Photography

Elon Musk’s ex-girlfriend is auctioning photos of the billionaire from college with some items currently attracting bids of more than $8,700. Jennifer Gwynne, who dated the world’s richest man when they were both studying at the University of Pennsylvania, is selling candid images and memorabilia of Musk on RR Auction. Items in the live auction include 18 never-before-seen photos…

A photographer challenged the well-known AI image generator DALL-E to recreate real-life photos that he had taken on a Leica camera, and the results are incredible, to say the least. Technology entrepreneur Fabian Stelzer fed the artificially intelligent (AI) text-to-image generator specific instructions, known as prompts, that he hoped would generate an image very similar to one he…

Dries Depoorter has created an artificial intelligence (AI) software that searches public camera feeds against Instagram posts to find the moment that a photo was taken. The Belgian artist has posted a video of his remarkable project that he calls The Follower which he began by recording open cameras that are public and broadcast live on websites such as EarthCam. After that, he scraped…

Two researchers from the University of California, Davis have created a camera that uses a microlens array and new image processing algorithms to capture 3D photos in a single exposure. Weijian Yang, Ph.D., and doctoral student Feng Tian say that because the camera is able to learn from existing data on how to digitally reconstruct a 3D scene it can produce these images in real-time…