Photographer Jim Skelton is well known for his expansive collection of Polaroid cameras, dating back to the very first Polaroid Land cameras in 1963. Skelton aims to help photographers revive these automatic Polaroid pack film cameras to use manual shutter speeds and different film formats.
The Fanal area is one of Madeira's largest laurel forests, known for its mysterious and unusual landscape with trees said to be up to 600 years old.
A creative photographer used ancient and mythical rocks as the basis of a 360-degree "stellar flower" image that shows the passage of day into night and the setting of Venus and the Moon.
Albert Watson is a fashion, celebrity, and art photographer with over 100 Vogue covers and iconic images of celebrities and champions of business captured for over five decades. His subjects have included Mick Jagger, Steve Jobs, Jack Nicholson, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington, David Bowie, Tupac Shakur, and Andy Warhol.
A video creator has claimed to have made the world's first talking timelapse. Shot over almost a year, the man can be seen speaking a sentence while his hair grows longer
Animal shelters, human societies, and pet adoption centers typically use photos to showcase their available animals, and studies have shown how important images are to prospective pet adopters. The Ottawa Humane Society thought it'd be entertaining to pretend their camera broke and were forced to create drawings of their animals.
King Charles III's coronation marked the first crowning of a British monarch since the invention of digital cameras -- so how did modern photographers go about capturing the sacred moment?
In mathematics, a "fractal" is a never-ending pattern that remains similar across different scales, even infinitely. As seen with many computer-generated fractals, they can perpetually loop without any cuts or transitions. It's a mesmerizing effect.
The reFocus Awards have announced the winners of its 2023 Color Photography Contest. The fantastic, vivid entries came from photographers from nearly 70 countries, with winners selected by an esteemed panel of judges from major publications and museums.
Lux Camera, has announced a new app, Skylight Forecast, designed to predict evening light, helping photographers capture better sunset shots more consistently.
A Formula 1 racing fan attending the recent Miami Grand Prix was told at the gate that he couldn't bring in his mirrorless camera, so he came up with an unusual alternate plan: he instead decided to shoot the race with a floppy disk camera made in 2000.
A distinguished photojournalist has sparked controversy after releasing a "post-photography" series entitled 90 Miles that is entirely generated by AI.
Since its founding in 2016, Beauty of Science has worked alongside artists and scientists to create engaging visual content that inspires interest in science. In 2017, PetaPixel featured the work of Chinese scientific artist Wenting Zhu, who captured mesmerizing chemical reactions on camera. Zhu is back with another stunning project, Midnight Radiance.
When I made images documenting the mourning period after the passing of Queen Elizabeth II there was a complexity to the situation that I wanted to convey. I wrote about navigating different manifestations of grief, as well as that grief in the context of the wider political relationship between the deceased and the citizens of the UK.
Award-winning astrophotographer Mihail Minkov captured an incredible 360-degree panorama that shows two Milky Way arches, a shot only possible during a specific time.
Photo wallets are an often overlooked and now largely redundant way of receiving your film photos -- but for one collector they are of significance.
When watching movies, some viewers like to look for errors, such as finding evidence of cameras and crew in the final cut of a film. One situation that should be ripe for spotting mistakes is when a scene includes mirrors and reflections. However, as YouTuber Paul E.T. shows in a pair of videos, filmmakers have incredible tricks to make cameras disappear.
"This is the ISO wheel on your camera, and sometimes, it does nothing," says Syrp Lab in its newest video. Syrp Lab takes a deep dive into ISO, explaining what it is, discussing Dual Native ISO and ISO variance, and providing the information people need to shoot the cleanest possible video.
A photographer has spent five years documenting tribes in Africa before Western influences erode traditional culture.
When I first started doing landscape photography, visiting new locations used to intimidate me a lot. I think part of me would feel the anxiety and pressure of needing to get a good shot, and oftentimes, I would not use the proper tools to set myself up for success.
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured a "GigaMoon" -- a 1.3-gigapixel highly-detailed image of the Moon made from 280,000 photos.
Photographer Michael Suguitan decided to take the "gear acquisition syndrome" bull by the horns and build a customized camera using a Leica M2 analog rangefinder and a 12-megapixel Raspberry Pi camera module.
Photographer Markus Hofstaetter is back with another unique photography project: he created a high dynamic range (HDR) tintype using a super-fast 120mm f/1.0 lens.
A rare pink grasshopper was photographed in a wildlife refuge this week -- but its unusual color spells bad news for the insect.
I had never seen the Northern Lights until this past April 23rd when some serious luck was on my side: I was at Yellowstone National Park with Geoff Coalter, from Nikon, the night before a shoot I was producing for PetaPixel.
Award-winning timelapse and hyperlapse creator Kirill Neiezhmakov has created a silky-smooth hyperlapse tour of Vienna, Austria that plays on the popular longstanding joke that there are no kangaroos in Austria.
Commercial photographer Andrei Duman aims to highlight the effects of climate change through a new personal project, Lake Powell: A 40-Year Visual Story of Water Crisis.
Danish filmmaker Jesper Tønnes is working on an ambitious noir film demonstrating "the true potential of Kodak's analog film formats."
The small island of Socotra is a relatively unknown but incredible destination for adventure-seekers and nature photographers. One such photographer, Benjamin Barakat, recently visited Socotra and returned home to Switzerland with many stunning photos, including spectacular night sky images.
PetaPixel saw nature photographer Heike Odermatt's work featured in the "Gallery" section of the most recent issue of Elements Magazine and was instantly struck by Odermatt's featured image of a reflection in a harsh, Arctic landscape.
