Photography News

Having an overhead camera rig can be useful for certain types of photography, including product shots, how-to images, and food photos. If you enjoy the challenge and joy of building your own equipment when you can, an ov...

Last September, we featured Lumy, an elegant iPhone app that’s designed to help photographers track golden hour and other times of the day with ideal natural light. Today, the company released an update that brings the...

One of the most important aspects of fine art macro photography is capturing a non-distracting background so your subject stands out. I tend to like clean and colorful backgrounds, but there are situations where dark bac...

When Panasonic unveiled its new Lumix G7 camera this past Monday, the company also gave a glimpse into where it’s going with its camera technologies. Here’s what it envisions: 8K cameras that allow photographers to e...

  Take a beautiful flight with a drone over the colorful flower fields near the Keukenhof Gardens in The Netherlands. Filmed during a sunny spring day in April 2015 with a DJI Inspire drone in full 60 fps HD. Tulips, hy...

US luxury camera bag brand Ona has announced a new black version of its Berlin ll messenger-style bag. Designed especially for the Leica M system, the Berlin was originally a limited edition model created to celebrate th...

The Bank of England is looking for a historical visual artist to feature on the latest £20 note, and the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) wants to make sure the winner is someone connected with photography. A newly form...

Olympus USA has produced a spoof documentary that claims to highlight the problems faced by those who spend too long carrying heavy DSLR equipment. The hero of the films, Paul, suffers a condition called 'DSL-Arm,' which...

Flickr has caused some unexpected controversy with the auto-tagging feature it launched earlier this month. The “advanced image recognition” system has been found to make some pretty embarrassing and offensive mistak...

COVR's on its way to your iPhone 6 to help you take better photos.

In today's society, it seems that no knowledge is more prudent for photographers to learn than the rights of themselves and their photographs. Here at PetaPixel, we wanted to create a comprehensive one-stop guide to your...

Popularized by the likes of Instagram, photo filters are divisive in the world of photography: some people love using and viewing them, while others hate what they’ve done to the medium. No matter which side of the ais...

The Canon EOS Rebel T6s and T6i (760D and 750D) have been in our hands long enough to put together a couple of real-world sample galleries, and now we've added the cameras to our studio test scene comparison tool. The ...

Pizza Hut just posted this humorous 2.5-minute commercial public service announcement warning that “egotastic specimens of visual self obsession” (AKA people who take selfies) are in danger due to the rise of selfie ...

Olloclip have just added the all-new Active Lens for iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus to their product lineup.

  Photographer Anand Varma captured the incredible 21 day transformation from bee egg to larvae to pupae to adult, unveiling the breathtaking timelapse as part of a recent TED Talk. Varma raised bees in his backyard -- ...

“Fortuitous Layers” is a project by photographer Adam Allegro, who used an old Kodak Reflex II from 1948 to shoot random double exposures of San Francisco. After arriving in SF to study for a MFA degree at the San Fr...

Xara have released version 11 of their Web Designer Premium application.

The Nikon Coolpix L840 is an affordable super-zoom compact camera with a 38x zoom lens. The 16 megapixel bridge-style Nikon L840 has a tilting 3-inch LCD screen, 1080p movies, wi-fi and NFC connectivity, and it uses AA b...

It has been rumored for months now that Google is planning to separate its Google+ Photos service from the social network as a standalone offering. That new service may be very near, and some first details about it are s...

The Booq Python Catch may be a great bag for photography students.

I’m photographer Joe Hendricks, and in this post I’ll share some things I learned from trying to get into landscape photography. 1. Just go for it For years, I wanted to try my hand at landscape photography, but I al...