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An underwater photographer has shot a series of images featuring the stars of Avatar: The Way of Water to raise funds to help conserve the world's oceans. [Read More] petapixel.com »
A striking new Hubble image shows NGC 2210, a marvelous globular cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The ancient cluster is 11.6 billion years old and a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, meaning that NGC 2210 is gravitationally bound to Earth's galactic home. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Lots of folks know them as star filters. That's essentially what the Tiffen Cross Screen filter is. It does the equivalent of putting a really wide mesh across your lens while also using a piece of glass to soften the image overall. thephoblographer.com »
Nothing eases the stress-induced tension in my shoulders like staring at the night sky. Perhaps it’s the silence that can only be found while most of the world is sleeping. Or perhaps it’s the sheer size of the Milky Way that makes the day-to-day hurdles feel a little less significant. thephoblographer.com »
The myth goes something along the lines of saying that the stars above NYC aren't visible. But that couldn't be further from the truth -- and more importantly, you can totally photograph stars over NYC. thephoblographer.com »
A photographer has used artificial intelligence (AI) to show what celebrities like Princess Diana, Kurt Cobain, and John Lennon would look like if they were still alive today. [Read More] petapixel.com »
An algorithm that was originally developed to map the stars is also used to track whale sharks for the sake of conservation efforts. [Read More] petapixel.com »
Philippe Halsman was born in Riga, Latvia, on May 2, 1906. He discovered an old view camera in the family attic when he was fifteen, bought some glass plates, and started making photographs. petapixel.com »
Julien's Auctions has announced the coming availability of the "FU Rock 'n' Roll Portraits" series by Neil Zlozower that will offer a large number of signed portraits of rock music legends flipping the bird directly into the camera. [Read More] petapixel.com »
NASA has announced that Hubble has 'established an extraordinary new benchmark' by spotting the farthest star ever seen. The star, named Earendel, existed within the first billion years following the big bang. dpreview.com »
Lead image and all other images courtesy of ESO The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope has discovered a new star in the night sky. Astronomers have photographed a planet orbiting b Centauri, a two-star system that you can see with the naked eye. dpreview.com »
Have you tried the Fujifilm XT4? It’s pretty awesome! In fact, we gave it five out of five stars! Fujifilm has some great discounts available on both lenses and camera bodies. In fact, there are a lot of very stellar camera bodies available right now until December 26th that you’ll want to check out. Better thephoblographer.com »
Tati Bruening is a photographer who has found wild success in the unusual niche of photographing TikTok’s biggest celebrities. Bruening, known as Illumitati, has garnered 157,000 followers on Instagram and 900,000 on TikTok, and she has even signed with a talent management firm this month. petapixel.com »
Olga Shirinina has colorized portraits of the Romanov family, personalities of the Russian Revolution, and the heroes of the 2nd. World War. Now it's the turn for the stars of the Hollywood Golden Age. boredpanda.com »
Singapore is known to be the most light-polluted city on Earth, so it’s not exactly the go-to destination for astrophotography. But there are talented astrophotographers working on the island city-state, and this 3-minute documentary titled “Galactic Paint” is about one of them. petapixel.com »
For his latest piece, titled “Stellantis,” surreal photography artist Erik Johansson set out to create a photo of someone stealing stars from the night sky. “I thought it would be nice if [it were] done with the help of an everyday object that we all can relate to,” Johansson writes. He eventually settled on the […] petapixel.com »
The moment I had been waiting for finally arrived exactly 49 days after I got my Huawei P30 Pro. This is one of my final tests for the phone after shooting the Milky Way handheld and a meter. So what’s the big deal about this test? Because photographing the Milky Way in Singapore with a […] petapixel.com »
Before we get started, it’s essential to understand that astrophotography takes time and practice in order to achieve good results, so don’t get frustrated if you don’t nail it on the first go. petapixel.com »
The European Space Agency (ESA) Gaia mission has released a new star map of the Milky Way, giving us the most detailed view of our galaxy to date. Launched in December 2013 from Kourou, French Guiana, the mission of the Gaia space observatory is to create the largest and most detailed 3D space catalog in existence. dpreview.com »
Doing a set of Starwars lightsaber pictures under billion of stars has always been my childhood dream, and I finally got a chance of recreating it during my latest trip to the largest salt flat on earth, Salar de Uyuni. It was definitely my best night ever in my life. boredpanda.com »
Here’s a 24-minute tutorial by photographer Ian Norman of Lonely Speck that looks at how you can stack and stitch panoramas of the night sky. Norman says these are his two favorite techniques for maximizing the image quality of astrophotos. petapixel.com »
Dpreview noticed that the new A7rIII is indeed “eating” fewer stars than the previous A7rII: The Mark III does show an improvement: there are stars that aren’t there in the Mark II shot, and there’s generally more ‘pop’ to the stars. sonyalpharumors.com »
We sent some files to our friend Jim Kasson for analysis, and he confirms that the Sony a7R III is definitely still a Star Eater, despite several claims to the contrary that have been published online over the past week. dpreview.com »
We sent some files to our friend Jim Kasson for analysis, and he confirms that the Sony a7R III is definitely still a Star Eater, despite several claims to the contrary that have been published online over the past week. dpreview.com »
Jim Kasson analyzed the A7rIII spatial filtering and found out that is “behaves” the same way it does on the A7rII. So his conclusion is that the A7rIII also eat stars. This statement goes against the findings from Drew Geraci who said last week: “Very Excited to share this side by side comparison of the […] The post Jim Kasson says the Sony a7RIII still eats stars appeared first on sonyalpharumors. sonyalpharumors.com »
I usually do not talk much and hardly at all because my language is photos, not words and marketing... boredpanda.com »
If you point your camera at the sky and film, the stars will arc overhead. That’s because your camera is attached to a giant spinning orb called Earth. This interesting 24 hour time-lapse from YouTuber AlphaPhoenix stabilises the stars by spinning the footage in the opposite direction to Earth’s rotation. AlphaPhoenix shot the time-lapse over […] petapixel.com »
Sony recently released firmware v.4.0 for its a7S II and a7R II mirrorless cameras. The announcement that this firmware version “Improves image quality when Long Exposure NR setting is off” raised hopes for many photographers that Sony had at last addressed the issues caused by their automatic smoothing of all exposures of 4 seconds or […] petapixel.com »
Shooting the night sky can produce amazing images of endless starry skies, but it can be challenging to those used to working with plenty of light. This 15-minute beginner’s guide from Josh Katz teaches the key elements of astrophotography, and how to capture the sky even in sub-optimal conditions. Katz explains the equipment that you […] petapixel.com »
The Leica SL mirrorless camera has played an important role in NASA space mission.
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