The Curious Case of Japan’s First Pro Photographer Who Literally Buried His Legacy
The BBC is shining a light on the story of Ukai Gyokusen, Japan’s first professional photographer, who buried his glass negatives, nearly erasing his legacy.
The BBC is shining a light on the story of Ukai Gyokusen, Japan’s first professional photographer, who buried his glass negatives, nearly erasing his legacy.
Each year, my photographic instrumentation students build very simple focus stacking systems. After several years, I decided to construct a more advanced version that could move a stepper-motor-driven stage to precise positions, automatically collect a series of images, and then manually use a stacking program for combination into a single high-depth-of-field image.
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This week on the PetaPixel Podcast, Jordan Drake and I are without Chris Niccolls who is on assignment in Japan. That's okay though, because this past week was huge in the video and broadcasting space with the launch of the Canon C50 and the Nikon ZR.
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Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy used a specially designed solar telescope attached to an astronomy camera to capture a unique image of a SpaceX rocket blasting off into orbit in front of the Sun.
To mark its 100th anniversary, The New Yorker magazine commissioned six photographers to reimagine its historical illustrated covers as photographs.
They said AI wouldn't come for wedding photographers, but a new trend driven by Google's Gemini image generator sees couples create fantastical pre-wedding pictures, without going anywhere.
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An Airbnb guest says he was fined $10,000 for taking a selfie inside the viral Invisible House in Joshua Tree, California.
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