I wanted to share with you my latest personal photographic experiment: creating the first ever camera lens made of ICE - "Iceberg Lens Project". Shooting photos and videos using the ice lens was my dream for almost 2 years.
After some research I discovered that almost no one ever tried this crazy idea, mainly because it's hard as hell to find pure ice, and even harder to get a clear image. . boredpanda.com
I have had this shot in my mind for years now. Seagulls, lots of seagulls, mobbing a camera. Wide-angle fisheye perspective. Reminiscent of Hitchcock. I thought long and hard and conceived a crazy contraption. petapixel.com »
2019-10-10 18:03
Photographer Mathieu Stern is a fan of creating strange lenses, but his latest creation is quite unusual, even by his standards. Stern visited Iceland and created a working lens out of ice from an iceberg. petapixel.com »
2018-10-23 20:04
When low-quality photos or videos are posted online, people often say that they were shot with a “potato camera.” But if you actually want to shoot photos with a literal potato camera, how would you go about doing so? The production studio Corridor Crew‘s creative director Niko recently decided he would try his hand at […] petapixel.com »
2018-06-28 22:42
In December 2015, Shane Arsenault and I had started talking about a joint photography project with the purpose of using his 16”x20” Bellows Camera on a larger scale, which would give us the freedom to work outside a conventional studio space. petapixel.com »
2018-02-07 22:25
Been dreaming of expanding your vintage camera collection with something cool from NASA? We've once again spotted one such item that would make any aspiring cosmonaut-slash-photographer drool. One of the rare Nikon F3 cameras that NASA modified for taking out of this world photos is currently up for grabs on ebay. thephoblographer.com »
2018-01-04 11:00
Photographer Jason Siegel is still using old camera equipment to share an anti-violence message in a creative way. Since we featured his work at the beginning of 2017, Siegel has created even more guns and weapons of war using various cameras, lenses, and accessories for his project Shoot Portraits, Not People. Here are some of […] petapixel.com »
2017-12-28 00:14
This past weekend, The Camera Store in Calgary, Canada was victim of a burglary in which the assailants made away with some highend gear by Hasselblad and Leica. With the help from the public, two suspects have been taken into custody and all of the Hasselblad gear has been recovered. The Leica M-P 240 Safari Read more... canonrumors.com »
2017-12-21 23:24
Here’s an interesting piece of photo history: five years before Kodak’s automatic Super Six-20, Dr. Albert Einstein received a patent for a camera which could automatically determine the proper aperture and exposure to take a photograph. petapixel.com »
2017-06-02 21:05
The Rolleidoscop was made from 1926 to 1939 in Germany alongside the Heidoscop, the same camera but with a sheet film or glass plate back. It was actually the very first camera that renowned manufacturer Rollei made. petapixel.com »
2017-05-20 20:33
Natural Rotations is a photo series by Surrey, England-based photographer Simon Painter. Each of the images was created by spinning the camera while an exposure is in progress. “My technique involves moving the camera during an exposure of anything from 0. petapixel.com »
2017-03-16 18:08
If you enjoy seeing experimental photo projects and unique homemade cameras, check out this “Straw Camera. ” It was created by filling a wooden box with 32,000 drinking straws for light to pass through. petapixel.com »
2017-02-11 21:58
Everytime a new Instax camera gets announced, it's a genuinely great reason to get excited: and a new Kickstarter called the Jollylook wants to inspire to many others. The Jollylook is a foldout camera made from recycled paper and cardboard with some glass elements for the lenses with the shutter and aperture are made of thick paper and laminated cardboard. thephoblographer.com »
2017-01-31 16:54
Lots of camera straps these days are typically made of really nice leather, canvas or sailing rope. But a brave new Kickstarter is trying to do things a bit different. Kimi Camera, run by William Roy, is trying to create camera straps made of vintage Kimono silk and leather. thephoblographer.com »
2016-12-01 17:04
Most photographers prefer to work with third party camera straps for many reasons, typically for having better functions or looking fashionable to match stylish camera designs. Opus has started a Kickstarter campaign to produce a camera strap that is handcrafted, made of real leather, sailing durable Polyester and hardened split rings. thephoblographer.com »
2016-11-30 23:05
SLO is a new 35mm camera that’s a bit different from most cameras out there. Every single part in the working camera — even the lens — was created using a 3D printer. The project is the brainchild of 3D designer Amos Dudley, who documented the creation process on his blog. “I wanted to know […] petapixel.com »
2016-09-10 21:07
Every time I speak with Lois Greenfield, she tells me about how she makes incredible photographs of dancers. She doesn't shoot a ton of frames a second -- instead, she simply understands the moment.
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Some of us reading this site are millennials, Gen X, and older. So the chances are then that you've got a Flickr account. Every now and again, I go through mine and peruse the images that I've posted in the past.
Besides creative vision and understanding what you see vs what you're looking at, there are two other big tools that photographers need to make more compelling images. Believe it or not, part of this is technical.
DJI’s Mini series gave me my start as a drone pilot, teaching me the basics of flight, safety, and imaging from above. Yet its budget-friendly price helped ease the flying anxiety, even when I experienced a dropped connection and a crash from a low height.
The 70-200mm is workhorse focal length, but these workhorses tend to be as heavy as they are versatile. The Panasonic Leica 35-100mm f2. 8 DG Vario-Elmarit Power OIS, however, proves what’s possible with a Micro Four Thirds sensor.
There are updates to the Phoblographer's Panasonic GH6 review, which we did back in 2022. With it now being 2024, we're kind of scratching our head about this camera. It still is very capable, but we truly expected more from it over time.