At the 2018 High Water Music Festival in North Charleston, South Carolina, back in April, photographer Sully Sullivan of LawtonMiles wanted to take his portraits with the performing musicians to another level, so he decided to build a flooded house set submerged in water.
LawtonMiles filmmaker Adam Boozer made this 5-minute behind-the-scenes video showing how […]. petapixel.com
PetaPixel has covered many do-it-yourself (DIY) camera projects, but none quite like engineer and photographer Wenting Zhang's open-source Sitina S1 full-frame mirrorless camera. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-10-10 21:23
A photographer has built himself a DIY macro pad for Adobe Lightroom after not being able to afford a Loupedeck.
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Australian photographer and avid DIY-er Jim Metcalfe recently decided to up his macro photography game by building his own stereoscopic macro camera to capture and create 3D images. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-01-03 20:20
A photographer built a DIY medium format camera from an Epson flatbed scanner and shot a 514-megapixel picture with it.
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petapixel.com »2022-12-30 19:36
Since the advancements made with mirrorless camera systems and their digital viewfinders, cameras with optical viewfinders have become somewhat rare, with hybrid viewfinders being even harder to find. petapixel.com »
2022-12-24 03:59
A photographer built his own wildlife pond with an adjacent photo hide so he could capture beautiful photos of flora and fauna. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-12-15 15:48
Photographer Will Burrard-Lucas built a waterhole in Kenya's Southern Rift Valley and captured a series of stunning wildlife photos. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-10-25 16:44
The world's first 4K camera built into a centrifuge shows what foods and other substances look like as they are separated at 2,500 times the gravity of Earth. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-07-07 23:29
Photographer Bill Hao from Vancouver, Canada, spent two years building a huge oakwood camera. It shoots gigantic wet plate collodion photos measuring 32x48 inches. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-05-22 17:46
Photographer Aleksi Koski has created what he calls the world's first 4x5 camera that is equipped with autofocus. Called the Conflict AF45, it uses a laser-based focusing system to create what is basically a giant point-and-shoot. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-04-20 19:51
Photography as an art isn't easy, but running a successful photography business is even more challenging. Despite this, Noyel Gallimore managed to build a business focused around the oft-forgotten art of large format and tintype photography. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-01-12 00:34
After moving into a new home, photographer Juhamatti Vahdersalo noticed the cardboard boxes he used sitting in his garage. So, he decided to get creative and use the used cardboard for a photo series. petapixel.com »
2017-11-20 19:10
Fine art photographer Nicky Hamilton just completed an impressive photo series titled “The Lonely Man. ” Each photo in the project took him an average of 3 months to sketch, build, light, and shoot. petapixel.com »
2017-02-18 22:56
Photographer and filmmaker Clay Cook and his team were given a challenging task: shooting visuals for the successful businessman and former CEO of YUM! Brands David Charles Novak and the launch of his latest book, website, and podcast in just a few short hours. [Read More]
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.
If you're a Leica camera fan, then you're bound to understand the mentality behind the new Leica M Monochrom Limited Edition Jim Marshall Set. Certain Leicas, such as the Leica M6, had black paint on them.
Lomography has some really cool and fun options now available for purchase: disposable cameras. The new Lomography disposable cameras have been tailored and designed more for ease of use than anything else.