One of the most viral photos of 2017 was the “Distracted Boyfriend” stock photo that has widely been used as an Internet meme. Photographer Dylan Maithonis faithfully recreated that famous photo using LEGO.
In case you somehow haven’t seen it yet, here’s the original stock photo by photographer Antonio Guillem, a 45-year-old professional advertising photographer […]. petapixel.com
Photographer Dan Watson of Learning Cameras recently put together a little photo editing shootout. Using one of his own images, he wanted to see who would edit the photo best: strangers hired through Fiverr, a professional photographer, or some of the latest AI-powered photo editing tools. petapixel.com »
2020-04-30 23:50
If you’re a family photographer preparing for the holiday season, a word to the wise: don’t offer Grinch-themed photo shoots. After a photographer’s holiday photo shoot went viral—with coverage in People, TODAY, Pop Sugar and more—Dr. petapixel.com »
2019-10-02 18:25
Photographer Chris Engman is one of his landscape photos at a large scale in an unusual way: instead of showing it as a 2D print, Engman transformed a room into his photo by covering the wall, ceilings, and floors with prints. petapixel.com »
2018-11-05 22:33
An Australian photographer has sparked a bit of a controversy after one of his photos featured by a major media outlet drew accusations of Photoshop manipulation. The photographer responded by denying that he cloned the main subject of his photo, but his untouched photo seems to tell a different story. It all started on October […] petapixel.com »
2018-11-01 19:45
Talk about long-exposure photography: photographer Jonathon Keats has set up four cameras around Lake Tahoe for 1,000-year-long exposures — that’s a shutter speed of 31,536,000,000 seconds. petapixel.com »
2018-10-26 18:17
Facebook’s new 3D Photos feature is designed for photos captured using the depth map-based Portrait mode in the latest smartphones. Photographer Oat Vaiyaboon went beyond smartphones and turned a DJI Mavic Pro drone photo into a Facebook 3D Photo by creating his own depth map. petapixel.com »
2018-10-23 17:44
South African photographer Graeme Williams was attending the opening of the Johannesburg Art Fair earlier this month when he was shocked to see his own photo on a gallery wall with credit being given to African American artist Hank Willis Thomas. petapixel.com »
2018-09-17 21:06
Think of landscape photography as street photography in nature. The animals are not giving permission but we photograph them anyways and the walk is good for you. If you're like most street photographers, you don't like to carry a ton of gear to make the photo. thephoblographer.com »
2018-08-08 01:00
An EF-3 tornado ripped through Marshalltown, Iowa, last Thursday, and one of the victims of the disaster was a 92-year-old photographer named Harold Cline. After seeking shelter from the storm, Cline returned to his work to find that his 65-year-old business had been destroyed. petapixel.com »
2018-07-23 21:12
National Geographic has announced the winning photos of its popular Travel Photographer of the Year 2018 photo contest. The grand prize was awarded to Japanese photographer Reiko Takahashi, who captured an underwater photo of a humpback whale calf’s tail. petapixel.com »
2018-06-28 17:02
We recently challenged photographer Steven John Irby (AKA Steve Sweatpants) to step outside his comfort zone. Irby usually shoots candid street photos and is the mastermind behind Street Dreams Mag, but we tasked him with shooting 7 creative urban portraits of one model in the city of Barcelona. In addition to focusing on the model, […] petapixel.com »
2018-05-29 18:15
Soulumination is a non-profit organization that provides life-affirming legacy photography to families facing serious medical conditions, completely free of charge. In addition to the services donated by photographers, community volunteers make handcrafted photo albums and other gifts for the families. dpreview.com »
2018-05-19 16:00
Late last year, photographer Irene Rudnyk reached out to a model and makeup artist for a photo concept she had in mind that featured a woman illuminated by a lantern at blue hour. Rudnyk shares in the 7-minute video above how, after putting in considerable time and effort into putting the shoot together, she failed […] petapixel.com »
2018-05-07 22:18
