Well-known (and controversial) photographer and gear reviewer Ken Rockwell recently put together a fascinating video that is probably best described as a crash course in Nikon lens history. The video covers 100 years worth of Nikon’s optical heritage, from the company’s original rangefinder glass all the way to the latest lenses for the brand new […]
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Pye Jirsa over at SLR Lounge recently teamed up with Adorama to create a helpful series of tutorials called Mastering Your Craft, and in the most recent installment, he’ll try to teach you 20+ couple’s poses in under 10 minutes. petapixel.com »
2020-01-25 00:27
Here’s a typical quick interior photography assignment for a Swiss brand called VIU Eyewear. They contacted me to create three images for their website/social networks. The only rule was to stay in the same style than their other images on their “Stores” page (something simple, white, and luminous with an emphasis on interior design). Here’s […] petapixel.com »
2017-03-14 19:24
Camera angle as composition isn’t talked about as often as, say, how the elements in your photos are arranged. But changing your camera angle can completely transform the message an image sends, something Ted Forbes explains beautifully in this crash course on low angle photography. In this short video—a companion to a recent Art of […] petapixel.com »
2017-02-01 00:02
When looking at an old, undated photo it can be difficult to guess when it was taken, but now an artificial intelligence (AI) tool claims to offer a helping hand. [Read More]
Autochromes were the first widely available form of color photography but they are so light-sensitive that putting them on display could ruin them forever. [Read More]
A new edition of Henri Cartier-Bresson's career retrospective photo book has been published in France, two decades after the great photographer's death. [Read More]
When you see the term “colorized photo” you probably imagine skilled retouchers working in Photoshop, or perhaps a machine learning algorithm that does that same work automatically. But the original colorized photos were hand-painted prints made from glass plate negatives.
In a behind the scenes video worthy of r/oddlysatisfying, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) joins expert conservator Lee Ann Daffner to show you what it takes to clean, rehouse, and ultimately save one of the oldest photographs on Earth from being eaten away by its own chemistry. The photo in question is actually two […]
Legendary photographer Edward Weston was one of the most influential photographers in American history, and in this short video, we get to go back in time, visit his home, and watch him process one of his negatives from start to finish.