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PetaPixel Monday May 13, 2013
If you like retro, you’re going to love the PEN E-P5. But Pentax’s new flagship Micro Four Thirds PEN mirrorless camera is only old-fashioned on the outside, notes PetaPixel. Modeled
after the old Olympus PEN F SLR—Olympus is launching the new camera on the 50th anniversary of its legendary ancestor—the PEN E-P5 features 16-megapixel CMOS sensor (its ISO range is
100-25600) and 5-axis image stabilization system. The max shutter speed of 1/8000th of a second is a world’s first for compact cameras. Read the full Story >>
DP Review Friday February 7, 2020
A team of researchers with IBM
Research, MIT CSAIL and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab has launched a new online tool called GANPaint Studio that utilizes a GAN neural network and semantic brushes to add entirely new elements into existing
images, notes DP Review. “Basically, it lets you use a 'brush' and 'paint in' different stuff into your photos. But, instead of painting in simple brush strokes, this brush paints in objects
that make sense in the context of the photo. You can 'draw' trees, domes, brick-textures, doors, windows,” adds DIY Photography. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Thursday March 3, 2016
Knowing more about color theory can be a help to photographers and filmmakers in a number of ways. Now, notes DIY Photography, you can brush up on color while being entertained, thanks to a new
tutorial video from motion-graphics artist Rhea Lelina Manglapus. It starts with the basics, which is a good place to start, then packs in a lot of
valuable info with considerable style. Read the full Story >>
WIRED Tuesday February 2, 2016
More so than any kind of modern technology, digital cameras have pushed retro designs into the mainstream, notes Wired. That’s certainly the case with Olympus’s newest camera. The
retro-styled Olympus PEN-F is named after the original PEN-F, which debuted in 1963, and it features old-school looks but also plenty of modern technology aimed at today’s street shooters, notes
PDN Pulse. That includes a new 20-megapixel Live MOS sensor with no low-pass filter and 5-axis image
stabilization for up to five stops of correction. There’s also a Micro Four Thirds lens mount and a 2.36-megapixel OLED viewfinder, adds PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
SLR LOUNGE Monday December 14, 2015
Adobe has heard a lot of griping about changes made to Photoshop’s healing brush, but it’s latest update to the software, released recently, includes four different healing brushes to
choose from. SLR Lounge explains them … and how to use them. “Adobe says that ‘some customers prefer the behavior of the older healing brush algorithm,’ and the company has
published instructions on how to reactivate the original healing brushes,” adds PetaPixel. Go to Fstoppers for
more. Read the full Story >>
By
Peggy Roalf Monday October 5, 2015
This week the DART Summer Invitational,
Pimp Your Sketchbooks, resumes temporarily with a few pages of mine, while we await the next round of Q&A's. Some years ago
while I was writing a 12-book series entitled Looking at Paintings (Hyperion, 1992-1996), I spent many summer afternoons perched on a hill overlooking the lake in Central Park,
sketching. This was my summer studio (above). … Read the full Story >>
Aperture Wednesday April 29, 2015
The book Brush Fires in the Social Landscape was photographer David Wojnarowicz’s extraordinary way of addressing the AIDS crisis. The collaborative project involved cameras that were
passed among members of what Wojnarowicz called his tribe—artists, critics and other friends—the way the HIV virus moved through communities. The book was first published in 1994, two
years after Wojnarowicz’s death from AIDS. Now Aperture is publishing an expanded, 20th-anniversary edition. Art News has more. Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Friday December 1, 2017
A brush with death in a car
accident inspired photographer Cig Harvey’s new book You an Orchestra You a Bomb,
recently released by Schilt Publishing. The work will also be seen at the Robert Mann Gallery in New York on December 7. “As is her
custom, the series features Ms. Harvey’s six-year-old daughter, Scout, along with other relatives and friends. And the narrative is clearly propelled by the motivations of a mother, one
enraptured by life after a near-death experience,” notes The New York Times. Read the full Story >>
Business Insider Monday November 12, 2012
Photographers will soon be the most valuable people in the newsroom, and it won't be long before they put writers out of jobs. Why? “Because, when you're on the go, the easiest stories to
consume, create, or share aren't text based,” notes Business Insider in a provocative analysis of the Hurricane Sandy media coverage. That event was, as we’ve noted, Instagram’s big
moment. But BI notes that people increasingly want to see the news, not read it. Or as Tech Crunch puts it,
“If the pen beats the sword, the camera beats the pen.” Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Tuesday August 24, 2021
