Music videos sometimes go viral. Psy made us all laugh for a long time with his Gangnam Style music video. David Vincent Wolf will freak you out with Atomic Man music video shot for Portugal. The Man.

The video is in fact more than 5000 still photos shot with a Nikon D700, Nikkor 50mm F1.4 lens, and Nikkor 45mm tilt shift lens. The photos were then stitched together in Final Cut Pro 7 and After Effects, using the Twixtor plugin.

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TechRadar has published its Canon PowerShot SX280 HS review.

The Canon PowerShot SX280 HS – or Canon SX280 for short – replaces the Canon SX260. There are actually two versions of the same camera, the other being the Canon SX270 which features pretty much all of the same specifications, but lacks the inbuilt Wi-Fi and GPS of its slightly more expensive sibling.

Francois Dourlen adds a humorous twist to his photography. Instead of using a drawing or photo overlayed onto a scene, he uses his iphone instead. On the screen of the iPhone is another image that seems to match precisely with the scene, except for that wonderfully twisted sense of humor of his.

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Leica is teasing us with a new camera to be announced on June 11, 2013. The new model is positioned between the Leica M and the X2 (awfully dubbed for this marketing campaign as the Micro M) and code named the “Mini M.” Let’s see: an APS-C image sensor, interchangeable lens, EVF? It could also be simply a slightly less speced Leica M (e.g. retaining a FF sensor) though it is unfortunate that the marketing people went with the term “Mini” (which triggers a very negative connotation).

Put Google Glass on a toddler and you have a cute video filmed from the eyes of a toddler. The best part of the video is when he finally announces, “I’m done” and relinquishes the glass back to Dad. But wait until he learns he may soon watch movies and play games on it. He won’t be giving it back then.

Next, we’ll see the Google Glass on a surfer, a skier, climber, … and on lots and lots of dogs, cats and other animals, domesticated and wild. Like I said, many Google Glass videos to come from all kind of fantastic viewpoints so that we may start feeling inadequate living a normal boring life. On me? No, no. All you’ll see is the screen I’m typing this on.

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TechRadar has published its Canon 700D review.

After less than year the brand has decided to replace the Canon EOS 650D with the Canon EOS 700D, also known as the Canon EOS Rebel T5i. It sits alongside the Canon EOS 600D at the very top of Canon’s “consumer” lineup, just below the Canon EOS 60D that starts its “enthusiast” range. However, the new camera only makes a few upgrades on the model it replaces.

Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer is in a giving mood. Not only did she just announced earlier today that she is paying US $1.1B for Tumblr, making founder David Karp the latest billionaire, now she is offering 1TB of free photo storage to every Flickr user. The night is young out here in the East Coast, with one hour to go as I type this post, and who knows what other surprise she might spring on us yet!

How much is 1 terabyte of storage?

A helpful slider calculates how many images you will be able to save in 1TB:

1 terabyte = 537,731 6.5 megapixel photos (* Assuming the resolution of today’s most commonly used smartphones)

Digital editing is performed by all photographers. In fact, the more WOW! Factor a photo has, the greater the likelihood the photo has been digitally edited, perhaps even to the point of “manipulation.” This is the dirty secret that most point-and-shoot photographers never learn: your camera, however sophisticated and expensive, will never take these pictures out of the box; you have to post-process the pictures.

So, when readers pointed out that the winning entry in the recent Word Press Photo contest looks obviously digitally manipulated (with a very pronounced tone enhancement), World Press Photo got defensive and, after submitting the photo to Fourandsix Technologies for “forensic analysis,” declared the winning entry’s digital editing totally acceptable.

Just what did photographer Paul Hansen do to his winning photo to stir such controversy?

The experts at Fourandsix Technologies found that though Hansen’s winning photo was “retouched with respect to both global and local color and tone,” they “find no evidence of significant photo manipulation or compositing.” So, what is the problem? Why is there even a controversy?

It is because the tonal enhancements applied to the photo is so very obvious to the naked eyes. Many photographers who have played with so-called HDR photography can spot the over-the-top digital enhancements right away. However, World Press Photo has officially given its blessing that such heavily enhanced photos are acceptable as journalistic photos and so falls within their rule that “retouching which conforms to currently accepted standards in the industry is allowed.”

Even without any digital editing, the content of Hansen’s winning photo packs such a punch as to stop you in your track and elicits a reaction. In our view, that photo deserves to win but requires zero to minimal digital editing. It is sad that the controversy about how much digital editing is acceptable has relegated the content of the photo into the background.

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The Scotiabank Photography Award (SPA), the largest annual peer reviewed celebration of excellence in Canadian contemporary photography, is designed to raise the international profile of an established Canadian photographic artist.

Stan Douglas wins the 2013 Scotiabank Photography Award which provides:

• $50,000 in cash

• a primary Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival exhibition in 2014

• a book to be published worldwide by international art publisher Steidl

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Stan Douglas wins the 2013 Scotiabank Photography Award

Toronto, ON (05/16/13) – Scotiabank is thrilled to announce that Vancouver’s Stan Douglas has been named winner of the third annual Scotiabank Photography Award. The tightly guarded secret was revealed at a ceremony held Thursday evening at Toronto’s Ryerson Image Centre. The prestigious prize provides the winner with $50,000 in cash, a primary Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival exhibition in 2014 and book to be published worldwide by international art publisher Steidl. The Scotiabank Photography Award is Canada’s largest annual peer reviewed celebration of excellence in Canadian contemporary photography.

“Stan Douglas has helped define and enrich the Canadian art and photography landscape with his outstanding artwork,” said Edward Burtynksy, Chair of the Scotiabank Photography Award jury and co-founder of the Award. “He has pushed the limits of contemporary photography and will continue to have an incredible impact on the world of photography both here in Canada and abroad. He joins an exclusive group that includes Lynne Cohen and the late Arnaud Maggs as winners of this award.”

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