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Catching the fish is only half the battle. Flying out of the water with it is a whole different story

A woman at a public event in Beloeil, Quebec, was injured earlier this month when a DJI Phantom 3 camera drone dropped out of the sky and smashed directly into her head. The incident was caught on camera by another drone...

Want to shoot long exposure photos in bright daylight without having to shell out big bucks on a neutral density (ND) filter? Try using a piece of welder’s glass — the kind that protects your eyes while welding. The ...

At the 2016 F1 Europe Grand Prix, Team Williams tied the record for fastest pit stop ever at 1.92 secs. The time was first set in 2013 by Team Red Bull

For the first time in decades, The New York Times was published this past Sunday without any photos by renowned fashion photographer Bill Cunningham. The omission in the Sunday Styles section was because the 87-year-old ...

Updated firmware allows Sony users to use all their AF modes when shooting Canon EF-mount lenses with Metabones adapters. It does so by emulating a native Sony lens, much like the recent Sigma MC-11 adapter. This update ...

Move over Clifford, there’s another big (but not so red) dog in town. Vivian the dog is a 6-foot-tall dachshund that’s featured in a new photo book titled “Vivian the Dog Moves to Brooklyn.” The photo project is ...

The five-masted, 42-sail "Royal Clipper" is a sight to behold

Check out this photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s no ordinary photo: Bentley calls it “the world’s most extraordinary car photograph.” Why? Because it’s a 53-gigapixel photo that you can zoom waaay into...

Imagine getting off a flight, walking over to get your (unwillingly) gate-checked case full of $20K of camera gear, and seeing a baggage handler walking up holding a few lenses and yelling “whose are these?” That’s...

Photographing the Milky Way from the ground can be challenging in itself, but photographer Ian Norman has taken the challenge to new heights. In a new video tutorial, he explains how he and his partner Diana Southern pho...

The groundbreaking mirrorless medium format Hasselblad X1D looks ultra-portable in the product photos provided by Hassy, but how small is it really? We used the Camera Size tool to put it up against some of its competiti...

In this video tutorial, I walk through my method of capturing and processing a photograph of the Milky Way from the window of an airplane. Introduction While on a commercial airline flight, my girlfriend Diana and I made...

There are few photographers who have documented Hong Kong's past in the way that Fan Ho did back in the late 40s and early 50s. Dubbed 'the Henri Cartier-Bresson of the East', Ho observed the then British Colony through ...

Phase One has updated its Capture One Pro software. Version 9.2 brings support for two notable new DSLRs: the Pentax K-1 and Nikon D500. The update also adds support for premium compacts in Canon's PowerShot G series as ...

Here's episode 83 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and subscribe via iTunes or RSS! Leave a comment in this post, or use our voicemail widget for feedback/questions for the sho...

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JL Gonzal made this amazing 'kinetic sculpture' for tattoo artist JC Sheitan using an old prosthesis and Nicks rotary tattoo machine

Hands-on with Hasselblad X1D One of the most remarkable things about the Hasselblad X1D is its size. It is smaller than the average DSLR and only just as big as the larger Micro Four Thirds camera bodies - which is quite...