The ISO capabilities in DSLRs and mirrorless cameras today is pretty amazing. But it’s not perfect. You’re still going to see an increase in noise as you ramp up the ISO, even if it’s not quite as bad as it used to be. But we all love clean, noiseless images, don’t we? Along with the improvements in ISO performance, we’ve also seen big leaps in noise reduction technology. But many of them still aren’t perfect, often eliminating noise at the expense of detail....

What is a model? A set of skills? A beautiful aesthetic? A combination of both? Is there a bias in either direction? Is that bias shifted by our personal preference of what we believe to be a “beautiful subject”? We’re taking photo’s because of first and foremost the subject matter. Take a bowl of fruit for example. Sometimes the perfect fruit might be less interesting subject matter than that of mouldy / decaying fruit....

Last month, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri confirmed that hiding like counts was soon to become optional. Now the feature is officially being rolled out for everyone, but there’s more. Not only Instagram is letting you hide or reveal like counts as you please, but you can now do it on Facebook, too. Hidden like count was initially a test started back in 2019. Instagram rolled it out globally in November that year, but it was only available for some users....

Massive multi-gigapixel images are starting to become a little more common now, with today’s computing power being what it is. But they still rarely fail to impress. Especially when they cover vast distances and include a lot of detail to zoom in on. This massive 195-Gigapixel image comes from Shanghai, shot from the top of Shanghai’s Oriental Pearl Tower. The huge image was created by Jingkun Technology, otherwise known as Bigpixel Studio....

Advertisements Laura Oppelt Laura Oppelt Laura Oppelt is a 22-year-old self-taught landscape photographer from Bavaria, Germany. At the age of 14, she made her first encounter with photography, and that later became her biggest passion. She is mainly drawn to wild and raw destinations such as Norway, the Faroe Islands, or the German Alps. Through landscape photography, she expresses her appreciation for nature and adventure. Website—Instagram—Facebook Marc Adamus Marc Adamus...