Photography News

Why do the new iPhone 7 phones have to simulate a shallow depth of field? The short answer: physics. Most photographers know that creating a shallow depth of field (DOF) is usually as easy as using a big aperture (of cou...

Epson has announced a partnership with drone-maker DJI to ensure its Moverio AR smart glasses are fully compatible with the Chinese company's aerial camera craft. The partnership means that the DJI Go app, used to monit...

Shutterstock is bringing its collection of stock imagery and photography directly into Photoshop CC with a new plugin. It gives users the ability to search Shutterstock's catalog and access their accounts within the ap...

A cafe based in Dublin, Ireland, rubbed photographers the wrong way today by poking fun at a photographer who had requested credit for a photo used without her permission. Back on August 12, the The White Moose Café pos...

In a feat of creative “appropriation” on-par with the whole Instagram/Snapchat Stories release, Shutterstock is stepping all over Adobe Stock’s toes by releasing a powerful Photoshop plugin that does the exact same...

Canon has released the firmware update it promised for the EOS 7D Mark II when it launched the W-E1 'card-shaped' wireless adapter. Outside of adding support for the adapter, firmware 1.1.0 is fairly minor, also making ...

Canon just released this 3.5-minute video that explains how lenses work. We learn about focal points, spherical aberration, chromatic aberration, and how multiple lens elements are used together for aberration correction...

If you’ve never used an X-Rite ColorChecker Passport before, this quick-and-dirty primer by photographer Jeff Rojas is a great place to start. Rojas, a fashion and portrait photographer based in New York, advises that ...

Yesterday Apple announced its iPhone 7 models and app developers are already working hard at making use of the devices' new features, especially the dual-camera in the iPhone 7 Plus. Instagram actually had a slot durin...

The one crucial thing that every traveler and photographer needs is a camera bag that is lightweight, versatile and durable, yet functional at the same time to safely bring along every day essentials. Tiny Atlas Solas, a...

Apple officially announced the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus yesterday. In case you missed the live stream of the event, here’s a 13-minute recording of the segment in which Apple VP Phil Schiller introduced the new camera featu...

I've been shooting festivals for a number of years now. In the pit, backstage, on-stage, around the site... While all of that is great (like, really really good fun) I've had an idea knocking about for a while now. The I...

Well... that was quick. Just two days after pictures of three new Zeiss lenses leaked online, the company has officially unveiled the new members of the Zeiss Milvus line: the 15mm f/2.8, 18mm f/2.8, and 135mm f/2. The Z...

Lifestyle photographer Scotty Turner shared his 'super scientific' white balance method on YouTube this morning, and it is spot on. Instead of getting technical about it, he does what we've all done at one point or anoth...

Zeiss has announced it's adding 15mm F2.8, 18mm F2.8 and 135mm F2 options to its manual focus Milvus line. Counting these three, there are now nine lenses in the Milvus range. Zeiss puts an emphasis on robust constructi...

An aerial photo taken with a drone reveals a swimming pool tiled to look like van Gogh's famous painting

There's just a week left to enter the 2016 USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition!  The USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition was founded in 2013 by Charlie Waite, one of the world's most respe...

When you resize (and resample) a photo in Photoshop, you're given the option of strategies such as Nearest Neighbor and Bilinear. If you have no idea what those mean, check out this 9-minute video by Computerphile. In it...

As with most creatives, when I have a concept in mind it will distract and consume me until it becomes a reality. I wanted to create a conceptual self-portrait that was dreamlike, surreal, and relevant to an inner confli...

When you resize a photo in Photoshop, you can choose between Resampling strategies such as Nearest Neighbor and Bilinear. Above is a 9-minute video by Computerphile that explains the math that goes on when you choose one...

Episode 105 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 – Subscribe via iTunes or RSS! Featured: Lars Boering, World Press Photo Managing Director In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Po...

Hey folks, We’ve had a couple people asking about who the results of the Tamron 85mm f1.8 Di VC USD lens, and today we’re happy to finally announce who the winner is. It was quite a tough contest not necessarily beca...