Investigative reporters often find it difficult or impossible to reach wedding photographers at the center of complaints and controversies. A local TV station recently came up with a clever way of setting up a face-to-face confrontation: it booked and paid for a photo shoot. petapixel.com »
2018-05-04 20:33
A man sharing a photograph of his father online has apparently stumbled upon the last known photograph of legendary war photographer Gerda Taro, who’s regarded as the first female to shoot on the front lines of conflict (as well as the first to die while doing so). petapixel.com »
2018-01-19 23:47
Sometimes in nature things happen that seem too good to be true, perfect coincidences that vividly illustrate the beauty and wonder of the world around us. boredpanda.com »
2018-01-03 16:42
2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Winners National Geographic has revealed the winners of their annual Nature Photographer of the Year contest, and as usual, every photo from the Grand Prize winner all the way to the Honorable Mentions and People's Choice awards are fantastic. dpreview.com »
2017-12-14 00:52
Singer Bruno Mars is being sued by a photographer after he posted a childhood photo of himself on social media. TMZ reports that photographer Catherine McGann captured the photo of Mars back in 1989 when he was 3 or 4 years old and working as a tiny Elvis Presley impersonator. 28 years later, in June […] petapixel.com »
2017-11-27 19:39
Canadian photographer Troy Moth was on an assignment when a tip from a friend led him to a nearby landfill where bears had been spotted. After arriving and seeing about 7 bears there, Moth was stunned by the sight that he didn’t shoot any photos. petapixel.com »
2017-10-09 22:51
Here’s a beautiful shot captured by drift car racing photographer Larry Chen, who got the crowd to help light up his shot by pulling out their phones, turning on the LED flashlights, and waving them at the cars as they zoomed past. petapixel.com »
2017-09-20 19:44
National Geographic has announced the winners of its prestigious Travel Photographer of the Year photo contest for 2017. The grand prize winner is Mexican photographer Sergio Tapiro Velasco, who shot this incredible photo titled “The Power of Nature,” which shows lightning striking an erupting volcano. petapixel.com »
2017-08-02 17:43
The grand prize (left), first place (top right), and second place (bottom right) winners of the 2017 iPhone Photography Awards. Photos courtesy of IPPA, individual credits below. When the iPhone Photography Awards were established in 2007, the first iPhone had just been released and its 2MP images were. dpreview.com »
2017-06-28 02:33
Liquido Active, an activewear brand based in Brazil, has been embroiled in a scandal for the past week after posting an image to their Instagram of their models doing yoga on Hanging Lake’s iconic log. petapixel.com »
2017-06-22 18:52
A New York-based Ukrainian photo artist named Anya Anti has taken an old expression most of us remember from childhood and turned it into a stunning visual. Through a process involving a model skeleton, several layered photos, and 3. boredpanda.com »
2017-06-22 16:13
The Kennel Club Dog Photographer of the Year The Kennel Club has announced the 2017 winners of its annual 'Dog Photographer of the Year' photo contest. Now in its 12th year, the international competition received almost 10,000 entries from 74 countries around the world, and was sponsored by SmugMug and Nikon School. dpreview.com »
2017-06-21 13:00
Photographer Jennifer McMahon has created a viral maternity photo that’s tugging at heartstrings around the world: it shows expecting mother Veronica Phillips next to her husband Brandon, a member of the U. petapixel.com »
2017-05-25 18:52
Travel Photographer of the Year 2017: People entries National Geographic's Travel Photographer of the Year competition is open once again for entries, and its editors have shared a few of their favorite early contenders in the 'People' category. dpreview.com »
2017-05-12 13:00
2017 PDN Photo Annual Photo District News has announced the winners of its 2017 PDN Photo Annual competition. It selected 165 winners from thousands of entries across 10 categories, with winners ranging from established photographers to up-and-coming artists. dpreview.com »
2017-05-07 12:00
Is it copyright infringement if someone embeds your tweeted photo into a news article? One UK photographer says “yes,” and he’s taking news company Sky News to court over it in a case photographers should be watching closely. petapixel.com »
2017-05-01 22:22
