Close-Up Photographer of the Year Tuesday November 5, 2024
The shortlist for Close-Up Photographer of the Year has been revealed, with nominated entries across 11 categories including Animals, Insects, Butterflies and Dragonflies, Arachnids, Invertebrate Portrait, Underwater, Intimate Landscape, Plants, Fungi, Studio Art, and Young. Judges looked at some 11,000 entries to arrive at the shortlist. Among the selected works: Jay Birmingham’s image “Demoiselles At Dawn,” which is shortlisted in the Butterflies and Dragonflies category.
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VentureBeat Tuesday November 5, 2024
Midjourney, the hit AI image generation, has unveiled a new AI image editing feature, notes Venture Beat. With the new “Edit” feature, users can upload any image of their choosing and actually edit sections of it with AI, or change the style and texture of it from the source to something totally different, such as turning a vintage photograph into anime, while preserving most of the image’s subjects and objects and spatial relationships. The Midjourney Image Editor appears to be restricted to its latest AI model, Midjourney 6.1, adds VB.
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David Schonauer Tuesday November 5, 2024
Collectors prize so-called "hidden mother photographs"--19th-century images in which young children are seen being held still by half-obscured adults who crouch behind chairs or lurk at the margins of
pictures. Eager resellers of such flea-market finds advertise hidden mother photographs using terms like "spooky wonderful," "cutie creepy" and "bizarre." But Andrea Kaston Tange, an English
professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., and … Read the full Story >>
AnOther Monday November 4, 2024
In polite society, wetness is usually considered to be a problem. But, notes AnOther, photographer Polly Brown doesn’t think along those lines. “Personally, I don’t have a problem with it,” says Brown, “but I know some people dislike the word ‘moist’ intensely.” Brown’s new series, titled “Wet,” explores the nature of wetness in a variety of forms. Its starting point, adds Another, “was a wet city summer, and that moment in late adolescence when long, damp days hanging out with friends are so commonplace.”
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