The Phoblographer Monday October 9, 2023
Full-frame cameras offer big image quality, and they’re often the best buys for the price point. But, notes The Phoblographer, APS-C cameras can be handy alternatives for certain types of photography, including street photography. The smaller sensor in APS-C cameras gives you a deeper depth of field at equivalent apertures on full-frame, notes TP. For wildlife and birding, APS-C cameras give your lenses more reach as the effective field of view increases though the focal length changes.
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The Guardian Monday October 9, 2023
For his latest project, digital artist and photo restorer Stuart Humphryes employed the latest color technology to restore images taken in the early 20th century, notes PetaPixel, which calls the results “incredible.” Each image in his series “The Colors of Life” takes an average of several hours to clean up scratches and dust, repair damages, and fix light levels. Humphryes also used AI technology to enhance and sharpen the details, adds PP. It’s a new way of seeing the past, declares The Guardian.
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THE VERGE Monday October 9, 2023
Google has announced that it’s giving website publishers a way to opt out of having their data used to train the company’s AI models while remaining accessible through Google Search. The new tool, called Google-Extended, allows sites to continue to get scraped and indexed by crawlers like the Googlebot while avoiding having their data used to train AI models as they develop over time, notes The Verge. Google confirmed in July that it’s training its AI chatbot, Bard, on publicly available data scraped from the web.
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Siena International Photo Awards Monday October 9, 2023
Photojournalist Salwan Georges is the top prize winner of the 2023 Siena International Photo Awards for his image of a Ukrainian family being torn apart by war. In his photo, titled “Georgy,” the Pulitzer-Prize-winning photographer, who is on staff at The Washington Post, captured the moment when Georgy Keburia “said goodbye to his wife and children as they boarded a train to Lviv. Hands pressed against the glass, his wife's emotions are written all over her face,” notes My Modern Met, which spotlights the contest’s winners.
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