Interview: Sony believes it has maintained its competitive advantage in three ways…

At the CP+ show PetaPixel had a quick chat with Masaaki Oshima, Head of Sony Imaging Entertainment Business Unit. He said that Sony has maintained its competitive advantage in three ways: The first is that we have our own image sensor company in our group The second is that we are focusing on not only… The post Interview: Sony believes it has maintained its competitive advantage in three ways… first appeared on sonyalpharumors. sonyalpharumors.com »

2025-3-25 17:07

6 Ways to Expand Your Creativity According to a Pro Photographer

Over the last decade, photographer Erin Sullivan has built an impressive travel photography portfolio by embracing creativity in both traditional and unconventional ways. petapixel.com »

2024-11-28 00:06

Six Ways to Help Yourself See Like a Photographer

Chris Eyre-Walker, an OM SYSTEM Ambassador from Belgium, grew up traveling with his parents who were avid amateur photographers. These childhood photography adventures, which led Eyre-Walker to visit over 20 countries by the time he was 15, translated into a successful photography and filmmaking career. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-6-25 00:09

Like A Frame App Update Offers New Ways to Share Photos

Photographer Nick Bedford has announced Like A Frame 3.3, the latest version of his digital framing iOS app. The updated version brings some new features and faster rendering for photographers wanting to create a polished look on their digital images. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2024-4-16 21:30

3 Easy Ways to Save Money in Photography and 3 to Avoid

No matter how you slice it, there is no denying that photography is an expensive hobby. Cameras do not come cheap. Neither do lenses. Gear can genuinely liberate your creativity, enhance the experience of getting the shot, or just simplify your workflow. thephoblographer.com »

2023-5-2 01:00

Win One of the Most Comfortable Ways to Carry Camera Gear!

Got a lot of big analog cameras? You’ll want to try this! So far, the Phoblographer’s subscribers have won various cameras, lenses, bags, tablets, and more. But their biggest wins are the banner-ad free Phoblographer and the extra discounts/benefits they get. thephoblographer.com »

2023-3-13 07:00

8 Ways Storytelling Can Improve Your Photos and Videos

Photography and filmmaking wasn’t always a part of Kane Andrade’s career path. The San Francisco Bay Area native and Adobe Lightroom Ambassador originally was interested in animation before joining the military. petapixel.com »

2022-9-22 23:42

Opinion: If You Love Cameras, There’s Nothing Wrong with GAS

"But new gear isn't going to make you a better photographer," is something that I've heard in many different ways. In some ways, it's got some merit. But in other ways, it discounts what good lighting, light modifiers, computers, and lenses can do for you and your photography. thephoblographer.com »

2022-6-4 01:00

Seven ways to build community around your NFT project

In this guide, we’ll cover just a few simple ways to create an audience and keep them engaged with your digital assets and larger body of work. The post Seven ways to build community around your NFT project appeared first on 500px. iso.500px.com »

2022-6-6 14:30

4 Ways Camera Manufacturers Fail Photographers

We're all fans of some photography brands. Some hold a special place in our hearts, and many among us defend them to no end. Others we can't stand yet secretly wish our favourite brand would do better than. thephoblographer.com »

2022-5-3 13:00

12 Best Ways to Mount an Action Camera to Your Body in 2022

Capturing the right angle while focusing on not being injured while grabbing some air is probably the toughest thing about using an action camera. Sure, there are selfie sticks, or simply just holding the camera, but all too often they get in the way more than they help accurately frame that selfie from a third-person perspective. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-4-28 20:49

8 Useful Ways to Describe and Measure Your Photos

A leading textbook on creative photography, released in 1980, devotes more than 90% of its 460 pages to technical considerations — how cameras and lenses work, darkroom procedures, lighting — and just a few pages to aesthetics and composition. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-3-17 19:03

