MY MODERN MET Thursday November 14, 2024
Using camera traps, Southern California-based photographer Johanna Turner shoots striking wildlife images that, notes My Modern Met, find a bridge between natural habitats and man-made environments. An avid hiker, Turner learned of camera traps during a program at a state park. After browsing through pictures with her group, she was struck by a realization. “Animals I knew lived in the places I liked to hike, but that I never got to see with my own eyes,” she says. “I bought my first trail camera that night.”
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DP Review Thursday November 14, 2024
Some ideas take a while to unfold: Early in the digital camera era, notes DP Review, there were multiple attempts to find a way to convert existing film cameras to work with the new capture technology. Most notably, there was Silicon Film, whose e-Film EFS-1 digital cartridge got to an advanced state of development before the company collapsed. But now, around a quarter of a century later, a Swiss team, funded via Kickstarter, looks like it is about to deliver on that dream, despite all the challenges. The new product is called I’m Back Film.
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Aperture Thursday November 14, 2024
Taysir Batniji’s book Disruptions, a compilation of pixelated screenshots from WhatsApp video calls to his family in Gaza taken between April 2015 and June 2017, is the winner of the Photobook of the Year prize in the 2024 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards. The First Photobook Prize goes to Tsai Ting Bang’s Born from the Same Root, which judges called a “moving portrait of the artist’s older brother, Hsien, that reflects upon their shared family trauma.” This year awards received 940 books from fifty-nine countries, notes Aperture.
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PetaPixel Thursday November 14, 2024
When Adobe debuted the Firefly-powered Generative Remove tool in Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw in May as a beta feature, it worked well much of the time. However, notes PetaPixel, Generative Remove, now officially out of its beta period, has confusingly gotten worse in some situations. Some users have found that generative AI tools in Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom, and Photoshop have taken steps backward, and PP‘s testing has corroborated the complaints.
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