As a landscape and travel photographer with more than a decade of experience, I always found myself carrying a ton of gear. With huge wide-angle and telephoto lenses, multiple DSLR camera bodies, heavy-duty tripods, and occasionally drones in my backpack, my mobility while trekking to locations was often limited. However, things changed dramatically in 2016 […]
As the name of the filter alludes to, these lens filters do indeed lower the overall contrast of a shot. To clarify what that means in relation to photography: these filters will reduce the darkness of the shadows by allowing light to bleed into them from surrounding highlights. From the example images below, you should […]
Techart has pulled off something pretty cool with its latest lens adapter. The so-called “Canon EF to Nikon Z Autofocus Adapter” (TZC-01) lets you use Canon EF glass on Nikon’s mirrorless Z-Series cameras without sacrificing autofocus, auto exposure, aperture control, or lens stabilization. The Techart TZC-01 claims to offer a no-compromises experience: letting Nikon Z-Series […]
Nikon is set to unveil its new D780 along with a number of other products at CES next week, but photos of the DSLR have just leaked onto the Internet, giving us a first glimpse at what Nikon has in store. Nikon Rumors has published a full set of product photos showing the camera from […]
Yes, it’s post-processed. I get this question all the time, like every other photographer on the planet, and it often sparks heated debates that challenge the notion of objective reality and the meaning of photography. My claim is: all photographs are post-processed (in one way or the other). Without diving too much into the technical […]
This past November, Venice experienced its worst flooding in over 50 years, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency. But while news of the flooding caused thousands to cancel their travel plans, photographer Natalia Elena Massi did the exact opposite: she packed her bags and drove to Venice. Massi lives about 60 miles […]
Let’s be honest, we all saw this coming. Given the meteoric success of the Disney+ show The Mandalorian and the universal appeal of “Baby Yoda,” it was only a matter of time before a photographer decided to pay tribute. Light painter Russell Klimas did just that. The light painting you see above was captured using […]
It’s called Bertha, and it will be the protagonist of the largest slide ever made. A gigantic camera born out of a desire to find out what photography can reveal when it’s pushed beyond certain limits. From the first moment I started experimenting with photography, I sensed that the possibilities were infinite: past and present […]
On May 14th, 2009 a little blog called PetaPixel made its debut. More than 10 years and nearly 27,000 published posts later (26,886 to be exact), as we wrap up our first full decade in existence, it seemed appropriate to look back at the ten most popular articles of the decade. So before you go […]
My country is burning. In the summer of 2019–20, fires raged across Australia. In my home state of New South Wales, over 3,400,000 hectares have gone up in flames—an area larger than the entire country of Wales. The land, habitats, and lives lost continues to rise. This isn’t a piece debating the causes and effects […]