Police officers in the UK Police Constabularies apparently do not understand English, and continue to use Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and and Section 76A of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 to prevent public photography, despite Home Office instructions to the contrary.

The British Journal of Photography is conducting a ‘Not A Crime’ campaign to raise awareness about the increasing restrictions imposed on professional photographers in the UK and overseas. For more information, visit www.not-a-crime.com.

[ Read the article at: BJP ]

More than $900 million has now been spent in a single day of online shopping. According to the latest comScore information Green Tuesday (December 15) ecommerce sales reached $913 million, which brings the total holiday spending, so far, to nearly $25 billion, a 4% increase over 2008 numbers.

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Olympus E-P2

Steve’s Digicams is giving out an Olympus E-P2 to the lucky winner of their December 2009 Photo of the Day submissions.

[ Enter the POTD contest at: Steve's Digicams ]

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The Leaf Capture Remote iPhone app permits real-time, on-set remote viewing of medium format images for the new Mamiya DM system, enabling instant feedback on any shot. This effectively transforms an Apple iPhone® or iPod® Touch into a remote image viewer.

What is intersting about htis app is that while the photographer is shooting in a tethered mode, other people on set – the creative director, client, stylist, etc. – can watch via a standard Wi-Fi network, without hindering the movement of the photographer or crowding around one monitor. The images display high resolution and the software allows viewers to pan and zoom using the iPhone or iPod Touch.

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When the BBC announced their “In pictures: Landscape photo of the year 2009″ winners, readers were up in arms at what they perceived to be pictures that were heavily manipulated digitally using a technique known as High Dynamic Range or HDR.

HDR is a technique where the photographer takes a number of shots of the same scene at different exposures to ensure that shadows, midtones and highlights are accurately preserved. These shots are then merged together in post processing to produce one photograph with seemingly impossible dynamic range.

HDR has long been a technique reserved for professional photographers who produced incredible landscape photographs that the amateur photographer could never seem to reproduce no matter how hard they tried. And even when the secret finally came out in print, the process of manually merging these pictures in Photoshop was just too time consuming and difficult for the average user. It was not until special HDR software such as Photomatix came out that HDR exploded onto the amateur photographer scene.

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