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Abstract: Think about the reasons behind the color of your lights, and your palette will often take care of itself.When you are placing a light source, it's pretty normal to ask yourself, "What color should this light be...

After teasing the product and sharing some sample portraits, the Chinese flash manufacturer Godox has now officially announced the A1. It’s a flash, LED, and trigger 3-in-1 unit designed for smartphone cameras. The God...

Photographers who like the look of Voigtlander as well the the functionality of their lenses will be pleased to know that a new Voigtlander 40mm f2 SL II S was recently announced. The predecessor to this lens was a very ...

Wildfires have been burning across Portugal, causing tens of deaths and scores of injuries. Yesterday, I stumbled upon a village called Pereiro De Maçao. For the last 4 days, a wildfire has consumed a large quantity of ...

Photography is a lot of fun. For the most part, it's a solo pursuit where you are completely responsible for your own success or failure. But anyone can be a great photographer! Most people in the world are professional ...

There are two types of kind-of-cliché photography challenges that are actually quite inspirational and informative: (1) A great photographer using a cheap camera, and (2) Several top-notch photographers shooting the sam...

Taiwanese manufacturer Asus is a pioneer in the area of smartphone zoom, and so it does not come as a surprise that its latest flagship model, the ZenFone 4 Pro, comes with a quite impressive looking dual-camera setup th...

If you’re flying with camera equipment, bring the gear onto the plane in a carry-on bag with you if at all possible. This $11,000 Leica lens shows what can happen if you entrust your pricey equipment to the hold inside...

We all remember what it was like when we found our wings in photography when you could actually take a picture based on something you saw in your head and have it come out on the back of the camera. It's motivating, but ...

When Picktorial 3 debuted back in April, it offered "superior support" for Fujifilm X-Trans RAW files, including compressed and uncompressed RAF. This was a big deal, and it has been so well received that Picktorial Inno...

The ceremonial first pitch at a Boston Red Sox baseball game went horribly (and comically) wrong yesterday, and a sports photographer behind the plate found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was captured o...

The pitch was off, but the story behind the teen is truly remarkable

In this 4-minute video by Wex Photographic, street photographer Matt Higgs takes up the challenge of capturing 30 street portraits of complete strangers in just 2 hours. Lots of people find street photography awkward, di...

Whether it's the Walkman, Photoshop or the GoPro, every now and again a product comes along that so perfectly epitomizes the form, that its name is taken to represent the entire category of products (whether its maker li...

Episode 203 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 – Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Photographer, blogger and BlackRapid Culture Liaison, LaRae Lobdell In This Episode If you sub...

HMD Global, the company behind the Nokia smartphone brand, has launched its long-anticipated Nokia 8 flagship. With a 5.3" QHD IPS display covered in 2.5D Gorilla Glass 5, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset, 4GB of RAM an...

Fujifilm has released their first quarter results for this year and things are looking particularly well for the company's imaging solutions division - the one we all care about. The report showed a significant increase ...

I've had this theory in my mind for a really long time: a photographer should shoot less and instead, just concentrate on being more and more human. Now think about that, and consider carefully the way that you go about ...

Many years after Dorothea Lange took her iconic "Migrant Mother" photograph in 1936, the portrait of a troubled mother with her bashful children remains one of the most important images of The Great Depression. Anyone wh...