Lots of people want to photograph birds, and lots of those people want to get better at photographing birds. Photographer and YouTuber Matt Kloskowski shows you how he shot and edited a photo of an eagle, from gear and camera settings to Photoshop tricks. Don’t be afraid to push up the ISO to get the fast shutter speed you need, he notes. See also: Fstoppers. Read the full Story >>
For $29.99 a month, the website PimEyes offers “a potentially dangerous superpower from the world of science fiction,” notes The New York Times. The site allows people to search for a face, finding obscure photos from the vastness of the internet. Unlike Clearview AI, a similar facial recognition tool available only to law enforcement, PimEyes does not include results from social media sites. Instead it finds images from news articles, wedding photography pages, review sites, blogs and pornography sites. It’s fast and alarmingly accurate, adds The Times. Read the full Story >>
Traditional venue photography providers like DEI Global, Magic Memories, Picsolve and Sharingbox are reliant on fixed equipment, permanent staffing costs and on-site printed products. So the Amsterdam-based company Smiler came up with a different approach, notes TechCrunch. Freelance photographers can simply use the platform to roam around events, selling event photography formally attached to the venue and allowing customers to buy photos there or later online. Smiler has now raised $8 million in seed funding. Read the full Story >>
Thousands of photographs of detained Uyghurs are among a huge cache of data hacked from police computer servers in the region. The Xinjiang Police Files, as they’re being called, were passed to the BBC earlier this year. They are now being displayed online “to offer significant new insights into the internment of the region’s Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities,” notes the BBC. The cache reveals China’s use of “re-education” camps and formal prisons for Uyghurs and “seriously calls into question” China’s public narrative about both. Read the full Story >>
