Thomas Heaton became everyone’s hero recently when he decided to tell off some inconsiderate tourists ruining everybody’s view of a lava flow in Hawaii’s Volcanoes National Park. Light pollution is a drag for night sky photographers, usually requiring some post-processing magic in Lightroom or Photoshop to fix. But what if you could slap on a […]
On August 6th, 1945 Russell Gackenbach captured a historic, horrifying event on his personal camera. From the bowels of an Air Force bomber, he snapped two pictures of the first atomic bombing when a 9,000-pound uranium-235 bomb named ‘Little Boy’ obliterated the city of Hiroshima, Japan. In the video above, created by Airman Magazine, Gackenbach […]
This is painful to watch. After spending all day setting up and preparing to capture a smokestack demolition for her newspaper, Reading Eagle staff photographer Susan L. Angstadt was horrendously, tragically, epically photobombed by a guy with an iPhone during the moment of truth. There are more ways than ever to get your photography noticed […]
This is painful to watch. After spending all day setting up and preparing to capture a smokestack demolition for her newspaper, Reading Eagle staff photographer Susan L. Angstadt was horrendously, tragically, epically photobombed by a guy with an iPhone during the moment of truth. There are more ways than ever to get your photography noticed […]
Episode 132 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 – Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play or RSS! Featured: Jared Polin (aka “Fro”) from FroKnowsPhoto.com 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 […]
Photographer John Kraus has brought rocket launch photography back into the mainstream. His photos regularly go viral online, and we’ve shared several of them here on PetaPixel as well. But these incredible shots come at a price, as he showed us yesterday. Photographer, weird lens expert, and friend of PetaPixel Mathieu Stern created this very […]
TIME magazine revealed this week that President-elect Donald Trump has been selected as its Person of the Year. After seeing the cover design, people immediately began to point out that the “M” in the TIME logo appears to form horns on Trump’s head. My name is Jeff Cable, and I’m a photographer based in the […]
The kind of photography I do begins as a moment of theft. Finding the scene, finding your angle, and stealing the moment for yourself. Some photographers are creators. They build a scene, a still life, or arrange their models and angle their lights and create an image from nothing. I’m not one of those photographers. […]
When veteran SI photographer Michael J. LeBrecht II got an email from a DOP at Sports Illustrated offering him the chance to shoot “an A-List Celebrity,” he immediately said yes. It wasn’t until a later, on the phone, that he hear the catch: “we would like you to try and shoot the cover with a […]
Back in December 2015 I saw a rumor report online about a 600w/s Chinese monolight with onboard battery, TTL, and built-in radio. After doing some research I found they had a TTL speedlight that worked within the same system, and I became very excited. Apple, we had a good run… Through the many iPads, iPhones, […]