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Hong Kong photographer Lok Cheung found that …

Flickr recently changed how sets are displayed. Rather than displaying all the sets in an account on a single …

British newspaper The Guardian has teamed up with Canon on a new app …

It’s pretty amazing how many free learning resources are available on the web for photographers. Recently, BBC Wildlife …

If you find yourself carrying around loose batteries all the time, here’s an …

If you're like me, then you have a bazillion cables lying on and around your desk for various gadgets, including laptops, cameras, cell phones, Bluetooth headsets, and the like. Here's a tip for organizing all those cables to always have them neat and ready for action: use binder clips.

The Washington Post just published an interesting article called “ …

Do you know what to do if one of your prints gets damaged …

If you are upgrading your camera gear, horray for you! That also means you’re probably planning to convert your old …

Here’s a good tip for life: when flying, try to keep your camera …

We posted a while back on how to sharpen your photos like Flickr for smaller resolution images.

Last Friday an anonymous poster on the photography board of 4chan sparked a discussion that rippled into the blogosphere after freezing their camera to see whether ISO performance improves at lower temperatures.

Have an ugly thermostat in your home that you wish you could hide when not in use? Hanging photographs …

This past Monday, Japanese lens corp Tamron launched a new 12 week video series on their YouTube channel geared towards helping beginners understand their equipment. Each video is 1 minute long, and will cover topics such as white balance, RAW vs. JPEG, and more. Once this introductory series is complete, they plan on posting intermediate and advanced videos as well.

A few days ago we came across this brilliant trick for protecting your valuable camera gear while flying. Most airlines don't allow you to fly with your luggage locked, but there's a clever way around the rule -- bring a gun.

Recovering your camera after losing it is one of those things that most …

Personalized mugs with your mug on it, photo blankets, and good ol' fashioned framed pictures are all fine and dandy, but they can get old fast.

We posted a few personalized photo gifts in yesterday's PetaPixel Photography Gift Guide 2009, but here are a few more ideas to get out the old and in with the inspired.

The journalism industry is going through particularly tough times, with revenue from ads and subscriptions declining considerably. However, during …

Have you ever come across a website where the colors of the page are based on the photograph being displayed? …

Everyone wants sharp images when they post their photographs online. After all, who wants to look at a blurry photograph? …

Keep your eyes on the sky — …

The football season may be halfway over, but there’s still time left to gear up and hone your skills …

When I first started using Adobe Camera Raw, one of the options I …

Here's a common story: one day you become enthusiastic about photography, and find yourself jumping at every opportunity to take photos and to improve your work. You keep this up for a while, but slowly the enthusiasm you once had starts to fade. You start feeling like you've stagnated in your growth, and that you're just doing the same old thing, over and over again.

My college friends and I used to enjoy taking group portraits in and around the Berkeley campus. Here’s one such …

Tomorrow is the 4th of July here in the United States (well, everywhere actually), which means there’s going to be …

I was over at Lake Tahoe attending my brother’s soccer tournament this past weekend, and took this photograph from behind …

Going to school in Berkeley, California, there always seems to be something people are protesting. A few times the past …

I was working with Adobe Bridge today, when I came across a file that I couldn’t open in Adobe Camera …

One of the things I became very aware of during a recent road trip to Oregon is how much easier …