Photography Pricing Like a Pro: 5 Ways to Attract Clients Who Won’t Haggle

Professionally pricing your photography will be the difference between just taking photos on the side to a full-time profitable business. It’s all about attracting the ideal clients, finding balance, strategic wording, and a polished presentation. [Read More] petapixel.com »

2022-3-3 22:06

Six ways to capture Valentine’s Day

Brands have understood the power of Valentine’s Day for more than a century—here are our tips for modernizing your shoots to speak to today’s image-buyers. The post Six ways to capture Valentine’s Day appeared first on 500px. iso.500px.com »

2022-2-3 15:30

Meta is working on letting users create, sell NFTs on Facebook and Instagram

According to the Financial Times, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is looking at ways to allow its users to create and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on its platforms. The article also cites that NFTs are currently a $40 billion market, with no signs of slowing down anytime soon. dpreview.com »

2022-1-21 21:07

10 Ways to Generate Revenue With Online Sales

Online sales have long been the go-to for photographers looking to earn passive income. While you reach out to editors and communicate with clients about their latest headshots or food photos, have you considered which images you’ve already made might make you some quick cash? This holiday season, we want to help you earn more. […] petapixel.com »

2021-11-22 18:33

Five ways to cover community activism in your commercial portfolio

Increased interest in volunteering has helped to reshape commercial visual culture, as brands look to reflect their values across their advertising. The post Five ways to cover community activism in your commercial portfolio appeared first on 500px. iso.500px.com »

2021-11-17 15:30

Five ways to become a better collaborator (and photographer!)

The ability to work well with others—including models, stylists, makeup artists, and other creatives—is an essential skill in any photographer’s toolbelt. The post Five ways to become a better collaborator (and photographer!) appeared first on 500px. iso.500px.com »

2021-11-2 14:30

DPReview TV classics: Best (and worst) ways to clean camera lenses

Chris and Jordan are taking a well-deserved break this week, so we're re-posting one of our favorite episodes from the archives. In this humorous video they discuss the right way – and the wrong way – to clean a lens. dpreview.com »

2021-8-29 17:00

15 Unignorable Ways to Show Your Photographs

We live in a world of visual bombardment. According to the research company Internet Live Stats, there are over 1,000 photographs uploaded to Instagram alone every second. When you factor in our universal personal attention deficit, one must wonder how one gets their precious photographs seen. petapixel.com »

2021-6-15 21:29

This Instagram Page Is Dedicated To Sharing The Ridiculous Ways People Were Caught Standing In Public, And Here Are 42 Of The Best Stances

Bored Panda collected the best of the best ways people stand in public as posted on the People Standing Instagram. And, oh boy, do people have some weird ways to stand. The post This Instagram Page Is Dedicated To Sharing The Ridiculous Ways People Were Caught Standing In Public, And Here Are 42 Of The Best Stances first appeared on Bored Panda. boredpanda.com »

2021-6-12 17:53

Eight tiny ways to become a greener photographer

There are small ways for all photographers to make a difference—here are just a few tips for making your photography practice greener, one step at a time. The post Eight tiny ways to become a greener photographer appeared first on 500px. iso.500px.com »

2021-4-29 14:30

Instagram Plans to Give Influencers More Ways to Make Money

Instagram plans to release new tools that will help influencers profit from the app more than before, including a marketplace to find brand sponsorships. Instagram has come a long way from the app it was in its early days. petapixel.com »

2021-4-29 17:59

NatGeo is Providing Ways to Help Threatened Creatures and Habitats

National Geographic has today published the May issue of its magazine that is available online and this time, it is doing more than just showing photos of animals and habitats and describing issues, but is providing ways the average person can actually help. petapixel.com »

2021-4-16 20:44

Four Ways to Make Money With Timelapse Photography

Shooting timelapse is certainly a lot of fun, but trying to sell them and make money is an entirely separate story. So that leads to the question: how can you monetize the planning, time spent shooting, and the effort of editing hundreds or thousands of pictures into extra income or maybe a new career? After […] petapixel.com »

2021-3-29 19:23

Here are different ways to cool the Canon EOS R5, watercooling and more

DIY Perks on YouTube have posted a 20-minute video showcasing how they developed different cooling methods for the Canon EOS R5. The first attempt was Read more... canonrumors.com »

2020-11-27 21:41

New eBook! 35+ Ways the Photo Community Can Support Black Lives Matter

Download the free Ebook today!

