The Daily PetaPixel for 05/05/2017

Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast!]( TODAY'S POSTS [Shooting with ACROS Film Simulation in the Fujifilm X-Pro2]( [Remembering the Canon 1D Mk II, The Only Camera That Got Me a Date]( [Cassini Snaps the Closest Views We’ve Ever Had of Saturn]( [How I Made $1,254.93 in Four Months by Selling Stock Photos on EyeEm]( [This is How You Capture Emotion in a Wedding Photo]( [This Photographers’ Wallet is Made for Both Your Credit and Memory Cards]( [Photography Competitions: Are They Even Worth It?]( [This Skier Got Epic ‘Drone’ Shots by Throwing His GoPro]( [How I Found My Niche in Professional Photography]( [Shooting with ACROS Film Simulation in the Fujifilm X-Pro2]( May 05, 2017 12:45 pm | Lee Jones I hear a lot of photographers slamming others for not shooting RAW. So I decided to go against that for a month and shoot JPEG only using Fujifilm’s ACROS Film Simulation and share my results. Interestingly, I’ve found that I’m actually enjoying taking photographs more. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/05/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Remembering the Canon 1D Mk II, The Only Camera That Got Me a Date]( May 05, 2017 12:04 pm | Barney Britton I dropped it because I was drunk. It was a brand new [Canon EOS-1D Mark II]( and I was drunk because I hadn’t eaten any dinner. It fell from hip-height onto the sand-covered floor of a shipping container, which had been converted into a tiki bar at an outdoor music festival. It was 2005 — tiki bars were a thing back then. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/05/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Cassini Snaps the Closest Views We’ve Ever Had of Saturn]( May 05, 2017 11:25 am | [Michael Zhang]( [Watch the Video]( On April 26th, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made its first-ever “[Grand Finale]( dive through the gap between Saturn and the planet’s rings. As it shot around the gas giant, Cassini snapped a lengthy series of closest-ever photos showing the features of the atmosphere. Now NASA has combined those photos into a beautiful fly-by movie. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/05/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [How I Made $1,254.93 in Four Months by Selling Stock Photos on EyeEm]( May 05, 2017 10:48 am | Michael Zwahlen My name is [Michael Zwahlen]( and I’m a photographer based in Germany. I want to share how I earn money through [EyeEm](. In the first four months of 2017 alone, the royalties I received through them added up to $1,254.93 and I’m hopeful this will continue to improve. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/05/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [This is How You Capture Emotion in a Wedding Photo]( May 05, 2017 10:13 am | [Michael Zhang]( Australian wedding photographer James Day recently shared a beautiful wedding photo and story that are tugging on heartstrings around the Web. It’s a terrific example of emotion being captured and conveyed in a shot. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/05/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [This Photographers’ Wallet is Made for Both Your Credit and Memory Cards]( May 05, 2017 09:45 am | [Michael Zhang]( Want to consolidate your credit cards and memory cards into one storage solution? COOPH has a wallet designed for you. Called the [Card Holder]( it’s a slim wallet that has slots for your payment (and identification) cards on one side and slots for SD cards on the other. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/05/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [Photography Competitions: Are They Even Worth It?]( May 05, 2017 08:43 am | Blair Bunting I was sitting in my dorm room at Arizona State University. To my left I had my XBox on (as it was pretty much 24/7) with some racing game on pause. In front of me I had my future, for I was entering a photography competition that I believed would make me famous and rich beyond my wildest dreams. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/05/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [This Skier Got Epic ‘Drone’ Shots by Throwing His GoPro]( May 05, 2017 08:00 am | [Michael Zhang]( [Watch the Video]( Remember [Nicolas Vuignier]( the skier who [shot bullet time by swinging his iPhone around his head]( He’s back again with another brilliant idea: he shot “poor man’s drone” footage by throwing his GoPro into the air. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/05/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( [How I Found My Niche in Professional Photography]( May 05, 2017 07:31 am | Alastair Philip Wiper I’m [Alastair Philip Wiper]( a British photographer based in Copenhagen and working worldwide. From the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, to [giant shipyards in South Korea]( and radio observatories in Peru, I work with the weird and wonderful subjects of industry, science, architecture. Finding a niche has been very important for my career, so I’m going to share a bit about how I went about it. … [[visit site to read more]( [Read More]( [Like The Daily PetaPixel for 05/05/2017 on Facebook]( [share on Twitter]( YESTERDAY'S POSTS [Souvid Datta Admits to Doctoring and Appropriating Photos]( [This Time-Slice Shows the Passing of 10 Months in a Valley]( [10 Ways to Light a Face for Different Moods]( [Capture One Pro 10.1: PSD Viewing, X-Trans Support, Master Reset, and More]( [The Photographer vs. The Internet]( [A Visual Effects Artist Made This Epic Video to Sell His Old Car]( [Lomography Unveils the Neptune, A Modular Art Lens System]( [Here’s a Hyperlapse Journey Through the Ancient City of Rome]( [The Star Eater Issue: Why I No Longer Recommend Sony Cameras for Astrophotography]( [This Photo Book on Concrete Buildings Comes in a Concrete Slipcase]( [Ep. 173: A Mistake Is Made and a Photographer’s Reputation Implodes – and more]( Copyright © 2017 PetaPixel, All rights reserved. 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