PC Mag Tuesday November 19, 2024
Getty Images has introduced new AI photo editing tools that allow customers to create what it calls “professional-grade product imagery and creative visuals with unparalleled control and precision, saving time and costs in their marketing and advertising.” The new capabilities are available on Getty’s two generative AI platforms, Generative AI by Getty Images and Generative AI by iStock, notes PC Mag. A new Product Placement tool lets customers upload their own product photos and essentially remix them in any way, shape, or form, notes PetaPixel.
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We Present Tuesday November 19, 2024
Over the last decade, photographer Sophie Stafford has documented the World Nomad Games twice—first in 2018 in rural Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, and most recently in the bustling metropolis of Astana, Kazakhstan. While the spectacle of the games and its ancient competitions, including horseback archery, bone tossing and hunting with eagles, continue to capture the imagination of audiences, Stafford’s “poetic images,” notes We Present, “are more concerned with the subtle cues that trace our changing world.”
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PetaPixel Tuesday November 19, 2024
Nikon has announced that it is developing its first-ever, full-frame, video-centric lens—the Nikkor Z 28-135mm f/4 PZ. The move, notes PetaPixel, signifies a continued shift in the company’s direction first marked by the video features of the Z9 and then later via its acquisition of RED Cinema earlier this year. Camera historians might note that Nikon once produced “cinema” optics for C-mount, but, adds PP, until now, the company focused its efforts on making “photography first hybrid lenses." The Nikkor Z 28-135mm f/4 PZ lens changes that.
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David Schonauer Tuesday November 19, 2024
Beginning in 1864, some 45,000 Union soldiers were sent to Camp Sumter, the prisoner of war camp in southwest Georgia better known as Andersonville. By the time the notorious camp closed in May of
1865, following the Confederacy's defeat, close to 13,000 prisoners had died, primarily from disease, malnutrition, and exposure. Artifacts collected at the camp--cups, buckets, tin baking dishes and
more--were put on … Read the full Story >>
