Breathing New Life Into Old Civil War Photos Using Animation

   30 Mar 01:00:02   |  Peta Pixel

My name is Matt Loughrey, and I’m an artist based in Ireland. I occasionally work alongside libraries and museums with projects to develop their visitor experiences. Over time I have become familiar with a handful of photographers. In 2015, I began to gather and organize glass negatives into groups on the strength after noticing that […]

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Hello. My Name is Bob Locher, and I Am a Pixel-Peeper

   30 Mar 01:00:02   |  Peta Pixel

From Wiktionary: Noun pixel peeper (plural pixel peepers) (idiomatic, photography) “A person who carefully scrutinizes a magnified digital photograph in order to evaluate resolution and image quality.” From Urban Dictionary: Pixel peeper: “A digital photographer who magnifies photographs on the computer screen to critically evaluate image resolution at the pixel level. Commonly used as a […]

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This Guy Pushed a Piano to the Eiffel Tower for His Wedding Day Photos

   29 Mar 01:00:02   |  Peta Pixel

How far would you go to set up the scene of your dreams for the perfect wedding day photo shoot? Photographer Priscila Valentina was recently hired by a guy named Samuel whose grand romantic gesture was to spend a morning pushing a piano through the streets of Paris and up to the Eiffel Tower. Starting […]

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Kim Jong-un?s Photographer Fired for Briefly Blocking Neck with Flash

   29 Mar 01:00:02   |  Peta Pixel

Kim Jong-un’s personal photographer has reportedly been fired for breaking the dictator’s photography rules. The photographer’s offense? Standing directly between Kim and a crowd for just three seconds and blocking the view of Kim’s neck with a camera flash. The South Korean news outlet DailyNK reports that the 47-year-old photographer with the surname Ri was […]

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Photos of Dogs Wearing Custom Cones of Shame

   28 Mar 01:00:02   |  Peta Pixel

Cone of Shame is an ongoing project by Brooklyn-based photographer Winnie Au, who shot colorful portraits of dogs wearing unusual “cones of shame” around their heads. Formally known as the Elizabethan collar, the cone of shame is a protective medical device worn by animals to prevent them from biting or licking its body or scratching […]

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How to Fake a Realistic Shallow Depth of Field in Photoshop

   28 Mar 01:00:02   |  Peta Pixel

By carefully applying blur to a portrait, you can make it look like it was shot with a shallow depth-of-field using a fast (and expensive) lens. Here’s a 12-minute tutorial by PiXimperfect that teaches the key to creating this faux blur in a realistic way. “We’ll learn some advanced controls for Iris Blur and Field […]

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Ep. 317: AI Is Coming To Getcha! Or Help. ? and more

   27 Mar 01:00:01   |  Peta Pixel

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Portraits of People in the Remote Himalayan Villages of Bhutan

   27 Mar 01:00:01   |  Peta Pixel

Bhutan is a small landlocked country in the Eastern Himalayas of South Asia located between Tibet and India. Photographer Andrew Studer of Portland, Oregon, traveled to the country in 2017 and 2018 and spent weeks shooting photos of the places and people he encountered. His project is titled, “Faces of Bhutan.” Studer says he originally […]

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Tonight Show? Shot an Entire Episode on the Samsung Galaxy S10+

   26 Mar 01:00:01   |  Peta Pixel

Smartphone camera quality continues to hit new heights, and here’s another example of how far we’ve come: NBC will air an episode of “The Tonight Show” shot entirely on the Samsung Galaxy S10+. Variety reports that tonight’s episode will be an unusual one that diverges from the show’s standard recipe of an opening monologue and […]

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