Photography

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…

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…

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…

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…