Photography

SmallRig will soon announce an airbag system for cameras called the AirGuard. The company says that the system, which is integrated into a camera cage, uses an accelerometer to detect a fall and automatically deploys an airbag to protect the camera. Leaked on Weibo and spotted by Sony Alpha Rumors, the AirGuard uses three small modules that hold a compressed air canister (specifically touted as a…

Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) allow 3D scenes to be generated from just a handful of photos, but Waymo researchers pushed the idea to the extremes and have successfully recreated a 3D model of San Francisco from 2.8 million input photos. Neural Radiance Fields Neural radiance filds (NeRF) have been used to synthesize views of complex scenes by taking a few input images…

Well-known storm photographer Mike Olbinski created the annual Storm Photos of the Year contest as a way to help the public recognize the dedication of both professional and amateur storm photographers. Storm photography is often considered one of the most challenging genres to master. Not only does a photographer have to be proficient with composition and settings, but storm photography…

My love of astronomy started way back as a child when my dad bought a Celestron C8 telescope. I remember spending hours with him searching to find a single dark sky object. This love of the night sky stuck with me and it wasn’t until 2012 I made a New Year’s resolution to go out for one night each month near the new moon to do astronomy, photography, and time-lapse of the night sky. I…