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No matter how you feel about Instagram, if youre reading this you know that you need it. Period. Social media can change careers. Instead of being stuck working with people in your 15-mile radius, youre now open to the world. But if youre reading this, youre probably also using Instagram wrong.

If you need help with your Instagram, theres one cheat, trick, hack, whatever you want to call it, thats free and more beneficial than anything else you can do.

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Storage speeds on smartphones, Chromebooks, VR headsets and automotive devices are about to make a huge leap forward. Standards group JEDEC has announced the new UFS 3.0 flash storage standard, which doubles the theoretical speed of the current UFS 2.1 standard to 2.9 GB/s... more

During a new 10-minute TED Talk, famed National Geographic aerial photographer George Steinmetz talks about his experiences photographing Africa while flying around in a motorized paraglider. This vantage point gives Steinmetz a unique look at the world below, including its various cultures and landscapes.

The motorized paraglider is composed of a wing in the style of a parachute and a... more

Here’s an 8-second video showing $5,000 in Nikon lenses getting smashed with a mallet. If you cringe at the thought of harm coming to any photographic equipment, here’s the good news: the video isn’t what you think. It’s a creative video by stop-motion extraordinaire PES.

“Nikon sent me some lenses to test out…is this what they had in mind?” PES... more

When you think of GoPro, you probably picture a neat, compact digital action camera, but theoriginal GoPro was actually a 35mm film camera. Here’s a 7-minute video by... more

"Above the polar bear" by Florian Ledoux -- SkyPixel Photo Contest 2017 Grand Prize winner

Chinese drone-maker DJI and aerial photography website SkyPixel have announced the winners of the... more

Episode 251 of thePetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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If you thought you had a pretty good high-speed photography set-up, the new Phantom v2640 from Vision Research might make you think again. Using a 4-million-pixel sensor and a shortest shutter speed of 142 nanoseconds, this new model from the scientific and industrial manufacturer can reach speeds of up to 6,600fps at full resolution, and can go even faster when the pixel-count is reduced.

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Ahh, the Pen Tool! When it comes to making complex selections and cutting objects out of an image, there is no better tool for the job. And while the Lasso Tool or Magic Wand Tool might make selections faster and easier (and are still quite useful depending on the situation), the Pen Tool reigns supreme when it comes to accuracy and precision.

So, whats the drawback? Well, its pretty tricky to get the hang of it. Even with all of the helpful videos and guides out there (including a... more

While traveling in Rome, photographer Oliver KMIA discovered how popular tourist spots were crowded with tourists fighting to shoot their own precious personal photo. He later scoured Instagram and... more

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