Andy Hutchinson Tuesday December 31, 2024
Platforms that lend themselves well to sharing photography are thin on the ground these days, notes YouTuber Andy Hutchinson: Instagram has became a video-first platform and Elon Musk’s X/Twitter has become a landscape of political extremism from which users have fled. In recent months the microblogging platform Bluesky has been surging, and Hutchinson explores the sight while explaining why photographers should think about climbing on the bandwagon. Reason number one: Bluesky is a relatively friendly space.
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KSDK Tuesday December 31, 2024
Taka Yanagimoto is used to taking pictures Cardinals with a capital C, which was not the kind he photographed in his back yard recently. Yanagimoto, who is director of photography and digital assets for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, captured images of a northern cardinal with an extremely rare genetic mutation: Instead of being red, it was bright yellow, notes KSDK. ”This mutation only affects an estimated one in a million birds, so seeing a yellow cardinal is truly a once-in-a-lifetime event," notes the Audubon Society.
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tech radar Tuesday December 31, 2024
While Gen Z has embraced point-and-shoot cameras from the past, manufacturers have mostly stopped making new models. Apparently Panasonic sees an opening: The company’s newly announced ZS99 (known as the TZ99 in some regions), a successor to the ZS80 and ZS80D, has a Leica lens with a 30x optical zoom—a 24-720mm range that's way more versatile than your smartphone, notes Tech Radar—and shoots 20MP photos and 4K video. The pocketable camera weighs just 11.35oz and features a 1.84m-dot tilt touchscreen, plus a new quick-send image button for smartphone uploads.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation Tuesday December 31, 2024
When Russia's invasion of Ukraine stymied his travel plans, Belgian documentary photographer Carl De Keyzer decided to try something new. De Keyzer, who travelled to Russia 12 times in the late 1980s to photograph the death throes of the Soviet Union, began to work on a collection of images about Russia with the help of generative artificial intelligence. In November he collected the work in his book Putin’s Dream, He was unprepared for the consequences, notes the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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