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the long lost study that tried to quantify...

In the 1950s,a group of scientists set out to study creativity. Their subjects? Great midcentury...

this hypnotic stop motion was made by cutting...

Stop motion film is a way to bring to life inanimate objects. It’s totally fascinating,but also an...

do a background check when shooting a wildlife...

When photographing wildlife — much like hiring a recent employee or going on a date with someone...

3d printing your photo as a lithophane

Want an racy belief for turning your digital photo into something tangible that you can hold? Look...

when you combine a dancer, a glow in the dark...

This innovative fresh music video,directed by Jonah Haber, shows a glow in the dismal background...

photo idea: how to shoot the perfect wedding...

Ed Greggory of Photos in Color has put together a 3 minute guide that will show you how to shoot the...

i turned ikea products into costumes for a...

I recently shot the 2017 Christmas card photo for Stavanger Foto,the passionate camera store on the...

countering stryker s punch: filling the black hole...

The visual record left behind by the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographers...

shoot light painting photos during the day using...

Light-portray photography is generally done in the unlit since you need long exposure times to...

creating beautiful multiple exposure wedding...

The multiple exposure is one of the easiest, fastest and most flexible ways to create striking...

camera captures animals eating, from the food s...

whether youve ever wanted to see what the world looks like as a vegetable being eaten by...

a film panorama of kodak park with a medium format...

As Eastman Kodak Company transforms its legendary manufacturing complex,once devoted exclusively to...

these mozart photos were created in camera, not...

Austrian adventure photographer Sebastian Wahlhuetter has just released an unbelievable fresh...

this music video was made entirely in camera on a...

This trippy music video for Bonobo‘s recent track “No Reason” is full of what would appear to...

these layers of time were created by arranging...

Japanese artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi has a project titled Layer Drawings that creatively uses...

how to shoot inception style drone photos

If you possess been following anything drone-related lately, chances are you possess seen one of the...

this canon live for the story ad used huge...

This brilliantly lit commercial for Canon introduces a new campaign that urges the viewer to “Live...

this forest mirror illusion is bending people s...

halt-motion animator Kevin Parry has shared a intelligent little video illusion titled “Walk in...

how i shot a nova terra cosplay photo in the...

As a photographer, I’ve never really planned my shoots too much. I kind of spy at what I’ll be...

this mesmerizing animation consists of google...

Photographer Páraic McGloughlin took Google soil satellite photos and strung them together into...

how to use a projector as a lighting tool for...

In my opinion,there’s an additional layer of believability — a tangibility, whether you will —...

tip: use a mannequin head to practice portrait...

Want to memorize portrait lighting but don’t enjoy a model you can spend hours and hours with?...

shooting boiling water with a macro lens and...

Recently,I’ve become interested in photographing boiling water in a glass tea kettle. It may sound...

10 predictions about the future of photography

How might photography evolve in the coming years and decades? The folks over at COOPH took a see at...

this infinite loop timelapse spins the earth while...

If you point your camera at the sky and film, the stars will arc overhead. That’s because your...

here s a tiny sleeping bag designed for a dslr...

How sweet is this? Photographer Kevin Pickell wanted a solution for keeping his DSLR camera kit...

shoot in camera zoom effect double exposure light...

Several years ago I developed a technique that I exhaust for light portray in which I take a king...

shooting a sunrise portrait with a drone mounted...

This idea had been rolling around in my head for years. I expend flashes a lot in my photography....

how to shoot defocused firework photos

I’m photographer David Johnson,and in this tutorial I’ll be sharing how I shoot long-exposure...

this lego kit is a photographer s promo mailer

Every year since 2010, photographer Clint Davis has achieve together a creative promotional mailer...

photo salon in sf turns phone photos into fine art...

Neomodern is a new startup in San Francisco that turns smartphone photos into fine art prints while...

jeremy cowart drew and printed a diy photo...

tall-end photo backdrops can cost over $1000 apiece. When photographer Jeremy Cowart couldn’t find...

macro safari: turn your backyard into a photo...

Yesterday was a rainy, hazy day at domestic. I didn’t feel much like going anywhere but I needed...

father films daughter on first day of school for...

When Kevin Scruggs‘s daughter Mackenzie started first grade 12 years ago,he decided to pull out...

photographer creates maternity photo with husband...

Photographer Jennifer McMahon has created a viral maternity photo that’s tugging at heartstrings...

6 camera gear storage ideas in 90 seconds

Looking to organize your ever-growing collection of cameras,lenses, and accessories? Here’s a...

how i shot a light painting levitation portal...

My Name is Swen Cubilette,and I’m a 34-year-passe photographer living in the Central Pennsylvania...

how apple s welcome home ad was made with...

Apple latest “Welcome Home” advertisement for the HomePod shows a woman dancing through an...

funding for cities needs greater attention

The release of outgoing City Manager Peter Wallace’s report on Toronto’s long-term financial...

shooting light painting portraits with a shattered...

My name is Jason Rinehart with Hartlight Photography,and I’m a light painter known around the...

7 quick tips to revolutionize your still life...

It’s difficult to stand out from the crowd in still life photography. When someone picks up a...

this gatorade ad made a human using water and...

This incredibly creative ad from Gatorade uses a “liquid printer and precision-timed strobe...

how to simulate the famous vertigo effect dolly...

We’ve covered the dolly zoom (or “Vertigo effect”) in detail recently here on PetaPixel,but...

this skier got epic drone shots by throwing his...

Remember Nicolas Vuignier,the skier who shot bullet time by swinging his iPhone around his head?...

the lessons of palmyra: iconoclasm in the era of...

final December I was invited to Harvard to participate in a round table on ISIS and iconoclasm. The...

shooting wet plate double exposures with a...

Wet plate photographer Markus Hofstaetter recently tried his hand at tackling an unusual project: he...

5 hacks for creative photography in 1 minute

Want to spice up your photography and try some unorthodox methods for getting strange photos? This...

this mind bending video was created using paint,...

Artistic filmmaker Thomas Blanchard is back with another mesmerizing experimental video,combining...

photographer turns drone shot into a facebook 3d...

Facebook’s fresh 3D Photos feature is designed for photos captured using the depth map-based...

this is how you shoot high end food ads on low end...

You know those food commercials you see on TV with foods and drinks (and sometimes fire and ice)...

9 portrait location ideas in 90 seconds

Sometimes the strangest or most mundane locations can do for compelling portrait environments. Mango...

if adobe made a keyboard for photo editing…

What if Adobe decided to jump into the keyboard market and create a keyboard for photographers and...

photographer recreates the iconic photo dali...

The 1948 photo ‘Dali Atomicus’ by American portrait photographer Philippe Halsman is regarded as...

how to shoot a dancer coming out of a wall mirror

Los Angeles-based photographer Daniel DeArco recently shot a series of “inverted room” photos of...

this photo booth shoots professional headshots...

IRIS is a original photo booth that’s designed to shoot “professional” portraits of...

10 ways to light a face for different moods

The Lighting Channel made this rapid-fire 1-minute video with examples of 10 different ways you can...

rephotographing mt. fuji, as seen on the 500 yen...

Until the release of the 500-yen coin in 1982,its corresponding paper equivalent reigned for more...

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