- The Creator Lens
- Posts
- 🌍 World Photo Awards: 54 Countries, 1 Exhibition
🌍 World Photo Awards: 54 Countries, 1 Exhibition
World Photo Awards—your global visual buffet 🌍, Kodak Super 8 keeps the nostalgia, ditches the reel 🎞️, and Meta's AI digs deep into your IG cringe 😱.
Created by the people at Beazy.
Sign-Up | Advertise | Network | Opportunities
Welcome, creative friends!
Kodak's Super 8 is back and hipper than ever. Nostalgia or nah? Let’s dive into the reel story.
In today's rundown:
🌍 Photo Awards Showcase Globally
🎞️ Kodak's Super 8 Throwback
😱 Meta's AI IG Invasion
🔥 Press Worthy Stories
📚 Learn & Grow
Read time: 3 minutes
VISUAL CREATORS
Sony World Photography Awards
The World Photography Awards, a major global photo contest run by the World Photography Organisation, celebrates its 17th year this year. Its National & Regional winners were just announced—for the first time, the competition received entries from every. single. country.
These local talents now get global recognition, with their images showcased in London. It’s a win-win, as entrants automatically vie for Open and Professional titles, which will be announced alongside Student and Youth winners on April 18.
Somerset House will then host the exhibition, displaying the world’s best in visual storytelling until May 6.
Photographers of all abilities took part in the awards, which give the chance for local talent to be shown on an international stage. All entries into the open competition of the awards are automatically considered and images can be taken on any camera type or device.
Which matters more for a photographer?Vote to see live results! |
Is every photo a potential piece of high-art?
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🎨 Absolutely
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 📸 Context is key
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🗑️ Let's not be delusional
🔥 Press Worthy
Indie Filmmakers: You Don't Need Julia Roberts to Make Your Indie Comedy. The best example: Leah McKendrick’s indie film, Scrambled, hits theaters after Lionsgate swoops in. The comedy is as personal as it gets—Leah wrote it about freezing her own eggs.
Canon's new RF 10-20mm lens: World’s widest rectilinear, and it’s half the weight of the EF 11-24mm.
How virtual reality can enhance real life instead of replacing It: Emmy-winning Felix & Paul Studios uses VR to bridge the gap between real and virtual, aiming for “enrichment, not escapism.”
Canon’s getting chatty: two new cameras registered in Asia, a mirrorless camera with dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and a cinema camera with the same.
|
📚 Learn & Grow
Samsung Argues That There is ‘No Such Thing as a Real Picture’
🔥 Unlimited access to a global network of perfect shooting locations & studios, top-notch equipment and 10’000+ talented professionals 🎥
PRODUCTION MASTERY
Kodak's Super 8 camera is finally hitting shelves, and it's a filmmaker's nostalgia dream.
This $5,495 gadget records on classic Super 8 film cartridges (that's 50 feet of film or about 3 minutes of footage) but also has a microSD slot for audio. The LCD screen does triple duty as a viewfinder, menu panel, and info display.
It’s a filmmaker’s dream, but at $5,495, it’s not exactly bargain bin, it’s a pricey throwback (film and processing not included), but for filmmakers looking to capture that vintage vibe, it's a modern classic.
The nostalgia trip might be worth it for pros and hobbyists who want to go retro.
Super 8 comeback: Worth the price?Vote to see live results! |
Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest”: Artistic triumph or too arthouse?
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🏆 Masterpiece
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 👍 Solid Film
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 👎 Pretentious Rubbish
🔥 Press Worthy
Virtual Photography Awards 2023 announce winners: Taka San from Japan takes top spot with an Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora shot.
What's 'virtual photography' though? Instead of using real-life cameras, artists capture scenes through game's in-built photo mode.Creamsource unveils Vortex Softs, matching its Vortex8 & Vortex4 but for soft lighting. Vortex24 joins with triple the output for more coverage.
Apple’s AR headset, Vision Pro, is now compatible with Adobe Lightroom & Firefly, letting photographers edit on the go with their eyes.
Culture clash: Italy pulls David from Getty. A 2006 Italian law requires compensation for the use of cultural heritage in profitable ventures, triggering debates on whether a 600-year-old masterpiece can be copyrighted.
📚 Learn & Grow
This Is How You Build An Audience For Your Short Film Online
You Are a Second-Rate Photographer: What Can You Do About It?
40 Years In Photography: How Has It Changed?
|
CREATOR ECONOMY
Your Instagram posts are now feeding Meta’s AI. Yep, Mark Zuckerberg spilled the beans.
With the T&C we all skimmed and agreed to, it turns out we’re handing over our photo albums to the AI buffet.
Legally, it’s a gray zone. While other AI-gen companies like OpenAI and Stability AI have been more coy about where they scrape their data, Meta’s play is as public as the posts it’s munching on.
But here’s the twist: just because Meta’s savoring our selfies doesn’t mean it owns the copyrights. That could land lawyers in court and users on the fence about privacy.
Will this news feed exodus end with a double tap goodbye?
Meta munching on your photos: Creepy or Copyright Crisis?Vote to see live results! |
Is online clout killing authentic creativity?
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🎭 Art over Algorithms
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 📈 Clout is the New Currency
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🤷♀️ It's a Balancing Act
|
🔥 Press Worthy
20 years in, Facebook now has 3B monthly active users, nearly half the world’s population. It may not be cool, but it’s still king, and is still growing.
Apple’s $3.5k Vision Pro is already causing a scene. Cops were called when a guy drove with it on. Apple says "don’t".
Google is developing a YouTube app for Apple's Vision Pro headset, but there's no timeline yet.
TikTok's growth has hit a wall as the platform tries to do it all: eCommerce pushes, longer vids, and fewer tunes. Is TikTok destroying itself from the inside out?
📚 Learn & Grow
This guy made a ceiling-mounted camera robot to film YouTube videos
New Report Shows That 96% Of Online Creators Make Less Than $100K per Year
LATEST FROM BEAZY
How was today's newsletter?Feedback helps us improve! |
Reply