Photography News

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly and his one-year crewmate, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, have spent the last 340 days in space

MagMod is back with another novel lighting product for photographers. Called the MagBeam, it’s both a revolutionary flash extender and a gobo projector. MagMod made a name for itself in the photo industry back in 2013 ...

As a product photographer, I’ve always had a problem with finding what to use as a background. Even more so when I need to go to my client to shoot their products. Before, I was limited to shooting on a black granite t...

Camera gear often isn’t cheap, and sometimes photographers need to make touch choices when it comes to what gear to purchase and what they’ll give up in order to purchase it. Photographer Barnabas Horvath decided to ...

Mr. Go Tokura, Group Executive ICP Group 2, Image Communications Products Operations, Canon Inc. Pictured at the CP+ show in Yokohama Japan, 2016.  As well as reporting on the newest gear, we use the opportunity of visi...

DJI today unleashed the Phantom 4, a powerful successor to the widely popular Phantom 3. The Phantom 4 is an intelligent camera drone that can fly itself, using computer vision to dodge obstacles and track subjects. Unli...

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Canon 100-400 F4.5-5.6L IS USM Mark II Review The king is dead, long live the Mark II. After 15 long years, Canon finally upgraded one of the biggest-selling telezooms of all time - the 100-400mm F4.5-5.6L IS USM. The Mk...

Here’s a fun little 7-minute video tutorial on how you can create interesting water illusions using an ordinary camera and some sound. It has to do with syncing the water drops to your camera’s frame rate. What you�...

For the Adobe MAX 2015 conference in Los Angeles back in October 2015, Adobe invited photographer Eric Paré to create a 360-degree light painting photo booth for attendees to experience. “It turned into one of the mos...

We launched a major redesign of the PetaPixel website this week. Thanks for all the feedback you’ve provided thus far, from the angry complaints to the happy compliments — we appreciate hearing them all. Now we’d l...

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If you love both Netflix and Instagram, there’s a sweet new job opening that may interest you. Netflix is looking to hire “Grammasters” — or master Instagram snappers — to visit TV and movie sets in Europe and ...

Nest today announced the first in a new range of modular photo backpacks, the Diverse 20.

Photographer Patrick Demmons shoots tintype portraits for about $60 a pop through his Revival Tintype studio in Oakland, California. In the 2.5-minute profile above by WIRED, Demmons offers a short and sweet look at what...

Thomas Pöcksteiner and Peter Jablonowski take you on a dizzying tour of Vienna, Austria in this incredible hyperlapse city tour, shot entirely in 5K

Nikon just announced that it’s expanding its recall of its D750 DSLR over the shutter issue that caused ugly lens flares to show up in some photographers’ photos. As you may remember, photographers first noticed and ...

The Panasonic Lumix ZS100 made its debut in early January, offering a sizable 25-250mm equivalent zoom range to complement its 1"-type sensor. With a built-in viewfinder it certainly looks to be travel-ready, so we've...

How many of you photographers out there shoot in ultra large format and build your own cameras?

Olympus has announced the world-wide launch of the OM-D E-M10 Mark II Limited Edition camera.

Photographer Ronny Garcia's surreal imagery is designed to convey and express emotions.

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