Astrophotographer Bray Falls recently posted a series of striking images on Instagram that instantly caught PetaPixel's eye. Falls' photos aren't just visually stunning; they represent a brand-new discovery, a significant accomplishment for any astrophotographer. [Read More]
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"As long as I can remember, I’ve always loved to observe the world around me," says photographer Anna Neubauer to the Phoblographer in an interview. "I would often spend hours sitting in one spot, watching the light change and the colors shift. thephoblographer.com »
2024-08-27 07:00
For many of us, it's a taboo subject to shoot in auto mode. I mean, we want to surely have creative control over our images so that we can make exactly what we have in our minds. But truth be told, many of us shoot in aperture priority anyway. thephoblographer.com »
2024-03-05 08:00
Nestled in the heart of a youthful neighborhood arts district, just opposite the bustling Port of Los Angeles, lies a relatively unassuming gallery, much like any of those that surround it. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-01-10 21:17
Photographer Mehmet Aslan captured an image in April 2021 of a father and son with amputated limbs in a Turkish refugee camp. His powerful shot went on to tug at heartstrings, win a prestigious international photo competition, go viral online, and completely transform the subjects' lives. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-03-13 17:53
If you are anything like me, when you go out on a photography shoot, you end up taking many images and lots of different compositions as the light changes, and an inevitable outcome is a number of good shots but no stunners. petapixel.com »
2019-10-14 17:28
When Australian documentary photographer Andrew Chapman was invited to Austin Hospital in Melbourne to photograph open heart surgery for TIME magazine, the transplant team in the operating theatre next door invited him to come photograph them as well. petapixel.com »
2019-09-06 00:42
Photographer Ryan Pfluger says he uses photography “as a means for therapy and connection. ” In this 12-minute talk he recently gave at TEDxPasadena, Pfluger shares an inspirational insight into how photography has played a major part in bettering his life. petapixel.com »
2017-11-24 19:45
Here’s an interesting 10-minute video by professional photographer Craig Roberts in which he takes us through how his camera gear bag has evolved from 1986 until today. Roberts is a landscape and travel photographer and has been in the game for more than 30 years. petapixel.com »
2017-07-29 18:21
There’s a staggering fact on photographer Malin Fezehai’s website: “The number of people forced to flee their homes across the world has exceeded 50 million for the first time since the second World War. petapixel.com »
2017-01-18 19:47
If you captured a range of exposures for a certain scene, you don’t have to painstakingly adjust each one once you’ve got them in Lightroom. This really useful tip from the folks at Adobe shows you how to do it in a single click. petapixel.com »
2016-12-13 22:42
It isn’t often that your hobby and your career collide but recently that is just what happened to me. Photography is my hobby. Fraud and Security management is my profession. So when I learned that cameras were used to launch one of the largest cyber attacks in history, I was intrigued. It All Started with […] petapixel.com »
2016-10-07 22:45
NASA recently released a shocking slide show that shows, picture-by-picture, the death of what was once the fourth largest lake on Earth. Known as the Aral Sea, this endothermic lake is now mostly an arid wasteland. petapixel.com »
2016-09-08 00:02
What’s the best deal you’ve ever gotten in a photo gear trade? Whatever it is, it’s probably not better than British photographer John Swannell‘s best trade. He managed to turn a cheap thrift store camera bag into about $42,000. petapixel.com »
2016-08-29 23:20
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope continues to churn out fantastic space images. The latest captured by the 34-year-old telescope shows barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 in all its luminous glory. [Read More]
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) VISTA telescope have created and published a massive infrared map of the Milky Way galaxy containing more than 1.
"Smart telescopes" are all the rage, thanks to the ease with which novice stargazers can use them to capture beautiful photos of the cosmos. However, they're often expensive.
A team from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has proposed a design for a lunar-based multi-camera telescope array that could start small, but expand to be much larger over time. [Read More]
Ricoh Imaging Americas Corporation announced the Pentax PF-85EDA spotting scope, a portable terrestrial telescope designed for birdwatching and nature observations. [Read More]
A team working on the construction of the world's largest space telescope captured this incredible photo of the full Hunter's Moon rising behind it. [Read More]