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Washington DC is one of the most photographed places in the United States, with over 20 million tourists passing through in 2014.

With so many cameras being pointed everywhere in the capital, photographer Mark Andre wanted to offer a different take. So, he converted a standard DSLR into... more

If you ask a photographer if they can give you the entire set of unedited RAW photos from a shoot, there’s a very good chance they’re going to say no. No, it’s not because they don’t want you to have all your memories — it’s because they only want to deliver their very best finished work.

This is a question that’s been weighing on photographer... more

What if a spell turned some of the world’s most famous car models into real women? What would they look like? That’s what photographer Viktorija Pashuta decided to explore with her latest portrait project, titled “What if Cars Were SUPERMODELS?”

She gathered 12... more

Want a crash course on the history of photography? COOPH just published this info-packed 5-minute video on how photography developed from the early days of the camera obscura up to the emergence of smartphone cameras and online photo sharing. (Note: there’s a... more

There are good Photoshop tutorials and there are bad Photoshop tutorials. Tom Trager and Or Paz of the sketch comedy group Sugar Zaza created this humorous 2-minute video that pokes fun at the latter group. We see a guy trying to learn a technique in Photoshop from a... more

Guess who was on the sidelines photographing Super Bowl 50 yesterday? Kevin Durant.

The NBA star (and MVP two years ago) was a credentialed photographer at the championship game, shooting for The Players’ Tribune. One day earlier he was shooting basketballs against the... more

Video has previously been one of the great weaknesses of Fujifilm's X-Trans cameras but that's all changed with the X-Pro2. We've shot our test scene, pounded the streets of New York and captured all the visual clichs we could, to show you what the X-Pro2 can do.

The X-Pro2's headline video specs are broadly unchanged compared to previous models but the quality has moved forwards dramatically. It's still not going to be the first choice for professional use but it's now more than... more

PetaPixel is a free-to-read blog, so we rely almost entirely on advertising to stay in business. In the past couple of weeks, however, readers have been reporting intrusive and annoying ads that redirect you to other websites while reading PetaPixel on mobile.

No, these are not intentional. We never allow things like pop-ups, pop-unders, ads that auto-play audio, or ads that redirect elsewhere.

Shady redirect ads have become a major problem in the online publishing... more

Heres episode 45 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and... more

Tokyo Drifter: Editorial and commercial photographer Alfie Goodrich on working in Japan

Azusa by Alfie Goodrich

First published in 1991 at the age of 23, portrait photographer Alfie Goodrich has been shooting primarily in Japan since 2007. His eye as a photographer as well as a fluency in both English and Japanese has brought him a diverse portfolio of... more

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