Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office(exhibits.stanford.edu)
199 points by Austin_Conlon | 112 comments
Stanford Libraries exhibit gallery of Doug Menuez photographs documenting daily life inside NeXT Computer, Inc.
#photography on Hacker News
44 stories tagged photography, newest first.
Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects(petapixel.com)
13 points by eustoria | 4 comments
PetaPixel article about a photographer who spent six years photographing 400 American girls with their most meaningful objects.
As We Become Cameras (2016)(thebrowser.com)
7 points by rathertrue | 0 comments
A 2016 Medium essay by Matt Hackett arguing that wearable cameras will become ubiquitous and people will barely notice.
Show HN: Photoc – Command-line tools for photographers(github.com)
48 points by ahmetomer | 5 comments
GitHub repository for Photoc, an MIT-licensed set of C command-line tools for photographers covering image compression, EXIF, and photo management.
Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)(darbiansphotography.com)
141 points by NaOH | 27 comments
An urbex photography blog post documenting the abandoned 1936 Woking electrical control room that powered the Southern Rail network, photographed in September 2016.
Museum of Time-Based Art(motba.art)
3 points by NaOH | 0 comments
Homepage of MOTBA, an online Museum of Time-Based Art with a timeline, artist pages, guestbook, and submissions, showcasing photographic series artworks.
Your body of work thinks back at you(photoni.st)
88 points by surprisetalk | 15 comments
An opinion post on a personal photography blog about noticing unexpected patterns, like recurring photos of empty benches, in one's own photo archive.
Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents(newyorker.com)
72 points by prismatic | 45 comments
A New Yorker Photo Booth article by Margaret Talbot on Joseph Szabo's black-and-white photographs of American teenagers, which influenced Sofia Coppola.
Augustofaces: Pareidolia Fine Art(augusto.at)
22 points by luu | 3 comments
A fine art project page showing pareidolia faces found in everyday objects; the page returned a 503 Service Unavailable error when captured.
Damn fine tiny cafe(sandyuraz.com)
336 points by thecsw | 58 comments
Personal blog post about building a Rolife miniature cafe kit, with photos of the finished tiny diorama.
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner(philo.gay)
419 points by otherayden | 69 comments
Personal blog post describing using an industrial linear scanning camera to capture very wide photos from trains and ferries, with example images.
Darktable(darktable.org)
331 points by siatko | 155 comments
Homepage of darktable, an open source photography workflow application and raw developer with a lighttable and darkroom for managing and editing photos.
Help I accidentally a wigglegram(lmao.center)
542 points by gregsadetsky | 125 comments
A personal blog post on lmao.center about accidentally creating a wigglegram, a stereoscopic animated photo effect, with example images.
Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored(spectrum.ieee.org)
400 points by pseudolus | 118 comments
IEEE Spectrum feature presenting forgotten, restored photographs of the 1945 Trinity atomic bomb test and what they show about the project's scale.
DaVinci Resolve – Photo(blackmagicdesign.com)
1093 points by thebiblelover7 | 274 comments
Blackmagic Design product page for the Photo page in DaVinci Resolve, a tool for editing and grading still photos including RAW files.
Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout(e360.yale.edu)
647 points by mrtksn | 471 comments
Yale Environment 360 digest item presenting photos of the massive scale of China's wind and solar energy installations.
I wanted a camera that doesn't exist, so I built it(medium.com)
434 points by cyrc | 133 comments
A Medium post by Cristian Băluță describing how he, a software developer, built his own custom camera dubbed the Leica G9ii.
Cameras and Lenses (2020)(ciechanow.ski)
515 points by sebg | 56 comments
Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive blog post explaining how cameras and lenses work and how adjustable parameters affect the resulting images.
What an unprocessed photo looks like(maurycyz.com)
2361 points by zdw | 393 comments
Blog post showing a raw, unprocessed camera sensor image of a Christmas tree and explaining the processing steps needed to turn it into a normal photo.
Astrophotographer snaps skydiver falling in front of the sun(iflscience.com)
443 points by doener | 86 comments
IFLScience article about an astrophotographer's image capturing a skydiver silhouetted against the sun, titled 'The Fall of Icarus'.
Roc Camera(roc.camera)
508 points by martialg | 435 comments
Product site for the Roc Camera, a digital camera in a translucent 3D-printed case, with about, FAQ, and order sections.
Magic Lantern Is Back(magiclantern.fm)
476 points by felipemesquita | 153 comments
Magic Lantern forum announcement thread 'Magic Lantern 2025: Midsummer Edition' marking the return of the open-source Canon camera firmware add-on project.
