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Great Reads in Photography: January 3, 2021
04 Jan 00:00:04 | Peta Pixel
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy! ‘I Tried to Become Part of Wuhan’: Hector Retamal ? Agency Photographer of 2020 ? The Guardian View this post on Instagram A post shared […]
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How to Make a LIDAR-Driven Motorized Film Carrier
03 Jan 00:00:02 | Peta Pixel
Despite what some people think about LIDAR for cars, in the near future it is foreseeable that this technology will take its rightful place in our daily lives. Not just for cars but with almost anything and everything. We have already seen Apple?s new iPad and iPhone utilizing this technology. I wanted to see if […]
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What a New, Budget-Friendly Leica M 35mm Camera Might Be Like
03 Jan 00:00:02 | Peta Pixel
In the eyes of many, 35mm film photography was snuffed out in the early 2000s. But a small, dedicated fan base has continued to smolder. For all intents and purposes, Leica launched the 35mm camera. And it seems that nearly a century later, they are still committed to fanning the flames that they themselves ignited. […]
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2020 Displayed in a Year of Aerial Drone Photographs
02 Jan 00:00:03 | Peta Pixel
Photographer Armando Martinez is celebrating the final day of 2020 by sharing this beautiful montage of drone video footage and photography that he captured in the last year. This year has seen a flurry of news surrounding the present and future of drone photography and videography. Olympus patented a “high performance” drone camera, and Sony […]
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78-Year-Old Everglades Photographer Didn?t Let a Stroke Slow Him Down
02 Jan 00:00:03 | Peta Pixel
Photographer Clyde Butcher is most well known for his giant photos of the Everglades taken with a large-format camera. In 2017 he suffered a stroke, but that setback hasn’t slowed him down. In this 4.5-minute video, Butcher explains why photography continues to be important to him. Butcher originally created massive artistic prints of his landscape […]
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How Bokeh Evolved and How Digital Photography Elevated it to Art
01 Jan 00:00:46 | Peta Pixel
Bokeh is one of the most subjective aspects of photo or video. As Simon’s Utak says in this 20-minute discussion on its history and how it is elevating digital photography into art, we as photographers can’t even agree how to properly say the word. This video is one of the most comprehensive discussions on not […]
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How To Make Your Own Pinhole Camera With a Matchbox or ILC
01 Jan 00:00:46 | Peta Pixel
A pinhole camera is a simple image capture device that doesn’t use a lens but instead makes images through a tiny aperture. The simplest ones are just a light-proof box with a hole in it, and in this 7-minute video, you’ll learn how to make one as well as how to make your digital camera […]
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Balancing Photojournalism with the Right of Refusal: The Debate Continues
31 Dec 00:00:06 | Peta Pixel
A University of Virginia history teacher published a tweet asking what photojournalism and documentary photography would look like, now and in the past, if the photographer’s right to take someone’s image were balanced by that person’s right to say no. In October of 2020, the New York Post published a controversial OpEd calling street photography […]
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Yes, the M1 MacBook Pro Really is THAT Good
31 Dec 00:00:06 | Peta Pixel
Right before Christmas, PetaPixel published its review of the M1 Macbook Pro, heaping praise upon the new computer, saying it was “much further ahead than anybody expected.” That review isn’t alone: in this 17.5-minute video, Linus Tech Tips finds even better performance. Linus ran multiple tests and showed the M1 Macbook Air and Pro performing […]
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Why Mirrorless Wins: We?ve Come a Long Way and I?m Not Going Back
30 Dec 00:00:08 | Peta Pixel
In 2018 with some trepidation I bought my first mirrorless camera, a Nikon Z7. It wasn?t because I thought it was better than the DSLR I had been using but because my old muscles were spasming with the weight of the camera I was using and I hoped that a package a pound lighter would […]
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