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You Can Now Create Your Own AI-Generated Photos in Photoleap

August 29, 2022
Lightricks, the creator of the selfie-editing app Facetune, has released its own artificially intelligent (AI) text-to-image generator. Lightricks announced that users can now create AI-generated images via text prompts on its apps including Photoleap, which is known for its photo editing capabilities and Motionleap, which animates still images, reports TechCrunch. The new feature…
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Gear in this story

August 29, 2022
A crop of the full-resolution 67MP image Nikon China posted to social media. Full image embedded below. Does Nikon have a surprise up its sleeve for the near future? It very well may if a little slip-up in a recent post shared to Nikon China’s Weibo profile is to be believed. In a post promoting Nikon China’s Creative Camp Live class, Nikon China shared four images, all presumably taken…
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Nikon Z9 long term shooting experience

August 29, 2022
My personal Z9, complete with yellow identifying tape and RRS arca-style modular plate with adjustable L-bracket. All photographs by Barnaby Britton First, a confession, because I know it’s going to come up. I don’t need a Nikon Z9. I bought one because I wanted to…
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Straight Out of Camera is the Purest Form of Photography… or IS It?

August 27, 2022
The ultimate skill of the photographer — of the artist — is to create the aesthetics of the scene in front of them “in the moment”. The Natural Landscape Photo Award is perhaps the epitome of this with minimal image manipulation allowed, while the World Press Photo has a Code of Ethics. So straight-out-of-camera (SOOC) has got to be the pinnacle of ability, hasn’t it? Or is there more to…
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Photo of Sunflowers and Aurora Taken Moments Before Camera Broke

August 26, 2022
Aurora chasing photographer MaryBeth Kiczenski had to battle a camera that failed on her to capture this gorgeous photo of the northern lights dancing over a sunflower field. Kiczenski tells PetaPixel that the screen on her Nikon Z6 camera cut out on her at a vital moment. But thanks to a helpful feature she was able to come away with the shot. “Since all the controls are done on…
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