designed to help iPhone users free up space when snapping a lot of photos. It's called Photo Space, and it's designed to increase your photo storage by 7x.
Want an easy way to back up your memory card to any external hard drive without having to pull out your main computer? A Raspberry Pi computer can help you do just that.
Sebastian Weiss is an architectural photographer based in Hamburg, Germany. His passion is finding beautiful shapes, patterns, and colors in the architecture of buildings found across Europe.
Instagram boasts over 400 million users now and has never been more popular. But even though user growth charges forward, the interaction rate by users appears to be trending downward. A new study reports a 33% drop in Likes and Comments over a one year period.
Kristina Lechner of Kalamazoo, Michigan, is a fake-food photographer (not to be confused with a fake food-photographer). Her project Food Not Food is a series of tasty photos in which everything in the frame is something inedible that was found around the house.
After exhausting all other avenues of complaint with Nikon, a D500 user in Germany has filed an official complaint and sent Nikon a "cease and desist," claiming Nikon is engaging in false advertising when the company says its D500 has "integrated WiFI."
Photography company VSCO has released a new film pack that may finally woo the film emulation hold-outs among us. It's called the "VSCO Film Essentials" pack, and it'll nab you 14 of VSCO's most popular presets for just $59.
She's done a fashion shoot mid-skydive and mid-BASE jump, but supermodel and extreme athlete Roberta Mancino's latest exploit doesn't involve dressing up in fancy clothing while plummeting to the Earth. Instead, she strapped some GoPros to herself and took a wingsuit flight over an active volcano.
Official White House Photographer Pete Souza recently sat down with BBC Newsnight to reflect on his experience photographing President Obama. By the time Barack Obama finishes his eight years in office, Souza estimates he will have taken nearly 2 million photographs of the President.
GoPros are for recording crazy stunts and extreme action, but how are you supposed to control the GoPro while you're BASE jumping or surfing or riding a dirt bike? The GoHawk proposes an interesting hands-free solution: use your teeth or tongue instead.
Episode 81 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Using the moon as your main light source for late-night photography can be beautiful, surreal... and challenging. But photographer Karl Taylor has a neat trick up his sleeve that can save you hours worth of test shooting in this situation—the trick is called "math."
Canon called the EOS-1D X Mark II a "remarkable combination of innovation and refinement" when they announced it back in February, but they should have just posted this video instead. Sure, that violates the space-time continuum, but I'm sticking by it.
Researchers at Radboud University in Holland have managed to do something pretty crazy. Using hundreds of thousands of photographs, they've trained a neural network to take a hand-drawn sketch and create a photorealistic portrait from it.
Setting up your first portrait studio and wondering what color backdrop to get? If you can only choose one color, you might want to think about getting a gray one. In the 6-minute video above, photographer Joe Edelman explains why he thinks gray is the best color.
The Queen of England decided to wear a solid green outfit for her 90th birthday celebration last Saturday, and Photoshoppers across the Internet all smirked in unison before taking full advantage of this "green screen" opportunity.
Remember the Filmomat automatic film processor that went viral in December 2015? If you said "want!" when you saw that machine, there's good news for you: a new personal automatic film processing machine has already hit the market: it's called the Osiris F1.
London's new mayor Sadiq Khan was only elected last month, but he lost no time fulfilling a big campaign promise. Now that he's in office, Kahn is officially banning all ads that "conform to an unrealistic body image" in the London transit network.
MoMo is a new soft-focus lens for digital cameras by the Japanese lens company Yasuhara. Inspired by a 100-year-old Vest Pocket Kodak's meniscus lens, the Momo has a blurry quality that can be adjusted by changing the aperture.
Nick Ut's 'Napalm Girl' photograph is one of the most iconic conflict images of all time, and this short video shows you the horrifying moments before and after the photograph was taken. (Warning: The footage in this video is graphic and upsetting -- proceed at your own risk.)
Do you know your colors? Like REALLY know your colors? Because the "The Great RGB Guessing Challenge" wants to put your color competency to the test!
I hear a lot of chatter about how the decreased volume of camera sales is going to make some camera makers leave the market, or get absorbed by another company, or worse. Most of that speculation is all wrong for one very simple reason: it ignores the goals of the companies.
The very recently leaked Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 12mm f/1.4 ASPH lens for Micro Four Thirds has officially arrived. Ultra-wide and built to withstand some punishment, the 24mm equivalent lens is the widest prime the company offers that isn't a fisheye.
