The Washington Post Thursday January 4, 2024
Between the two of them, John McDonnell and Bill O’Leary have a combined 85 years of shooting photographs for The Washington Post, and with their retirement at the end of 2023, they leave a legacy “rich in images of the nation’s capital as well as the country,” notes the newspaper. (Exactly how many images they published is impossible to figure; The Post’s online archives mostly represent the digital era, and McDonnell, who started in 1978, and O’Leary, who began in 1984, were shooting film long before that.) The pair look back at some of their memorable pictures.
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PetaPixel Thursday January 4, 2024
It’s likely that 2024 will see the major camera makers — including Nikon, Canon and Sony — roll out content authenticity features in some capacity, likely focused on the high-end and professional-level cameras, notes PetaPixel. As of now, only Leica has released a camera that has the CAI’s digital signature system in place. Sony already announced that it would bring the technology to the upcoming a9 III as well as the Alpha 1 and a7S III. The Content Authenticity Initiative’s (CAI) C2PA digital signature system verifies a photograph’s provenance.
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David Schonauer Thursday January 4, 2024
It's no secret that generative AI is trained on imagery made by actual humans. That has alarmed many artists and writers, who say AI models like Stable Diffusion are unethically using their work by
"scraping" images from across the internet. Over the past weekend, though, the scale of the issue became more apparent with the release of a database that allegedly contains a list … Read the full Story >>
Medum Wednesday January 3, 2024
Smartphone computational photography and the stunningly high ISO performance of modern mirrorless cameras have overshadowed flash photography. But, writes photographer Derrick Story at Medium, it’s time for a flash comeback. Flash, he writes, “can be a photographer’s illuminating companion. It can help offset strong backlighting, open up murky shadows, and add a twinkle to a pair of pretty green eyes.”
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