I'm at Apple's launch event at Columbia Square in Hollywood, and I just spent time hands-on with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display. I'm a huge display snob, and its tandem OLED screen is just stunning in person.

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At 19,262 places around the world where people walked outside and counted stars, the satellite that maps Earth at night recorded the ground below getting slightly darker. Across North America, upward radiance measured at those exact sites by the VIIRS Day/Night Band fell 0.80 percent a year. Over those same locations, artificial sky brightness was rising 10.4 percent a year.

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Apple's new MacBook Pro has a tandem OLED display that reaches 2,000 nits, holds a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, and covers Adobe RGB as well as P3. For the first time on a Mac, you can also touch the screen. Apple calls it the PROLED XDR display, and it comes in 14-inch and 16-inch models with M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, with preorders open today, October 28, and availability starting Friday, November 6.

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Here are several easy tips so you can use your tripod like a pro. You'll get the most from your tripod this way, with lessons drawn from professional night photographers who use tripods in genuinely challenging conditions.

Pros use quality tripods. They know better.

If you are bothering to set your camera up on a tripod, you clearly want sharp photos. You also want your tripod to not vibrate. You want stability. You want it to set up smoothly and easily.

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A four-ink EcoTank with dye-based color and a single matte black is about the last printer most people would pick for fine art prints. Its refillable tanks make ink cheap, though, so if the prints hold up, it becomes an inexpensive way to experiment with papers and profiles at home.

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If you've wanted to try infrared, you have two choices: screw a filter onto the camera you already own, or send a body off to be permanently converted. The two routes differ a lot in cost, commitment, and how much patience each shot demands.

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