TechCrunch Friday March 3, 2023
Best known for its editing tools, VSCO launched a social platform last year called Spaces—collaborative galleries where photographers can upload images around a theme and chat about their process. “By normal social media standards, VSCO is still downright anti-social — chat features are very limited and blissfully don’t incentivize engagement,” notes TechCrunch. But this month the company is rolling out new features for creators who want to connect, including the ability to share text-based posts in Spaces, a rare departure from VSCO’s laser focus on visual art.
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David Schonauer Friday March 3, 2023
For more than two years, Instagram has been rebranding itself as a video platform, pushing its short-form video format Reels to compete with TikTok. More recently, though, Instagram has pivoted again
to correct an over-focus on video, and that seems to have had an effect: Reels views have been sinking, while photo performance has generally improved. Meanwhile, BeReal, the photo-sharing app that
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photofocus Thursday March 2, 2023
What are the five best cameras for night photography? Looking for an answer, Photofocus recently asked ChatGPT, the chatbot from OpenAI that has been in the news this year. “As an AI language model, I do not have personal opinions or preferences,” noted the program, which nonetheless offered five models “that are often recommended for night photography based on their features and capabilities.” Different prompts resulted in different lists.
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npr Thursday March 2, 2023
“Last year, I spent my 35th birthday in Mariupol, Ukraine,” writes freelance photographer Timothy Wolfer at NPR’s “Picture Show” blog. A month after Wolfer arrived in Mariupol, the city became a target of Russia’s invasion and a deadly siege commenced. “Mariupol's defenders fought for two more months before the city fell to Russian control, with the last 1,700 Ukrainian soldiers surrendering, most of whom were hiding in the Azovstal steel plant,” Wolfer notes, calling Mariupol a “once thriving city now in ruins.”
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