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A determined photographer had sleepless nights, booked time off work, and even climbed a 170-foot tower so he could capture a stunning lunar analemma image over Egypt that shows the passage of the Moon over one month. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Sony’s ZV-1 “vlog” centric camera arrived in 2020 and was met with some divided opinions about the direction Sony was taking with this new video-first camera. At its launch, I was the Vice President at the public relations company working with Sony’s camera division, and I recall how some of the briefings were met with more enthusiasm than others. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Skye Blue is a professional wrestler who before donning sequins and spandex was more concerned with shutter speeds and sharpness when she was a wildlife photographer. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Back in 2017, I reviewed the Nikon N80. By that time, it was already an old camera. It's not as well known or as spoken about as many of Nikon's other cameras. However, your parents, aunts, or uncles, probably owned one. thephoblographer.com »
A photographer that was brutally thrown out of a metal concert while taking photos has claimed he was assaulted by security staff. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A photographer who set up nine cameras to capture the SpaceX Starship launch had six of them destroyed by chunks of concrete thrown from the launch pad. [Read More] petapixel.com »
"This was originally shot for New York Magazine in the summer of 2008," describes photographer Rodney Smith's Book The End about, the lead photo of this blog post. "The original concept was to create an essential New York picture and incorporate the great New York icon, the yellow taxicab. thephoblographer.com »
A viral photo has internet users scratching their heads as an apparent image of Earth taken from space isn't what it seems. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A former Sony camera developer says that part of the company's strategy in the early days of mirrorless was to lull brands like Canon and Nikon into a false sense of security that the new technology wouldn't be as good as DSLRs -- until it was too late. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A filmmaker downloaded a huge cache of passwords that had been leaked onto the dark web and used them to create a unique music video. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Photographers for years have used and relied on Drobo to make backups easy for them. Their BeyondRaid system made it reliable until it created a massive problem. Drobo hadn't been doing too well over the past few years. thephoblographer.com »
"Glaucoma was a shock to the nervous system," photographer Derek Schrock shares with me, the legally blind Editor in Chief of the Phoblographer. "It allowed me to contemplate a loss and to compensate going forward with methods of gain. thephoblographer.com »
"After college, there was a string of soul-sucking jobs that made me miserable," says photographer Rob Hammer in an interview with the Phoblographer. "During that time, I was trying to figure out what to do with my life and realized that the only constant was the camera. thephoblographer.com »
"It was a great honor to document their accomplishments," says photojournalist Andrea DiCanzo about her time spent with the Afghan Robotics girls team that visited the USA. What was initially meant to be a photo story spanning just a few days turned into an extraordinary three-week assignment capturing emotions and achievements. thephoblographer.com »
"It was a great honor to document their accomplishments," says photojournalist Andrea DiCenzo about her time spent with the Afghan Robotics girls team that visited the USA. What was initially meant to be a photo story spanning just a few days turned into an extraordinary three-week assignment capturing emotions and achievements. thephoblographer.com »
Nikkei Business has published an interview with Mr. Shigeki Ishizuka, Vice Chairman of the Sony Group, looking back on the company’s digital camera trajectory. And we finally got some real insider news about Sony’s past digital camera business decisions! Here are a couple of highlights from Digicameinfo (Google translated): The first model that came out… sonyalpharumors.com »
Director Mikhail Parkhomenko's latest project creates an impossible-looking shot that was completed in a single uninterrupted take without using any computer generated-imagery (CGI) using a combination of a drone and a 360-degree camera. [Read More] petapixel.com »
It's not a secret to most people visiting this website daily: I'm legally blind. Yes, the Editor in Chief of the Phoblographer is legally blind, yet somehow or another operates cameras, lights, lenses, and even edits the articles of the staff. thephoblographer.com »
The first time the public ever got to see a close-up image of Mars they were actually looking at a paint-by-numbers picture generated from the real photo's data. [Read More] petapixel.com »
This week, Yosemite's El Capitan, one of its most iconic destinations for hikers and photographers alike, experienced its most notable rockfall since 2017 that originated near the point where the iconic "firefall" happens every year. [Read More] petapixel.com »
"It was my goal to really capture the spirit of the person," says talented portrait photographer Jaimie Milner about the people she photographed for her book over the last decade. She noticed that there was already adequate coverage for talented black men in cinema and music. thephoblographer.com »
Camera manufacturers have long told us that the future was mirrorless and - as if there was any doubt - Canon and Nikon even joined the party as far back as 2018, yet compact cameras and DSLRs have stubbornly refused to die. petapixel.com »
It was Sunday morning January 25th, 1998, and I was in The Associated Press’s trailer in the parking lot at Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego. Last-minute preparations were underway for coverage of Super Bowl XXXII between the Green Bay Packers and the Denver Broncos – Favre vs Elway. Perfect! [Read More] petapixel.com »
The Canon G1x Mk III came at a very unfortunate time for the company. When it was released, Canon was still at the top in sales. But they admittedly cared little to nothing for serious mirrorless cameras and every reviewer fully stated that while they make good cameras, everyone else was still ahead of them. thephoblographer.com »
The launch of the Fujifilm X Pro 1 caused a stir of excitement in the photo industry akin to what every new photographer enjoys and experiences when they pick up their camera. For many of us, we were dumbstruck by the fact that something new was embracing the older way we all asked for. thephoblographer.com »
Most folks wouldn't believe me if I said that I was never daunted by the culling process of photography. In college, I was a Communications in Journalism major. And so culling images and being ruthless with my own work came to me after a while. thephoblographer.com »
An iRobot Roomba robot vacuum took intimate photographs of a woman on the toilet and a young child that were then shared on Facebook. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A photographer who has spent the last four years documenting migrant stories was himself detained at the border.