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2020-10-15 20:27

5 Ways Photographers Can Use Social Distancing as an Opportunity

I want to start by saying that if you or your family and friends are impacted by the current events of COVID-19, I send my sincerest condolences. The tragedy, pain, and suffering that the world is going through is immensely saddening and should not be taken lightly, so we should all be taking the necessary […] petapixel.com »

2020-4-19 18:57

I Photograph Dogs Curling Their Tongues In The Funniest Ways (26 Pics)

It may be rude to stick out your tongue, but when dogs do it, it makes for some comical photos. boredpanda.com »

2020-4-18 02:00

SEO for Photographers: 3 Ways to Improve Your Website

When most of us began pursuing a career as photographers, we pictured idyllic days spent behind our beloved cameras photographing all the things. We quickly learned that our time behind a camera would be precious, as most of us would spend way more time sitting at a computer editing, communicating with our clients, managing marketing […] petapixel.com »

2020-3-31 20:25

Three Ways to Use RGB Lights in Your Portrait Work

RGB LEDs are a relatively new piece of technology, and a wonderful addition that photographers should be taking advantage of. Before this technology existed, we were forced to resort to adding gels to our strobes in order to add a pop of color into our images. This worked well (and still does) but having the […] petapixel.com »

2020-3-5 23:04

5 Ways You Can Use a Softbox to Shoot Stunning Portraits

Portrait photographer Miguel Quiles is back with the third part of his series on various lighting modifiers. Part one covered the beauty dish, part two covered the umbrella, and part three is all about the different ways you can use a softbox to capture distinctive portraits. petapixel.com »

2019-12-19 23:06

7 Ways To Not Mess Up Your Wedding Photos

Lover.ly photo editors share tips on prepping your clients for their wedding day photo shoots.

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2019-12-18 21:00

8 Ways to Get Inspired and Break Through Creative Block

I believe all artists experience “blocks” every once in a while. Feelings of discouragement or lack of motivation, inspiration, and will to do something we know we love to do. Writers have a “writer’s block” – a condition in which a writer is unable to write anything. Logically, it doesn’t make sense; how could a […] petapixel.com »

2019-8-19 22:12

Two Ways to Shoot Single Light Portraits with the Chimera Lantern

Whether you're looking into experimenting with a new lighting technique or simply want to keep your shoot minimal, a single light setup will do the trick. There are many different ways to do this, but Adorama adds one more to the list. thephoblographer.com »

2019-8-15 22:00

8 easy ways to make your photos more marketable

Luckily, just a few simple changes can elevate a “good” photo and turn it into a “marketable” one. Here are just eight easy ways to amp up the commercial appeal of your images, without interrupting your workflow. iso.500px.com »

2019-8-1 21:42

3 Ways to Use Plexiglass for Creative Portraits

As a portrait photographer, it can often be difficult to keep thing interesting in the studio. Adding a unique element to your images can help them stand out while also allowing you to have little fun. petapixel.com »

2019-6-5 20:09

Subject Isolation: Finding Innovative Ways to Draw Attention to Subjects

I have no idea where I first heard this, but it’s extremely true: “the main difference between painting and photography is that the painters need to work hard to put things into their images, whereas photographers have to work hard to take things out of their images.” Painters start with a blank canvas, and every […] petapixel.com »

