Light Painting with Darlene Hildebrandt

If HDR is yesterday's craze then Tilt-Shift and Light Painting are probably duking it out to be crowned today's craze.  For those who're inclined to give their vote to the latter, Darlene Hildebrandt presents the first of a multi-part lesson on Light Painting in DPSchool.

This article is unusually systematic and logical in its organization; it's more like a chapter of a Photography Book than your usual tutorial.

First, Hildebrandt provides...

Sony World Photography Award Winners

One of the biggest events in the World of Photography is the aptly named World Photo.  World Photo London 2013 is underway now at Somerset House.

This two-week event includes numerous talks, exhibitions, lectures, prizes, and such but its centrepiece is, of course, Sony World Photography Awards and the related exhibitions.

Sony broadly divides entries between a Professional and an Open section, each of which is subdivided into...

The Guardian Presents the Flapper

Yesterday The Guardian published an article surrounding one of the most photogenic of all ages: The Roaring Twenties.  Furthermore, this article is expressly about the most photogenic of subjects of an already photogenic age: The Flapper.

In When Flappers Ruled the Earth Judith Mackrell focusses on the Flapperette Revolution as contributing to what eventually became the Women's Lib movement.  This blog does not concern itself with deep political and sociological...

The American Wilderness in Monochrome

A group of photography 'experts' tends to look down on colour as they consider black-and-white as the 'proppah' medium for photographic art.  What would they say about images that are neither colour nor black-and-white but both: monochrome prints?

They just might say, "Oh Wow!" if they see stunners like this gorgeous composition in shades of violet and purple, and that would be apropos because "OHWOW" is also the name of...

Unusual Gear and Gadgets

We usually have a weekly post on unusual and the bizarre news from the World of Photography on this blog while on our Professional site's blog we have a weekly feature on gear and gadgets.  Today we'll do a twofer: here's a roundup of unusual gear and gadgets.

The Camera Brand that Refuses to Die

"Rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated," Samuel Clemens / Mark...

‘Flipping’ us ‘Out’: PetaPixel Pulls a Hat-trick

We'll start off the week with our weekly 'whacky' news roundup because there's been so much of it, none more 'whacky' than—

'Whack!'

In one or two B-Grade Hollywood movies, the hero or heroine gets a fresh lease on life when a lucky charm amulet or medallion they're wearing deflects a bullet that would otherwise have shattered his/her breastbone.

Real life ain't as (melo)dramatic as Hollywood but it can be funnier: PetaPixel...

A Mixed Bag of Breaking News

It's been a while since we had a mixed bag of diverse news.  Today's the perfect day for it as in the past 24 hours we've heard about a technological leap, a...

Genesis by Sebastião Salgado

The Natural History Museum of England is hosting an exhibit, Genesis, of photographs by Sebastião Salgado.  One doesn't have to attend the exhibition to conclude that the images are breathtaking – the slideshow is proof enough.

This exhibition is about remote peoples and remote places; Salgado has tried to bring 'The Ends of the Earth' to an exhibition hall.

The very first photograph that greets us is one that...

Some Nice Things I’ve Missed

Some Nice Things I've Missed is the title of one of The Chairman of the Board's lesser known and somewhat under-rated albums; after all, it does have three drop-dead killahs.  This post is not about that album and FAS had nothing to do with photography but we'll steal the title because it's oh-so apropos as we look at ocean waves, a...