A prominent French physicist is apologizing after admitting that a viral "distant star" photo he shared on Twitter was not actually captured by the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but was rather just a slice of chorizo pork sausage.
Author Kyle Scheele grew up looking at a family portrait that has hung in his parents' house for the past 30 years -- a photo his dad absolutely hates. As a Christmas present, Scheele decided to use his Photoshop skills on the picture to create the best gift idea he's ever had.
Author and motivational speaker Kyle Scheele recently used his Photoshop skills and creativity to pull off a humorous prank on a gas station convenience store.
For its latest prank, the popular YouTube channel HowAboutBeirut came up with a clever and humorous way to use stealthily-captured photos and rapidly-made prints. This 3-minute video is titled, "Surprising Humans with Their Pictures."
Tomorrow is April Fools' Day, and with such a bummer of a year leading up to this point (and things are only now just starting to look better in a few places), everyone could use some laughs. To that end, photographer Richard Wakefield shows how you can create eight visual jokes in Photoshop.
Here's a little comic relief for your Friday. In a recent video, the folks at Top End Safari Camp in Australia showed how they use one of their crocodiles to scare the daylights out of tourists while they pose for a group photo.
Australian comedian Lewis Spears is known in his home country for fake stories to news outlets. Last year, Spears traveled to Los Angeles and pretended to be a famous photographer at a popular photo spot. He managed to fool not only aspiring Instagram stars but a national media outlet crew as well.
YouTubers Zac and Jay pulled a prank on London Fashion Week photographers earlier this month. In an attempt to highlighting how ridiculous some modern "fashion" looks to the typical viewer, they dressed up a grandma in a mishmash of random props and clothing... and somehow got her featured on Vogue.com.
Like many women these days, German actress and model Palina Rojinski has been on the receiving end of wildly inappropriate and lewd comments left on her Instagram photos. She recently got back at the abusive and sexist Internet commenters in quite a clever way: by sharing a fake cleavage photo featuring a guy's butt crack.
The world of high fashion can get weird, and YouTubers Zac and Jay wanted to see whether they could fake their way to the top of London Fashion Week 2019 by capitalizing on this weirdness. As you can see in this humorous 15-minute video, they accomplished their goal in getting photographers to buy the ruse, hook, line, and sinker.
One of the biggest stories in the art world this year was street artist Banksy having his painting "self-destruct" just moments after the work sold for nearly $1.4 million at auction. Banksy just shared the 3-minute director's cut above of the prank as it went down.
The anonymous street artist known as Banksy just pulled off one of the greatest pranks ever seen in the art world: one of his paintings was sold for nearly $1.4 million at a Sotheby’s auction in London last night, and immediately after being sold, the painting self-destructed.
In the age of Instagram, snapping a photo of a picture-perfect meal before eating it has become something of a ritual (science also suggests it helps food taste better). But one guy has made it a ritual of his own to ruin his friends' Instagram food photos and capture their horrified expressions.
Kodak Moments UK pulled a cringe-worthy prank on a few Londoners recently. They attracted unsuspecting strangers to their display under the guise of a "custom-built, super-fast phone charger," and then promptly 'wiped' all of the data off of their smartphones... oops.
During a wedding reception back in September 2013, photographer Tammy Bryan and the couple decided to have a little fun with the guests by organizing a flash mob. Bryan is the organizer of the Greater Cincinnati Photographers Club, and she asked 100 of the group's photographers to help brighten up the first dance... literally.
For the past several years, a guy in Seattle named Florin Mehedinti has been pranking his wife, Gracie, with …
PetaPixel has written a number of times in the past about Nigerian 419 scammers targeting photographers and photography assistants. After spending time setting up business arrangements, the scammers will use shady tactics to try and steal your hard-earned money.
I'm a freelance photographer, and I recently got sick and tired of being contacted by these scammers. To get back at them, I started having ridiculous conversations with them to lead them on and piss them off. I also started publishing the exchanges on a new site called Messing with Scammers.
Have you ever tried to show a friend a photo on your phone, only to have them start swiping through your entire personal photo collection uninvited? If you do know someone like that, there's now a lighthearted way to prank them. It's an Android app called Ninja Snap that will surprise nosey swipers by showing them their own face in your album.
Nikon has unveiled the new Coolpix P∞ superzoom, the world's first compact camera with a 1458x zoom lens. While most of the design, specs, and features are identical to the camera's predecessor, the Coolpix P900, the P∞ has a new 24-34992mm (35mm equiv.) lens that opens up new worlds of possibilities.
This guy from Trollstation recently did an experiment to see what kind of …
If you appreciate simple pranks, here’s a photo-related one you may find amusing. Greg Benson of …
Here’s a lighthearted video that’s going viral on the Internet: over the course of 2014, …
If you need a reason to crack a smile today, or you and your significant other just found out you're having a baby and you'd like to announce it in a fun and creative way, San Francisco couple Kat and Kris can help.
Instead of just delivering the news directly, the couple pretended they were taking a group photo of their friends and shot video instead. When the time came for the standard "say cheese" moment at the end of the countdown, they instead told everyone to say "Kat's pregnant" and waited for the lightbulb to go off.
Looking for a personalized photo-related gag to pull for Halloween this year? Look no further than this head-in-a-jar prank. It's quite easy to pull off and doesn't require too much time or money.
There was a time, before selfies and social networks and WiFi built in to most consumer-level cameras, that getting a group shot in a busy tourist setting required two steps. Step one: ask a stranger to take your group's photo, and Step Two: apologize profusely as, one by one, every person in your group keeps handing the kind stranger ANOTHER camera so they can have a picture too.
Those days are, for the most part, gone. But back in 2009, an Australian comedy show called The Chaser's War on Everything had some fun with 'step two.'
As we've done for the past couple of years, rather than try our hand at comedy and post something tricky on April Fools, we instead round up all the best photography April Fools' jokes we can find and post them all in one place.
Buckle up, enjoy the ride, and try to imagine a world where these ideas were actually real.
What are we to do when the standard selfie becomes boring and mundane? Well, I'm pretty sure 23-year-old YouTuber Jason Rodjanapanyakul figured it out.
Here's a little bit of funny to get you through the rest of your Friday and send you off into the weekend in a good mood, because nothing helps alleviate stress like watching other people get the crap scared out of them... photo prank style.
It's the weekend, which means we get to share something silly with you to help you either forget about last week, put off thinking about next week, or both.
Last week, we shared a humorous video in which pranksters used a squirt gun camera to covertly spray unwitting tourists in London. In this week's video, twins Jack and Finn of JacksGap pretend to "teleport" mid picture to the astonishment of the stranger they roped into taking their photo.
Here's one to put a smile on your face. Roman Atwood has made a name for himself on YouTube by pulling off creative and often downright hilarious pranks. For his most recent prank, he teamed up with buddy Dennis Roady and went photographic. Or at the very least they pretended to.