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.
“I’m a creative-minded person and feel very frustrated when creativity strikes and I have nothing to photograph,” Vahdersalo says. “This was […]. 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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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
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. petapixel.com »
2018-06-12 20:28
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
An Indie fashion magazine, Cole magazine is delighted to bring to the notice of the general public the launching of its newest Issue featuring All Black Female and Male models. The ninth issue of the magazine, which happens to be its very first all-black issue, focuses on the theme of “Black is Beautiful”.
Photographing a human subject successfully has a lot to do with making a connection, making sure your model is feeling comfortable, and being respectful. In this 10-minute video, photographer Manny Ortiz teams up with his wife Diana (who is a model herself) to talk about the do’s and don’ts of working with models. The 5 […]
Whether you’ve been shooting for five minutes or five years, there will likely come a time when you’ll have to book a shoot with another person. Maybe it will be a friend or coworker and maybe it will be a full-time professional model.
I think it’s fair to say that most photographers will, at some point in their career, have to work with models at least once—whether you’re a still life shooter that photographs models’ hands holding a fork full of food a couple of times a year or an e-commerce shooter that works with models every single […]