Every year at Adobe Max, Adobe’s annual creativity conference, we get a chance to take a peek at the company’s latest and future products. At this year’s conference, Adobe presented Project All of Me, which is able to “uncrop” your photo. In other words, it expands it and uses AI that fills in for any missing details in your shot, including your subject’s body, clothes, footwear; and the background behind them....

Expectedly, there are a handful of new features debuting with Android 12. This document allows OEMs to prepare themselves for future hardware launches. Failing to meet the requirements mentioned in the CDD could result in the manufacturer failing the Google Compatibility Test Suite, thus making them ineligible to use Google’s apps and services. A bulk of the changes outlined in the new CDD don’t have a major impact on the manufacturers....

Aputure has today announced five new light modifiers for their range of LED lights. There are some sequels, new barndoors and one made in collaboration with one of the biggest names in photographic softboxes; Chimera. Aputure Light Dome II & Light Dome Mini II Aputure Light Dome II & Light Dome Mini II The original Aputure Light Dome & Light Dome Mini were a very popular and successful softbox. Although designed for the Aputure Light Storm C120 and C300, with a Bowens S mount, it was also quite popular with many photographers for strobes, too....

The tracks begin to ring. I listen closely with the engine roaring louder and louder as each second passes and ready my camera…my finger resting steady on the shutter. The forest; the leaves; the freight train tearing by and then slowly fading; everything falling quiet again — it all makes me think of Riley. After his passing, my therapy was walking along these tracks, camera in hand. Many times I would never even take a shot, instead preferring to immerse myself in the stillness and color around me....

Canon’s 1200mm f/5.6 is generally regarded as the stuff of myth and legend. Of course, the lens exists, but there are so few of them out there that the vast majority of us will never even see one in person, let alone get to try one. Originally manufactured in very limited quantities by special order only in the 1990s, it came with the princely sum of around $90,000 and it’s estimated that only around 20 were ever made....