If you know how photo editing works, you might have a leg up at spotting fakes. Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com Mona Kasra, University of Virginia It can be hard to tell whether a picture is real. Consider, as the participants in our recent research did, these two images...
Written by: Freeda Alcala “You are seeing a redefinition of what camera is” – ISAAC REYNOLDS, Google’s Pixel camera product manager There is more to a smartphone camera than what meets the eye. It is breath-taking, revolutionary and slowly commands the world of...
A light-trails long exposure of London’s Tower Bridge, shot on iPhone8Plus using the NightCap app. Rob Layton, Author provided Rob Layton, Bond University Each time you snap a photo with your smartphone – depending on the make and model – it may perform more than a...
The ruins of the city Cyrene, an ancient Greek and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in Libya. Mahir Alawami/Shutterstock Andrew Wilson, University of Bradford Our present is intrinsically bound up with our past, our sense of identity shaped and moulded by the...
With our attention diverted, we’re no longer in the moment. ‘Concert’ via www.shutterstock.com Rebecca Macmillan, University of Texas at Austin At a conference on June 14, Facebook executive Nicola Mendelsohn predicted that the social networking site would...