2018-10-23 20:56

I Imagined Alternative Ways Of How Things Are Made And Turned Into A Series

Before shooting this series, I saw a documentary about how different groceries are made. Big factories with endless assembly lines and hundreds of machines handling products from beginning to end. It was quite interesting to watch how products change their appearance completely from start to finish. boredpanda.com »

2018-10-23 22:12

Top 10 Ways to Improve Flickr in 2018

Having spent thousands of hours on Flickr over the past 15 years or so, on a personal level I’ve become fairly invested in the site. To date I’ve published over 140,000 of my photographs there. I publish 40 or so new photos there every single day. It’s the primary archive of my photography work on […] petapixel.com »

2018-4-28 18:51

5 Ways to Use a Beauty Dish

Photographer and Profoto Legend of Light Miguel Quiles made this 7-minute video in which he shares 5 different ways he likes to use a beauty dish for portrait lighting. Here’s a quick overview of the techniques discussed and example photos with each. petapixel.com »

2018-2-23 22:06

5 Quick Ways to Rock Your Next Engagement Shoot

Posing a couple? Oh trust us, it’s not that simple. Photographing a single subject has its fair share challenges: posing, lighting, framing, composition, etc. Photographing couples can sometimes seem like double the work! Why? Well, you’ve got two people to work with for starters and then there are different body shapes, personalities, wardrobe, etc. Here’s thephoblographer.com »

2018-1-27 08:00

Review: Peak Design Capture Clip v3

The Peak Design Capture Clip V3 is Peak Design's latest evolution of the original Capture Clip that helped them get famous off of Kickstarter. This latest version is a massive jump forward in many ways. thephoblographer.com »

2017-12-21 14:00

Review: MOAB Moenkopi Washi Kozo 110 Paper

MOAB Moenkopi Washi Kozo 110 paper is classified under the company's specialty paper, and it honestly has me scratching my head in some ways while being very impressed in other ways. The paper is designed for fine art photographers and is a matte paper with a pretty unique look to it in some ways that you only realize when lit just right. thephoblographer.com »

2017-11-29 14:00

7 Ways to Enhance Eyes in Photoshop

Here’s an in-depth 28-minute tutorial from the Photoshop Training Channel that will show you how to enhance and create amazing eyes in portrait photos using Photoshop. Each technique forms a different step to a thorough eye enhancement, but all adjustments should be made on separate layers so that your edits are not destructive. 1. Remove the […] petapixel.com »

2017-11-23 19:01

5 Ways to Change the Color of Anything in Photoshop

Changing the color of an object using Photoshop is a typical use case for the software, and there are many ways to do it. This 20-minute video from Nathaniel Dodson of tutvid that examines 5 separate ways to re-color or add color to objects. petapixel.com »

2017-9-23 19:18

How to Piss Off a Photographer: Here are 11 Easy Ways

Photographer video maker Lok Cheung made this humorous 5-minute video featuring different things people do and say that get on photographers’ nerves. Here’s a quick rundown of the different things Cheung and videographer Warren Ng act out: 1. petapixel.com »

2017-9-5 17:24

I Explore Five Alternative Ways To Brew Coffee With Still Life Photography

Coffee is a mystery. Brewing coffee is alchemy, change your ways slightly and you'll get a different drink. I imagined five fictional characters (writer, photographer, artist, botanist and traveller) with their preffered ways to brew coffee and tried to capture that im still life compositions. boredpanda.com »

2017-9-1 09:32

4 Ways to Add Color to Shadows Using Gels for Portraits

Instead of editing your images in post to inject color into your shadows, you can use gels to do it in-camera. Here’s a 6-minute video from photographer Jay P. Morgan at The Slanted Lens demonstrating 4 different methods. petapixel.com »

2017-7-27 17:29

3 Ways to Find Clients While You Sleep

Being a great photographer is only one part of turning it in to a full-time job. You’ll also need some business chops, and these 3 tips from photographer Moshe Zusman will give you some ideas on how automate client acquisition. petapixel.com »

2017-7-20 19:50