Posts by Author: Alex Baker
Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe
DeviantArt moves to stop your photos being sold as NFT’s without you knowing
May 18, 2022
Alex Baker
The online art gallery DeviantArt is expanding its DeviantArt Protect tool in a bid to help artists and photographers figure out if their work has…
China accused of hiding body and camera evidence in first successful Everest climb cover-up
May 17, 2022
Alex Baker
Author Mark Synnott has asserted in his new book that China may have been involved in removing and hiding photographic evidence of the first-ever successful…
The Intersect tool in Lightroom: the ‘secret’ masking tool you definitely need to start using
May 17, 2022
Alex Baker
It’s no secret that Adobe Lightroom has become an incredibly powerful standalone photo editor in its own right over the last few updates. Often, I…
Jason Momoa says sorry for taking photos in Italy’s Sistine Chapel
May 17, 2022
Alex Baker
Jason Momoa has issued a video statement apologizing for taking photographs inside the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel in Italy. It is strictly forbidden to take photographs…
This is what the lunar eclipse looked like from the International Space Station
May 17, 2022
Alex Baker
Were you lucky enough to capture the blood moon this week? The full lunar eclipse should have been visible from Earth in North and South…
Burger King Germany’s stomach-churning photos are entirely real…but just for a day
May 16, 2022
Alex Baker
Currywurst and herring anyone? Or how about egg and banana? Burger King Germany’s latest ad campaign went viral after it caused confusion among non-German speakers….
Ultra-rare dragonfish captured on camera for first time
May 16, 2022
Alex Baker
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has captured some incredibly rare footage of a bronze coloured dragonfish. While there are several types of dragonfish,…
Deliberate practice will make you a better photographer, here’s how
May 16, 2022
Alex Baker
Practice makes perfect, or so the old saying goes. That’s not actually correct as I’ll explain later, however. But generally, if you want to get…
Camera lens inspired by eyes of extinct trilobites can focus on near and far objects at the same time
May 13, 2022
Alex Baker
Inspiration for new technology is everywhere, even in the fossils of prehistoric creatures it seems. Scientists have developed a nanophotonic light field camera with extreme…
First photo of the black hole in the centre of the Milky Way is revealed
May 13, 2022
Alex Baker
Astronomers have unveiled the first image ever of Sagitarrius A* (Sgr A*), the enormous black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy….