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How to take cool photos of cars

How to take cool photos of cars

By Mark Elias / Popular Photography

It’s not just you—everyone hates Instagram now. Here’s why.

It’s not just you—everyone hates Instagram now. Here’s why.

By Harry Guinness

Photo of woman outdoors on bright day

How to take good photos in bright sunlight

By Harry Guinness/Popular Photography

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first image shows the universe in a new light

Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first image shows the universe in a new light

By Maria Parazo Rose

Sort your entire photo library with this AI

Sort your entire photo library with this AI

By Jeff Carlson / Popular Photography

Landscape photo of Yosemite National Park

A photographer’s guide to respectfully enjoying a national park

By Marissa Wu / Popular Photography

Taking mobile portrait outside of a person holding two ice cream cones.

Simple tricks for taking better outdoor portrait photos with your phone

By Harry Guinness/Popular Photography

Starfish spawning in water

8 award-winning photos of nature’s stranger things

By Stephanie Stone

A demonstration of "lens-less" photography.

Tokyo researchers developed a novel lensless camera

By Marissa Wu / Popular Photography

Image of an app that digitizes photos.

How to turn your phone into a small-photo scanner

By Dan Bracaglia / Popular Photography

Caribbean flamingo chick tucked into the pink feathers on the back of its parent

Before they grow into splendor, flamingos are just awkward floofs

By Claudio Contreras Koob and Martha A. Salazar

Mineralized deposit that looks like a spiky flower in the red Mars soil

What is a ‘Martian flower’?

By Purbita Saha

A blonde woman in a white shirt sitting in front of a laptop and a smartphone, editing a photo in a photo editing program.

How to convert HEIC files—or prevent them altogether

By John Kennedy

Three galaxies forming a gassy swirl in a Hubble Space Telescope image

Space Telescope

See Hubble’s captures of real-life star wars

By Purbita Saha

Orange Jelly Belly beans arranged in rows for molding at the factory in Fairfield, California

Inside the technicolor factory where Jelly Belly makes its beans

By Corinne Iozzio

A desk with a grid of printed digital photos on it, in the light from a window.

5 ways to bring your digital photos into the real world

Hands holding a phone with photos on the screen, probably figuring out how to share photos without losing quality.

Use these settings to share photos at their best quality

half of a circle with concentric rings of brown, gold, and amber radiating outwards

These sophisticated bacteria communities assemble in tie-dye formation

By Maggie Galloway

James Webb Space Telescope in flight with mirrors and sunshield unfurled in an artist's rendering

Space Telescope

17 images to count down to the James Webb Space Telescope launch

By Purbita Saha

A person looking at their Instagram feed, perhaps to delete a picture or video from a carousel post.

How to delete one photo from an Instagram carousel (and get it back if you change your mind)

By John Kennedy

rear view of the Google Pixel 6 phone

6 cool camera tricks you can do on the new Pixel 6 phones

Okavango Blue Diamond filled with boron in a manicured hand on a gray background

This rare blue diamond is practically a miracle of nature

By Elana Spivack

hands on keyboard working on laptop selecting photos

5 apps to edit photos right in your browser

Ice-capped mountains in Kathmandu, Nepal, seen from a Landsat satellite

NASA’s Landsat 9 satellite sends back its first images of a changing world

By Rachel Feltman

Baltimore checkerspot caterpillar curled up in a black and orange ball

Inflatable tentacles and silk hats: See how caterpillars trick predators to survive

By Erin Fennessy

Hairs and pores on a southern oak leaf

11 views of the microscopic world in brilliant detail

By Popular Science Team

Adult otter biting pup

8 animals being naturally hilarious

By Popular Science Team

A photograph is being taken with an iPhone.

Your Flickr photos could help scientists keep tabs on wildlife

By Charlotte Hu

Soldier termites marching

These photos are proof that evolution is wild and wondrous

By Popular Science Team

bulge-dots-illustion

Want art you can’t look away from? These 5 visual illusions will entrance your mind

By Maridel Reyes

three-framed-photos-on-wall

The scientifically best way to create a photo gallery wall

By Maridel Reyes

Anthotype images on wooden table

Spice up your art with turmeric, sunlight, and a 19th century photography technique

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A scientist looks through a microscope.

This may be the highest resolution microscope we’ll ever get

Super Moon rise over a valley

How to photograph the moon like a pro

By Stan Horaczek

a portrait photo of a woman

6 common photography mistakes to avoid

By Harry Guinness

Photo in which the Bidens look huge

Understanding the weird Biden-Carter photo could help you take better selfies

By Stan Horaczek

Venus Crater Farm image taken by the Magellan spacecraft for NASA

The hellish Venus surface in 5 vintage photos

By Amy Shira Teitel

A tawny frogmouth bird.

On Instagram, this quirky bird soars above the rest

hand holding a phone

Tips and tricks to help you take better smartphone photos

The best hidden Instagram tricks

The best hidden Instagram tricks

The first-ever image of the magnetic fields of a black hole.

Astronomers used telescopic ‘sunglasses’ to photograph a black hole’s magnetic field

By Charlie Wood

Super Resolution in Photoshop

Photoshop’s new Super Resolution feature makes images bigger, not blurrier

By Stan Horaczek

Hand inserting SD card into DSLR camera

How to recover deleted photos from a memory card

By Whitson Gordon

Old printed photos scattered around a table.

How to colorize your old black and white photos

a boat captain tries to pull a plastic barrel from a debris island

A trip down the Ohio River reveals the oil and gas industry’s next big move

By Teake Zuidema/Nexus Media News

Night sky photography

Cold weather is the best time to look at—and photograph—the night sky

By Stan Horaczek

Badly edited photo of a pier during sunset

How to use advanced editing tools without ruining your photos

By Harry Guinness

A Hirox digital microscope capturing images of a famous painting.

Check out this 10-billion-pixel, 3D panorama of an iconic painting

By Stan Horaczek

A lunar rainbow or moonbow stretching over the mountains at night in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

In perfect conditions, rainbows can come alive at night

By Purbita Saha

large forest tree

Behold the world’s tallest trees

By Sara Kiley Watson

Colorful spools of fiber optic glass.

An inside look at how fiber optic glass is made

By Stan Horaczek

a photo of Dasht-e Kavir, the Great Salt Desert, in Iran

Use Google Earth and Street View to explore the planet from your couch

Pin hole beer can photo

Creating this photo of sun trails took eight years and a beer can

By Stan Horaczek

Person shooting photo

Google Photos is better at image editing than you think

By Harry Guinness

a woman holding an umbrella

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

What really happened during the ‘Kentucky meat shower’?

By Popular Science Team

Clownfish embryo in growth

Can you guess the tiny objects in these zoomed-in photos?

By Popular Science Team

Adobe Photoshop Neural Filters

Photoshop’s Neural Filters can alter people’s expressions in convincing—and nightmarish—ways

By Stan Horaczek

Adoble photoshop sky replacement tool

Photoshop will soon use AI to add dramatic skies to your boring photos

By Stan Horaczek

Sea turtle. Queensland, Australia.

9 goofy, award-winning animal photos to turn your day around

By Popular Science Team

Sony built a tiny mirrorless camera with a full-frame sensor inside

By Stan Horaczek

Black model in grayscale

Why do beauty filters make you look whiter?

By Candice Wang

TikTok Will Smith

Go ahead and use TikTok all you want

Beetle with camera on back.

Scientists strapped tiny cameras to beetles to get a bug’s-eye view of the world

By Sara Kiley Watson

bowling ball interior

The insides of pro bowling balls will make your head spin

By Stan Horaczek