A photographer spent six years documenting Chilean ranchers, known as "puesteros," who live and work alone on vast private lands for months at a time for a new photography book.
As camera megapixel counts keep rising, the limitations of online photo sharing only become more apparent. Most photographers share photos online via platforms that use heavy-duty compression, making images look noticeably worse. While this isn't always a big deal, it can be, especially when trying to share with clients. To solve this issue, a Japanese developer built HiRezGo, an online sharing service that promises to show photos in full quality.
A photographer has spent the best part of a decade documenting the War on Drugs -- looking at where cocaine comes from and where it ends up.
Happy Football Film Friday! Football, soccer, footy... whatever you call it we know what has been captivating your attention these past couple weeks, and will for the days ahead!
A Game Boy enthusiast recently took his classic 1998 console to Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles and attached it to an enormous 60-inch telescope.
Over 10 years ago, photographer Dustin Snipes revealed how he captured an iconic shot of NBA star Anthony Davis dunking the Sun. But fast-forward 11 years, and Red Bull once again commissioned Snipes to do a near-identical shoot. Only this time with AJ Dybantsa, who is projected to be the number one pick at today's NBA Draft.
The 2026 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year has unveiled its shortlist -- and there are some real bangers on there.
A new exhibition explores how photography became central to the making of the famed fashion house Yves Saint Laurent over four decades.
The World Cup, probably the biggest and most captivating sporting event on Earth, is laden with photographers on the pitch but what about getting closer to the action as a fan? A smartphone with a teleconverter lens attached lands as a worthwhile alternative -- provided you have the right combination.
This week, Lee Morris at Fstoppers published a video titled "Your Memory Cards Are Probably Fake." In it, he asserts that scam companies are so prevalent and so good at faking their products that it's likely nearly every photographer is a victim.
As globalization brought the population of the world together, it began to feel like a smaller place. Once exotic destinations like Japan or Bali are now teeming with tourists -- all hungry for a photo. Unexplored areas now feel like a relic of the past, but one photographer says he's found a path less traveled.
Polaroid is an icon. But the instant photography brand so nearly disappeared entirely in the late 2000s when the original company announced it would stop making film.
An innocent Reddit post asking for help identifying the face of a mystery celebrity would spark a four-year-long international search involving facial recognition technology and photo copyright infringement.
Despite rumors to the contrary, Zeiss tells PetaPixel that it did develop its new series of Otus ML prime lenses for full-frame mirrorless cameras.
Nature's 2026 Scientist At Work photography competition features five of the best photos that scientists captured around the world, showcasing the important work scientists do and the incredible places they go.
When it comes to memory cards, most photographers just want them to work, have blistering specs, and be kind to their wallet. But which brand to choose? Last week PetaPixel took a trip to China to check in with one of the main players, Lexar.
Legendary war photographer Don McCullin has announced that his final book will be a retrospective on the Vietnam War.
Have you ever looked at a photo and wondered, "What's with all the green and pink colors around high-contrast edges?" That's longitudinal, or axial, chromatic aberration. LoCA. It's common, very difficult to prevent optically and nearly as hard to remove during post-processing.
KEH is one of the largest pre-owned camera sales operations in the world, and the headquarters can be found in the Peach State. KEH is also the biggest and longest-standing supporter of the PetaPixel YouTube show, so we were excited to finally had an opportunity to visit the warehouse and see the operation for ourselves.
Transform tiny subjects into striking works of art using advanced macro techniques that go far beyond simply getting close. In this guide, we’ll explore how experienced photographers build depth, control light, and craft intentional compositions that turn the smallest details in nature into powerful, visually compelling images.
If you were to ask us what the perfect color film is, we’d tell you it is Kodak Portra. Exactly which speed of Portra matters only a little as the whole family of films is pretty amazing.
Slovenian photographer and founder of Ondu, Elvis Halilović, has unveiled the Ondu Eikan 8x10", a new lightweight, handmade large-format field camera.
I like rangefinders. When I got back into photography, it was through the experience I had with the Fujifilm X100VI. While not a true rangefinder, it scratched that itch. Later that year, at the urging of Chris Niccolls, I picked up a Voigtlander Bessa R2a, and my fate was sealed.
Wandering through a market in Frankfurt years ago, photo collector Jochen Raiss stumbled across a photo of a woman halfway up a tree.
PetaPixel is expanding its coverage into headphones, but specifically their use through the lens of how a videographer would use them. In the field, at their desk, and while traveling, every videographer and editor has them, and the standard by which they all should be judged is the Sony MDR-7506.
