Our precious camera gear is expensive, so it’s often a target of theft. Thankfully, there are ways to protect it and ensure that your gear finds its way back to you even if someone steals it. In this video, Armando Ferreira shows you four gadgets that will make it easy to track your gear and retrieve it in case you get robbed.
The way AI sees a “perfect body” says a lot about our society
With the recent boom of AI technology, it’s interesting to observe how artificial intelligence imagines things. After all, it was based on human knowledge but also human biases, stereotypes, and preferences.
The Bulimia Project wanted to see how AI imagined the “ideal body,” and the results are concerning, to say the least. They used different text-to-image generators and prompts, and nearly all of them produced images of men and women with highly unrealistic body types. After analyzing the images, they concluded the unrealistic beauty standards we have set for ourselves – and it’s pretty discouraging.
Get close to the sun with these jaw-dropping photos of decaying sunspots
The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has captured some of the most remarkable sun photos I’ve ever seen. They bring us close to the sun without melting our wings, giving us a glimpse of its turbulent, scorching surface – and even the rarely seen decaying sunspots.
AI colorization gives new life to 100-year-old footage from 1920s
Although footage colorization makes some historians upset, many of us find them fun to watch. A recent video from Glamour Daze shows 1920s New York but in a completely new light. Using AI upscaling and colorization, the video gives us a new look at the Roaring 20s.
5 Bizarre Photo-Tech Relics You’ve Forgotten About
I ordinarily share nerdy lighting setups and techniques, but with it being a very busy week for me, I thought I’d share something quick and lighthearted instead. Hopefully, you’ll still appreciate this quick jaunt down this photo-related memory lane.
Recently an old friend and I were chuckling over some long-forgotten photo tech that looks pretty damn bizarre in hindsight! So here are 5 of the more commonly known ones that, for better or worse, many of us still remember.
How I framed the moon perfectly inside Paris’ Arc de Triomphe
I was travelling to Paris for the Easter holidays, and I’d had the idea of capturing the moon framed inside the iconic Arc de Triomphe for some time. Checking my travel dates against the moon phases, everything seemed to line up. It was the perfect opportunity to try to capture this image that I’d had in my mind for some time.
Capturing the perfect shot can be a real challenge, especially when you’re aiming to capture the moon in just the right position and size in relation to a monument. This kind of photo requires some serious planning. The moon’s position and size depend on where you’re standing.
This stunning timelapse shows three years of mushroom growth in three minutes
Jens Heidler of Another Perspective is known for his unique and captivating timelapse videos of various objects. Oftentimes, they show us stuff from our home in a totally new light. But with his latest video, 1000 Days Mushroom Growth, Jens went a step further.
For three long years, he meticulously filmed, photographed, and edited photos of mushrooms he grew in his own basement. It shows the intricate beauty and growth of thirteen distinct types of fungi, and Jens also shares the challenges he faced while creating the video.
This is the “world’s first talking timelapse” and how it was made
A YouTuber who goes by the name of Lotrfan, has created what he calls the “world’s first talking timelapse”. While it’s arguably better classified as stop motion, it does also show the passage of time over a 285-day period. There’s been some thought put into this one, and both the concept and final result are pretty cool.
The project began as just a regular video clip, as Lotrfan explains partway through the video above. But then, after shooting a photo every day for over nine months, we end up with the final 9-second video.
Brendan Fraser isn’t only an actor, but also a brilliant photographer
My generation and older know Brendan Fraser mostly for his roles in George of the Jungle and The Mummy franchise, filmed in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The actor then disappeared from the spotlight, but he recently made a fantastic comeback with The Whale, for which he won the Best Actor Academy Award.
Photographer Tatiana Hopper recently discovered a fun fact about the beloved actor: he’s also a darn good photographer! In her video, she shares some of Fraser’s work, as well as some fun facts about his website – which isn’t his at all.
Photographer’s $3K camera accidentally sold at Goodwill for $70, TikTok helped retrieve it
A thriving photographer was recently in the middle of a very weird story involving her camera. Her mom accidentally donated her Canon R6 Mark II to a Goodwill where it was sold for $70. This led to a massive emotional rollercoaster and huge support from the TikTok community. They helped to trace the couple who’d bought the camera, and it all led to even more kindness from Canon themselves.
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