Scientists Warn Wildlife Photographers’ AI-Enhanced Bird Photos Could Threaten Research Scientists have warned that the increasing use of AI editing tools by wildlife photographers seeking the perfect image could threaten the reliability of bird research. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara Godox’s New Lux Junior II Flash Is Stylish and Flexible Godox has announced the Lux Junior II, an updated version of its retro-inspired compact flash that introduces a new dual-axis design for more flexible bounce flash photography in both horizontal and vertical orientations. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Kate Garibaldi Adobe’s Project Indigo iPhone Camera App Now Offers Photography Advice Just over a year ago, Adobe released a new computational photography camera app on iPhone, Project Indigo. It arrived boasting impressive features, including desktop-quality noise reduction and upscaling technology, plus robust camera controls and an emphasis on natural, realistic-looking photos. Today, Adobe launched what it calls "AI Playground" inside Project... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Cinematographer Behind HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ Series Reveals ‘Brutal’ Reality for Camera Crew Filming Child Actors The cinematographer behind HBO's upcoming Harry Potter series has described the "brutal" conditions for the camera team due to the young cast. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara 4 of the 10 Best-Selling Compact Cameras So Far in 2026 Are Kodak PixPro Models Just last week, PetaPixel wrote that Canon PowerShot compact cameras, including the SX740 HS from 2018, keep showing up in new digital camera sales charts. Sure enough, as Japanese retail analyst BCN+R reports, compact cameras in general are selling in huge numbers. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Scientists Capture First Images of Mysterious New Monkey Species with Striking Orange Lips Scientists have identified a new species of monkey -- with a striking mask-like face and distinctive pinkish-orange lips -- after a decades-long search for the primate was sparked by a blurry photograph. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara Sigma Cine Zoom Lenses With Autofocus Review: Cracking the Code Whenever a new autofocus-equipped cinema lens is announced, I always have mixed feelings. While I often find autofocus extremely useful, the manual focus experience inevitably suffers compared to a mechanically coupled manual focus lens. When they were first teased, I was told that this would not be a problem with... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jordan Drake NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Captures Mind-Bending Month-Long Timelapse of Mars Throughout May, NASA's Psyche spacecraft approached and flew away from Mars, coming within just 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the Red Planet during its closest approach. A brand-new timelapse video released by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) features thousands of images that Psyche captured during its mission. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray Annie Leibovitz Launches Copyright Lawsuit Over Her Image of Justin and Hailey Bieber Photographer Annie Leibovitz has sued a website for allegedly using her photograph of Justin and Hailey Bieber without permission, seeking "substantial damages." [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Pesala Bandara 10 Outstanding Images From the International Pet Photography Awards The finalists for the 2026 International Pet Photography Awards have been revealed, with photographers all over the world showcasing their best work. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Why Good Light Won't Save a Bad Photograph Ask ten photographers what makes a good photograph and you'll get ten different answers, and the person asking might have given a completely different reply three decades earlier. That gap between the beginner's checklist and the experienced eye is where the real lessons hide. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Apple Briefly Became the World’s Most Valuable Company, Toppling Nvidia Apple briefly became the world's most valuable company on Friday, overtaking Nvidia as investors sold off semiconductor shares. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Canon Is Working on a Pocket Gimbal Camera – And This Latest Patent Reveals Something Interesting That’s the clear signal coming from a newly published Japanese patent. But the real story is not just that Canon is exploring this category—the pocket gimbal camera market. If you’ve used a DJI Osmo Pocket or similar camera, you already know the feeling. You flip the camera from facing forward... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On The New Camera By admin Matt Granger Best 70–200mm f/2.8 Lens — Canon | Nikon | Sony | Sigma | Leica In this video, photographer Matt Granger conducts a shootout between five professional 70-200mm f/2.8 lenses from top manufacturers. Tested on their respective high-resolution camera bodies in Hong Kong, the lenses are evaluated on handling, build quality, autofocus performance, image stabilization, and overall image quality. The Five Contenders Canon RF 70-200mm... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Why 5 a.m. in the Woods Beats Perfect Weather Every Time Most woodland advice tells you to wait for flat, overcast light. Summer dawn breaks that rule, handing you a narrow window where low, dynamic sun arcs through the canopy and rewards anyone willing to lose sleep over it. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke AI Recreates the Goal Pelé Said Was His Greatest Ever But Wasn’t Filmed Google's DeepMind lab has recreated Pelé's so-called lost goal -- a strike that the iconic Brazilian soccer player said was his best-ever but was never captured on video. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-20 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Matt Growcoot Whales Are Dragging Fishing Line Across the Pacific, and Your Photos Can Help Save Them In the first two weeks of July, humpback whales turned up trailing fishing line on both sides of the Pacific, and rescue teams scrambled to reach them. Some whales were freed, some vanished before responders could find them, and at least one died. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke How a Google Machine Terminated 130,000 AI Slop YouTube Channels in Six Months Google researchers have published a paper laying out the system YouTube appears to be using to delete AI spam in bulk, and the numbers are large. Over six months, the system terminated 50,000 clusters covering 130,000 channels. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke What the Squarespace Subscription Price Increase Means for Photographers For most of us, a portfolio website is a clean, deliberate space where we curate our perspective and control the sequence of our imagery without the platform getting in the way. Yet it also has to work hard behind the scenes. It houses the blog where we track our evolving... