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Artificial Intelligence
These Portraits Were Made by AI: None of These People Exist
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Check out these rather ordinary looking portraits. They’re all fake. Not in the sense that they were Photoshopped, but rather they were completely …
New York City
Take a Trip Through Paris in the Late 1890s
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Want to see what life in the streets of Paris was like over a century ago in the late 1890s? Film restorer Guy Jones collected old footage shot …
Tin Foil
How to Make and Shoot a Bokehlicious Tin Foil Backdrop
petapixel.com - Nicola Yardy
I love bokeh and wanted to incorporate it into some upcoming holiday-themed beauty shoots. Well, I didn’t want to shoot in the cold and I really …
Miami Beach
Are These Photographers Cheating?
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Where is the line between acceptable photo manipulation and cheating in photography? That’s the question photographer Jamie Windsor asks and explores …
7 Ideas Motivating Me in My Photography Right Now
petapixel.com - Anthony Epes
A huge part of my photo practice is not taking photos. Photography is an inner game. What comes out in our photography is the total expression of who …
Film Photography
5 Tips for Buying Your First (Used) Film Camera
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Looking to get started in film photography and hunting for your first camera in the used marketplace? Photographer Casey Cavanaugh made this helpful …
9 Signs You Might be Turning into a Lifestyle Photographer
petapixel.com - Andy Hutchinson
It started out innocently enough. You were a landscape photographer, a solitary scenery hunter, a planet-loving, tree-hugging, mountain-climbing, …
Nikon
Nikon: It’s the Z 6 and Z 7, Not the Z6 and Z7
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
One of the biggest announcements in the camera industry this year was the Nikon Z Series and its first two cameras, the Z6 and Z7. That’s how the …
Web Applications
ExifShot is a Web App for Sharing Your Photo with Metadata
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
If you’d ever like a quick way to share a particular photo along with the Exif metadata showing the equipment and camera settings it was shot with, …
Portraits of Bodysurfers Flowing with Ocean Waves
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Here’s a 5-minute short film by filmmaker Robert Sherwood about the work of Australian photographer Trent Mitchell and his latest project Inner Atlas, …
Conspiracies
The Dark Truth Behind the Sensor Size War
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Want to learn about the history of digital camera sensor sizes? Camera Conspiracies made this entirely serious and fantastically educational …
Selling
Photos of Babies with Grown-Up Teeth
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
If you need a chuckle today (or a nightmare tonight), there’s a strange new photo project you can check out called Babies With Teeth. As its name …
Photo Editing
Loupedeck Can Now Be Used for Photo Editing in Photoshop
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Loupedeck today announced its first integration with Adobe Photoshop, allowing photographers to use the editing console in the popular app. The latest …
Apps
Facebook Bug Exposed Unpublished Photos for Up to 6.8 Million Users
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Facebook revealed today that it discovered a software bug that exposed the unpublished photos of up to 6.8 million users. The bug was in the photo API …
Framing
Watch the Beauty of Bubbles Freezing in Real-Time
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
This short film, titled “Winter’s Magic” and shot by photographer Don Komarechka, is a mesmerizing 2.5-minute look at the beauty of how bubbles …
Aeromexico
737 Passenger Plane Slams Into Drone During Landing, Reports Say
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
A Boeing 737 passenger jetliner has reportedly struck a drone while landing in Tijuana, Mexico, causing a considerable amount of damage to its …
How to Shoot ‘Underwater’ Portraits Without Anyone Getting Wet
petapixel.com - Raj Khepar
For a long time, I have been building sets or props for my images, which in time developed into making and selling furniture as a hobby business. I …
Rubber Bands
A $6 IKEA Desk Pad Can Help Remove Stuck Lens Filters
petapixel.com - Ng Chia Liang
How hard is it to remove a stuck filter on a camera lens? If it happens with a slim profile filter, you are left with less of a surface to grip. I …
Parker Solar Probe
This is the First Photo Shot Inside the Sun’s Corona
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is on a mission to explore the Sun’s corona (basically its atmosphere), and the robotic spacecraft recently made the …
Adobe
sRGB vs Adobe RGB vs ProPhoto RGB: Color Spaces Explained
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Have you ever exported a photo, uploaded it to the Web, and then noticed that the colors looked off on your monitor? The reason is likely the color …
Jasper National Park
How NOT to Photograph an Elk
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
When photographing wild animals in the great outdoors (especially big ones), it’s important to stay at a safe distance for the good of both you and …
Tutorials
Find Your Creative Style With Split Toning
petapixel.com - Mark Denney
In my opinion, the most under-appreciated tool within all of Lightroom has got to be Split Toning. Not only is this a great option to solve many …
Selling
Meyer Optik Görlitz is Back from the Dead with a New Owner
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
After years of running hugely successful Kickstarter campaigns but widely failing to deliver on its promises, net SE (the company behind the revivals …
Pets
These Portraits Show How People Are Just Like Their Pets
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Over time, people often seem to look more and more like the pets they love and care for. Photographer Olga Fedorova wanted to capture this on camera, …
Dear Camera Companies: Please Make Slower, Lighter Prime Lenses Between 50mm and 150mm
petapixel.com - Bob Locher
PetaPixel recently published an open letter from photographer Usman Dawood entitled: “Dear Camera Companies: Please Make a Fast Lens Between 50mm and …
Fake News
That ‘Debunking’ of a Paris Protest Fire Photo is Fake
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
One of the most viral photos of the past few days has been a side-by-side comparison of two photos that purports to show how photographers covering …
Lightroom
Lightroom Dec 2018 Update Brings a Customizable Develop Panel
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Adobe has released the December 2018 update to its entire photo ecosystem, bringing new features, improvements, and bug fixes to Camera Raw, …
Bands
A Simple Hack for Easier Focusing with TLR Cameras
petapixel.com - Pedro Cardoso
If you have a TLR camera, here’s a simple trick you can try to help you to focus more easily. All you’ll need is some rubber bands, scissors, …
Olympus OM-D Series
Leaked Photos Reveal the Olympus OM-D E-M1X
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Olympus reportedly has a mirrorless camera called the E-M1X up its sleeve, and the camera has now been leaked through a set of photos and specs. 43 …
Hospitals
Photographers Visit 200+ Sick Kids in Hospitals for Magical Christmas Photos
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
To bring some Christmas cheer to sick children stuck in hospitals, the Christmas Wish Project recently assembled 100 volunteers in 10 cities across 4 …