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10 Best AI Video Transcription Software for 2023 (Free + Premium)

What You’ll Be Creating AI transcription, also known as video transcription AI, is a remarkable technology. It turns audio and video into written text. It’s used by businesses, journalists, and students. It could be used to transcribe interviews, lectures, and create subtitles. The best transcription software makes the process easy and accurate. These tools have… Continue reading 10 Best AI Video Transcription Software for 2023 (Free + Premium)

The best Memorial Day telescope deals

Abby Ferguson Now is the time to celebrate the stars in your family with a cheaper, brand-new telescope, thanks to Memorial Day and Father’s Day deals. From May 26 to June 25, Unistellar is offering $500 cash back on its easy-to-use smart telescopes. It is a rebate offer, not a sale, so you’ll have to… Continue reading The best Memorial Day telescope deals

Restoring An Old Print To Digital 

When my father passed away a couple of years ago, my brother and I found a treasure trove of old photographs. Many of them in color from the 1970s and 80s but also old black and white photos of my grandparents and even great-grandparents! Some of these date as far back as the 1920s.  Although… Continue reading Restoring An Old Print To Digital 

Remembering Mik Critchlow, the North East’s great narrator

All images © Mik Critchlow The social documentary photographer, who passed away last week on his 68th birthday, told the story of his industrial hometown of Ashington with unparalleled insight and sensitivity To remember Mik Critchlow is to tell the story of a place, a man whose life and photographs existed in symbiotic union with… Continue reading Remembering Mik Critchlow, the North East’s great narrator

Beyond Portraiture: Using the camera to construct a sense of self

©  Jialin Yan. This article was printed in British Journal of Photography: The Portrait Issue.  Genesis Báez, Jialin Yan and Anne Vetter use the camera to reflect on the self, drawing on self-portraiture but also documenting the people and places that directly shape their unique identity The documentation of self has been foundational to photography.… Continue reading Beyond Portraiture: Using the camera to construct a sense of self

Sasha Huber redresses seven portraits of enslaved individuals made in 1850, in an act of decolonisation and grace

All images from the series Tailoring Freedom © Sasha Huber. Original images courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. The works Fassena, Jem, Alfred and Jack and Drana from the series Tailoring Freedom were commissioned by The Power Plant, Toronto; Autograph, London; Turku Art Museum, Finland; and Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, 2022.… Continue reading Sasha Huber redresses seven portraits of enslaved individuals made in 1850, in an act of decolonisation and grace

One thing: What is your digital shoebox? Do you have a legacy plan for your photos?

Before digital photography we had shoeboxes. Where is your digital shoebox? Where are your photos? Most of you can probably answer that question quickly, but take it one step further: does anybody else know where your photos are? What happens to your photos if something happens to you? What is your photo legacy? I began… Continue reading One thing: What is your digital shoebox? Do you have a legacy plan for your photos?

ABCs of Photo Sorting: How to Turn a Mess of Pictures into an Organized Collection

Have you ever faced a necessary project that seems so overwhelming you don’t know where to begin? You delay, then you don’t start, and soon enough the project is a mental barnacle, forever attached to a to-do list. That can be the state of affairs when your intent is to sort a collection of photos.… Continue reading ABCs of Photo Sorting: How to Turn a Mess of Pictures into an Organized Collection