Hacker News with Generative AI: Photography

Rare Photos from Inside North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' (9news.com.au)
The stranger than strange Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is one of the tallest unoccupied buildings in the world, and Englishman Simon Cockerell may be one of only two westerners to have ever been allowed inside.

North Korea, Travel, Architecture, Photography

24 points by gnabgib 3 days ago | 1 comments

British Brutalist Buildings – In Pictures (theguardian.com)

Architecture, Photography, United Kingdom

7 points by tempodox 4 days ago | 4 comments

What happened in Calvine? The mystery behind the best UFO picture ever seen (theguardian.com)
In August 1990, two hikers sent photos of a strange diamond-shaped aircraft to the press – but the story never appeared. Was it a prank, a hoax, an optical illusion or something else entirely?

UFOs, Photography, Mysteries, History

23 points by n1b0m 10 days ago | 3 comments

Milky Way over the Australian Pinnacles (nasa.gov)
What strange world is this?

Astronomy, Photography, Australia

5 points by kaycebasques 11 days ago | 0 comments

A tiny satellite showed it can take high-res pics from space (theverge.com)
A satellite the size of a suitcase sent back these 2.5-meter resolution photos of the Earth’s surface.

Space Exploration, Satellites, Photography, Technology

8 points by jonbaer 12 days ago | 2 comments

Trails of Wind (2019) (figures.cc)

Trails, Art, Photography

11 points by matthberg 14 days ago | 2 comments

Cameras of 1930s Era (licm.org.uk)

Photography, History, Vintage, Cameras

60 points by Tomte 14 days ago | 72 comments

The Phantom T2110 High-Speed Camera Records at 483,300 FPS (petapixel.com)
Vision Research announced the Phantom T2110, a sophisticated high-speed camera that can record video as fast as 483,300 frames per second (fps).

High-Speed Cameras, Photography, Technology, Vision Research

7 points by PaulHoule 15 days ago | 0 comments

The most breathtaking abandoned sites (elpais.com)
“I selected the 50 most spectacular photos from nearly 10 photographers of abandoned places that I know personally. I also wanted to include countries for which we didn’t have a book,” explained Thomas Jonglez, founder of the label, in an interview with EL PAÍS.

Photography, Abandoned Places, Travel

44 points by PaulHoule 16 days ago | 9 comments

London Street Views (1840) (davidrumsey.com)

History, London, Photography

172 points by jfil 18 days ago | 23 comments

F/0.38 camera lens made with oil immersion microscope objective (youtube.com)

Photography, Optics, DIY Projects

7 points by mhb 18 days ago | 0 comments

Mitochondria as you've never seen them (nature.com)
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

Science, Photography, Biology

343 points by Brajeshwar 19 days ago | 87 comments

Light Phone III camera sample photos (thelightphone.com)

Camera, Smartphones, Mobile Devices, Photography

26 points by jalict 21 days ago | 6 comments

JPEG XL: What It Is and Why You Should Care (2024) (petapixel.com)
JPEG XL is a new-generation image file format that recently got a big boost to awareness thanks to native support in the iPhone 16 series smartphones. So what is it, why does it matter, and why should you use it? Who better to ask than one of the people who helped make it a reality?

Image Formats, Technology, Mobile Devices, Photography

42 points by ksec 22 days ago | 8 comments

Newsstands, 2012-2019 (trevortraynor.com)
"Photographer Trevor Traynor’s global odyssey documenting the newsstands of the world is a remarkable record of newsprint as a construction medium". - Edwin HeathCote, FT Weekend.

Photography, Journalism, Design, Travel

54 points by NaOH 23 days ago | 6 comments

Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep (2018) (medium.com)
As a consequence of scanning thousands of slides, I learned quite a bit about taking photos that capture a family’s life. Here’s a personal memoir, with a few lessons in taking memorable snapshots.

Photography, Family, Memories

404 points by mooreds 25 days ago | 166 comments

The only photo of the Concorde flying at supersonic speed (petapixel.com)
The Concorde was the fastest commercial airliner in history with an astonishing cruising speed of roughly 1,354 miles per hour otherwise known as Mach 2.04.

Aviation, Photography, History

177 points by alex_young 25 days ago | 138 comments

Show HN: Snap Scope – Visualize Lens Focal Length Distribution from EXIF Data (snap-scope.shj.rip)

Photography, Data Visualization, Tools, Open Source

13 points by kan02134 27 days ago | 12 comments

Finnish Wartime Photograph Archive (1939-1945) (sa-kuva.fi)
Type in search criteria and click on SELECT.

Photography, History, Finland, War, Archive

45 points by kocsonya 28 days ago | 13 comments

Canon has developed a 410-megapixel full-frame sensor (engadget.com)
Canon announced that it has created a new 410-megapixel, 35mm full-frame CMOS sensor, "the largest number of pixels ever achieved" in a sensor of its size.

Cameras, Photography, Technology, Sensors

4 points by thunderbong 29 days ago | 0 comments

Olav's Licence Plate Pictures (olavsplates.com)
This site contains photographs of license/ number/ registration plates from 105 countries seen "live in action" on vehicles and has been online since 21. October 2000.

Photography, Travel, Cars, Collections

3 points by alibarber 29 days ago | 0 comments

Fluorescent Mineral Photography (naturesrainbows.com)
Fluorescent mineral photography is a challenge.

Photography, Minerals, Science

37 points by jazzyjackson 29 days ago | 6 comments

Life in Another Light, 2024 Infrared-Photography-Contest Winners (theatlantic.com)
After reviewing more than 3,000 entries in 11 categories from photographers around the world, the judges of this year’s “Life in Another Light” biannual infrared-photography competition recently made their top picks.

Photography, Contests, Infrared Photography, Art

58 points by zdw 33 days ago | 17 comments

417-megapixel Andromeda galaxy panorama took over a decade to make (petapixel.com)
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have completed the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy and created a 417-megapixel panorama.

Astronomy, Space, Photography, Science

297 points by wallflower 35 days ago | 98 comments

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

201 points by onetokeoverthe 36 days ago | 153 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 39 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

198 points by danso 40 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 44 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 44 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 45 days ago | 0 comments