The Ultimate Lens Hood Is Back With A New Smaller Ulhmobile Version For Smartphones

When the Ultimate Lens Hood was first announced a couple of years ago, it came via Kickstarter and saw pretty massive success, overachieving its funding goal by more than 2,000%. If you haven’t seen it before, it’s basically a big rubber lens hood that allows you to shoot through glass while eliminating reflections bouncing off your side. Now, after the success of the original, they’re launching the Ultimate Lens Hood 2....

April 6, 2023 · 3 min · 476 words · Jessica Miller

These Pagan Inspired Photos Show Mystical Roots Of Slavic Culture

National culture and history are often an inspiration for artists. Polish photographer Marcin Nagraba creates work strongly inspired by the ancient culture of Slavic countries, the culture that existed before Christianity came. His hauntingly beautiful photos are inspired by heathen beliefs and rites our ancestors had centuries ago. Marcin works together with a talented costume artist Agnieszka Osipa. She creates stunning costumes, so complex and beautiful that you’d expect to see them in a TV series such as Game of Thrones....

April 6, 2023 · 3 min · 489 words · Thomas Rose

This Chrome Plugin Shows You How Facebook Sees What S In Your Photos

There’s been a lot of buzz lately around AI, “deep learning”, computer vision. It’s all to do with image recognition. Apple and Google have also been implementing it with their mobile operating systems to help categorise your shots. Facebook also does this, too, although it rarely makes itself obvious. It’ll often see faces, and ask if you want to tag somebody. Sometimes it’ll even recognise the person. But that’s about it....

April 6, 2023 · 3 min · 459 words · Kara Farmer

This Free Web Tool Lets You Explore Bias In Ai Generated Images

Ever since AI became widely available and used in every possible app, we’ve seen as many of its advantages as drawbacks. One of those drawbacks is racial and gender bias, and increasingly popular text-to-mage generators aren’t free from it. Enter Stable Diffusion Bias Explorer, a tool that lets you explore AI-generated images and the biases they contain. It’s free, accessible to anyone, and quick to show that both humans and artificial intelligence still have a long way to go before they get rid of deeply rooted stereotypes....

April 6, 2023 · 2 min · 372 words · Jimmy Lewis

This Is How Photography Is Affecting Our Moods And Memory

With film cameras, taking a photo used to be a process. But now, with smartphones and digital photography, all of us have a high-end camera in our pockets at all times. It’s estimated that people took a whopping 1.2 trillion of photos in 2018! But have you ever thought about an impact this has on us? How photography affects our mood and memories in the modern era? Peter Rubin of WIRED decided to explore it, and he brings some interesting findings in this 10-minute video....

April 6, 2023 · 4 min · 803 words · Shawna Wilson
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