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NanoAvionics captured the first-ever 4K resolution full satellite selfie in space.

NanoAvionics, a small satellite mission integrator company with more than 110 successful satellite missions and commercial products to its name, has captured the first-ever 4K resolution full satellite selfie in space. NanoAvionics didn’t use a fancy, high-tech camera to achieve the feat, either. The company used an off-the-shelf consumer camera, the GoPro Hero 7, mounted on a selfie stick…
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These Ultra-Detailed Photos of Ants Will Give You Nightmares

Joshua Coogler uses a Laowa 25mm Ultra Macro lens to capture sinister close-up pictures of ants. The macro portraits, which look like Halloween masks, were taken on Coogler’s Nikon D7500 using a macro rail that moves the camera in tiny increments, taking a photo as it goes. “I have to take anywhere from 30 to over 300 photographs to get one final image,” Coogler tells PetaPixel. “This is…
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‘The Bézier Game’ Will Improve Your Photoshop Pen Tool Skills

The Bézier Game aims to improve Photoshop users’ skills with the pen tool, a notoriously difficult implement to master for photo editors. The game is on the website Method of Action, and it’s a free tool designed to help Photoshop and Illustrator users to understand how the bézier curve works. Many Adobe program users will have been baffled by the pen tool and how it is able to…
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Netflix Reveals the Logic Behind its ‘Approved Cameras’

Not just any camera can be used to capture content that is designed to be streamed on Netflix, and many do not have a firm grasp of why these particular cameras were selected. Netflix is finally shedding a bit of light on what makes a camera “approved.” In a new video published on Netflix’s Production Technology Video Resources YouTube channel, the company’s camera systems specialist Kris…
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