August 17, 2018 - Written By Kristijan Lucic It seems like Samsung Brazil’s official Twitter account has tried to pass off two stock photographs as camera samples taken with the company’s Galaxy A8 smartphone. The company’s tweets have been deleted, though the screenshots are still available, and can be checked out in the gallery down below. In one of the tweets, Samsung wrote the following (rough translation): “A dating registered in many selfies. The front camera #GalaxyA8 has dynamic focus and highlights in the photo what matters most”.Now, attached to that tweet was a stock image that was not taken with the Galaxy A8, so the tweet was obviously trying to mislead people. Samsung is not the first one who pulled off something like this, of course, some of you probably remember that Huawei tried to do the same with the Huawei P9 in 2016. In any case, the first image that you can see in the gallery was attached to the aforementioned tweet, and it was … [Read more...] about Samsung Shares Stock Photos As Galaxy A8 Camera Samples
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Samsung Brazil tried passing two stock photos off as Galaxy A8 camera samples
Remember when Huawei tried passing a photo from a $4,500 camera off as one from the then-new P9? Samsung Brazil's just done the same thing, but with a lot less justification, by attempting to pass a stock photo off as a sample from the Galaxy A8's front-facing camera - twice. It's clear that Samsung intended to mislead. When translated, the caption on Samsung's tweet (which has since been deleted) reads: A dating registered in many selfies. The front camera #GalaxyA8 has dynamic focus and highlights in the photo what matters most. You'd think that it'd be easy enough to get some people to just take a selfie with a Galaxy A8, but someone at Samsung Brazil apparently decided it'd be easier to take a stock photo, edit it to make it more vibrant, throw a Samsung watermark on the top right, and pass it off as an A8 photo. Unfortunately for Samsung, a Twitter user discovered that the image, entitled 'Portrait of a beautiful hipster couple looking happy,' was actually from Getty Images, and … [Read more...] about Samsung Brazil tried passing two stock photos off as Galaxy A8 camera samples
Stock photos of scientists reveal that science is mostly about staring
Science is mostly about white people staring, usually at colored liquids, but also sometimes at chickens and grass — at least, according to stock photos. So real scientists on Twitter are posting their favorite representation fails with the hashtag #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob. The whole thing started when Nicole Paulk, a biochemistry and biophysics professor at the University of California, San Francisco, was working on a presentation. “I was trying to find stock images that aren’t too stuffy and more realistic, that don’t show us with tweed jackets and elbow patches,” she says. Instead, she found a scientist peering deeply at a chunk of dry ice. “No one on the planet, even a dry ice scientist, would ever do this,” she says — so she tweeted it. Turns out, there are a lot more photos where this came from. So science blogger and former chemist Yvette d’Entremont came up with the hashtag, #BadStockPhotosOfMyJob. And friends, … [Read more...] about Stock photos of scientists reveal that science is mostly about staring
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Unsplash, our favourite free stock photo site, now has an iOS app
Unsplash has long held the top spot in our roundup of the best free stock photo sites thanks to the stunning quality of its images and generous license, and now it's available as a free app for your iPhone or iPad.Unsplash for iOS offers over 450,000 high-res photos from 50,000 photographers, which you're free to edit and use in any creative project – even commercial work. A small link crediting the photographer is appreciated, but not essential.The Unsplash app supports drag-and-drop on iPad, so you can simply drag your chosen photo straight into a supported app (such as Keynotes, Pages or Notes).Image 1 of 3Image 2 of 3Image 3 of 3There's no Android version on the cards yet, but Unsplash has also developed a wallpaper app for macOS, making it easy to use some of its most striking photos as a desktop background, and a slideshow app for Apple TV.There's also a Chrome extension that shows photos from Unsplash whenever you open a new tab. You can download them, share them via … [Read more...] about Unsplash, our favourite free stock photo site, now has an iOS app