Towering 11,249 feet above sea level, Mount Hood is the tallest mountain in the state of Oregon. The mountain is so large that on a clear day, it can be visible from over 100 miles away.
Fly over a field near Toulouse, France, look down, and right now you will see a giant eye looking back at you. The ambitious art installation is called Farming Photographs and is the work of British-Spanish artist Almudena Romero.
With this Film Friday Review we are shining a light on a new color film that seems to love traveling the world under a multitude of aliases. While we first met this film as Optik Oldschool OptiColour, you might have crossed paths with it under the ORWO Wolfen NC200 or KONO Color 200 monikers.
Rephotography is when photographers capture the same location multiple times across a stretch of time. Aaron Wessling has been visiting Mount Tabor Park in Portland since 2022.
A tender image titled A Woman Eats in the Canteen of the Soviet-era Sanatorium, by British photographer Jo Kearney, is the Overall Winner of the World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Bimi®.
The closest the United States gets to the Amazon rainforest is the southeastern part of the country, a biologically rich region consisting of forests and wetlands. Photographer Mac Stone has spent decades creating a visual dispatch there.
One of Britain’s longest standing and most celebrated press photographers presents an intimate look at three decades of images covering celebrity, entertainment, and major events in a new book.
A photographer has been granted unique access to Cambridge University’s famed May Balls for more than 40 years, and has documented this hidden world of late-night revelry in a new photography book.
Earlier this year, YoloLiv announced a brand-new Micro Four Thirds lens: the 18mm f/1.4. Not only was this special because new Micro Four Thirds lens releases are rare, it actually filled a need in the format. We were eager to get our hands on it and when we did, we noticed something weird: it didn't appear to be conforming to the standard.
TMax 400 came into the world in 1986, at the same time as its slower speed brother. You can think of them as near identical twins, in fact. Since its introduction, TMax 400 has helped define a whole new generation of black and white films with its tabular grain structure, high resolution, and sharp image details.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda needs no further explanation. It's a challenging landscape to navigate, and numerous animals inhabit it. But its most famous residents are the mountain gorillas.
At first glance, it seems as if something has gone disastrously wrong for this javelin thrower. Fortunately, Estonian athlete Magnus Kirt is safe and well; the image is actually a clever photographic illusion that plays tricks on the eye.
National Geographic's new documentary film, "Time and Water," grapples with a challenging, profound question: How do you say goodbye to what you never thought you could lose? Through archival footage, photos, art, and science, Academy Award-nominated director Sara Dosa follows acclaimed Icelandic writer and poet Andri Snær Magnason as he confronts the death of his country's glaciers, the loss of his grandparents, and the kind of world he hopes future generations can experience. The story's next chapters are being written at this very second.
Logging into his profile on the 35 Awards photo competition, Steve Scott Grogin received a notification telling him his photo of an alligator's eye had been disqualified from the Mobile Phone category. The reason? The organizers believed it had been taken with "professional camera equipment."
Low-budget horror movies aren't for everyone. But it's difficult to ignore Obsession, which just raked in over $30 million in ticket sales over the Memorial Day weekend, taking it to $80 million worldwide. Not bad for a film that was made for just $1 million.
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy had to wait for six days and 1.7 million photos before nailing his latest masterpiece: a Boeing 737 transiting the Sun.
The last known photograph of literary icon Oscar Wilde was taken on his death bed in a Paris hotel room using a borrowed camera and a volatile early flash, mere hours after he passed away.
A photography student sent a 5x4 color negative into space on April 19 and exposed it to cosmic radiation, capturing a beautiful, abstract portrait of space unlike anything done before.
A new book explores the untold and still-mysterious story of the many people behind one of America’s most iconic photographs Lunch on a Beam -- and the lingering question of who actually took the famed image.
A photographer uses lighting and special equipment to capture something not usually seen by the human eye: the intricate patterns, texture, and color found on insect wings.
Perhaps nowhere else in the world are photographers as much a part of the spectacle as they are at Cannes Film Festival. Huddled shoulder to shoulder in black tuxedos, they don’t just document the glamor of Cannes -- they help create it.
A photographer captured a breathtaking image of a coyote leaping across a gap in the ice after years of patient fieldwork.
A video on X showing a behind-the-scenes video of a photo shoot at Tiger World Thailand has gone viral and highlighted a serious problem in the country.
Canon Explorer of Light and famed car and car culture photographer Larry Chen is a major character in the brand-new racing video game, Forza Horizon 6.
An exhibition commemorates the 70th anniversary of the landmark publication of Gordon Parks’ color images of the segregated South in Life magazine