Photographer Lynn Goldsmith has been sued by The Andy Warhol Foundation following her claim that the artist infringed upon a photo she took of musician Prince in 1981. The lawsuit appears to be a preemptive strike against Goldsmith; it argues that Warhol merely 'drew inspiration' from the photo to create an entirely new - and therefore infringement-free - image. dpreview.com »
2017-04-17 21:52
The international Underwater Photographer of the Year photo contest has announced its winners for the 2017 edition. The winning photo (shown above) was by French photographer Gabriel Barathieu, who captured a “Dancing Octopus” in a lagoon on the island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. petapixel.com »
2017-02-15 20:34
How far would you go to see justice if you found your memory card stolen and photos posted online? For travel photographer Paul Eustice, the answer is: halfway around the world. Eustice is an international landscape, travel, and adventure photographer based in Brighton, UK. He says that in late 2016 and early 2017, he spent […] petapixel.com »
2017-02-11 20:51
An intimate photograph of a father cradling his sick child in the shower has become the subject of a legal battle with the Arizona Department of Child Safety. If the DCS succeeds, photographer Heather Whitten, the child’s mother, will be convicted of “neglect” for posting the photo. The photograph, which was taken in November of […] petapixel.com »
2017-01-27 21:20
A Georgia photographer was harassed by hundreds of cyberbullies this past week after she attempted to protect her copyright upon discovering that a popular Instagram user had use her photo without permission. petapixel.com »
2017-01-11 00:02
Kevin Wolf is an adventure sports filmmaker, but this time it's his photo that we're obsessed with. He uploaded a picture of a river in Yosemite National Park to his Instagram account, but there's a catch! Kevin flipped this picture upside down because he noticed that the sand under the river looked like stars. boredpanda.com »
2016-11-23 12:02
Kevin Wolf is an adventure sports filmmaker, but this time it's his photo that we're obsessed with. He uploaded a picture of a river in Yosemite National Park to his Instagram account, but there's a catch! Kevin flipped this picture upside down because he noticed that the sand under the river looked like stars. boredpanda.com »
2016-11-23 12:02
An unusual view of the Mediterranean Biome has won Devon-based photographer Flick Cowley a Costa Rican getaway for two as part of the Eden Project’s Twitter and Instagram photo competition. Read more and comment » photographyblog.com »
2016-11-11 13:00
Photographer and father Andy Whelan is receiving an outpouring of support from across the globe after sharing a heartbreaking photo of his 4-year-old daughter’s fight against cancer. Whelan has been documenting Jessica’s struggle with neuroblastoma through a Facebook page for over a year, and was recently told by doctors that his daughter likely only has […] petapixel.com »
2016-11-05 19:08
Ukrainian photographer Dmitry Muravsky has been dismissed by his country’s Ministry of Defense after his viral combat photos became the center of controversy regarding whether or not they were staged. petapixel.com »
2016-08-31 00:15
Online tricksters have been creating and sharing AI-generated images purporting to show victims of Hurricane Helene, with many worrying about the impact the fake pictures are having. [Read More]
After an AI image depicting displaced Palestinians with the slogan "All Eyes on Rafah" went extremely viral on Instagram this week, social media users are now encouraging a real photo to be shared. [Read More]
Startling smartphone footage of a man being flung into the air from his vehicle after it flipped several times on a beach has surfaced and gone viral. [Read More]
A photographer has shared a neat trick that gives photos a soft focus look: putting her own hair over the camera lens.
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A photographer's powerful image of a surrogate holding hands with the baby's mom has gone viral.
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A set of AI images showing a large man fighting alligators over a pizza has swept across the internet this past weekend with many believing them to be real. [Read More]
With BeReal's meteoric rise this year, photographers have been wondering whether there is any future potential in the app as a social media platform to promote their work. [Read More]