Adobe's newly announced feature update to Photoshop on desktop and iPad is “major,” declares PetaPixel. For the iPad, the Healing Brush and Magic Wand tools you know from Photoshop for Desktop have finally arrived, adds DIY Photography. Photoshop for iPad also receives a new Canvas Projection feature, which allows you to send your image to an external monitor or TV while you’re working on it. Photoshop for Desktop sees a big upgrade with the Sky Replacement tool: You can now import up to 5,000 skies at once. Read the full Story >>
TIME Tuesday April 12, 2016
Virtual reality isn’t just for gaming and journalism; it’s for art: Time magazine has explored the emerging medium with the new HTC Vive VR headset and Google’s Tilt Brush, a program
that lets users create art in a three-dimensional virtual space. Seven artists — including painter Tim O’Brien, illustrator Barry Blitt, designer Chip Kidd, sculptor Karen Caldicott, and
eighth-grade student Jade Lo — were asked to create work with the program. Hit the link to see the results. Go to Time LightBox to see how it was done. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Friday March 27, 2020
According to the latest report
from BCNRetail, Olympus ousted Nikon, Canon, Sony and Fujifulm to top the sales of mirrorless camera in Japan for the month of February, reports DIY Photography. The sales mark comes thanks to
significant sales of the Olympus PEN E-PL9, which had an 11.1-percent of market share, and the OM-D E-M10 Mark III, which had a further 5.2 percent of sales. This is the second consecutive month that
the Olympus PEN E-PL9 has topped the BCNRetail charts. The Canon EOS Kiss M (known to the rest of the world as the EOS M50) comes in at second place, followed by the Sony A6400 in third. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Monday September 26, 2016
Meanwhile, Olympus unveiled is newest entry-level mirrorless interchangeable lens camera — the PEN E-PL8 — and, as DIY Photography notes, it’s “uber-retro,” with a redesigned grip plate and new top plate. Inside you’ll find a 16MP Live MOS sensor, TruePic VII processor, and
3-axis in-body image stabilization. There’s also a 3.0-inch 1.04M-dot flip-touch LCD, and a selfie mode, if you need more selfies. In other news, Olympus shed light on its newest flagship, the
OMD E-M1 Mark II, notes PDN. Read the full Story >>
By
Peggy Roalf Wednesday July 26, 2023
Women’s Soccer “Forever” Stamp
With two World Cup titles along with Olympic gold medals to its name, the U.S. national women’s team is considered among the best in the world, and the odds-on favorite to win the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, which continues through August 20 in Australia and New Zeland. Growing up, illustrator Noah MacMillan was a devoted fan and player … Read the full Story >>
Fstoppers Monday February 17, 2014
Considering the amount of snow many parts of the country have had so far this winter, you might not feel the need to sit inside at a computer to create more. But if you want to, Fstoppers has a
tutorial on how to do it in Photoshop with a custom brush that will randomize snowflakes in different shapes, sizes, opacities, and angles. Read the full Story >>
By
Peggy Roalf Friday December 2, 2016
Q: Originally from New England, what are some of your favorite things about living and working in Brooklyn? A: I tend to say that I am from Philadelphia but in reality I was born in
Connecticut, then lived almost equally in Texas, Philly, and now Brooklyn. There is a great art scene, galleries, and museums and all that, but meh… talking to friends in their … Read the full Story >>
workphlo Friday April 17, 2020
What are you doing this
weekend? Oh, nothing much? You can brush up on shooting reflective surfaces with a new tutorial from workphlo. In it, product photographer Dustin Dolby demonstrates using a single-light setup to
create images of cutlery. Read the full Story >>
YouTube Friday January 23, 2015
Why you would want to do a boring fade to black in your compositions when you can take it one step further with a super-easy mask dissolve? Learn how to do it in a tutorial from After Effect with
Mikey at YouTube. All it takes is a bit of work with the pen tool, and the results will make your dissolves a little more unique. Read the full Story >>
By
Peggy Roalf Friday September 28, 2018
"If you're not able to sketch a man who throws himself out of the window in the time it takes him to fall from the fourth floor to the ground, you'll never be able to produce great paintings."
–Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) For artists committed to keeping a sketchbook—perhaps even more so for those who struggle in this—the current exhibitions
on Eugène Delacroix at the Metropolitan … Read the full Story >>
RED Tuesday June 25, 2013
The RED camera company’s REDucation program is packed with interesting tutorials—you can brush up on using white balance to control color casts, for
instance, or explore the creative possibilities of infrared cinematography. Where do you fall on the spectrum of filmmaking? Whether you’re a beginner of a seasoned veteran, this is a valuable
resource. Read the full Story >>
