This landscape doesn’t really exist. Stability AI, generated by Aurel Manea Romanian photographer and artist Aurel Manea has used a new text-to-image AI to create beautiful, almost-photorealistic, landscape images. First noticed by PetaPixel, Manea used Stability AI’s Stability Diffusion—a DALL-E 2-like text-to-image generation tool—to make the series of incredible landscape “photographs.” By using prompts like… Continue reading These landscape ‘photos’ were generated by an AI
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Juxtaposition in photography | 26 Examples to inspire your photography
The word “juxtaposition” has long dominated exhibition catalogs and artist statements, used by everyone from architects to painters, but some of today’s biggest mainstream photography trends also revolve around the theme of juxtaposition. From forced perspectives of people “holding up” the sun or moon to landscape photos of “tiny people in big places” to double-take… Continue reading Juxtaposition in photography | 26 Examples to inspire your photography
How to Add Lens Flares in After Effects
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to add lens flares in Adobe After Effects using an example animation project. Lens flares are just the right thing when you need to add a little bit of flash and pizzazz to your project. Our example animation project has an almost retro-futuristic vibe going… Continue reading How to Add Lens Flares in After Effects
Tips And Tools To Help You Capture Enchanting Photos Of Waterfalls
Waterfalls are one of the most stunning water features found in nature and it can be slightly challenging to capture them at their best. Waterfalls photos work best when you lengthen the exposure time to capture their movements and this is where photographers need to decide the settings that will work best for the image… Continue reading Tips And Tools To Help You Capture Enchanting Photos Of Waterfalls
This camera lets you choose what to photograph—and ignores the rest
Using several diffractive layers, the camera filters out unwanted information in the light propagation phase before it is recorded. Bijie Bai, Yi Luo, Tianyi Gan, Jingtian Hu, Yuhang Li, Yifan Zhao, Deniz Mengu, Mona Jarrahi & Aydogan Ozcan The concept of selective imaging—the idea that you only keep the parts of an image you need—isn’t… Continue reading This camera lets you choose what to photograph—and ignores the rest
Here’s how the Instagram algorithm suggests posts
If you understand why a suggested post hits your feed, is it less rage-inducing?. Meta Since 2016, Instagram’s algorithms have been a source of drama. Many users insist they want a chronological feed of the accounts they follow while the developers keep adding more algorithmically suggested content. Things came to a head a few weeks… Continue reading Here’s how the Instagram algorithm suggests posts
How to Use After Effects for Advanced Camera Tracking
What You’ll Be Creating In this tutorial, you’ll learn the basics of camera tracking. To follow along, make sure to open up the camera tracking.aep file, which you can download here. You’re also going to need the HYPERLAPSE LOUVRE.mov file which you can download from Envato Elements: Louvre Museum To start, I’m going to create… Continue reading How to Use After Effects for Advanced Camera Tracking
8 Top Anime Templates to Make Intros, Openers, and Trailers in After Effects
Blast your new anime into viewers’ eyes, ears, and hearts using one of these stellar intros, openers, and trailer templates for After Effects. Cinematic, brazenly vibrant, and replete with dramatic transitions, they’re also customizable, allowing you to build your trailer’s crescendo of anticipation with precision. 8 Top Templates for Anime in After Effects Ink Trailer… Continue reading 8 Top Anime Templates to Make Intros, Openers, and Trailers in After Effects
$4000 in prizes to be won this World Photography Day
Hey Photographers! This one’s for you. No matter where you live or what your skill set is you’ll have a chance to win one of seven amazing prizes this World Photography Day (or month as we’re calling it). Starting today and running until September 17, you can submit your photos to “Around the World in… Continue reading $4000 in prizes to be won this World Photography Day
How to score an awesome garage sale camera
Not quite sure what I was thinking when I pulled the trigger on this beauty. Stan Horaczek This post on garage sale cameras has been updated. It was originally published on May 17, 2016. As you walk through a local garage sale, your eyes bounce from a pile of ugly jackets to a bin full… Continue reading How to score an awesome garage sale camera