Photography News

The first issue of Popular Photography from May 1937. Yes, that is a woman getting out of the shower on the cover. Franklin D. Roosevelt was president of the United States of American when the first issue of Popular Phot...

If you've read any photography website or stopped into a store recently, you probably know that the creative options available to photographers are as numerous as ever. One aspect of photographic gear that has seen the m...

A couple of weekends ago I was playing about with some ideas for a new portfolio shot involving a wall clock. Now, this clock happens to look a bit like a pocket watch, and a pocket watch normally has a chain (see where ...

After nearly 80 years, Popular Photography announced that the magazine would publish its final issue on March 10, 2017 while simultaneously ceasing updates to both PopPhoto.com and AmericanPhotoMag.com. The end of an era...

Adobe has announced the release of Camera Raw 9.9 for Creative Cloud subscribers, addingexpanded lens profile and camera raw support. In addition to the new support, ACR 9.9 fixes a trio of bugs, including a 'rare crash'...

Despite its uncertain future, Flickr continues to add features, doing their best to remain a relevant part of today’s photo sharing landscape. Their latest update adds something called “similarity search“, a featur...

Flickr has announced a new feature called Similarity Search, a deep neural network-based discovery engine that is designed touncover a wider range of related imageresults than is possible under the current search system....

“What lens should I buy?” It’s one of the most common gear questions that pops up in the PetaPixel inbox, and while there is no one-size-fits-all answer, photographer Peter McKinnon does a great job of explaining w...

In addition to the cool new features that Adobe Lightroom released yesterday, today they’re announcing new updates to their software including bug fixes and support for more cameras. The important bits are after the ju...

Popular Photography, the largest circulated imaging magazine that launched its first issue in May 1937 in New York City, has ceased publication after being continuously in production for 80 years. The March/April 2017 is...

When I first started photography, I struggled a lot with lighting. In the beginning, we’re often told to shoot our subjects in open shade, but if you don't know how to do this properly the results can be disastrous: fa...

Portrait photography is no doubt of the those niches of photography that attracts many new photographers to the industry, both as hobbyists and professionals--and finding budget friendly portrait lenses can be tough. Tha...

LockCircle have launched the new new Cage Kinetics XT2 cinematic cage, which is designed to fit like a glove around the Fujifilm X-T2 compact system camera.

Ever since the advent of digital cameras, some film photographers have dreamed of having a way to convert their beloved film cameras into digital ones. Photographer Robin Guymer took matters into his own hands: using his...

Canon is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the launch of its Electro Optical System (EOS), which includes EOS-series interchangeable-lens cameras and a diverse range of system accessories.

The Canon PowerShot G9 X Mark II is a truly pocketable compact camera with a large 1-inch image sensor and 3x zoom lens. The G9 X Mark II also offers continuous shooting speed of 8.2fps in raw shooting mode, built-in wi-...

In case you haven’t noticed, analog film photography is back! And as proof of that, the folks over at the Today Show did a special segment on it. But this wasn’t any segment. The majority of it was shot with analog f...

Hasselblad has announced the 2017 Hasselblad Experience series.

Lots of documentary projects seem to simply do just that: document. But Jarle Hagan's documentary portraiture goes a step beyond that as he's previously demonstrated with his photo project involving the Sami people of No...

As an astronomer and visual artist, I use the arts to communicate science. My main way of doing this is through a series of Science & Symphonyfilms that get presented with orchestras in concerts around the world. Since 2...

Cineticshas announced Lynx, its next generation camera slider and motion control system for photographers and filmmakers. Itclaims that Lynx is designed to set up and use quickly and easily, incorporates advanced motor c...

Rokinon has for a while been the maker of affordable lenses capable of delivering very high quality photos--and the new Rokinon 20mm f1.8 continues to hold the company to that very tradition. Like many of the company's o...