Bottle-cap tripod: Seriously???
Don’t know whether to take this seriously or not… Photojojo is selling a bottle-cap tripod [http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/bottle-cap-tripod]. For $10, even if it were a joke, it’s pretty...
View Article8 Guidelines To Taking Panoramic Photos With Any Camera
Digital Photography School recently published 8 Guidelines To Taking Panoramic Photos With Any Camera. I’m trying to learn more about panoramas, including using software (such as Photoshop, Autostitch,...
View ArticleRoss Ching’s new time-lapse photography: Little Bribes
[Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes from Ross Ching on Vimeo.] Very impressive time-lapse of Death Cab for Cutie‘s Little Bribes by Ross Ching — http://rossching.com/little-bribes/. Shot almost...
View Article20 Great Stitched Panorama Examples from Digital Photography School
Panoramas are something I’m trying to learn more about and found DPS’s 20 Great Stitched Panorama Examples a nice display of how varied panoramas can be. From massive Air Force transport planes to the...
View ArticleSebastião Salgado – Back to Nature, in Pictures and Action [NYTimes.com]
Photo of S. Salgado by Kevin Scanlon for The New York Times Sebastião Salgado spends weeks with remote tribes before taking a picture. He hikes 500 miles to be where he needs to be for the shot he has...
View ArticleShowcase: A High Schooler Views Her Community | Lens Blog | NYTimes.com
Touching pictures taken by a graduating high-school student in Montgomery, AL. Aside from the pictures she took, the commentary shows the struggles (in more ways than one) she is going through.
View ArticleGlastonbury 2009 – The Big Picture – Boston.com
Glastonbury 2009 – The Big Picture – Boston.com — Stunning images from Glastonbury this year. My favorite has to be the second (above) — almost magical in its appearance.
View ArticleNYT Magazine Withdraws Altered Photo Essay [PDNPulse]
PDN Pulse published a report that the New York Times Magazine Withdraws Altered Photo Essay after finding several indications that the photographs had been digitally altered. MetaFilter also published...
View ArticleJason Bell | Photographer
Through an article on Smashing Magazine’s website, I found a link to Jason Bell’s website: http://www.jasonbellphoto.com/. I’m still a real beginner with photography and recognizing photographers’...
View ArticleWorld Wide Photo Walk: Maybe next year
I’m bummed — I won’t be able to make the WorldWidePhotoWalk this weekend in Annapolis –see 27,000 photographers to “walk” this weekend – Technology Live – USATODAY.com for more info. Looks like a...
View ArticleFocus Testing – photo.net
Is auto-focus a real problem? I’m not sure, but I have an XSi which seems to work pretty well. A friend has a D90 and some of the shots taken with his camera (on auto-focus) look blurry. Maybe it’s...
View ArticleCanon’s New Anti-Blur Lenses Will Be Available This Year | Gadget Lab |...
One of the problems I’ve seen and experienced taking photographs is unintended blur. Taking a picture of a moving car or a picture of a waterfall, for example, you’ll probably want to have some blur to...
View ArticleEssay: Icons as Fact, Fiction and Metaphor – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
Is photography always honest? Where is the line to be drawn between truth and fiction? Essay: Icons as Fact, Fiction and Metaphor – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com. [See my post on Edgar Martins, too, here.]...
View ArticleDoes the Roomba really cover the whole room? Question answered…
Ever wonder if the Roomba really covers the whole room? Wonder no more. Thanks to signaltheorist.com, you can see for yourself at Roomba, Economics and Long-Exposure Photography | signaltheorist.com....
View ArticleEdgar Martins Posts Long Essay Addressing “Confusion” Around His Photographs
Edgar Martins replies to the whole controversy stirred up by his photographs in the NYT Magazine. Read his own words, where he quotes Nietzsche, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag. None of his post...
View ArticleQuotations from Sontag’s On Photography
I recently finished reading Susan Sontag’s On Photography [ISBN 0-312-42009-9; Picador, 1973] and, in the spirit of the book itself (which includes a collection of quotations from others), I decided to...
View ArticleThe Online Photographer: The Worst Photograph Ever Made
From 12/12/08, Mike Johnston, in his blog The Online Photographer, calls this Annie Leibovitz photograph “the worst photograph ever made“: [picture taken from pdnedu.blogs.com...
View ArticleCollection: How to take insects in-flight
fotoopa has posted photographs and schematics showing his hardware design for taking pictures of insects in flight. While the depth-of-field is very thin (credit card thickness), the pictures he has...
View ArticleHow Genetics Works | FlowingData
I love simplicty and you don’t get much simpler than this visual depiction showing How Genetics Works | FlowingData. Thanks, Nathan, for another excellent post! Short and sweet.
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