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The Phoblographer (Feed)
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4 Best Cameras for Portrait Photographers Today
Portrait photography is an important genre of the medium that not only helps one to document their loved one's likeness but also to create photos that are unlike themselves. If you are someone who is looking for a high-end full-frame camera that creates stunning portraits, these…
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Light Lens Lab Enters Apochromatic Territory With New M-Mount Lens
Leica is the epitome of luxury and performance. The company has created cameras and lenses that last decades, and the image quality remains unmatched. However, for most, gathering more than one lens can be a task, given the price point. As a result, many Chinese third-party bran…
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Marco.org (Feed)
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Unforgetful
I have ADHD. Probably.1 My entire adolescence was defined by forgetting to do my homework, disappointing everyone around me, and being told by every adult that I was lazy, “just” needed to try harder, and wasn’t living up to my potential. I’ll be working on the resulti…
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kottke.org (Feed)
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Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential...
Tressie McMillan Cottom on AOC’s presumed presidential run. “But these are different times. Ocasio-Cortez is a different woman, and Americans love to turn to women when the house is burning down.”
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This Method Helps Street Photographers With Brain Rot
It's easy to sit there and endlessly scroll away on your phone looking at the images of other street photographers. But when it comes to actually making images, you can be tuned in with zone focusing and setting everything to manual mode. Just think on a sunny day: ISO 1600, F8,…
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This Test Will Tell You if Your Hands are Shaky as a Photographer
Image stabilization has majorly helped photographers to make images that otherwise were very hard to make. But it shouldn't be a self-inflicted crutch that you use to throw away good form. The problem here though is that many photographers have completely thrown that out the win…
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3 Honest Tips From Travel Photographers Who Have Seen It All
Travel photography has helped millions of young people to go out and explore the world. Some have looked at far away lands, while others have turned towards places closer to home. For those who are still struggling, here is a look at some of the best tips we've received over the…
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What's the best programming language for coding agents?
This somewhat widely cited post (I keep seeing it cited, anyway) suggests that dynamic languages and/or languages that represent things more concisely are more token efficient. It seems to be cited enough that LLM search results agree. For example, when I searched for "dynamic v…
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Open Thread for August 2026
We haven’t done an open thread for awhile, so… What have you been working on? How are you feeling? What’s on your mind these days? What’s the best thing you’ve seen this week? Have you called a plumber to your home lately? Are you new here? Introduce yourself if you…
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The 5 Boro Foto Fest Says No to Generative AI
Want to apply to be a vendor? Join the authenticity. This year, we're throwing something special in celebration of photographers: it's called the 5 Boro Foto Fest. We've been working on something very big here at the Phoblographer for a long time now. The state of photography tr…
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NOAA: Contiguous US Breaks Its Record for Hottest Month...
NOAA: Contiguous US Breaks Its Record for Hottest Month Ever. “It’s not good when you’re breaking records from the Dust Bowl…” (This record will be broken several more times in the decades to come.)
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The Moral Unseriousness of Centrist & Conservative Pundits
Jamelle Bouie almost never misses. In this video that’s just shy of 10 minutes long, he chastises American political & cultural pundits for their lack of moral seriousness w/r/t their focus on “wokeness” instead of the real harms being done by the authoritarian Trump re…
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Doc Searls Weblog (Feed)
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Burrsday
I subscribed to the Los Angeles Times early last year when I was writing about the challenges for journalism in covering the wildfires there. That was in my News Commons series, which I think has some brilliant and useful stuff. But it didn't go anywhere, for reasons. So I wasn'…
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A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain...
A recently unearthed conversation with Anthony Bourdain from 2005. “We discuss Tony’s preferred sucker-punch etiquette, his loyalty to cigarettes & the Chateau Marmont, ayahuasca in Peru, and the talk show he dreamed up with Christopher Walken in mind.”
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Supersonic Trebuchet
Ok so when you woke up this morning, you probably didn’t expect to watch a 20-minute video about a trebuchet — but to be fair, I didn’t either. But Tom Stanton’s build of a fully mechanical trebuchet that propels a tiny plastic pellet faster than the speed of sound (c…
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Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs:...
Craig Mod wrote about his recent adventures using LLMs: A Swarm of Blood Robots. “I now have a comprehensive family tree, naming the very boats my Italian and Polish ancestors came over on in the late 1800s, the villages a few came from…”
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“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.”...
“Draw any shape and hear it as a drum.” Eigendrum: a drum simulator where you can change the shape of the drum to see how it affects the sound it makes.
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G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost . “G.P.S....
G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost. “G.P.S. has also led us to outsource existential skills: locating yourself in space, parsing out your surroundings, staying calm when you don’t know where you are. Do we lose something when we no longer get lost?”
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This DIY Infrared Flash Lets Street Photographers Shoot Without Being Noticed
Flash has been a creative accessory for many photographers, but when it comes to genres such as street photography, it can be disruptive. It often leads your subjects to know that they are being photographed, and that can be a huge challenge if you are working discreetly. To fix…
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Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those...
Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those posed by Paul Erdős, are being solved by LLMs.
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Why You, Yes You, Need a Tripod
I noticed several years ago that cameras started to be all about capturing moments quickly and moving on. More than anything, it's all about being light, nimble, and kind of like a fly on the wall. And this type of photography I think is something that really needs to go away be…
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Grumpy Website (Feed)
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nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: Telegram invention I haven’t seen anywhere else: right click on a button. Totally undiscoverable, but when you know about it, it’s kinda okay. You don’t use these options often #Telegram #Button #Dropdown
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The Most Popular DSLRs in Singapore Revealed
When it comes to choosing a camera for a young photographer, a DSLR is often the best bet. One of the reasons being that the device is cost-effective, and gives you the right features and controls, as opposed to using one's phone. For Singaporeans who are beginning this journey…
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The 5 Best Cameras from 2015 That You Can Pick in 2026
A good camera, whether ILC or compact, is some of the most opted options today. Compacts make your setup easy, while ILCs allow not only a range of lenses to work. If you are looking for a perfect camera, whether compact or ILC, then these options can be of help.
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