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After a half-year journey covering over 30 million miles, NASA’s InSight lander just touched down on the surface of Mars to begin its mission of studying the red... more

Zeiss has announced its 2019 photography contest is open for entries, and that the top prize will include 12,000/$13,615USD of its lenses along with a 3000/$3403USD grant to pay for a photographic project.

The contest, run alongside the Sony World Photography Awards, is aimed at photographers shooting stories with multiple images rather than single frames. The theme, as always, is Seeing Beyond The Unexpected. The judges will be looking for collections of 5-10 photographs and... more

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Sigma holds its Art series lenses to a high standard, so our interest was piqued when the company's CEO Kazuto Yamaki described the 40mm F1.4 as a 'reference' lens for the entire Global Vision range. While we had a chance to shoot with a pre-production model at Photokina, we were eager to really put the... more

Episode 305 of thePetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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Beware: instant cameras that produce Zink photos may not be a good option for preserving memories long term.

Polaroid, or should I say whats left of Polaroid, continues to push instant photography, including cameras that produce... more

Peak Design is probably the most well-known camera bag brand to leverage Kickstarter to launch their products, going way back as early as 2014 with their camera straps. And since then, there have been many camera bags brands who have tried to follow their footsteps — some successfully, and some not.

So when Xennec approached me to review their new range of camera bags, I was slightly apprehensive when I learned that it was to be launched via Kickstarter. There were just... more

Developer and photographer Christopher Kalafarski has created a free tool that enables users to compare and preview various aspect ratios with their own images. Unlike comparisons in an application like Lightroom, Kalafarski points out that his ratio.party tool is simple to use and offers a... more

Think modern day Photoshop beauty retouching is impressive? In the future, your professional-grade camera might be able to retouch subjects for you in real-time. Here’s a 30-second video that shows this technology in action.

The demo shows a woman in the frame with eye and cheek adjustment sliders available. After significantly reducing the size of her lower jaw, the woman moves and looks around to show how well the real-time retouching can track her.

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Instagram has introduced redesigned user profiles that will be rolling out to users over the next several weeks. The company describes the rollout as a test that retains common profile elements, but rearranges them to provide a new look emphasizing bios and taking the focus away... more

Here’s a clip from an old interview in which legendary photographer and street photography pioneer Henri Cartier-Bresson was asked about the art of seeing. His answer probably isn’t what you’d expect.

“Can one learn to look?” the interviewer asks Cartier-Bresson. This was the photographer’s response:

Can one learn to have sex? Oops… cut! […]

To learn to look… is to go to the Louvre Museum and to look at Rubens... more

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