Godox’s New RS60 Series LED Monolights Are Built for Photo and Video

The RS60Bi and RS60R from Godox enter the crowded portable lighting market, but are they just another compact option?

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2025-1-4 23:30

Profoto’s New D30 Studio Flash Is Built for Demanding Pro Photographers

Profoto's new D30 Studio Flash is a mains-powered monolight with bi-color LEDs. The light is built to cater to a diverse range of professional photography needs. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-10-30 23:40

ProGrade Digital’s New USB4 PG10 SSD Is Built for Pro Workflows

ProGrade Digital, known for its high-quality memory cards and storage solutions, announced a new solid-state drive (SSD) series, the PG10. The USB 4.0 drives are fast in bursts, but their primary performance goal is sustained performance. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-9-27 18:00

Skylum’s New AI-Powered Aperty App Is Built Specifically for Portraits

Skylum has officially announced its newest desktop software Aperty, formerly known as Project "Barcelona", designed for professional portrait editors who value time and quality. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-9-27 18:00

Canon EOS C80 Is a Full-Frame 6K Cinema Camera Built for Pro Video

Canon unveiled the EOS C80, an RF-mount full-frame cinema camera building upon much of the technology introduced in the EOS C400 when it debuted in June. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-9-10 16:00

Sabrent Built a Thunderbolt Dock and SD Reader Directly Into a Monitor Arm

Sabrent, makers of solid state storage options, memory cards, computer accessories, and more, announced a new monitor arm with a built-in Thunderbolt dock. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-7-27 19:02

Canon Unveils the EOS R1, a 24MP Flagship Camera Built for Pros

After a long wait, a development announcement, and an extensive teaser campaign, Canon has fully unveiled its new flagship EOS R System mirrorless camera, the Canon EOS R1. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-7-17 12:59

Samsung Updates Three of Its Monitor Series Built for Creatives and Gamers

Samsung unveiled new monitors, including fresh Odyssey series OLED displays with AI upscaling.

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2024-6-4 20:18

Cinematographer, Who Braved Everest With Specially Built IMAX Camera, Dies

Mountaineer and cinematographer David Breashears, a pioneer in high altitude filmmaking who summited Mount Everest with a huge specially-built IMAX camera, has died. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-3-22 15:31

PNY’s Rugged and Fast Portable SSD Is Built for Traveling Creators

PNY unveiled the RP60, a portable SSD designed with the needs of traveling professionals in mind. Its rugged format and USB Type-C connection make it a convenient storage option for photographers and videographers on the move. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-3-7 16:30

Strada Is a New Cloud-Based AI Media Workflow App Built by Industry Vets

A new platform that claims it will reinvent media workflow is on the horizon. Strada, an AI-based cloud platform built for video creatives, is set to be unveiled on February 1st, beginning its early testing phase. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-1-31 19:35

Sony’s XR HMD Mixed-Reality Headset is Built for Spatial Content Creation

CES is in full swing, with announcements popping out right and left. A regular participant at CES, Sony has announced a mixed-reality headset explicitly built for spatial content creators. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-1-10 21:51

The Phase One P5 is a 128-Megapixel Medium Format Camera Built for Drones

In collaboration with Quantum Systems and Trimble, Phase One announced a state-of-the-art 128-megapixel camera purpose-built for survey-grade applications. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-11-7 00:34

‘To Be Continued’ Film Camera Is Built to Capture a Lifetime of Memories

A trio of international designers have built a simple 35mm camera using existing camera parts and an eye-catching transparent body design. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-10-25 19:39

The CameraFrame is Hand-Made Wall Art Built from Real Camera Parts

The CameraFrame is a handcrafted piece of home decor that blends camera components into a hangable piece of wall art for photographers. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-5-31 20:58

Aputure’s Amaran 150c and 300c Lights are Built for Filmmakers

Aputure has announced the amaran 150c and 300c point-source LEDs alongside the accompanying Spotlight SE projection lens and Light Dome Mini SE light modifiers for them. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2023-4-18 22:31

DIY Motorized Camera Rig Built from Recycled 3D Printer Parts

A filmmaker has built a home-made motorized camera rig out of the recycled parts from an aging 3D printer.

