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Archive - June 2010

Stop Motion Fire Animation

Take 320 candles, fire, smoke, heat, 2 weeks and a whole lot of frustration. [ via Bit Rebels ] Share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Email a link to a friend...

The Ingenious Flipper Bridge

How do you provide a seamless transition from left-side of the road driving to right-side of the road driving? The Flipper Bridge designers (the Dutch firm NL Architects) solved this problem and it seems so natural, so...

Bavaria Babes Ad Stunt At Soccer World Cup

This is how the Bavaria Babes pulled their stunt during the Netherlands-Denmark game on Monday. It is viral marketing at its best by the Dutch beer company Bavaria even though a couple of the organizers got arrested...

Wildlife Photography Tutorial @ TrustedReviews

Cliff Smith over at TrustedReviews has published Part 1 of his “Digital Photography Tutorial – Wildlife” article. In this first part, he covers equipment, including, camera, lenses, tripod and a good hide...

Sony A450 Review @ PhotographyBLOG

“The Sony A450 is an eminently capable but rather uninspiring DSLR that feels like the stop-gap solution that it is, designed to hit a certain price point in the market.” We’ve added a new Sony alpha...

Reflections of Paris Photo Gallery

If you want a good example of why including a foreground element in your landscape pictures is important, see this photo gallery of Paris shot by Pierre Petit (1886-1969), aka Yvon, “the best-known unknown...

Is HDR Ethical?

Black Star Rising poses an important question: “Is HDR Imaging Ethical for Photojournalists?” Note that this question applies specifically to photojournalists, not to artists and amateur photographers, who...

Ditching the Netbook for an iPad?

CNET Senior Editor Dan Ackerman did a little experiment at E3, ditching his Netbook for an iPad. The purpose was to see how well the iPad fares as his writing, reporting, blogging, photo uploading device. The attraction...

Manfrotto School of Xcellence

I am surprised but this tutorial site (Manfrotto School of Xcellence) from the maker of some of the best tripods money can buy is actually quite good! Visit: Manfrotto School of Xcellence. Share on Bluesky (Opens in new...

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...