Whether you’re a photographer or a filmmaker, understanding the principles of light and how it will affect your subject are important. It doesn’t matter if it’s flash, continuous LED, natural ambient, or the harsh bright sun, you want them to help tell your story. There’s a lot of different lighting styles and setups out there. Most of them, though, operate on a fairly basic set of principles. This video from the guys over at Film Riot talks about the different techniques of lighting subjects primarily for video....

Japan’s space agency (JAXA) has successfully landed its MINERVA-II1 rovers on the surface of an asteroid. And now, the first photos have been sent back to Earth. They let us take a peek at the surface of an asteroid and at its surroundings, and it’s something really awe-inspiring to see.Advertisements The MINERVA-II1 consists of two probes, named simply Rover-1A and Rover-1B. They were dispatched from Hayabusa-2 spacecraft and they successfully landed on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, 21 September....

AI-generated imagery and 3D content have come a long way in a very short space of time. It was only two years ago that Google researchers revealed NeRF, or Neural Radiance Fields, and less than two weeks ago NVIDIA blew us away with almost real-time generation of 3D scenes from just a few dozen still photographs using their “Instant NeRF” techniques. Well, now, a new paper has been released by the folks at Waymo describing “Block-NeRF“, a technique for “scalable large scene neural view synthesis” – basically, generating really really large environments....

The NotiGuy app basically turns your phone’s hole punch into a button The NotiGuy app basically turns your phone’s hole punch into a button So, you can basically install this app, give it the necessary permissions, and then customize the aforementioned button. At any point, while you’re using your phone, you can simply tap on the hole punch, and trigger an action. The app basically creats a thin, circular touch-sensitive field around the hole punch, automatically, and uses it to detect your taps....

Computational imaging has given us some interesting and useful inventions so far, from fake bokeh to capturing the movement of light. This time, scientists have figured out how to take a clear image from as far as 28 miles (45km), regardless of the Earth’s curvature and the amount of smog in the air. Zheng-Ping Li and colleagues from the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai have come up with the technique that takes photos even these long distances....