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How to Find Your Style in Photography
16 Mar 01:00:01 | Peta Pixel
How do I find my style? It?s a question that inevitably comes up for almost every photographer actively trying to improve their images. It?s a tough question, at first. Because at first, you don?t really know what that means. Many photographers think that ?style? is just equal to how someone might edit their images. They […]
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The First Great Photography Craze: Cartes de Visites
15 Mar 01:00:01 | Peta Pixel
Before Instagram, selfie sticks, disposable cameras, Polaroids, and box brownies, there were carte de visites — small photographic albumen prints, mounted on card, which were wildly popular during the Victorian era. Also known as CdV, carte de visites followed the early pioneering photographic techniques such as daguerreotype and ambrotype, which were expensive and difficult to […]
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Making MAYA, the Only Darkroom Timer You?ll Ever Need
14 Mar 01:00:02 | Peta Pixel
MAYA is a darkroom timer project that was born out of necessity when my old darkroom timer had started to malfunction. It has become a pretty successful crowdfunding campaign so far, exceeding 300% of its initial goal with a few days left to go. Like many people who still have a darkroom, I?ve bought most […]
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These Car Ads Were Shot with Toy Cars
14 Mar 01:00:02 | Peta Pixel
A few months ago, the Czech car brand ?koda got in touch with Hungarian photographer Benedek Lampert and asked him to shoot car photos. But instead of expensive shoots featuring real ?koda cars, the company asked that Lampert only use 1:43-scale models of the cars. “It sounded interesting, so I accepted,” the 24-year-old photographer tells […]
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Sony?s FE 135mm f/1.8 GM May Be the Sharpest Lens of Its Kind
13 Mar 01:00:02 | Peta Pixel
Sony’s new FE 135mm F1.8 GM lens will hit store shelves next month, but it’s already dropping jaws with its sharpness. According to one new test, it may be the sharpest lens of its kind on the market today. Roger Cicala over at LensRentals has published early MTF results after testing 10 copies of the […]
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Portrait Mode: The End of Compact Cameras
13 Mar 01:00:02 | Peta Pixel
It seems like having dual cameras on your phone has become almost the norm nowadays, but many people don?t even know that they are there, let alone why. However, I believe that Portrait Mode is an incredible tool for the modern photographer to promote themselves — particularly on Instagram. Portrait Mode is what Apple calls […]
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Can We Please Stop Using Workshop Photos and Styled Shoots in Our Wedding Portfolios
12 Mar 01:00:01 | Peta Pixel
Over the last few years, I?ve noticed a growing trend of photographers in the UK using workshops and styled shoots to boost their wedding portfolio. It wasn?t as prevalent when I started shooting weddings 6 years ago (following many years of documenting my own life with a camera), and I?m glad because if I?d not […]
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NASA Shot the First Pics of Supersonic Jet Shockwaves Interacting
12 Mar 01:00:01 | Peta Pixel
NASA has captured the first-ever photos showing the shockwaves of supersonic jets interacting in flight. The beautiful images were captured in an extremely difficult air-to-air photo shoot. To create the groundbreaking photos, NASA outfitted a B-200 twin-turboprop research aircraft with a new imaging system (capable of 1,400 frames per second for up to 3 seconds) […]
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My Experience Shooting the Yosemite Horsetail Firefall
11 Mar 01:00:01 | Peta Pixel
My name is Aaron Chen, and I’m a photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. I was in Yosemite for the 2019 Firefall and would love to share my experience so that others can do it themselves! Prep Work To start with, if you want to know why the Firefalls are so special, I would […]
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