Why Lighting Changes Everything?

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Ritesh Saini rounded up every free landscape ebook Photzy has, 26 of them, on one page. That's the second link.

Why Lighting Changes Everything?

The way you shape light can redefine any subject, pulling out hidden textures and moods. Try isolating light or embracing a dramatic backlight to discover striking new visual stories. TAKE A LOOK →

26 Free Landscape Photography Ebooks

Camera settings, five controls most people never touch, long exposures, gear, and the rest. Twenty-six short ebooks on landscape work, all free, each one a download button away. Kent DuFault wrote a few of them. Pick two and put them on the phone for the next long trip. TAKE A LOOK →

32 Photos That Look Like Old Paintings

A shaft of light in a dark room, a group of people who happen to stand in a triangle, and the picture comes out looking like something from a museum wall. Nobody planned any of these. Oliver St John found 32 of them. Worth a slow scroll if you like Caravaggio. TAKE A LOOK →

Lunch Atop a Skyscraper Turns 94 Today

Eleven ironworkers on a beam, 850 feet over Manhattan, eating lunch. The picture was first printed on October 2, 1932. That's today. A bobblehead museum has made it into a figure, numbered to 1,932. The best part of Matt Growcoot's piece is at the end. Nobody is sure who took it, and there's a new book about that. TAKE A LOOK →

OpenAI Bought the Company Making Phone Photos Look Like Camera Photos

Glass Imaging writes the software that turns a phone's raw sensor data into a picture. In its demos, a phone ends up looking like a camera with a far bigger sensor. OpenAI is said to have paid $300 million for it. Jeremy Gray has followed them for years. If you wonder where phone cameras go next, this is a clue. TAKE A LOOK →

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