The Daily PetaPixel for 03/15/2024

The top news from the world of photography. [View this email in your browser]( [PetaPixel Homepage]( [Nikon’s Z7 II is Very Discounted Right Now and So Are OM System Lenses]( By Abby Ferguson on Mar 14, 2024 05:12 pm [The Nikon Z7 II camera body sits in front of a green to yellow gradient.]( As the saying goes, deals are in the air. Okay, that may not be the real saying, but that certainly is the case this spring. Every camera brand still has sales running, with OM System lenses added to the long list. Plus, there still plenty of deals on film, bags, printers, and more. [[Read More]( [How ‘Dune: Part Two’ Cinematographer Makes Everything Look So Big]( By Pesala Bandara on Mar 14, 2024 05:03 pm [The gigantic sand worms dune part two cinematographer massive timothee chalamet greig fraser]( The cinematographer behind Dune: Part Two has revealed how he was able to make everything look so big in the highest-grossing movie of 2024 so far. [[Read More]( [Huion Kamvas Pro 19 4K UHD Review: Affordable and Accurate Pen Tablet]( By David Crewe on Mar 14, 2024 04:00 pm [Huion Kamvas Pro 19 review featured image]( Since using my first pen tablet over a decade ago, I found that working with display tablets provided an extra level of precision to my work since I could see exactly where my pen strokes were connecting on the screen. This let me be more precise and creative with my edits, but most of these tablets were either incredibly expensive or overly large. The $1,099 Huion Kamvas Pro 19 solves both these problems. [[Read More]( [The Breathtaking Winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards]( By Jeremy Gray on Mar 14, 2024 02:59 pm [British Wildlife Photography Awards 2024 winners -- portrait of a brown hare, goose barnacles on a soccer ball, and butterfly on a plant]( In this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards (BWPA), more than 14,000 incredible wildlife images were whittled down to a single grand prize winner, photographer Ryan Stalker. [[Read More]( [The Hydrus Underwater Drone Wants to Be the DJI of the Sea]( By Jeremy Gray on Mar 14, 2024 01:58 pm [Advanced Navigation's Hydrus underwater drone in action in Australia]( Underwater drones are still in their infancy. While filmmakers are already using them to create magnificent art, underwater drones haven't approached ubiquity for consumers and enthusiasts. However, Australian company Advanced Navigation believes it can change the landscape (or seascape) with its new Hydrus autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). [[Read More]( [How DxO PureRaw 4 Compares to Other Popular Noise Reduction Tools]( By Alex Coleman on Mar 14, 2024 01:50 pm [Sedona at Night]( DxO PureRAW 4 promises to “supercharge your cameras and lenses” by offering a suite of image quality corrections for RAW files: deep-learning noise reduction, superior demosaicing, as well as per-lens correction of distortion, softness, vignetting, and aberrations. [[Read More]( [Film Photographer Recreates 100 Year Old Soccer Team Photo on Antique Camera]( By Matt Growcoot on Mar 14, 2024 01:30 pm [100 years apart team photo]( Miles Myerscough-Harris of Expired Film Club was recently invited to recreate a 100-year-old soccer team photo. His camera of choice? An 1897 No. 4 Cartridge Kodak. [[Read More]( [OpenAI’s CTO Won’t Discuss Training Data for AI Video Generator Sora]( By Jaron Schneider on Mar 14, 2024 01:00 pm [OpenAI]( The companies developing generative AI technologies are, typically, skirting around the rules regarding copyright: very few actually provide the public with concrete information on how they train their models. [[Read More]( [The Detail in This New 1.3-Gigapixel Photo of a Supernova is Incredible]( By Jeremy Gray on Mar 14, 2024 12:32 pm [Ghostly Stellar Tendrils of the Vela Supernova Remnant]( Using the remarkable 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam), astronomers have made a 1.3-gigapixel image of the ghostly Vela Supernova Remnant. The beautiful, detailed, and colorful image is the largest DECam image ever at 35,786 by 35,881 pixels, putting even the highest-resolution medium-format interchangeable lens cameras to shame. [[Read More]( [How to Photograph the Solar Eclipse]( By Abby Ferguson on Mar 14, 2024 11:00 am [All stages of the total solar eclipse are lined up against a black background.]( The upcoming solar eclipse on April 8 is a highly anticipated event, in large part because it will be the last to cross over North America for 20 years. It is a special event to witness and photograph, though it does require planning and preparation. [[Read More]( [Photographer Captures Big Cats Sleeping on Big CATS]( By Matt Growcoot on Mar 14, 2024 08:48 am [Pride of lions sleeping on CAT vehicles]( A photographer in Tanzania captured a set of amusing photos showing a pride of lions snoozing on Caterpillar construction vehicles. [[Read More]( [Concert Photographer Narrowly Misses Guitar Being Thrown at Him]( By Pesala Bandara on Mar 14, 2024 07:54 am [concert photographer guitar thrown at him stage heavy metal sullivan king]( A concert photographer narrowly missed a guitar being thrown at him on stage -- after a heavy metal musician mistook him for someone else. [[Read More]( [40% of People Can’t Tell if a Face is AI Generated: Can You?]( By Matt Growcoot on Mar 14, 2024 07:47 am [One AI face, one real face]( A study by the University of Waterloo found that 40 percent of people surveyed couldn't distinguish between an AI-generated face and a real face. [[Read More]( [Wedding Photographer Pleads Guilty to Felony Theft After Scamming Couples]( By Pesala Bandara on Mar 14, 2024 07:46 am [wedding photographer guilty scam jail time couples]( A wedding photographer is to be sentenced after pleading guilty to felony theft after scamming dozens of couples. [[Read More]( [Midjourney Bans AI Images of Trump and Biden Ahead of Election]( By Matt Growcoot on Mar 14, 2024 07:24 am [AI-generated Biden and Trump as wrestlers]( Midjourney CEO David Holz says it's time to put his foot down on AI-generated images of Donald Trump and Joe Biden ahead of the presidential election in November. [[Read More]( Earlier Stories: [The Fujifilm Instax Mini 99 is a Lot of Fun]( [The Fujifilm Instax Mini 99 is a More ‘Advanced’ Instant Camera]( [EU’s Landmark AI Act Has Been Approved, US Far Behind]( [Panasonic Doesn’t Think Users Want Computational Photography Features]( [Photographer Captures Over 500 Redheads in 11-Year Project]( [Website]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( Copyright © 2024 PetaPixel, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. PetaPixel · 2944 N 44th St Ste 100 · Phoenix, AZ 85018-7258 · USA You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.