How to Fold an Origami Camera Using a Dollar Bill
Last year we featured a neat little origami camera created using a dollar bill by Won Park. If you’ve been dying to know how to fold one yourself, today’s your lucky day. Be warned though: isn’t definitely not an origami project for beginners. There’s a total of 42 separate steps, and you can find a...
Canon Patents Inaccurate EXIF Data for Shooters Concerned with Privacy
9 out of 10 adults in America believe that people are over-sharing sensitive personal information. One culprit is the GPS-enabled camera, which can reveal exactly where you were at a specific time by baking the information into photos. If you’re uncomfortable with how specific this EXIF data is, Canon has a solution: fuzzy accuracy. The...
Trippy Music Video Features Monster Silhouettes Singing in Bokeh
This music video for the song “Solidified” by Gramatik features an interesting technique: custom bokeh shapes that move. We’ve featured creative bokeh techniques in the past, but they’ve all focused on floating words or static shapes. Director Brad Hasse went a step further by having his monster silhouettes in the out-of-focus light points move around...
How to Spot an Instagram Junkie
Here’s a humorous infographic by social marketing blog Flowtown on some common characteristics of Instagram fanatics.
You can find a large version of it here.
(via Visual News)
How Digital Camera CCD Sensors Work
Digital camera sensors come in two flavors, charge couple device (CCD) sensors and complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) sensors. In this video, Bill Hammack the Engineer Guy offers a short explanation of how CCD sensors capture and store...
Star Trails Above, City Trails Below
NASA astronaut Don Pettit shot this beautiful long exposure photograph showing star trails and city trails from the International Space Station. The image was created by combining 18 separate long-exposure photographs. Pettit says, My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras,...
“Camera Hang Low” Music Video
To celebrate the end of the school year, the photojournalism students at Western Kentucky University created this music video for a song titled “Camera Hang Low” by Benny Sevs feat. the F-Stopz. It asks the important question that every serious photographer needs to answer: “Do ya camera hang low?”. Thanks for sending in the tip,...
What Classic Video Games Would Look Like in the Real World
Prior to the fancy graphics video game players enjoy today, classic games were based on simple geometric forms. German photographer Patrick Runte decided to do a quirky photo project exploring what these games might look like if translated to the real world. His series, titled Jump ‘N’ Run, shows people dressed in simple costumes of...
Six Living Generations of Daughters in One Group Portrait
Photographer Christian DeBaun of Charlottesville, Virginia captured this photograph that shows six living generations of daughters. The oldest is 111-year-old Mollie Wood, who was born in 1901. The youngest is 7-week-old Braylin Higgins. You can find ...
PetaPixel Turns Three Years Old
PetaPixel is now a three-year-old blog. Our readership has continued to grow at a healthy rate over the past year, and recently we even added our first full time writer, DL Cade (if you follow this blog regularly then you’ve already seen plenty of his work). We’ve had a blast bringing you all the most...
Watch How the $2.79 Million Leica Camera Auction This Past Weekend Went Down
Want to see how the world’s most expensive camera was auctioned this past Saturday? The video above shows the 1923 Leica O-Series going up at the WestLicht Photographica Auction and being sold at the record-breaking price of $2.79 million after auction fees and tax. WestLicht points out that these cameras have been appreciating like crazy...
