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About. Established in May of 2009, PetaPixel is a leading blog covering the wonderful world of photography. Our goal is to inform, educate, and inspire in all things photography-related. In case you didn’t know, the “peta” in PetaPixel is the prefix that denotes 1015, just as the “mega” in megapixel denotes 106. Our Fantabulous Team DL Cade · Editor-in-Chief DL is a writer and photography enthusiast based in Birmingham, Alabama. Michael Zhang · Founder Michael is a photography enthusiast, entrepreneur, and programmer based in Davis, California, an hour east of San Francisco. Gannon Burgett · Writer Gannon is a writer and photographer based out of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Cheri Frost · Columnist Cheri is a photographic artist, studio owner, coffee addict and comedy writer living and working in the Southwest.

Alan Steadman · Columnist Alan is a writer, producer, and photography enthusiast living in Atlanta, Georgia. Bill Lytton · Columnist Randall Armor · Columnist Adam Griffith · Columnist. How to Use Ultra-Wide Lenses. August 2008 Nikon Reviews Canon Reviews Leica Reviews Pentax Reviews Introduction Ultrawide lenses are the most difficult lenses to use well. Ultrawides are not for "getting it all in. " Ultrawides are for getting yourself, and therefore the viewer, right smack into the middle of something. Ultrawides are for putting next to the muzzle of Dirty Harry's revolver to put it in your face. If you can't or won't get close, leave the ultrawide at home. Ultrawides rub the viewer's nose in your subject. Ultrawide lenses are for getting close and bringing the viewer into the photo, not for fitting a subject into a photo. Ultrawides are not for the faint of heart.

Most people use ultrawides too sheepishly, and get crummy results with tiny subjects dwarfed in the middle of an open frame. Ultrawides require you to get very close and personal to anything you are shooting. If you use them properly, you'll be rewarded with dynamic images. Your taste will vary, but this is how I see the world.

Distortion. Night Photography: Finding your way in the dark on Vimeo. Photoshop. Far Better Than 3-D: Animated GIFs That Savor A Passing Moment | Co.Design. You know how people sometimes say that jazz is the only truly American art form? Animated GIFs are like the jazz of the internet: they could only exist, and be created and appreciated, online. That said, PopTart Cat is not exactly on par with Thelonious Monk. But photographer Jamie Beck and motion graphics artist Kevin Burg may have finally found a way to elevate the animated GIF to a level approaching fine art, with their "cinemagraphs" -- elegant, subtly animated creations that are "something more than a photo but less than a video.

" Here’s one of my favorites: The pair was inspired to create these cinemagraphs while preparing to cover Fashion Week this past February: "We wanted to tell more of a story than a single still frame photograph but didn’t want the high maintenance aspect of a video," they told Co.Design via email. So why did Beck and Burg choose the GIF format, rather than something more flexible like Flash?

[See more cinemagraphs at From Me To You and Coco Rocha] How to Make animated gifs tutorial with photo shop. Expert Photography | Photography Tips. Homemade Lightbox - Tutorials. Homemade Lightbox by rob_smith I needed a lightbox for my recent challenge entry and had a look on the interweb for a guide to make one. There are a few good ones out there, but I needed something I could build in an hour to shoot for the Skin challenge that was a couple of hours away from closing.

The Strobist's article was a pretty good guide so I thought I'd build one and document the process. You can judge the results for yourself. Stage 1: Materials Needed I had some big sturdy boxes left over from moving house so I used one of those, it's the double thickness kind, pretty handy as you'll be removing a lot of the cardboard so you need some strength left in the frame. Some large sheets of tracing paper, mine were 14" x 17", pretty cheap from any art shop. I have a little toy car in the shots for scale. Stage 2: The Build I outlined around my tracing pad to mark how big the sheets were, and then cut using a craft knife about 1cm inside the line I had traced.

Stage 3: Inside OK don't laugh.