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Archive - 2010-06-14

Olympus “Pen Your Story Challenge” Semi-Finalists

PRESS RELEASE 20 SEMIFINALISTS ADVANCE IN OLYMPUS “PEN YOUR STORY CHALLENGE” Hundreds of Creative Entries Submitted on YouTube in U.S. and Canada; Only Six Finalists Will Win $5,000 and the Olympus PEN E-PL1 Camera...

A New Kind of Lens Technology Sees Through Walls

We all know that light goes through transparent materials, like the glass lens of a digital camera, but what we may not be aware of is that light also goes through some materials that seem opaque to our eyes. Some...

The Birth of Technology

Popular Science has an interesting photo gallery of their very first looks at technologies, like the telephone, the autofocus lens, and the Internet, that went on to be rather successful. View the gallery at: PopSci...

Guggenheim on YouTube on Guggenheim

YouTube Play is a collaboration between YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum to recognize and showcase the most remarkable online videos from around the world. To have your work considered on YouTube Play, simply post it...

What Not To Wear On Your Photo Safari Trip

photo credit: The Grumbler Planning a safari trip to photograph wild animals in their natural habitat? If these include big cats like cheetahs, jaguars, etc., you do not want to wear this cologne: Calvin Klein’s...

Tutorial: HDR 101

The new Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 [QuickPrice Check] features a couple of new functions that make an upgrade well worth the money. Today I want to take a look at their Photomerge Exposure function that takes two or...

Aperture 3.0: Whitening Teeth

[ via Stephen’s Photography Tips ] Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Share on Mastodon...

Adorama Revises Contest Rules

In response to concerns that its contest rules simply appropriate entrants’ photos, Adorama has changed its rules so photographers retain the rights to their submitted pictures while granting Adorama the rights to...

To HDR or Not To HDR?

Scott Kelby has a great article on “HDR” — you know the over-the-top-kind — and whether to HDR your image or not. I like that part of his article: If someone shows me a great HDR image, I’m like...

Why Don’t Museums Allow Photography

It’s always been a mystery to me why some museums do not allow photography. I’ve heard various reasons through the years visiting museums and art galleries. The two main reasons given are: Over time, the...

Lost Camera Survives Ocean Trip

Another “lost” camera story makes the headline. This time it’s a hungry sea turtle, so goes the story, that snapped a bite out of the floating camera and got its flipper caught in the camera’s...