Hacker News with Generative AI: Photography

OpenAI fails to deliver opt-out system for photographers (petapixel.com)
OpenAI has missed its own 2025 deadline on a tool it said would allow photographers to exclude their work from the company’s training data.

OpenAI, Photography, Copyright

199 points by onetokeoverthe 2 days ago | 154 comments

Show HN: Professional Headshots Using AI (portraitmaker.ai)
Create stunning AI headshots in minutes for any occasion and in any style.

Artificial Intelligence, Photography, Tools, Show HN

11 points by blueapple30 5 days ago | 13 comments

Adobe Lightroom's AI Remove feature added a Bitcoin to bird in flight photo (bsky.app)

Adobe Lightroom, AI, Photography, Image Editing, Cryptocurrency

197 points by danso 6 days ago | 105 comments

Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge (gettyimages.com)
Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge, Creating a Premier Visual Content Company

Photography, Stock Images, Visual Content

180 points by sexy_seedbox 11 days ago | 143 comments

Bird Buddy Launches 'Wonder' Camera for Watching Insects (macrumors.com)
The creators of Bird Buddy, a camera-equipped bird feeder, today showed off two products that are designed for watching insects, flowers, birds, and other flora and fauna.

Wildlife, Technology, Photography, Birds

4 points by Tomte 11 days ago | 2 comments

Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88) (publicdomainreview.org)
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 eighty times its normal size. Intentionally or not, this juxtaposition draws a visual parallel between the unimaginable scale of celestial objects and the invisibly small realm of the microscopic, as if to suggest that both, in the end, are equally alien.

Microscopy, Photography, History, Science

14 points by prismatic 11 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Log each meal with a photo to track your diet and monitor your weight (apple.com)
Introducing SnapFood (AKA MealSnap) – the smartest way to track and log your meals, snacks and drinks.

Health, Nutrition, Mobile Apps, Photography

8 points by bizpplhappy 12 days ago | 3 comments

Privacy of Photos.app's Enhanced Visual Search (mjtsai.com)
This morning while perusing the settings of a bunch of apps on my iPhone, I discovered a new setting for Photos that was enabled by default: Enhanced Visual Search.

Privacy, Photography, Apple, iOS, Mobile

19 points by latexr 16 days ago | 7 comments

Darktable 5.0.0 (darktable.org)
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0!

New Releases, Photography, Software

330 points by morsch 18 days ago | 122 comments

A Billion Pixels a Second: Inside Apple's iPhone 16 Camera Labs (cnet.com)
I'm standing on a wire mesh floor in a secluded room at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California. The "floor" I'm on is suspended over a pit filled with 4-foot foam wedges. The walls and ceiling in the room are also covered with large triangle-cuts of foam that remove virtually any echo. When I clap there's just the muffled sound from the impact of my hands. It's oh so quiet.

Apple, Mobile Technology, Hardware, Photography, Design

123 points by marban 18 days ago | 112 comments

Most people don't care about quality (shkspr.mobi)
My friend, the photographer Paul Clarke has an uncanny eye for detail. Every single shot he publishes is beautiful - they capture life in a way that I don't have the language to describe. I'm quite content to point my phone at someone, use the default settings, and grab a snap. My photos lack composition, clarity, focus, mise-en-scène, proper lighting and a thousand-and-one details that I've never even thought of.

Photography, Art, Opinion

305 points by ColinWright 19 days ago | 398 comments

For four years, I photographed, indexed and classified my entire house (katalog-barbaraiweins.com)
As a neurotic collector, collecting, ordering, categorizing and exhibiting things have always given me immense pleasure.

Photography, Cataloguing, Organization, Personal Projects, Art

123 points by Alifatisk 20 days ago | 69 comments

Nikon reveals a lens that captures wide and telephoto images simultaneously (digitalcameraworld.com)

Photography, Optics, Technology, Innovation, Nikon

191 points by giuliomagnifico 23 days ago | 100 comments

PixLens: A lens that turns the scenery you see into pixel art (monoli-shop.com)
Please be sure to check here for shipping information before placing your order.

Photography, Pixel Art, Gadgets

94 points by miles 24 days ago | 27 comments

1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived (issung.com)
In July 2023 I was reminiscing about a thing of the past, large-scale public LAN parties. I remember them being a semiregular occurrence around Tasmania, only attending a couple in my young age before they disappeared. I wondered if I could find some photos of these events to help the memories come back clearer.