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Adam Matthews What Clipping Is and How to Spot It Before It Ruins a Shot You take a photo of a beautiful sky, glance at the back of the camera, and it looks fine. Later, on your computer, the sky is a flat sheet of pure white with no clouds, no gradient, nothing to recover. That is clipping, and it is one of the most... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke DJI Flip RC-N3 Drone Hits $349 on Amazon – Best Deal for US Buyers in 2026? Finally, the DJI Flip drone is available at a massive discount on Amazon. A price drop of over 27% has been seen, which is the lowest of all time according to the Amazon.com price history report. This is the best time if you want to invest in the DJI Flip... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On The New Camera By admin What Photography Asks of You I've never been able to decide whether writing is more demanding than photography or the other way around. Every few years I convince myself I have the answer, and then something happens that proves me wrong. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Coghe Photographing the Perseid Meteor Shower: A Practical Guide The Perseid meteor shower is often the most spectacular meteor shower in the Northern Hemisphere due to frequency as well as its appearance in summer. 2026 is special because the peak occurs during the darkest possible skies. Here's how to photograph it! When Is the Best Time to Photograph the Meteor... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Ken Lee How to Stop Your Timer Remote From Dangling: Ruggard RTC-10 Review If you shoot long exposures at night, you know the frustration — your intervalometer dangling from your camera, swinging in the breeze, pulling on the cable. Not good. The Ruggard RTC-10 Timer-Remote Case (Standard) fixes that with a padded holder that straps directly to your tripod leg. It works great,... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Ken Lee The Lightroom Panel Most Landscape Shooters Underuse Warm highlights, cool shadows, and a foreground green cast that has to go: this is the color puzzle behind most sunset landscapes. Getting those tones to feel intentional rather than accidental is the difference between a flat raw file and an image people stop scrolling to look at. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Can a Zoom Lens Match a Prime for Astrophotography? A 12-20mm zoom at f/2.8 sits right in the sweet spot for astrophotography, wide enough to swallow the Milky Way and fast enough to pull in faint starlight. Most shooters reach for a prime when the sky gets dark, which makes a zoom that can keep pace worth a real... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Meet the Incredible 14-Year-Old Underwater Photographer Who Won Hasselblad Masters 14-year-old award-winning underwater photographer Panitbhand Paribatra "Pari" Na Ayudhya of Thailand, made waves late last month after he won the Project // 21 category in the prestigious Hasselblad Masters 2026 photo contest. It was not Pari's first big awards win, and undoubtedly won't be his last. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray The Faintest Planet Ever Imaged From Earth Was Hiding in 11 Years of Old Photos Astronomers have directly imaged the faintest exoplanet ever seen from Earth, a gas giant called Beta Pictoris d — and it turns out the planet had been sitting in telescope archives for more than 11 years before anyone managed to pull it out of the noise. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Bob Morris Photographer Loses Five-Figure Job After Bargain-Basement Memory Cards Fail on Set (Satire) 28-year-old professional photographer and videographer Hunter McEwen was fired from his latest five-figure commercial job after he lost three days' worth of shooting when his bargain-basement, counterfeit memory cards failed on set. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Jeremy Gray I Built a Custom Rig for What I Call ‘Ripple Portraits’ This project grew out of the many water-drop imaging experiments that my students and I have done over the years. I wondered if combining water-drop photography with portraiture might produce some unique and interesting images. [Read More]... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Peta Pixel By Ted Kinsman Would an Ansel Adams Photo Flop on Instagram Today? Strip Ansel Adams of his name, his reputation, and his place in history, then hand him a fresh account with zero followers. How many likes does "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome" actually pull? That thought experiment cuts straight into how you judge your own images and whether follower counts... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Sony A7rVI setup guide by Colby Brown Sony A7rVI at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, FotoKoch, FotoErhardt, Calumet, Clifton, WexUK Sony 100-400mm f/4.5 GM at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, Fotokoch, FotoErhardt, Calumet, Clifton, WexUK The Complete Setup Guide for the Sony a7R VI https://www.colbybrownphotography.com/the-complete-setup-guide-to-the-sony-a7r-vi/ Customizing Your Sony a7R VI https://www.colbybrownphotography.com/how-to-fully-customize-your-sony-a7r-vi-mirrorless-camera/ The post Sony A7rVI setup guide by Colby Brown... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Sony Camera By SonyAlpha Admin Three Camera Raw Features You Might Have Missed Camera Raw quietly gained a set of tools that fix a problem you have probably fought with for years: masks that stop short of the leaves, the hair, or the edge where you actually need them. Two new sliders now let you push a mask outward or pull it back,... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Fstoppers By Alex Cooke Canon R7 II Back on Track? Canon Registers Third Camera in 2026 Well, we have a new twist from Canon: they have officially registered a new camera with the wireless certification agency. The date of registration was July 1, and the camera uses a Wi-Fi 5 module, which falls in the mid-range of Canon camera lineups, not the flagship line, which uses... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On The New Camera By admin Photography News: New 3rd-Party Lenses, World Cup Photos Do you know which Nikon telephoto lens a wildlife photographer takes on a family vacation? Are you guessing the wonderfully lightweight 400mm f/4.5, or perhaps the 600mm f/6.3? If you noticed the word "family" in the question, you've probably already figured out that the correct answer is - nothing.... Published on 2026-07-19 As Seen On Photography Life By Libor Vaicenbacher 1 2 3 … Next Camera Manufacturers CanonNikonSonyFujifilmOlympusPanasonicPentaxLeica Camera Stores Abe’s of MaineAdoramaB&H PhotoCalumetHunt’s Photo and VideoKEH CameraNational Camera ExchangeRitz CameraSamy’s Camera Photographers Steve McCurryLee JeffriesJimmy NelssonRehahnEric LafforgueManny LibrodoLisa KristineDavid LazarDaniel NortonGavin HoeyVanessa JoyCanon Explorer’s of LightNikon Embassadors Rick Hamilton
