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These Are Not Photos: Beautiful Landscapes Created by New AI

First photographers were creating portraits of people that don’t exist, now Aurel Manea has created a series of “landscape photos” using a new artificially intelligent (AI) software program called Stable Diffusion. Manea tells PetaPixel that he has been blown away by what the London and Los Altos-based startup Stability AI has created. “I can’t, as a landscape photographer…
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Flat and Fun 16MP Digital Camera is Made out of Paper

A Lomo-inspired digital camera made out of paper that can shoot 16-megapixel still images and film 1080p video is the 21st-century answer to a disposable camera. Spotted by Mirrorless Rumors, the Paper Shoot Camera was designed as a digital version of a throw-away film…
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App Provides A Cheap Way to Remotely Focus Blackmagic Cameras

A new app for the iPhone could save users hundreds of dollars by letting them remotely pull focus, with LIDAR, using an iPhone 12 or above. The app is called Focus Puller, and it is aimed at Blackmagic users on a budget. Focus Puller mimics many of the features found in the DJI LIDAR Rangefinder, but without the $600 plus price tag, and doesn’t require the DJI Ronin RS3 Gimbal for…
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Massive Brenizer Method Portraits Made from 16 Medium Format Photos

Most portrait photographers are familiar with the Brenizer Method for creating massive “bokehramas,” but photographer Steven Schultz takes things a step further by using an entire roll of 120 film to create a single portrait. For those who may not be familiar, the Brenizer Method is a photo stacking and panorama process which involves capturing multiple images and stitching them…
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The Sigma 24mm DG DN Art lens feels sturdy and has some heft, and the focus and aperture ring had enough resistance to build confidence running around Seattle for a weekend of shooting. It didn’t take long before we were more focused on making images than fumbling with…
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Hypnotic Photos Show the Flight Paths of Birds and Bats

Lockdown Vultures (Moab Slope) Stifled by lockdown, photographer Doris Mitsch began to look up for inspiration and started photo-stacking bird flight paths with the editing sometimes taking her days to finish. “The photos take hours and hours and hours to edit. Some combine more than a thousand separate images,” Mitsch tells PetaPixel. Mitsch used a Canon 5D Mark III sometimes, and…
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