For their recent 10th anniversary, Steve and Danielle VanHorn hired photographer Vanessa Hoffmann of Giggle Monster Photography to do a photo shoot. But it wasn’t just any ol’ photo shoot — it was a 1980s-themed one complete with lasers, tube socks, and Spandex. Hoffmann’s portraits faithfully recreate some of the most popular photo trends of […]
Nikon today unveiled its new 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E VR lens, a modern followup to this popular zoom range for Nikon FX full frame cameras. The new Nikkor AF-P 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E ED VR features a stepping motor (indicated by the ‘P’ in AF-P) for fast and quiet autofocusing, making the lens is Nikon’s first full frame AF-P […]
Daniel Rueda and Anna Devís Benet are a photography duo who travel the world in search of eye-catching architecture. Once they find a great spot, they enter the frame and shoot creative portraits that play with the shapes, colors, and patterns of the buildings. The duo is based in Valencia, Spain, but they visit countries […]
Photographing and filming police officers in public is a constitutional right protected by the First Amendment. That’s what a federal appeals court unanimously affirmed this week in cases involving Philadelphia officers retaliating against citizens pointing cameras at them. Slate reports that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling was for two cases. In one, […]
Photographer Ryan Wright has a new heartwarming story of how he was reunited with his DSLR camera after he lost it in Iceland by dropping it into a waterfall. Wright and his girlfriend, Laurel Anne, were traveling with a group in Iceland earlier this year when they visited the Kirkjufellsfoss waterfall, one of Iceland’s iconic […]
Some cameras are more prone to overheating than others, leading some photographers and videographers to come up with creative solutions for keeping their sensors cool. Industrial designer Eric Strebel came up with a solution that looks pretty unusual: he customized a computer heat sink so that it can be mounted to the back of a […]
Pixel Peeper is an awesome new website that can reveal the Lightroom edits that were made to JPEG files. It launched last month, and now it’s getting its first feature update. Starting today, you can now see what Lightroom preset was used to edit a photo. The new Preset Finder system may be helpful for you […]
Photographer Antoine Repessé has a new photo series titled “#365 Unpacked” that required some rather unusual preparation: he spent 4 years gathering trash to create the garbage-filled sets. The 37-year-old, France-based photographer started collecting recyclable waste in 2011. In addition to hoarding his own, he also enlisted the help of about 200 of his friends […]
My name is Ion Paciu, and I’m a photographer based in London. I recently purchased a new camera kit with a camera body and lenses. However, it wasn’t an “upgrade” — it was, in fact, a “downgrade.” I got myself a $500 Canon SL1/100D, which is the smallest, cheapest, and lightest entry-level DSLR on the […]
Episode 190 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 – Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Photographer, videographer and educator, Susan Roderick In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Show Opener: Photographer, […]