DP Review Wednesday October 30, 2024
Among the interesting new tools announced at Adobe’s recent Max conference is Generative Extend, which is coming to Premiere Pro beta. Powered by Firefly. Generative Extend allows users to extend clips to cover gaps in footage, smooth out transitions or hold shots longer than you filmed. The Adobe Firefly Video Model, teased last month, has now also moved into public beta, notes DIY Photography. (Though it’s a public beta, you’ll need to sign up and join a waitlist.) Firefly Video can generate footage based on text prompts, adds DP Review.
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E! News Wednesday October 30, 2024
Professional photographer Amanda Gallagher of Wichita, Kan., died Oct. 26 at Air Capital Drop Zone, a skydiving company in Derby, Kan., when she backed into an active plane propeller while taking pictures, reports E! News. She was 37. “After the airplane landed, for unknown reasons, as the next group of jumpers were boarding, she moved in front of the wing, a violation of basic safety procedures,” noted the skydiving company in a statement. A GoFundMe page was launched to gather donations for Gallagher’s funeral expenses.
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David Schonauer Wednesday October 30, 2024
"If the American poor, numbering about 40 million at the time of this writing, started their own country, they would form the 37th-largest nation in the world, bigger than Canada." So notes Magnum
photographer Matt Black in his forthcoming book, "American Artifacts." Beginning in 2014, Black spent six years traveling over 100,000 miles across 46 states to designated "poverty areas" (places with
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James Popsys Tuesday October 29, 2024
When it comes to photographing landscapes of the English countryside—or any landscape for that matter—the only “true” focal length is 43mm, declares YouTuber James Popsys in a new video. When using a 43mm lens, the magnification matches what we perceive with our own eyes, he notes. “That doesn’t mean the field of view is identical to human vision—our eyes are complex, and trying to replicate their full field of view is tricky. However, 43mm, or anywhere from 40 to 50mm, gives a similar sense of scale,” adds Fstoppers.
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