photography

Photographing the Dark Nadar’s Descent into the Paris Catacombs By Allison C. Meier Today the Paris Catacombs are illuminated by electric lights and friendly guides. But when Félix Nadar descended into this “empire of death” in the 1860s artificial lighting was still in its infancy: the...

Altenahr, Germany

As one would expect, different AI Engines produce different results. Here are a couple of examples #1 The origins shot of the Torre del Mangia, Siena, Tuscany '2 Here is what Pixlr Plus think the extended canvas should look like #3 And here is a choice out of 4 images generated by...

When I was looking at my dad's photos of St. Petersburg, Russia on his trip in 1970 (It was Leningrad then), when I noticed that I had a photo of the same building in 2009. Top 1964 - bottom 2009 In 2009 it was Kazan Cathedral aka (The Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan). My photos were similar...

Post photos of shops, inside or outside.

We all get them at times: white lines around our subjects, known as sharpening halos. They occur when contrasting pixels meet and you will see them often around trees, mountains or buildings against a sky. More often than not though sharpening halos are caused during post processing as a result...

Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88) Toward the beginning of this album of photographs belonging to Marinus Pieter Filbri, there is a series of shots of the phases of the moon; closing it out, a glimpse through the gauze of an insect’s wing, magnified...

The question came up in a thread on how to best shoot a panorama. It's a good question, or better: questions, as in plural, because: How many images does it take to get a good panorama? Is it better to take vertical shots when shooting the images? How to deal with differently lit parts of a...

Hello all Can anybody advise me on the optimal lightroom export settings for posting images on this forum? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, Mikbone

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/bluesky-is-getting-its-own-photo-sharing-app-flashes/ --- A definite alternative to Instagram I see... and whenever that's launched, this would now be bad news for X and Instagram :snicker: By the way, I recently have a Bluesky account but have barely used...

I have a tendency to enjoy the same kinds of photography the most, so it led me to wonder, do photographers tend to enjoy photographing some things more than others? I assume yes, just based on the photos that I see from certain photographers. Most of they have a certain "niche", even if they...

On the Aegean Sea, Greece.

Las Vegas

Former regional psychiatric hospital in Northville, MI, USA. No longer standing.

I just love the camera's image quality, and how easily it can be used with vintage lenses.

Barcelona