engadget Tuesday December 21, 2021
After more than five years, Instagram plans to bring back “a version” of its chronological feed next year, the company has announced. Launching an option for a chronological feed would be a major reversal for the photo sharing app, which has consistently defended its algorithmic feed despite persistent complaints and conspiracy theories from users about how their posts are ranked, declares Engadget. In 2018, the app tested a feature that would allow you to see new posts first, but it didn’t become a part of the app globally, notes DIY Photography. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday December 20, 2021
Instagram has listened to reason, and yielded to pressure. In what the American Society of Media Photographers calls a "big win for photographers and visual creators," the company has added an option
allowing users to prevent others from embedding content they post to the app. The move comes after a concerted effort by the ASMP and the National Press Photographers Association pushing Instagram to … Read the full Story >>
nofilmschool Monday December 20, 2021
If you'd like a perfect illustration of just how wild this world of hybrid digital and analog filmmaking has truly become, you have to only look at director Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster Dune, notes NoFilmSchool. The film was shot with a digital camera (the Arri Alexa LF) and then transferred to 35mm film, which was then scanned to digital. Read the full Story >>
Treehugger Monday December 20, 2021
Photographer Drew Doggett got his professional start in New York City as an apprentice to fashion and celebrity photographers like Steven Klein and Annie Leibovitz. But he wanted something else, and, notes Treehugger, he found it on a trip to the Himalayas in 2009. After photographing the Humla people of Nepal, Doggett shifted his career focus and began creating portraits of people, animals, and places around the world. His recent series “Exceptional Creatures” is a celebration of all that is wild and free in East Africa, he says. Read the full Story >>