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2022-8-18 21:39

How I Built a Digital Toy Camera

Are you sometimes annoyed by having too many easy and convenient ways to take perfect photos? Don’t despair…

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2022-4-21 21:12

I Built A Fantasy Garden In My Living Room To Document My Cancer Journey (14 Pics)

My project The Garden was born as the world shut down, as we were all told to stay inside. The post I Built A Fantasy Garden In My Living Room To Document My Cancer Journey (14 Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda. boredpanda.com »

2021-11-10 23:40

The PhotoHiker is a Camera Backpack Built for Adventurers

Cosyspeed has announced a new PhotoHiker backpack, made in cooperation with outdoor equipment specialist Vaude on Kickstarter. The new backpack is designed specifically for outdoor adventure use and takes its carrying system layout from high-end hiking and trekking packs used for carrying heavy payloads comfortably all day. CosySpeed says this bag is different from most […] petapixel.com »

2021-7-8 19:00

The Teva x Polaroid 600 Camera is Built From Refurbished Parts

In what is the latest in a line of brand partnerships, Polaroid today announced a collaboration with sandal company Teva that features “nostalgic” design elements and a Polaroid 600 camera that puts a spotlight on sustainability by using professionally refurbished parts. petapixel.com »

2021-5-4 23:20

How I Built An Affordable, Custom PhotoBooth and How You Can Too

These days people love photo booths and once you have set it up it works — and pays — for itself. I found various plans and tutorials, but in my opinion, none of them had a good purchase list or a really good manual. So I decided to make my own. What I outline below […] petapixel.com »

2021-3-19 21:36

I Photographed An Abandoned Luxurious Castle That Was Built In 1901

The history of the castle Laurens is incredible in so many ways that we could assume it is straight from the imagination of someone like Alexandre Dumas. boredpanda.com »

2020-10-23 15:03

This Is How A $2.25M House That’s Built Underground Looks (24 Pics)

A quaint and colorful house in Buffalo, Texas is entirely underground and has 3k square feet of living space. boredpanda.com »

2020-9-9 12:33

I Built A Tiny Caf

My husband built six small picnic tables for the squirrels and I began taking photos of all our different visitors. I began to actually look forward to waking up and going outside to see our guests. boredpanda.com »

2020-9-3 23:10

I Traveled To Italy To Capture This Castle Built At The Start Of The 20th Century (40 Pics)

This magnificent 150 rooms castle was built at the start of the 20th century by a wealthy industrialist in a neo-gothic Italian style. boredpanda.com »

2020-8-4 15:22

How I Built My Custom Vehicle ‘Obelix’ for Outdoor Photo Expeditions

As a landscape and travel photographer, I consider my camera gear the most important tool of my trade. I have been traveling for photography for so many years and have conducted several workshops in that span. petapixel.com »

2020-7-3 20:04

I Built A Bridge To Nowhere

I built a bridge to nowhere for my tiny scale model cars. The bridge here is only for the 1:87 scale model cars. I started this in the second phase of the lockdown. boredpanda.com »

2020-6-25 21:32

How I Built a Custom Charging Board for All of My Camera Batteries

Recently I became—as I’m sure many of you already are—utterly sick of the endless chargers and cables in my studio. It’s a mess of wires that always seem to get tangled and it always ends up looking like Medusa on a bad hair day. petapixel.com »

2020-2-26 21:50

My Teenage Daughter Built Me A Theatre Box So I Could Create Dreamy 3D Scenes With My Needle-Felted Animals (40 Pics)

I have been needle felting for a few years now, and more recently, I tried to photograph my creations in a lightbox. My daughter came up with an idea of a design for a unique lightbox for easy, changeable scene building/assembling. boredpanda.com »

2020-2-19 21:13

How We Built Bertha: A Giant Camera that Will Shoot the Largest Slide Ever Made

It’s called Bertha, and it will be the protagonist of the largest slide ever made. A gigantic camera born out of a desire to find out what photography can reveal when it’s pushed beyond certain limits. petapixel.com »

2020-1-1 23:25

I Built This DIY Camera Rig for Shooting Through-the-Viewfinder Videos

Recently I made my own custom-built camera rig for shooting Through-The-Viewfinder videos on a Nikon Z6 through the viewfinder of an old Lomo Lubitel 166. With my setup, I can have the whole camera in the frame but without distracting hands visible. petapixel.com »

2019-10-23 21:19

This Guy Built a Working ‘Wrist Flash’ That You Wear Like a Watch

Photographer and creative tinkerer Alireza Rostami is back at it. After turning a broken computer into a working camera in August, he embarked on a new DIY project: making a working flash that you can wear like a wristwatch. petapixel.com »

2019-9-25 19:27

Sony FE 135mm f/1.8 GM ‘Built Like a Tank’, Teardown Confirms

After crowning the Sony FE 135mm f/1. 8 G Master lens “…the sharpest lens we’ve ever tested. Period. ” LensRentals’ Roger Cicala got the chance to disassemble a copy of the new lens and see if the build quality matched the optical quality. petapixel.com »

2019-7-2 19:18

Ambassador Dariane Sanche shares how she built a 100K following on 500px

Montreal photographer Dariane Sanche shares how she built a 100K-strong following on 500px, what she's learned, what she hopes fellow creatives take away from her work, and more. iso.500px.com »

