Photographer Markus Hofstaetter has been looking for what he calls his “dream lens” for some time, visiting flea markets and using his contacts to try and locate the Dallmeyer 3B Petzval lens, circa 1876.
Thanks to one of his friends, he finally found one in shockingly-good condition. “This is a very early copy of a […]. petapixel.com
Due to the pioneering adventures of a few, the Lofoten Islands have become a winter magnet for landscape photographers. Light has begotten this new pilgrimage. And February is the high season. The month commences with 5 hours of daylight and ends with 10. petapixel.com »
2021-02-17 21:55
When we think we've seen all of the awesome things nature can do, we are given yet another marvel. Photographer Eric Gross discovered and snapped some photos of unique frozen waves at Dream Lake, Colorado, USA. boredpanda.com »
2020-03-26 18:08
Two weeks ago I unboxed the Sony a7R Mark IV mirrorless camera, the high resolution beast, and brought it with me for a field review in the mountains around Santa Clara in Northern California. You can find the unboxing video on my YouTube channel and the first impressions here. In the box you will find […] petapixel.com »
2019-10-21 22:55
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure to photograph Bergen, Norway. The second largest city in Norway, Bergen has an amazing architecture, with lovely colorful houses and narrow streets. boredpanda.com »
2017-08-07 21:13
The graphics in games are becoming so good nowadays that a number of games have ultra-realistic “photo modes” that allow you to freeze frame and capture high resolution stills that can easily look like actual photos at first glance. petapixel.com »
2017-08-07 18:06
London-based photographer Paul Kohlhaussen has a wish list of cameras he’d love to shoot with, but he can’t afford them. So, he did something rather unusual: he decided to combine some of their notable features into a custom camera that he 3D printed himself. petapixel.com »
2017-06-02 23:36
When photographers think of my country they think of windmills, Amsterdam, and tulips. These are generally the most photographed subjects in the Netherlands. What they don’t know is that my country turns purple in August. petapixel.com »
2016-09-08 02:00
A documentary photographer and photo preservationist painstakingly restored thousands of glass plate photographs that reveal what life was like in New England 160 years ago. [Read More]
A traveling photography studio that was pulled around the English seaside by horses from the 1860s onwards will go up for auction. [Read More]
Photographer Corrine Gretton-West booked a wet plate workshop with me before the COVID-19 pandemic began. Two years later we were finally able to do it. [Read More]
National Geographic has published an unprecedented look at the Notre Dame cathedral reconstruction two years after the fire that devastated the historic building. [Read More]
Greta Thunberg exploded into the public consciousness last month after the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist gave an impassioned and scathing speech to world leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York.
Before the self timer and remote shutter release appeared in the world of cameras, photographers had a much trickier time getting themselves into group photos if they didn’t have an assistant to help expose the shot.