Inspiration

When users search stock photography websites, they are only sometimes looking for cookie-cutter images but, occasionally, they perform genuinely bizarre image requests.

Hey, photographers: don’t be discouraged if you can’t afford the latest and greatest gear out there. You may be surprised by what you can do with modest gear.

When Nikon announced the new Z 400mm f/2.8 TC lens, lots of people asked if I was going to buy one. My answer? “No way, I’d be crazy to spend $14,000 on one lens.” So I guess I’m crazy, because now I have one. Here’s what happened that changed my mind.

One Eyeland has announced the winners of the One Eyeland Photography Awards 2022. Grand prize winners in the "Professional" and "Amateur" sections were awarded cash prizes of $5,000 and $2,000, respectively.

A professional photographer helped a boyfriend stage a heartwarming surprise proposal.

A kind-hearted photographer stranded on a ferry with 600 other passengers struck up a free photo shoot for the people stuck on board.

A photographer revealed how she ingeniously scanned 35mm film negatives with her smartphone.

The World Photography Organization has announced the overall winners in the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards 2023 competition.

Most of the time in landscape photography, we plan to visit several incredible destinations and photograph them over the course of a week-long trip, typically capturing seven or eight different places.

If you’re interested in photography and are trying to figure out where to start or how to grow, you’ve come to the right place. There’s a lot of information out there, how do you even determine what to focus on? Sometimes in trying to do too much we find ourselves accomplishing nothing.

2,692. That’s how many full wedding ceremonies wedding photographer Matthew Solis alone has photographed in the past five years, and yes, you read that number right.

A photographer was in the midst of taking photos of a cheetah who had other ideas when she walked over to him for a head rub instead.

A 106-year-old tattoo artist from the Philippines has become Vogue's oldest-ever cover star.

As a photographer, it's easy to fall into a rut of shooting the same types of photos over and over again. Sometimes it is easy to slip into a routine once we have a good grasp of exposure and composition.

Photographers around the world may want to point their lenses to the western night sky tonight to capture a rare image of five planets lined up.

Sometimes we’re brimming with ideas and ready to shoot. But, what can you do when the ideas dry up?

Some years ago I wrote about the (now fairly obvious seeming) perspective of photography as a process of grounded, present awareness in order to achieve a result.

Photography, like every art form, is subjective. As such, anything we create is open to criticism, whether we like it or not. When criticism is given with the best of intentions, it can lead to growth.

Photography is a visual art, and as with most art forms, there are no rigid rules or formulas that guarantee a captivating image. However, there are certain key elements that often contribute to an image's impact and appeal.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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 groom helplessly chasing after his bride's veil on a windy day has won the International Wedding Photographer of the Year 2022 contest.

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.