Kristopher Shinn
I discovered this local photographer on X and I am obsessed with his work.
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"Cadillac Ranch at 50 exhibit shows evolution of original installation"
Given that my home D&D game players are currently on a roadtrip to the Cadillac Ranch (by way of being detained trying to infiltrate Area 51) I found this article a fun read.
"To me, it's not the Cadillac Ranch; that was what it was when we completed it in 1974," Lord said. "When we completed this, it was so important that know every detail of each of the 10 cars was visible as you stood right next to them. Now, the paint is so thick that these cars have become abstract objects. The idea of painting on cars obviously drives most visitors. To me, that was never the original idea."
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Tumblr of vintage National Geographic photos
An amazing blog of classic photos from the magazine. A mixture of amazing views of the world and also the times.
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I can see my house from here!
Amazing view of this wonderful slice of heaven. Commenter on another website did point out how you can clearly see how much of the tree cover has been removed around the Puget Sound.
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Redditor claims Samsung fakes moon photos with camera zoom
TL:DR Samsung is using AI/ML to slap on a texture of the moon on your moon pictures, and while some think that's your camera's capability, it's actually not. And it's not sharpening, it's not adding detail from multiple frames because in this experiment, all the frames contain the same amount of detail. None of the frames have the craters etc. because they're intentionally blurred, yet the camera somehow miraculously knows that they are there. And don't even get me started on the motion interpolation on their "super slow-mo", maybe that's another post in the future.
The full post delves into the methodology. And it feels on par with the reality of modern phone technology which applies machine learning to image processing and just calls out an especially egregious example of it.
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Twitter thread of photos and the cameras that took them
Amazing stuff. So many iconic photos, and somehow seeing what they were taken with adds something to them.
(By default, I am now linking to threads on Thread Reader App, rather than linking to the Twitter thread directly to avoid sending more traffic to Twitter than necessary.)
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Photography for Geeks
A great introduction and discussion on photography basics and how to improve your composition and photography skills.
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The earliest born photographed person is thought to be Conrad Heyer, born in 1749
Conrad Heyer was born in 1749. He crossed the Delaware with George Washington. And, at the age of 103, he had his photo taken. Not the first photo taken, but believed to be the photo of the earliest born person, ever.
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