DIYPhotography Wednesday March 5, 2025
With the advent of remote telescope services, individual astrophotographers can capture stunning night sky images with high-quality telescopes located in dark-sky locations across the globe. They allow you to book imaging time, control telescopes remotely, and collect data for your astrophotography projects, notes DIY Photography, which spotlights five of the services. They range from iTelescope.Net, which caters to all levels of photographers, to Chilescope, a high-end remote telescope service located in the Chilean Andes.
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MY MODERN MET Wednesday March 5, 2025
With her “Out My Window” series, photographer Gail Albert Halaban peeks into the private lives of people living in city apartment around the world, as seen through windows at night. But while the work is certainly voyeuristic in nature, it’s far from it in practice, notes My Modern Met. Albert Halaban closely collaborates with apartment residents, seeking their permission and participation in staging the images she’ll ultimately photograph. Selections from the series are on view at Galerie XII in Los Angeles through April 26.
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MSN Wednesday March 5, 2025
Google and Scandinavian publisher Bonnier News have published research showing that artificial intelligence-generated images are proving more popular than real photographs, notes the German news service DPA (via MSN). After teaming up to develop a product called BonsAI, Bonnier and the Google News Initiative found in tests that the imagery it churns out usually gets higher click-through rates than actual photos. The Google-Bonnier tie-up follows the rapid uptake of AI by some news organizations, adds DPA.
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Reuters Wednesday March 5, 2025
Meta is exploring the idea of spinning off Instagram Reels as a standalone app: Instagram head Adam Mosseri told recently told staff about the potential change, reporters Reuters. “From the outside, the move makes some sense, especially as primary Reels-competitor TikTok’s status in the United States remains uncertain,” notes PetaPixel, adding that it remains unclear if a separate Reels app would mean that Reels is no longer directly integrated into Instagram.
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