About a month after OpenAI announced DALL-E 2, an AI system that creates images from text, Google has dived into the arena with its own text-to-image diffusion model, Imagen. Google's results are extremely, perhaps even scarily, impressive, outpacing DALL-E2, notes DP Review. Will the technology be used for both good and evil? PPD’s Magic 8 Ball says, “You may rely on it.” Read the full Story >>
Ellen Carey spent the summer of 1988 in her darkroom attempting to answer a question that had been bugging her: “What is an abstract photograph?” Then, one day, she developed a photo with nothing in it—a gradient, going from white on the left to black on the right. “It was all about light,” she says. Since then, notes Art News, Carey has pushed the limits of what could be done with photographic equipment and materials, most recently with a series called “finitograms,” now on view in Paris. Read the full Story >>
British LED lighting manufacturer Rotolight has unveiled what it calls the world’s first electronic “SmartSoftBox,” notes DIY Photography. The device is a diffuser attachment for the company’s AEOS 2 LED lights allowing users to vary the degree of diffusion produced by controlling an electric current passing across its surface. The SmartSoft Box diffuser uses Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals sandwiched between two conductive plastic transparent electrode layers on its front panel to alter the translucence of the glass from completely clear and see-through to heavily frosted, adds DP Review. Read the full Story >>
Amid the roar of artillery and bone-rattling explosions, photographers have borne witness to Ukraine’s the fight to survive. Now The New York Times tells the stories of several photographers who have been covering the war for the newspaper — Lynsey Addario, Finbarr O’Reilly and Ivor Prickett. They have joined civilians whose homes, families and emotions have been shattered, as well as Ukrainian soldiers — hardened veterans and green volunteers — using tools as modern as surveillance drones and as ancient as trenches, notes The Times. Read the full Story >>
