Matt Molloy may have well invented a new form of photography Art, the Timestack. Basically it is a series of time lapse images stacked one onto another to produce one single photo. The result is reminescent of brushstrokes on a painting.

He uses a Canon EOS 60D, which unfortunately does not have a built-in intervalometer, so hacked it with an open-source software called Magic Lantern to provide the capability. Multiple photos are taken from a fixed position. The interval between shots determine how smooth the movements will look, and an interval of 3 to 6 seconds were used for most of his shots. All the photos are then loaded into Photoshop, the same adjustments made on all of them and stacked using Star Circle Academy to automate the stacking process.

My favorite is Sunset Spectrum which stacks 396 photos.

Read the article at: DPmag.

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Muscular dystrophy is the name for a group of neuromuscular disorders that are characterized by progressive weakness and wasting of the voluntary muscles that control body movement.

[Muscular Dystrophy Canada]

Luka is a 12-year old boy with an active imagination. He pictures himself doing skateboarding, diving, basketball, and dancing. The problem is that Luka is also stricken with muscular dystrophy, unable to do the most basic tasks of everyday life.

Enter Matej Peljhan, a psychologist at Luka’s school, and award-winning amateur photographer. He stages a series of dreamscapes by positioning Luka on the ground among props, and captures the photos from above so that Luka appears to be participating in various sports.

The result is an endearing dreamscape.

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The idea of having each person on Earth represented by a stick figure on one single webpage is the brainchild of Worldometers.

We believe that this special webpage carries strong philosophical, symbolic, and aesthetic attributes.

Even the mathematics behind the implementation of this page is deeply fascinating.

7 Billion people so beautifully displayed together on a single webpage is a visual testament of the human condition of every single one of us, and all of us together, on our planet earth.

It is available on the internet for everybody in the world to watch at any time, adding to the feeling of sharing something in common.

It is also a snapshot of an extraordinary moment in history: the exact instant when we reached 7 billion people on earth, captured on October 31, 2011 at 5:49:16 GMT.

Wouldn’t it be cool if every one of us sent in a self-portrait to 7billionworld.com? Instead of those stick figures, we would at last have a complete album of every person on the face of Earth. At a cost of $1 per photo, they could collect a cool $7B which could be donated to charities.

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Clement Valla collects Google Earth images. But these images are unusual in that they look Dali-inspired, what with bridges, roads and buildings that seem to be melting in the heat of the Sun. Apparently, these pictures give us an intriguing revelation of how Google Earth actually creates its images.

These jarring moments expose how Google Earth works, focusing our attention on the software. They reveal a new model of representation: not through indexical photographs but through automated data collection from a myriad of different sources constantly updated and endlessly combined to create a seamless illusion; Google Earth is a database disguised as a photographic representation.

You can read more about this fascinating process at: The Universal Texture.

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No, you won’t be able to take this photo with the Sweep Panorama scene mode on your digital camera or smart phone. Instead Rainforest Expeditions tour director Jeff Cremer visited Peru’s Machu Picchu back in November 2012 and used his Canon EOS 7D 18MP APS-C DSLR with a 100-400mm f/5.6 lens to take 1,920 photos of the famous site.

A Gigapan Epic Pro robotic arm ensured perfect alignment of the pictures. The shooting took 1 hr 44 min., taking into account security guards constantly asking to see his photo permits (because the camera looked professional) and waiting for tourists to clear the area in front of the camera.

Eric Hanson from Xrez Studios stitched the pictures together on a MacPro Hexacore 2.67Ghz with 32GB Ram and OCZ 960GB RevoDrive. Render time was 1.5 hrs. The total resolution of the final image is 297,500 x 87,500 pixels (15.9 gigapixels).

View the image and read an interview of Jeff Cremer at our Featured Site: gigapixelperu.com.

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The Money Shot is a very interesting feature published in the Small Business section of The New York Times. Readers are invited to submit one — only one — photo that captures “the soul of your small business.” No product or marketing shots are allowed. Instead, the photograph has to depict “the ups and downs, the endless learning curve, the grind, the freedom, and the rewards of, yes, building something.”

The pictures won’t win any photo contests but are nevertheless fascinating and some have deep meaning for their small business owners. So why not jusmp over there are have a view. And then why not submit your own?

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Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti traveled the world to photograph children and what they considered their most prozed possessions, i.e. their toys. A child’s world is indeed the world of play and that is why many schools are now emphasizing that children learn best when they are at play, having fun, learning skills from what interest them most instead of what the teacher wants them to do today.

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The photos of Andrew Prokos are simply spectacular. He is a New York based commercial and fine art photographer, and one of the leading architectural, cityscape, and panoramic photographers in the USA. I love how he incorporates architectural elements and the use of long exposure times in his latest work which showcases the beauty of Rio de Janeiro.

Visit our Featured Site: Andrew Prokos Photographs Rio de Janeiro

Olivia Bee is 18 years old and has already photographed professionally for major customers like Converse, Nike, Subaru, The New York Times, and Hermès. At the tender age of 11, while still in middle school, she was mistakenly signed up for a photography course instead of the video production course she really wanted. She found it frustrating at first but persevered, progressed and “like, fell in love with this art.”

Converse first approached her via her Flickr page but she ignored it as spam. Eventually they hooked up and, at 15, she had her first professional paying gig.

She now works about 80 hours a week, doing all her own photo editing and color correcting. Her advice to anyone wanting to succeed in photography? “You should focus on success in terms of what you love and what makes you happy.”

Visit our Featured Site: Olivia Bee’s Flickr Photostream.

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