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Photographers in the UK will soon be paying significantly steeper prices to use Photoshop, Lightroom, and other apps in Adobe’s Creative Cloud. Adobe is the latest company to raise prices for customers in the UK, blaming its move on “recent changes in exchange rates.”

Creative Cloud customers based in the UK (and in Sweden) are receiving emails from Adobe announcing the price increase, which will take effect on March 6, 2017. Customers seem to be receiving... more

Here’s a short comedy sketch that creatively sums up what photographers and other creatives often experience: being asked to do free work in exchange for “exposure.”

In the 1.5-minute sketch above, titled “Working for Free,” Irish sketch trio... more

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DxO just published its score for the Nikon mount Sigma 85mm F1.4 DG HSM A. Drumroll please... more

Indonesian photographer Daniel Tjongari shot a series of photos showing the beautiful misty forests around the Borobudur temple found in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia.

Built in the 9th century,... more

ISO 100, 1/400 sec at F4.5. Photo by Dan Bracaglia

The Nikkor 70-200mm F2.8E FL ED VR is the third version of Nikon's workhorse telezoom. Most of us on staff have spent a bit of time with the previous two versions, and the latest iteration features a new... more

Few cameras in the early days of consumer digital photography are as legendary as the Nikon Coolpix 950. This graphic pulled from the DPReview archives says it all:

In case you're wondering, the answer was 'yes'. It earned a 'Highly Recommended' award, with site founder Phil Askey calling it an 'important camera at an important time for digital photography.'

The thing about the Coolpix 950 that grabbed the most attention was, of course, its rotating lens (or was it the body... more

Episode 147 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
Download MP3 –... more

Norway is an amazing place and this time-lapse by Morten Rustad definitely does the region justice. Morten says that he travelled some 20,000km, took some 200,000 images, filling 20 terabytes worth of hard drive space to put this film together. Sit back, turn off the lights, crank the sound and definitely enjoy this one in HD.

To find out more about the film and how Morten went about putting it together... more

You gotta start somewhere GlobalXplorer participants' first mission is to look for pits that signal looting.

If you've ever dreamed of becoming an archaeologist, you might want to take a look at GlobalXplorer: a browser-based app that trains ordinary citizens to analyze high-resolution satellite imagery for signs of looting and previously unknown sites. It's the brainchild of Dr. Sarah Parcak, a National Geographic Fellow and... more

Memory manufacturer Lexar has announced it will double the capacity of its 3500x CFast memory card this quarter taking the storage capability to a massive 512GB. The Lexar Professional 3500x CFast 2.0 card will offer write speeds of up to 445MB/s, but will cost an equally impressive $1699.99/1732.99. The company says that the card is designed to be used by movie makers, especially those using memory-intensive techniques such as super-high frame rates for slow motion footage and those... more

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