Photographer, educator, and unusual camera builder Brendan Barry is continuing his educational series of isolation videos by showing viewers how to turn a backyard shed into a giant camera for portraits and other large format photography.
Unlike his previous videos—in which he showed you how to turn your bedroom into a camera obscura, take pictures […]. petapixel.com
The Bismarck, North Dakota-based video production company Threefold shared this short and sweet 2-minute video showing how they took an old ambulance and turned it into an awesome way to haul a huge amount of equipment from place to place. petapixel.com »
2020-04-11 18:18
Former White House photographer Pete Souza often gets asked about the camera gear he uses, so he posted this 11-minute video to Instagram this week to show what’s in his camera bag. Before he starts discussing gear, however, Souza offers some words of wisdom. petapixel.com »
2020-04-04 20:37
Early this morning, Sony announced that it would be spinning off its entire “Electronics Products & Solutions” (EP&S) segment—including its imaging and mobile businesses—into an intermediate holding company called “Sony Electronics Corporation. petapixel.com »
2020-03-26 19:33
Movies Insider has released a ten-minute behind-the-scenes look at the Golden Globe-winning film ‘1917,’ showing the incredible amount of thought, planning, camera work and editing that went into the World War I film that’s made to look as though it was captured in one, continuous shot. dpreview.com »
2020-01-21 22:16
Brendan Barry is a UK-based photographer who’s known for turning all kinds of unusual things into working cameras, from food and mannequins to shipping containers and camper trailers. But his latest project was his most ambitious yet — turned a Manhattan skyscraper into a giant camera. Barry took over the 46th floor of a skyscraper […] petapixel.com »
2019-09-18 20:34
Brendan Barry, the photographer who transformed New York City's iconic 101 Park Avenue skyscraper into a giant camera, has unveiled a new project: Container Camera. This is ‘basically the world's biggest, slowest, and most impractical Polaroid camera,’ according to Barry, who showcased his work in a new video created by Exploredinary, the same team behind the recently published Ilford Photo video. dpreview.com »
2019-07-19 21:33
From May 10 to 16, Brendan Barry transformed the 46th floor of Manhattan's iconic 101 Park Avenue into a creative photographic space. Dubbed the Skyscraper Camera Project, the site-specific installation comprised of a camera obscura, a darkroom, and a temporary art installation. thephoblographer.com »
2019-06-04 10:00
Periscope-style zoom lenses are the latest big thing in mobile photography as they allow to squeeze longer zoom factors than before into the thin bodies of high-end smartphones. Huawei just launched the P30 Pro with a 5x optical zoom and OPPO's Reno device with a similar setup is set to launch on April 10, 2019. dpreview.com »
2019-03-29 16:46
Periscope-style tele lenses are the latest big thing in mobile photography as they allow to squeeze longer zoom factors than before into the thin bodies of high-end smartphones. Huawei just launched the P30 Pro with a 5x optical tele and OPPO's Reno device with a similar setup is set to launch on April 10, 2019. dpreview.com »
2019-03-29 16:46
Iranian photographer Alireza Rostami loves experimenting with camera equipment, from flipping a lens element for “magic bokeh” to creating a working analog watch camera. His latest experiment is also off the beaten path: he found that a display from a broken laptop works perfectly as a view camera’s ground glass. After the display on his […] petapixel.com »
2019-01-17 20:17
Among the things that make vintage cameras still fascinating today are their mechanical inner workings. The mechanical Leica cameras are especially revered both by Leica lovers, camera historians, and vintage camera fans. thephoblographer.com »
2018-05-18 07:00
Want to shoot beautiful photos without having to lift a finger or think about it? The Prosthetic Photographer can help you. It’s a camera attachment that uses artificial intelligence and electricity to shock you into shooting good photos. petapixel.com »
2018-04-04 21:27
As if taking on a very challenging traditional photography method called ambrotype wasn't already a big undertaking, Italy-based photographer Kurt Moser decided to go even bigger. He had the mind-blowing idea to transform a URAL 375 into one of the biggest mobile cameras in the world. thephoblographer.com »
2018-02-28 17:52
Hi, I'm Lillian- I'm a young artist trying to bring my own daydreams to life while merging two mediums. Realizing early on that I really don't have an affinity for realism, I've been developing my own photography editing style through a lot of trial and error. boredpanda.com »
2018-01-07 18:14
$(document). ready(function() { SampleGalleryV2({"containerId":"embeddedSampleGallery_5360811256","galleryId":"5360811256","isEmbeddedWidget":true,"selectedImageIndex":0,"isMobile":false}) }); PITTA, a modular ball-shaped 13MP camera that transforms into a drone, is currently blasting its way through a campaign on Kickstarter. dpreview.com »
2018-01-03 20:09
Last year, I built a (very rudimentary) 16×20” ultra large format camera out of a bunch of plywood, a pane of glass and some cheap blackout material from the local fabric shop. I borrowed a 20” military aerial lens off a friend and took it on the road to Latvia in my campervan. The problem […] petapixel.com »
2017-09-09 18:54
It was about time that another company released a “Story Mode” on a camera device, and this time it’s a startup called Ubiquiti Labs that has released a new wearable camera that will let all your friends know what you’re up to. petapixel.com »
2017-08-16 18:14
Turning a room into a camera obscura is as easy as blacking out the room and poking a pinhole into one of the window covers. But if you want to take your camera obscura game to brighter, more colorful heights, the Bonfoton Camera Obscura Room Lens is definitely worth a look. dpreview.com »
2017-07-19 21:47
The new Bonfoton Camera Obscura Room Lens is a small lens that helps project the outdoors indoors, turning any room into a giant camera obscura. It uses the camera obscura phenomenon, in which a bright scene will project through a small hole into a dark room and will appear flipped upside-down on the walls. The lens […] petapixel.com »
2017-07-19 21:11
If you want to show off your photos, nothing looks better than projecting them huge onto a wall. VISIO is a mobile photo-projector that works with your camera lenses to make a big statement. Recently launched on Kickstarter, VISIO has already smashed through its $17,000 target with over 3 weeks still to go. But it’s no surprise, […] petapixel.com »
2017-06-30 18:20
Last fall, in preparation for a fair for my wedding photography business in Helsinki, I wanted to create something out-of-the-ordinary that would attract attention to my booth. A friend of mine suggested a type of vintage camera that visitors could look through. petapixel.com »
2017-02-01 00:33
A photographer will soon convert a historic Russian military truck into a giant camera thanks to a successfully backed Kickstarter campaign. Documentary photographer Kurt Moser will create a truck camera which will be able to function as a glass-plate camera; in addition, to serving as a darkroom for developing 4. digitalrev.com »
2016-12-08 03:00
This must be every professional racing photographer’s nightmare: you’re sitting on a rickety perch, capturing the action, when a crash sends a flipping race car hurtling in your direction, taking out said perch and only narrowly missing you. petapixel.com »
2016-09-03 22:37