Mashable
15 of the best animal photos from 2020
5 min · · This iguana snap took first place in Agora's photo competition. · Shared by 48, including Marcos, John Rampton, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Guardian
Nature Photographer of the Year 2020
14+ min · · The winners and runners-up of this year’s competition, announced at the recent Nature Talks photo festival in the Netherlands · Shared by 69, including Marcos, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Fern, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
Mashable
Google Photos is ending unlimited storage and people are not happy
3 min · · Shared by 8, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Guardian
Elliott Erwitt: 'Photography is pretty simple. You just react to what you see'
6 min · · The 92-year-old photographer discusses a storied career of capturing big and small moments and why he’s happy to keep working for as long as possible · Shared by 13, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Guardian
Sheets ahead: the pioneering photography of Imogen Cunningham
8 min · · Few women chose to become photographers at the beginning of the 20th century, yet Cunningham’s images – from female nudes to Hollywood portraits – smoothed the way for countless female artists that… · Shared by 17, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
TNW
Google Photos is ending free unlimited storage in 2021 — so what are your options?
2 min · · Google did it again. It is shutting down one of the most popular features across its product universe: Google Photo’s free unlimited storage. The company said that it’s ending this service from June… · Shared by 15, including Andrea Smith, Marsha Collier, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, TNW Top Stories
TNW
This AI tool generates your creepy lookalikes to trick facial recognition
2 min · · A free new tool called Anonymizer uses GANs to transform your profile photos into AI fakes. · Shared by 141, including Katja Evertz, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Nige Roberts-Willson, Bob E. Hayes
The Atlantic
Top Shots From the 2020 International Landscape Photographer of the Year
5 min · · Some of the top and winning images from this year’s landscape-photography competition · Shared by 62, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jess Tyson (she/her)
WIRED
This Pandemic Must Be Seen
3 min · · If we could watch what’s really going on in hospitals, there would be no more complacency. · Shared by 230, including Amber Mac, Martin Steiger 🦈, Marie-José Kolly, Dr. Saskia Popescu, K. Williams, Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Tomas Pueyo, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Nicolas Babin, Backchannel, Jamie Indigo 👾 100% Human Technical SEO, Tara Parker-Pope, Brian Stelter, Deborah Blum, Abraar Karan, Helen Branswell 🇺🇦
The Atlantic
Winners of Close-up Photographer of the Year
8 min · · Some of the winning and honored images from the 2020 competition in close-up, macro, and micro photography · Shared by 170, including Helmi, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Howard Getson, Matteo Furia, Artnome, Jane, Christian Surchi
fstoppers.com
Perfect Photos Are Not Always Better Photos
1 min · · As photographers, we work very hard to make our photos as good as possible, ranging from investing in expensive, top-shelf gear, to learning a variety of techniques, to investing huge amounts of time… · Shared by 31, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The Verge
Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage on June 1st, 2021
4 min · · Nothing uploaded before then will count, but it’s still a bummer. · Shared by 144, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Casey Newton, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Johannes Lenz, Gui Schmitt, Scott Monty, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Ian M Calvert, Rafael Zeier, mrbrown, Matteo Fogli
The Pudding
Photo quiz: This is an experiment about how we view history
1 min · · We’re going to show you a series of photos and ask you when each picture was taken. · Shared by 157, including Val Head, Oscar MacDonald, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Esther Schindler, luis antónio santos, Dr. Alec Couros, Gisele Navarro, Damien Van Achter, M. Serdar Kuzuloğlu
Mashable
Google Photos gets smarter, AI-powered editor
1 min · · Some new features are Pixel-only, but not all. · Shared by 11, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
TNW
Google Photos’ new AI-powered editor will retouch your images for you
1 min · · In addition to the Pixel 5 and 4a 5G, Google is also rolling out a new editor for Google Photos that leverages AI to beautify your pics. · Shared by 11, including jack hollingsworth, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
TNW
Lightroom’s new color-grading tools could change the way you edit your photos
1 min · · Ahead of Adobe’s upcoming Max (virtual) conference, the company is teasing a new Lightroom tool that will provide photographers much more flexibility for editing the colors of their photos. I want it,… · Shared by 11, including Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