2019-4-10 23:31

I Built a Replica Chinese Takeout Restaurant in My Photo Studio

My name is Nicky Hamilton, I’m a photographer from London. In-between commercial work I produce fine art photography, specializing in cinematic set builds, which unlike my commercial work is done solo, the set design, build, photography, styling, and retouching. petapixel.com »

2019-1-17 20:28

How Two Friends Built a Remote Astrophotography Observatory

Deep Sky West is a remote astrophotography observatory in New Mexico, USA. It offers the opportunity for any astrophotographer around the world to use the site to access clear skies without the need to travel there, and to use advanced astronomy and photography equipment without the need to own it themselves. I talked to Lloyd […] petapixel.com »

2018-9-1 18:01

I Gave Up on Squarespace and Built My Own Photo Website from Scratch

For the past several years my photography website called Squarespace home. Among online, fully-contained, content management systems, it is hard to go wrong with Squarespace. Offering domain registration and hosting, plus well-crafted templates, Squarespace makes it easy to create a professional looking website. petapixel.com »

2018-8-10 21:27

Light Built a Phone with 9 Cameras

Light’s groundbreaking L16 camera generated a great deal of excitement over its 16-camera design, but early reviews have largely fallen short of the hype. The company is pushing full speed ahead, though, and will reportedly be unveiling a first-of-its-kind smartphone that has as many as 9 cameras on the back. Here’s what the existing Light […] petapixel.com »

2018-7-3 19:34

I Built A Miniature World On My Breakfast

A story of a food photographer who has changed routes and created a whole new world filled with miniature figures and everyday objects titled 'Tiny Wasteland' for a photo series. In this series starring: Eggs, bacons, milks and even a cup of tea. boredpanda.com »

2018-5-21 15:55

How I Built a Star Tracker for DSLRs

My name is Gerald Gattringer, and I’m a photographer based in Austria. I recently built myself a custom star tracker for DSLRs, and it works pretty well! In this article, I’ll share how I did it. petapixel.com »

2018-5-15 18:56

Google Built a Rotating Arc of 16 GoPro Cameras to Shoot Light Fields

It seems Lytro has a new formidable competitor in the area of light field cameras. Google revealed today that it has created a rotating arc of 16 GoPro cameras arranged vertically to experiment with light fields. petapixel.com »

2018-3-16 22:42

This Guy Built an Ultimate Lightroom Battlestation for $6,000

Hobbyist photographer and Twitter product designer Paul Stamatiou recently decided that his 2-year-old iMac was no longer up to the task of handling his high-res RAW photos in Lightroom. Instead of shelling out $13,199 or $7,128 for a fully loaded iMac Pro or Mac Pro, Stamatiou decided to switch to Windows and build himself a […] petapixel.com »

2018-1-24 22:19

This Guy Built a Giant Leica Camera Out of LEGO

Danish designer Milan Madge recently built himself a gigantic Leica III rangefinder camera out of LEGO blocks. The level of detail is impressive. Here’s a photo of what the Leica IIIa looks like in real life: The Leica IIIa. petapixel.com »

2017-10-14 22:33

High Magnification at a Low Price: How I Built a Super Macro Rig for $230

Last year, I bought a macro lens for the summer. Just a normal one with 1x magnification. I fell into a beautiful and mesmerizing world of minuscule flowers and bugs. I found that in macro photography, you don’t have to travel to beautiful places to take beautiful photos — you can just walk around in […] petapixel.com »

2017-9-12 19:10

Canton Vander Built’s Beautiful Classical Take on Black and White Photography

"Like the Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama (b. 1938), I believe that black and white photography is...erotic..." thephoblographer.com »

2017-6-28 19:00

A Spine Injury Left Me Immobile… So I Built a Giant 2024 Camera

I recently found myself with a spine injury, which proved to kinda be a big road block to my photography. My photo projects usually involved lots of driving and walking, two things that proved to be extremely painful due to my crappy health. petapixel.com »

2017-5-12 21:42

I Built My Dream Destination Using Simple Things

I created this cool, magical vacation destination for this summer holidays. I made whole things with the help of cardboards, Polystyrene sheets, acrylic colours and wheat flour. In this video you can see you do not need a whole lot of stuff to create something amazing. boredpanda.com »

2017-4-19 17:51

I Built My Own Island For The Summer Vacations

i created my very own island without spending almost any money. You can see how easy it is to create a photorealistic miniature set. So, now make your own islands. boredpanda.com »

2017-4-12 18:15

I Built A Dress Made Of Ice For My Maiden Of Finland Photoshoot

The physical land of Finland takes the shape of a woman with one arm held high. She is wearing a long, fluttering dress, and the nationals of Finland fondly call her ”The Maiden of Finland”. This year, Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. boredpanda.com »

2017-4-4 18:42