Vital Impacts Monday December 23, 2024
The Vital Impacts print sale is on now, featuring 100 works from photographers such as Nick Brandt, Jim Naughten, Brian Skerry, Cristina Mittermeier, and Ami Vitale, founder of Vital Impacts, which uses visual storytelling to support conservation efforts. Sixty percent of profits from all this year’s sales will support indigenous communities of the Amazon through COICA, an organization that acts on behalf of 511 Indigenous Peoples, and organizations dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the monarch butterfly. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Monday December 23, 2024
Canon joined the growing number of camera manufacturers making custom cropping guides available to high-volume photographers, such as school portrait photographers. Like others, Canon is charging an upgrade fee for using custom gridlines. However, notes PetaPixel, Canon is the first to require a camera to be sent to a service center for the upgrade. Custom gridlines are helpful for volume photographers because they make it easy to compose images with consistent framing over and over, even when working with different people.
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David Schonauer Monday December 23, 2024
Did 2024 really happen, or was it just an AI-induced fantasy manifested on social media? It's probably not a good sign that the Oxford University Press has declared that "brain rot" is the word of the
year. Over the past 12 months PPD has certainly spotlighted stories related to artificial intelligence--technology that is only beginning to change the way everyone lives and works, including, … Read the full Story >>
TRIB Live Friday December 20, 2024
We noted recently that the archive of acclaimed Pittsburgh photographer Charles 'Teenie' Harris is being given fancier space at the Carnegie Museum of Art, which acquired the work in 2001. Now Trib Live notes Harris’s longtime home will be preserved after the Pittsburgh Land Bank purchased the property. The goal is for the Homewood house to be restored and converted into a museum and educational space, said Matthew Falcone, who heads Preservation Pittsburgh, a group that has been working with Harris’ family to preserve the site.
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