Nostalgia, Photography, History, Australia, LAN Parties

175 points by issung 25 days ago | 52 comments

Darktable 5.0.0 Released (darktable.org)
We’re proud to announce the new feature release of darktable, 5.0.0!

New Releases, Photography, Software

15 points by todsacerdoti 27 days ago | 0 comments

AI 'Street Photography' Isn't Photography: What We Lose by Simulating Experience (simone.org)
When we pretend AI generation is street photography, we're not just misusing terms—we're surrendering authentic engagement with reality.

Artificial Intelligence, Photography, Art, Ethics, Reality

41 points by smnrg 27 days ago | 38 comments

Evelyn McHale (2017) (codex99.com)
Shortly before 10:30 am, May 1st, 1947, 23 year-old Evelyn McHale bought a ticket to the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building.

History, Photography

8 points by Mistletoe 33 days ago | 0 comments

They see your photos (theyseeyourphotos.com)
They see your photos.

Privacy, Photography, Social Media

439 points by vladyslavfox 34 days ago | 225 comments

NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway (pcmag.com)
When it debuted this summer, the Traffic Cam Photobooth (TCP) website offered a new twist on the surveillance state by enabling smartphone users to take selfies with New York traffic cams.

Surveillance, Photography, Privacy, Technology

399 points by gnabgib 36 days ago | 202 comments

Humpback Whale Swims Up to Photographer for Close-Up Picture (petapixel.com)
A photographer had a powerful experience with a whale who swam up close allowing her to capture a close-up photo of the humpback’s eye.

Wildlife Photography, Whales, Photography, Nature

21 points by philip1209 36 days ago | 3 comments

Photobucket opted inactive users into privacy nightmare, lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)
Photobucket was sued Wednesday after a recent privacy policy update revealed plans to sell users' photos—including biometric identifiers like face and iris scans—to companies training generative AI models.

Privacy, Lawsuits, Generative AI, Photography

12 points by LinuxBender 37 days ago | 1 comments

Pointless jobs: the unbearable ennui of office life – in pictures (theguardian.com)

Office Culture, Work, Photography, Humor, Social Commentary

11 points by pimeys 37 days ago | 4 comments

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 winners (rmg.co.uk)
The winner of Astronomy Photographer of the Year 16 has been revealed.

Astronomy, Photography, Awards

141 points by helsinkiandrew 38 days ago | 30 comments

Nikon Small World Microscopy Winners (2024) (nikonsmallworld.com)

Photography, Science, Microscopy, Competition

31 points by danielsht 38 days ago | 0 comments

Evaporograph and Infra Red Images (sparkbangbuzz.com)

Infrared Imaging, Photography, Technology

31 points by joebig 40 days ago | 0 comments

My brand new digitizing workflow using a 25 year old film scanner (vladovince.com)
Photography is arguably my oldest hobby. I’ve loved taking photos for as long as I can remember. I reflected on my first encounter with digital photography in 2003 in a recent post, but I’m old enough that I first got to know photography through film. I still don’t know what it is exactly that draws me to still images, but I find the same joy capturing light with a camera as I did 30 years ago.

Photography, Workflow, Digital Photography, Film Photography

123 points by williamsmj 45 days ago | 60 comments

Website Shows How Much Google's AI Can Glean from Your Photos (wired.com)
A photo sharing startup founded by an ex-Google engineer found a clever way to turn Google’s tech against itself.

Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, Google, Startups, Photography

8 points by sweca 46 days ago | 0 comments

Tempest Anderson: Pioneer of Volcano Photography (2015) (publicdomainreview.org)
What could possess a respectable Victorian surgeon from York to spend much of his life travelling to remote and challenging parts of the world to study volcanoes and climb mountains?

Volcanoes, Photography, History, Travel, Exploration

21 points by ulrischa 46 days ago | 1 comments

Contradictions in photography advice (medium.com)
The third law of photodynamics: For every piece of loudly-spoken advice, there is a piece of equal and opposite counter-advice.

Photography, Advice, Contradictions

68 points by Breadmaker 48 days ago | 82 comments