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Here’s something not everyone thinks about: the intensity of light that you shoot your portraits in doesn’t just affect the exposure, but it also affects the pupil size of your model.

This might seem like a really small detail, but pupils that are too small or large look really, really weird.

According to a number of studies highlighted in the 1-minute video above by... more

My wife Sara and I used to have this running joke leading up to her birthday each year. Each year Id say, Honey! What would you like for your birthday?, and she would reply Id like a Hasselblad. Usually with a big smile on her face, in a wink-wink-nudge-nudge kind of way.

Then Id say Ha ha, no, seriously, what would you like? and wed both laugh and move on to more serious things.

Hasselblad. The 500C/M. Man. That camera. Its like the Rolls Royce of cameras. It would send... more

Love photography? Love horror films? Maybe this one is for you: Polaroid is a new film — the kind you watch, not the kind you load into a camera — coming out this year that combines voodoo, demons, and photography into one terrifying movie.

In the film, a teenager finds an old Polaroid vintage camera. Anyone whose picture is taken with it appears to be doomed, with a shadowy figure moving between each photo once the previous unlucky model is killed... more

I think the first time I actually met Richard “Chip” Benson was at Wellesley College in the 80s. It was at an opening reception and Chip and Lee Friedlander were being honored as they had both just received MacArthur grants. I knew the Bensons were from Newport, RI and were friends of my sister and brother-in-law Marc Harrison, an industrial designer and chair of the ID Department at RISD.

Richard Benson died June 22, 2017 at the age of 73.

From time to time I... more

Have you ever been disappointed that your smartphone’s camera doesn’t quite live up to the shots seen in commercials? “Shot on a Smartphone” often tags along at the end of ads featuring beautiful, cinematic-style shots.

But that’s the thing. They often look so cinematic it’s almost unbelievable that these example images were taken purely with a tiny smartphone camera.

Look closely at the “Shot on an iPhone... more

Alexander Khimushin is a Queensland, Australia-based photographer who has been on the road for 9 years. During that span, he visited 84 countries. 10 months out of a year he’s on the road shooting... more

If you want to show off your photos, nothing looks better than projecting them huge onto a wall. VISIO is a mobile photo-projector that works with your camera lenses to make a big statement.

Recently... more

Just days after announcing the world’s first 18-400mm lens, Tamron today unveiled its new... more

In the new music video for Kendrick Lamar’s track ELEMENT, Lamar pays tribute to renowned American photographer Gordon Parks.

Parks was born in 1912 and passed away in... more

Episode 189 of thePetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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