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Suppose you come home from a trip in which you shot many rolls of film. You want to develop your film chronologically, but found that you forgot to label them with their order. What do you do? I have a solution… a chemical solution (photography joke): smell your film.

I have a heavy addiction to smelling film whenever I get new rolls. After shooting my film, I one day realized that the film smell slowly disappears. This gave me an idea: I began sniffing... more

Want to see how two of the best smartphone cameras on the market stack up? The Verge posted this 9-minute camera shootout video pitting the iPhone 6S Plus camera against the new Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge’s camera.

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Big Apple. 3 A.M. The day is Saturday and my phone alarm is screaming. It’s vibrating furiously and crawling away from the table, trying it’s very best to drop to the floor and escape my desperate attempt to shut it. It’s time to wake up and head out to shoot sunrise.

I grab everything that’s laid out on the table, glance at the MTA last minute changes and run outside, it will take me two hours to reach Coney Island.

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Here’s one of those bizarre things you’ll find on the Internet: the YouTube channel Hydraulic Press Channel posted this 2-minute video showing an already-broken Nikon P300 compact camera getting flattened by a hydraulic press.

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Want to see the face of the tiny insects that live in your home? For his project “Suburban Symbiosis: Insectum domesticus,” photographer Daniel Kariko shot close-up portraits of common household insects. The images are gorgeous… and terrifying.

Kariko, an... more

We’re pleased to announce that the PetaPixel Photography Podcast is now available on Spotify.

The show is one of the first photography-related ones to be selected for inclusion in Spotify as it rolls out the podcasting service it launched earlier this year. For now, the show is available to mobile Spotify listeners in the US (and UK, Germany and Sweden). Just do a search for “petapixel”.

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Many of the short documentary films about artisan makers these days follow the same recipe — things like slow, dramatic music, close-up shots with a super shallow depth of field, and more. Photographer Patrick Kehoe decided to parody that style.

His creation is the 5-minute short film... more

Want a camera that captures point-of-view video of the happiest moments in your life? Check out the Smile Camera.

The creation of artist... more

The German light modifier company Sunbounce today announced a new product called the Tight-Fit Screen. It’s a simple reflector surface that can be stretched over an existing... more

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