“The Photography Mafia? That’s ridiculous,” she said. “There is no such thing.” I knew she didn’t want to believe it and yet, I saw a flicker of terror in her eyes. She had seen too much to believe with all certainty that what had just happened was a coincidence. We all had seen too much. I pulled my chair closer and took her hand in mine. “Listen, I know this is hard to comprehend, but it’s important you know what we’re up against....
Francesca Hughes is a professional Retoucher from the UK who retouches imagery for print and web campaigns for international brands. DIYP: Tell us a little about how you got into Photoshop, and who your influences are. FH: I’ve always been artistic and creative but my Photoshop journey started at school where I studied Graphic Design, where I learned how to create graphic artwork and enhance my photography using, back then, Photoshop Elements and Photoshop 7....
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....
The Canon EOS R5, despite receiving firmware update to help reduce the chances of it happening, has a thing for overheating when shooting video. Every single piece of (admittedly, circumstantial) evidence points to it being a timer that’s hard-coded into the camera and not really based on the temperature inside the camera at all. Or is it? Matt at DIYPerks decided to have a go at liquid cooling his shiny new $3,900 Canon EOS R5....
As a fan of wet plate collodion, I’ve been following the work of photographer Ian Ruhter for a few years now. I first found him after he converted a truck into a huge mobile wet plate camera. He then built a camera to make the world’s largest ambrotypes, as large as 46×59″ (117x150cm). Now, Ian’s gone even bigger, to try to take the world record. So, he and his team, Silver & Light, turned an abandoned house into a huge wet plate camera to make an insane 66×90″ (167x229cm) ambrotype on a 200lb sheet of glass....
