The Daily PetaPixel for 09/16/2022

The top news from the world of photography. [View this email in your browser]( Enter PetaPixel's Wildlife Photo Contest: [Wild Personalities]( Grand Prize Winner receives an OM SYSTEM OM-1 Camera Kit and a Trip to the Galapagos with Lindblad Expeditions! [PetaPixel Homepage]( Presented by Datacolor New Product Alert! Datacolor Spyder Checkr Photo’s ultra-matte finish ensures the truest color rendition in any lighting condition, for accurate results and refined detail. [Learn More]( [Topaz Photo AI Combines All its Image Tools into One Automatic Photo Editor]( By Jaron Schneider on Sep 15, 2022 04:00 pm [Topaz Photo AI]( Topaz Labs has announced a new program called Topaz Photo AI, a program that it says combines all its best image tools to automatically detect and fix image quality issues using deep learning. [[Read More]( [Model Enraged by People Walking into Her Shot is Ridiculed by Social Media]( By Pesala Bandara on Sep 15, 2022 03:05 pm [annoyed influencer]( A video of a model becoming frustrated with people getting in the way of her shot in a busy train station has sparked a furious debate on social media regarding photoshoots in public places. [[Read More]( [Snapchat for Web is Now Available to All Users Worldwide]( By Pesala Bandara on Sep 15, 2022 02:35 pm [Snapchat for Web]( Snapchat is making the desktop version of its app, Snapchat for Web, available to all users worldwide. [[Read More]( [A Last Photo of Comet Leonard Wins Astronomy Photographer of the Year]( By Jaron Schneider on Sep 15, 2022 02:29 pm [Astronomy Photographer of the Year]( The Royal Observatory Greenwich has announced the Astronomy Photographer of the Year winners for 2022, the 14th edition of the competition. The winning image this year is a photo of Comet Leonard, a subject that will never been seen from Earth again. [[Read More]( [Walmart Now Lets You Use Your Own Photos For Virtual Clothes Fitting]( By David Crewe on Sep 15, 2022 02:00 pm [Walmart lets you use your own photos for virtual clothes fitting]( Walmart has announced a "leveled up" virtual fitting room that lets customers use their own photos to virtually try on clothing, effectively letting users be their own models. [[Read More]( [Hubble Captures Optical Illusion of Two Spiral Galaxies ‘Colliding’]( By Matt Growcoot on Sep 15, 2022 01:47 pm Two spiral galaxies were photographed "colliding" into one another by the Hubble Space Telescope but the image is actually a celestial optical illusion. [[Read More]( [Cosina Adds Two More Z-Mount Primes: 40mm f/1.2 and 35mm f/2]( By Jaron Schneider on Sep 15, 2022 01:13 pm [40mm f/1.2 and 35mm f/2]( Cosina has announced that two more Voigtlander prime lenses are being made available for Nikon Z-mount cameras: a Nokton 40mm f/1.2 Aspherical and a Macro APO-Ultron D35mm f/2, which brings the total collection of officially licensed lenses to six optics. [[Read More]( [3 Film Hacks to Expand Your Photo Creativity]( By Leigh Diprose on Sep 15, 2022 01:05 pm The resurgence of interest in film photography is astonishing. Newcomers revel in the challenge of having only a limited number of photos per roll. They enjoy the suspense of waiting a lengthy period for the film to be processed before they see whether their photos have turned out. [[Read More]( [Adobe Buys Design Platform Figma for $20 Billion]( By Jaron Schneider on Sep 15, 2022 12:41 pm [Adobe and Figma]( Adobe has announced it has purchased Figma, a popular design platform and Adobe XD competitor, for $20 billion in cash and stock. The company says the merger will "usher in a new era of collaborative creativity." [[Read More]( [This Limited Edition Toilet Paper Comes Wrapped in Beautiful Nature Photography]( By Matt Growcoot on Sep 15, 2022 12:38 pm [toiletrollfeature]( The Who Gives a Crap toilet paper company has come up with a novel way of displaying nature photography. [[Read More]( [Photographing a State of Grief]( By Simon King on Sep 15, 2022 12:25 pm The broad strokes of an emotion can be fairly simple to translate into visual communication. A smile for joy, a tear for sadness, bared teeth for anger, wide eyes for fear. Nuance however is always present, the experience and expression of complex emotions are not always as straightforward. [[Read More]( [How Car Commercials Can Be Shot Without the Car]( By Jaron Schneider on Sep 15, 2022 12:12 pm [360 car commercial render]( Thanks to the power of high-resolution 360-degree cameras and 3D compositing technology, production companies can produce full commercials for new cars before any model ever makes it off the line. [[Read More]( [TikTok Rolls Out BeReal Clone Called TikTok Now]( By Pesala Bandara on Sep 15, 2022 11:36 am [tiktoknow]( TikTok has become the latest app to launch a dual camera feature that copies the photo-sharing app BeReal. [[Read More]( [Cyberlink Positions its PowerDirector Suite as an Alternative to Adobe]( By David Crewe and David Schloss on Sep 15, 2022 10:54 am CyberLink has announced an update to PowerDirector, its multimedia editing suite, that it says brings even more artificial intelligence (AI) assisted tools and templates, making it easier for creatives to access advanced editing. [[Read More]( [Leica Redesigns and Improves the Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH Lens]( By Jaron Schneider on Sep 15, 2022 10:33 am [Leica Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH]( Leica has announced that it has redesigned the Summilux-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH lens in several ways to make what it says is one of the most versatile M lenses even more flexible. [[Read More]( [Photography Website Bans AI-Generated Images From its Platform]( By Matt Growcoot on Sep 15, 2022 10:21 am [robophotographer]( A photography portfolio website has taken a proactive stance against artificially intelligent (AI) generated images by banning them from its platform. [[Read More]( [Three NASA Telescopes Combined to Capture a 670-Year-Old Supernova]( By Matt Growcoot on Sep 15, 2022 10:00 am [supernova]( A team of astronomers used three NASA space telescopes to create a composite image of the remains of a supernova that reveals details about the star's death. 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