I’d like to start by saying that I feel the word ‘criticism’ is interpreted by some as inherently negative, but that doesn’t have to be the case. Throughout this article, I’ve used the words ‘critique’, ‘criticism', and ‘feedback’, interchangeably, because I consider them to be more or less the same in this particular context.
The legendary British photographer Rankin has shared an interesting piece of practical advice for photographers.
Motorsports photographer Larry Chen recently came up with a novel way to grab a selfie as he's drifting in a sports car.
Aerial photography can give viewers a unique perspective that differs from their everyday visual experience, and therefore can bring novelty to an image.
The Marine Conversation Society has compiled a series of stunning photographs to mark World Wildlife Day today.
Much has been written about the concept of the "decisive moment", a notion popularized (posthumously, for the most part) by legendary candid photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Two photographers have revealed how to perfectly fake typical influencers' travel photos with a television screen.
The Sony World Photography Awards has announced its finalists and shortlist for the 2023 professional categories featuring incredible images from photographers all over the world.
What makes a great hobby? Most people don’t have to ask themselves this, they just naturally gravitate to activities they enjoy and make time for them–but I’ve had to think about this for years. It’s an important question, particularly when your time is being pulled in multiple directions!
A photo of a skateboarder has won a concrete photography competition with the photographer receiving a $10,000 cash prize.
Last year, PetaPixel wrote about photographer Ryan Kojima who built a DIY medium format camera using the CCD sensor from an Epson flatbed scanner. The DIY scanner camera captures massive, detailed 514-megapixel photos. Kojima built his first scanner camera a decade ago, although he recently upgraded it to deliver even better performance.
A photographer describes his photo of lightning striking the Christ the Redeemer Statue as a "dream come true."
The camera is a reasonably recent image-creation tool; compared to millennia of paintings, drawings, carvings, and illustrations, we have only a few hundred years of photographs and photographic development. What photography offers compared to those ancient arts is (relative) immediacy and accuracy.
A professional photographer was forced to give up her successful wedding business after being diagnosed with a rare eye disease that is causing her to go blind.
A photographer lugs a massive large format 19th-century camera into remote, rugged areas to capture pictures of landscapes that haven't changed since photography was invented.
A groom helplessly chasing after his bride's veil on a windy day has won the International Wedding Photographer of the Year 2022 contest.
A photographer has undergone 24 trips to Cuba to capture the country's "soul" in a series of wondrous pictures.
The National Award winners for the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 has been announced with 55 photographers crowned champions of their respective countries.
For anyone who isn’t interested in this wonderful art form we call photography, it might seem pretty straightforward: using a camera to capture an image. However, as many of us know, photography is so much more, once you go beyond the surface level.
The British Press Photographer's Association (BPPA) has announced the winners of its 2022 competition.
A photographer who documented the companionship between one of the world's last two remaining northern white rhinos and her keeper has won Travel Photographer of the Year 2022.
A photo of a popular park in Wuhan, China has won the Global SinoPhoto Awards 2023.
A promotional campaign has used a photographer's gigapixel images to hide an X containing a code that could win you a cruise.
Motorsport photographer Larry Chen has captured thousands of photos of the late Ken Block, a rally car driver best known for his viral gymkhana videos and founding DC Shoes.
The first selfie trend of 2023 has arrived. Featuring distorted faces and exaggerated body parts captured at a surreal angle: meet the traffic mirror selfie.
A noted landscape photographer has donated his entire life's work to the public domain, entrusting it to History Colorado.
Photography is a competitive industry in which professional photographers are competing against anyone with an iPhone, which means pretty much everyone. How do you convince a client to pay you for your work when they can get something that’s ‘good enough’ from someone else for free?
An astrophotographer has imaged the long-traveling comet that is currently making passage through the solar system, perfectly capturing its broken tail.
The social aspects of social media, the propagation aspects of propaganda, and the “logos” aspects of dialogue all depend on one thing: communication. A photograph can be a very powerful medium for communication, using visual symbols to represent what a photographer saw, or created, containing in part or in whole their message.
Photography or any other creative pursuit requires us to be consistently creative, which means we need to tap into a reliable source of inspiration.