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petapixel.com »"One of the reasons I started with this project is because I’ve always been a metalhead, even as a kid, before I knew what metal was," says photographer Rakel Garcia. ". . . I didn’t know what it was, I didn’t know what it was called, but I knew I was into it already. thephoblographer.com »
My grandma told me to do something well, don't simply try. You must immerse yourself in that world. She was an immaculate seamstress, constantly learning new techniques and staying up to date with the latest clothing trends. thephoblographer.com »
As the war in Ukraine rages on, an investigative team geolocated a Russian cruise missile program from a single group photo. [Read More] petapixel.com »
An undersea volcanic eruption that produced the tallest plume ever recorded was measured using the centuries-old stereo photography technique. [Read More] petapixel.com »
I remember how mesmerized I was when my class teacher made a pinhole camera one day at junior school. A large cutout was made into the back of a shoebox, and tracing paper was then used to cover this gap. thephoblographer.com »
When former Chief White House photographer David Valdez enrolled in the Air Force and was assigned the photographer position, he asked: “What is that?” [Read More] petapixel.com »
The story of Lamborghini and Atlanta Film Company (AFC) have some very similar parallels. Lamborghini was started out of anger, and considering how AFC's Bill Manning has been speaking on the Studio-C41 podcast for a while, I can see why he'd started it. thephoblographer.com »
NBC News hasn't shot a segment on film in more than 40 years, but since the format is surging in popularity, the network decided to bring it back for one story. [Read More] petapixel.com »
The death of the DSLR was always in the cards - as soon as Nikon and Canon entered the mirrorless fray in 2018 it was not a case of if, but when. However, what was perhaps not expected was the rapidity with which the sales rug would be pulled from beneath DSLR consumers' feet. petapixel.com »
A new documentary explores the life and works of Ernest Withers, an iconic civil rights photographer who was revealed to be an FBI informant after he died. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A YouTuber has created "the worst digital camera of all time ever" consisting of just 48 photocells soldered to a circuit board. [Read More] petapixel.com »
An ocean photographer unknowingly captured his close encounter with a great white shark on camera and only became aware of the incident when he reviewed his GoPro footage hours later. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A music video has been made entirely from Google Street View images that takes in locations from all around the world.
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petapixel.com »mentioned I was enjoying Voigtlander, Holly told me that she thought the Brooklyn hipster vibe looked good on me. This elicited a laugh because we used to joke that Voigtlander was only for hipsters. thephoblographer.com »
mentioned I was enjoying Voigtlander, Holly told me that she thought the Brooklyn hipster vibe looked good on me. This elicited a laugh because we used to joke that Voigtlander was only for hipsters. thephoblographer.com »
Modern cameras are complicated pieces of technology but in the camera's earliest form, the concepts that led to its invention were formed in the most basic manner, simply the interplay of light, reflection, and shadow. petapixel.com »
In April, Atomos said it fired CEO Estelle McGechie because she refused to move to Australia, but she says it was actually because she refused to turn a blind eye to what she characterizes as securities fraud and revenue manipulation. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Hasselblad has been eerily quiet. I had thought maybe this was it from the company while secretly hoping that was far from the truth. I was coming to terms with this possibility when the excited whispers of the rumored Hasselblad X2D 100C started. thephoblographer.com »
Photographers in Tennessee who want a shoot with "Italy vibes" have a difficult task. But one creative wedding photographer managed to pull it off by going to an Olive Garden. [Read More] petapixel.com »
The United States Copyright Office has submitted an opinion to the Supreme Court that argues Andy Warhol's use of Lynn Goldsmith's photo of Prince was not fair use, sharing sentiments with opinions sent by the NPPA and ASMP. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A prominent French physicist is apologizing after admitting that a viral "distant star" photo he shared on Twitter was not actually captured by the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) but was rather just a slice of chorizo pork sausage. [Read More] petapixel.com »
The sunk cost fallacy is elongating photographers’ inevitable painful breakup with Instagram. It is time to stop hoping that Instagram will go back to being the one and only social media marketing tool that photographers need. [Read More] petapixel.com »
