Fujifilm found itself in the middle of a heated debate about ethics and street photography yesterday, when one of the promo videos it released for the Fuji X100V sparked outrage among a certain segment of the company's fans on YouTube. The video has since been taken down.
Following hot on the heels of Instagram's new (and at times controversial) "False Information" warning, Twitter has just announced its own policy around labeling and warning users about photos and videos that have been "deceptively altered" and manipulated.
Ricoh today unveiled its latest "ultra-rugged" compact camera: the WG-70. The camera features a few usability improvements over its predecessor, the WG-60, but remains largely unchanged in terms of the design and core feature set.
A group of aurora enthusiasts in Finland have discovered a new kind of aurora that scientists had never noticed or classified before. It's called "the dunes," and it's being hailed as a boon to scientific research about a mysterious layer of Earth’s atmosphere.
The US Department of Defense is reportedly spending millions on a special "Drone Hunter" system that uses an AI-enabled interceptor drone to catch other, illegal drones by chasing them down and shooting them with a large net... Spider-Man style.
Conversations around photographic style have always felt a little odd to me for a few reasons. It’s something I get asked about a lot by my students, as they feel that without a style, a visual signature, then they will find it very difficult to differentiate themselves from other working artists.
Lightroom and Photoshop are designed to work hand-in-hand, so you can easily pass photos between the two programs while you're working with them. Photography instructor Phil Steele of Steele Training made this beginner's 17-minute tutorial on doing "round trips" (and even "nested round trips") with photos between Lightroom and Photoshop.
YouTuber Denis Shiryaev used publicly available AI-based technology to take a grainy, low-resolution short film from the year 1896 and upscale it all the way to 4K and 60 fps. The results, while not perfect, are downright astonishing.
The Alphabet company Jigsaw—formerly known as Google Ideas—has released a free tool called Assembler that was designed to help journalists identify manipulated imagery, no matter how sophisticated the trickery might be.