Felix Hernandez's photographs are other-worldly. Using intricate miniatures and macro photography techniques, he takes his dreams and translates them into reality through the camera. His latest project, The Wardrobe, is no exception.
The photo above of a wild genet is a single 73-second exposure that took many hours, tons of patience, and a bit of technology to capture. In this post, I'll share how I combined wildlife photography with light painting.
How do you capture a photo of a wild, people-averse, flighty great white shark in the murky green waters off of Cape Cod? If you're NatGeo photographer Brian Skerry, you pull out all the stops.
Animator Drew Christie of Whidbey Island, Washington, was recently commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to create a set of animated short films that tell the story of famous photography pioneers.
Want to shoot off-road racing from a creative perspective under a vehicle flying through the air? You should probably get permission to deploy some remote cameras. You probably shouldn't crouch in a dip on the track and wait for racers to whiz past above your head.
If you've bought any photos from the "Spaghetti" or "Apples" photo agencies through Facebook lately, watch out. Getty Images is after you. The photo agency is suing a man who allegedly sold thousands of stolen "Spaghetti" (an alias for Getty) images through a Facebook group.
Want to learn an advanced yet easy technique for reducing noise more intelligently in Photoshop? Blake Rudis of f64 Academy made this fantastic 8-minute tutorial on how you can target shadows for noise reduction using Photoshop's "Blend If" feature.
After helping resurrect direct positive photo paper back and then making it available for 120 film cameras to boot, Galaxy is at it again. And this time, they're aiming their crowdfunding-powered resurrection ray at dry glass plate photography.
Pretty much any photographer will be familiar with GAS: gear acquisition syndrome. As much as I hate to admit it, when I’m holding a new lens or camera body I can’t help but feel an exciting feeling.
Flickr generated a lot of bad feelings back in March 2016 by making its Auto-Uploadr app a Pro-only feature. If you're not Pro but would still like the convenience of automatically uploading new photos, you can build a custom gadget that does it for you.
There's a new 35mm SLR lens on the block, and it's claiming to be the "world's fastest." We're talking about the new Kerlee 35mm f/1.2 by Chinese manufacturer Shenzhen Dongzheng Optics Technology.
If RAW photography coming to iOS wasn't enough exciting news for you today, get this: the highly-regarded pro photo editing app Affinity Photo is coming to the iPad.
Photographer Paul Richardson of Manchester, UK, just released a time-lapse short film that's garnering high praise on the Web. It's titled "Patience," and is a 4K journey around Europe that took a great deal of patience to create.
Although my work ranges from dangling people off the edge of rooftops, to tying them down in underwater shipwrecks, to lighting them on fire—I recently discovered four steps in the process that have remained consistent year after year.
Need a pick-me-up this morning? We've got you covered. It turns out Apple snuck a big photography announcement into the background of the WWDC presentation yesterday: RAW photo editing is coming to iOS 10.
The folks at Digicame-info (translated link) have gotten their hands on a couple of leaked images of an exciting new Micro 4/3 lens from Panasonic: a super-wide angle Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 12mm f/1.4 ASPH.
Hey PetaPixel! Let's talk about taking pictures of lightsabers. How to make 'em look good, specifically.
Apple just unveiled iOS 10 at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today. Among the new features is a smarter Photos app for making, storing, sharing, and revisiting your memories.
John Kraus is just 16 years old, but already the young photographer is capturing amazing aerospace photos professionally, using gear most of us would probably scoff at.
New Jersey photographer Alana Hubbard found herself at the center of a massive controversy after her Walking Dead children's cosplay photos went viral. But despite the photos being called everything from "sick" to "disturbing," the photographer told PetaPixel that she stands behind the photos she took.
A couple of weeks ago, my team and I pulled together a weekend poolside shoot with models, perfect weather, and a drone. I operated the drone and got some beautiful footage. Magnificent footage. Award-winning footage.
Storehouse, the app for telling beautiful stories through photos, is shutting down. Competing against larger photo sharing services out there, Storehouse wasn't able to gain traction among the general public.
One of the big arguments against taking photos is that the act distracts you from actually enjoying what you're experiencing. But a new study has found that snapping pictures actually helps people enjoy experiences more.
BrushKnob is a new control device for Photoshop that aims to speed up your workflow by putting two extra physical controls at your fingertips: a knob and a button.
Traveling and photography go hand-in-hand, but without the right gear it can also be a pain. Fortunately, there's some great affordable travel photography accessories out there that will make traveling with a camera a joy.