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December 3rd, 2015 was the day I bought my first camera. I carefully chose one body and one lens: a Nikon D5300 and a 50mm prime lens. Here are a few of the things I’ve learned throughout my journey:

  • I still don’t know how to compose. My good photos are a tiny fraction of all the pictures I take.
  • You never know which one will be your next favorite picture. Sometimes you don’t realize that you are taking a really good shot, but... more

GoPro's Karma Grip motorized gimbal mount was first released as part of the Karma drone kit.  Unfortunately, GoPro had to recall the Karma drone due to problems with its power supply, but now the company has made the Karma Grip... more

GoPro hasn’t had an easy few months; since the release of the Karma system and Hero5 cameras, the company has taken hit after hit in the media and the stock market. But today they announced something a bit more... more

Back in December 2015 I saw a rumor report online about a 600w/s Chinese monolight with onboard battery, TTL, and built-in radio. After doing some research I found they had a TTL speedlight that worked within the same system, and I became very excited.

At the time, I was combining Paul C. Buff Einsteins with the Yongnuo YN-622-TX/YN-568, and while I had power control of all my lighting from my camera, the receivers, cables, and batteries necessary to make it... more

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I remember very clearly when the Canon PowerShot G9 X arrived in the DPReview offices. I was a fairly recent hire, and myself and another recent hire took the G9 X and the G5 X out to shoot some samples. As a person who still clings to old full frame DSLRs, I got along with the G5 X much more so than with the G9 X. It had way more controls, a good viewfinder, a brighter zoom lens and a real grip. I really liked that camera (and my... more

People's Choice Award shortlist for 2016 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Announced

Facing the Storm by Gunther Riehle of Germany / Wildlife Photographer of the Year

Fans of wildlife and nature photography can now have their say in the annual People's Choice Award for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year... more

Episode 130 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast.
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If you’d like to back up your photos and collaborate on them locally, then creating a private cloud with a network attached storage (NAS) server is one way to go. One option on the market these days is Western Digital’s... more

Apple, we had a good run Through the many iPads, iPhones, MacBooks, Mac Pros, heck, even the Apple Watch, it was a good run indeed. However, times have changed, and that beauty that was once your innovation has now been covered up with the makeup that is nice marketing.

Dont get me wrong, I am writing this on iMac number three, but like all other Apple products, it will soon be slower and barely usable due to some OS update that, while not mandatory, will show... more

It’s not every day that you come across a camera that’s big enough for the photographer to stand in. But that’s what photographer Ross den Otter built for the recent... more

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