Line scan camera image processing for train photography(daniel.lawrence.lu)
415 points by dllu | 66 comments
A personal blog post explaining the processing pipeline for line scan camera photos of trains, covering speed estimation, resampling, demosaicing, denoising, and color calibration.
iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras(candid9.com)
459 points by sergiotapia | 438 comments
A Candid9 blog post comparing photos from iPhone 16 cameras with those from traditional digital cameras, using side-by-side example shots.
Photos taken inside musical instruments(dpreview.com)
981 points by worik | 50 comments
DPReview article on how a photographer uses probe lenses and focus stacking to capture images from inside musical instruments.
What is HDR, anyway?(lux.camera)
738 points by _kush | 313 comments
A blog post from Lux (makers of the Halide camera app) explaining what HDR means, the problems it presents, and three ways to solve them.
The Barbican(arslan.io)
664 points by farslan | 241 comments
A personal blog photography post by Fatih Arslan featuring photos of the Barbican Estate in London.
Photographs of 19th Century Japan(cosmographia.substack.com)
406 points by merothwell | 119 comments
A Substack post presenting historical photographs of Japan from the 19th century; the page failed to load and showed an error message.
We asked camera companies why their RAW formats are all different and confusing(theverge.com)
345 points by Tomte | 202 comments
The Verge article asking camera makers why proprietary RAW image formats differ, and why few cameras use Adobe's open DNG format.
Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors(exclusivearchitecture.com)
503 points by ExAr | 124 comments
A technical article/e-book describing all autofocus motor types used in Canon EF and RF lenses over the past 40 years, including USM, Nano USM, STM and VCM.
Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018)(estherschindler.medium.com)
366 points by mooreds | 149 comments
A Medium essay by Esther Schindler on lessons from an old family photos project about taking family photos people will want to keep.
What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021)(history.stackexchange.com)
577 points by napolux | 144 comments
A History Stack Exchange question asking about the origin of a widely shared black-and-white photo of a tank in a lake that became a meme.
Leaving and Waving(deannadikeman.com)
565 points by Duke_Pixie | 85 comments
Photographer Deanna Dikeman's series of photos taken over 27 years of her parents waving goodbye as she drove away from their Sioux City, Iowa home.
Passport Photos(maxsiedentopf.com)
1454 points by gaws | 216 comments
Art project page by Max Siedentopf showing a grid of passport-style portrait photographs of many different people.
Ultra high-resolution image of The Night Watch (2022)(rijksmuseum.nl)
543 points by lhoff | 139 comments
Rijksmuseum story from the Operation Night Watch series explaining how the team created an ultra high-resolution image of Rembrandt's The Night Watch.
Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)(gmunk.com)
746 points by onhacker | 257 comments
GMUNK portfolio page describing the creation of the Windows 10 hero desktop wallpaper, built physically with light and photographed in 2015.
Shipbreaking(edwardburtynsky.com)
320 points by thunderbong | 146 comments
Edward Burtynsky's photography project page on shipbreaking, with an artist's statement and a gallery of images of ships being dismantled.
How photos were transmitted by wire in the 1930s(kottke.org)
430 points by bookofjoe | 107 comments
A kottke.org post embedding a 1937 video explaining how wire photos were transmitted to newspapers in the 1930s.
Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)(nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org)
336 points by 1970-01-01 | 224 comments
A New York Heritage digital collections item showing a 1912 photograph of a woman with a rectifier and an electric car.
The Periodic Table of Tools(periodictableoftools.com)
415 points by andyjohnson0 | 116 comments
An interactive periodic-table-style grid of tool categories by Theodore Gray, with clickable squares leading to photos of thousands of tools.
Ansel(ansel.photos)
660 points by sts153 | 126 comments
Homepage of Ansel, an open-source photo-editing application for developing raw digital photographs, forked from darktable.
Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)(dpreview.com)
453 points by ghastmaster | 90 comments
DPReview article by Ron Risman about two photographers who independently captured the same millisecond of a wave hitting a lighthouse during a storm.
Terrible real estate agent photographs(terriblerealestateagentphotos.com)
703 points by thunderbong | 326 comments
A humor website collecting inexplicably bad photographs taken by real estate agents for property listings, with an archive, book, and photo submissions.
There oughta be a bullet time video booth(there.oughta.be)
362 points by _Microft | 97 comments
A blog post describing a DIY bullet time video booth built from an array of DSLR cameras for a cousin's wedding, with a linked YouTube video.