There’s an interesting article at DIYPhotography for building your own curtain of water and then photographing objects thrown through it. You capture the moment of impact using speedlights. Read the tutorial at:...
Archive - July 2011
lastfuture Messes With Our Brain, Creates Temporal Video. Check Out The Behind the Scenes.
Temporal Video Experiment from lastfuture on Vimeo. I was sitting in a train traveling through The Netherlands recently when for some odd reason I decided I had to take a video of the landscape passing by. I had no real...
U of T Engineers Help Build an Antenna for Light
Nanotechnology, Quantum Dots, DNA — all the standard culprits are here for a dramatic plot: self-assembled artificial molecules that control and direct the energy absorbed from light. These “antennas”...
MIT Scientists Print Solar Cell On Paper, Cloth, Pretty Much Anywhere
From MITNewsOffice A team of researchers at MIT has invented a radical new way of creating solar panels: print an array of photovoltaic cells on paper in a vacuum chamber. Five layers of material are deposited onto the...
Nikon Announces AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8G
Get Closer To Clarity: The New Nikon AF-S DX Micro NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8G Brings Fast Macro Ability to DX Format Shooters Images packed with stunning detail and amazing sharpness have never been so near Mississauga, ON...
Canon A3200 IS Review @ TechRadar
“The [Canon] PowerShot A3200 IS is an outstanding little camera that ticks a lot of boxes.” We’ve added a new Canon PowerShot A3200 IS [QuickPrice Check (UK)] Review to our Reviews Matrix. TechRadar...
What To Do If Your Photo Is Used Without Permission
When you find that your photos have been used without your permission, perhaps by major news magazines or on commercial web sites online, what should you do? Contact them and ask nicely for it to be removed? Contact a...
Panasonic G3 Review @ DPReview
“Simply put, the G3 produces some of the finest images we have ever seen from Micro Four Thirds sensor technology. That it is possible to capture pictures with the G3 whose image quality is virtually...
Freelance Photog Clones Own Shadow Out Of Picture, Gets Dropped By AP
Miguel Tovar, an Associated Press freelancer working in Argentina, took pictures of a group of children playing soccer in El Algarrobal and, in one of the pictures, he decided to clone dust from one part of the picture...
Hand-crafting A Leica Lens
Leica Lenses (English) from leica camera on Vimeo. Every Leica lens is hand-crafted and goes through meticulous manufacturing processes to uphold the quality and precision that Leica defines and customers have come to...
Fish, Rock, Clam — First Photo of a Fish Using a Tool (Rock) to open a Clam
This is the first ever photo of a fish using a tool to open a clam. It holds the clam in its mouth and knocks it against a large rock to try to break open the clam. Professional diver Scott Gardner was exploring...
Zim & Zou Gets Back To Basics With Colorful Paper Leica
Back to Basics – Behind the scene from Zim and Zou on Vimeo. Zim & Zou is a french graphic design studio based in Nancy, France. Zim is Thibault Zimmermann and Zou is Lucie Thomas. Here, they use solorful...
Do You Want To Wear, I Mean, Watch TV?
From nixiebunny1 Dave Forbes decided he would not leave home without his TV so he sowed a 60″ LED video display onto a lab coat. The Video Coat has 160×120 pixels, 0.3″ (7.62mm) dot pitch RGB and is...
Sony TX100V Review @ DigitalCameraReview
“The [Sony] TX100V’s attraction is obviously its hip, ultra-modern iPhone cool look and perfect pocketability.” We’ve added a new Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-TX100V [QuickPrice Check] Review to our...
Olympus E-P3 First Impressions @TechRadar
We’ve added another Olympus E-P3 hands-on preview to our Reviews Matrix. TechRadar has published their first impressions of the Olympus E-P3, a Digital Interchangeable Lens Compact System Camera with 12.3MP...
Canon A800 Review @ TechRadar
“The [Canon] PowerShot A800 is a great little family camera [which] takes consistently good pictures from the box.” We’ve added a new Canon Powershot A800 [QuickPrice Check] Review to our Reviews...
20 Pixels Camera Has No Lens And Costs Less Than A Penny To Make
It’s billed as the world’s simplest camera at a mere 20 pixels resolution, with no lens (it uses the doped silicon), no moving parts and costs less than a penny to make. This Planar Fourier Capture Array...
Interactive Dresses Respond To Camera’s Flash
playtime, interactive dresses from ying gao on Vimeo. Fashion designer Ying Gao exhibits his interactive dresses at The Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec. Two of the featured dresses respond to cameras’...
Use B&W HDR Processing For Wide Tonal Range
Christopher Schneiter over at Luminous Landscape explains how to use multiple exposures at different settings and merging them to extend tonal range and capture detail all the way from the brightest highlights to the...
Kogeto’s Dot Shoots Panoramic Video on your iPhone 4, On Sale July 30
Kogeto’s Dot Successfully Funded on Kickstarter and Announces Sales to Begin July 30 With Dot, users shoot panoramic video, stream a live feed and share with friends using accompanying online software, Looker™ New...
How Do You Estimate Video With Stills? Director’s Fee or Usage Fee?
Now that more and more stills photographer are also shooting video, how do they get paid for the video portion? Director’s fee or usage fee? Read the advice from an Art Buyer, an Agent and a Photographer. Read the...