Photo contests and controversies go together like peanut butter and jelly. But when huge sums of money are involved, it can sometimes be justified – especially if a photograph isn’t what it claims to be. Image by Thu Ngo The renowned Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA) awards were announced for 2019 and among the winners […]
Author: Kehl Bayern
Kehl is our staff photography news writer since 2017 and has over a decade of experience in online media and publishing and you can get to know him better here and follow him on Insta.
NVIDIA is really at the forefront of developing next-gen artificial intelligence technology. Given its huge presence in video games, among other industries, that’s really no surprise. At NVIDIA GTC 2019, the company unveiled a Microsoft Paint-like application called GauGAN that uses generative adversarial networks to transform your simple paint sketch into a realistic-looking photo. There […]
Canon makes some amazing equipment, and this is none the truer when it comes to its cinema gear. Luckily for us, the company just released a video showing off its 8K HDR cinema camera. And it looks like the next generation is so amazing that we might not even be able to perceive it with […]
Earlier this week, NBC News released a report on how Creative Commons images were being used for machine learning, specifically to train AI how to recognize faces. This report ensnared photography community Flickr and made some users mistakenly think that the company had given permission to these tech firms for them to use community member […]
Wildlife photography is guaranteed to tell a story, whether you want it to do so or not. One diver almost found himself re-enacting Jonah and the whale this week as he was accidentally swallowed by a Bryde’s whale while “documenting a sardine run” according to PetaPixel. This would-be Jonah, Rainer Schimpf, was then promptly spat […]
This week was the week of Internet outages apparently because we can add Apple iCloud to the list that includes Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Apple’s cloud service was only down for a brief period of time, however – about 4 hours according to TechCrunch. The brief outage occurred yesterday, Thursday, and included services such as […]