DIYPhotography Monday June 2, 2025
It’s another month of opportunities for night-sky photographers, notes DIY Photography: the sixth full moon of 2025, aka the strawberry moon, will appear on June 11. And on the early morning of June 23 a crescent moon will come close to Pleiades, an open star cluster located in the constellation Taurus, The event can be captured with a wide or mid-telephoto lens (50mm – 135mm) along with the landscape while these two rise in the eastern sky, adds DIYP. Or you wait for a few minutes and let the scene rise in the sky and then use a telephoto lens (200mm – 600mm) to isolate both objects. Oh, and there may be some auroras to experience.
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CNBC Monday June 2, 2025
Getty Images is spending “millions and millions of dollars” on its legal case against Stability AI, Getty’s CEO Craig Peters tells CNBC. Getty is suing Stability AI, which is behind popular text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, in both the U.K. and U.S. over allegations that it copied 12 million images without permission or compensation. AI firms are taking copyrighted material to develop their powerful AI models under the guise of innovation and then “just turning those services right back on existing commercial markets,” Peters says.
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PetaPixel Monday June 2, 2025
Google and Skylum have partnered to bring Luminar photo editing software to Android and ChromeOS, notes PetaPixel, meaning the AI-powered editing tools will be available for mobile and Chromebook users. Skylum has worked to ensure its software’s user interface and the overall user experience are suited to each compatible device, whether a phone, tablet, Chromebook, or even foldable device: Luminar dynamically adjusts to different screen sizes and aspect ratios.
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AnOther Monday June 2, 2025
London’s Webber Gallery is taking a decidedly tactile approach to celebrate the wondrous Polaroid image in the exhibition “Polaroids, Small Prints and Ephemera" (on view through June 26). The group show, with photos from Daniel Arnold, Mario Sorrenti, Laura Jane Coulson, Jerry Hsu, Mike Brody, Irina Rozovsky and others, “aims to recontextualise the photograph as more than just an image, offering it up as a physical object that deserves to be contemplated in person,” notes AnOther.
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