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Baseball pitching legend Randy Johnson made an appearance at the NFL game between the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers this past weekend. After receiving the honor of raising the team’s 12 flag as the special celebrity guest, Johnson didn’t step... more

The benefits of shooting film sometimes, unfortunately, get lost amid the playground fight between film and digital devotees. The plus points and believe me there are plenty get drowned out.

Thats a shame for two reasons. Photography is a personal passion, and each person gets into their particular style of photography due to deeply individual reasons; its not that different to the way we fall in love with the music we do (and I was a music journalist for 20 years, so Ive had... more

New York-based photographer Alexi Lubomirski was recently commissioned by Allure Magazine to shoot a series of fashion photos titled “Mood Elevators.” The images show a man floating around as he walks next to a woman.

Lubomirski chose to use acrobat... more

Canon USA has filed lawsuits against a number of camera gear retailers in an attempt to stop the sale of gray market camera gear. The gray market is when a dealer imports and sells unauthorized gear that was intended for another country’s camera market. The cheaper gear is legitimate, not counterfeit, but it’s unauthorized and usually isn’t covered by Canon’s warranty.

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Heres episode 23 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and... more

People are always on the lookout for bargains. Everyone wants to spend as little money as possible while getting as much as possible in return. After all, the more money you save, the more you can do with the same budget. Theres nothing wrong with this at first glance. However, in practice things often get out of hand when people start to get motivated by greed and when theres a lack of trust.

We live in a very hostile world right now that’s filled with deception and where... more

When Marshall and Addie got married in 2 feet of snow in Roan Mountain, Tennessee, they invited a very special videographer to document the special occasion: their dog Ryder. With a GoPro strapped to her back, Ryder was given the freedom to shoot what she wanted from her low perspective. What resulted is the 2-minute wedding video seen above.

“It was cold and magical,” Marshall... more

A while back I shared an article that explained how I photographed a plane flying “across” the moon during a supermoon event. Over the weekend Ive been out chasing another similar type of image: one of the International Space Station transiting the moon.

My previous airplane photo.

Planning for the plane shot involved lots of calculation but a... more

Making portraits is something I really love. When there is a model available, you get a lot of freedom regarding the pose, expressions and styling. However, during my travels, when I want to portray people in their authentic environment, I usually dont get to choose a model, because it is about the people who are really living there.

Often I find it fairly difficult when I am somewhere for a few days to make a connection with the local people and portray them in a way that I... more

Here’s a nostalgia-inducing short film titled “The Sound of Film,” created by Robert Marshall of Round One Films in England. It’s a 1-minute tour of the different sounds (and sights) that are part of the analog photography process, from opening a new box of film to... more

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