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Photographers: you’re being replaced by software
- 12 months ago - 2 comments

Please do not shoot the messenger: www.photo-mark.com/notes/2012/may/14/photographers-you-will-be-replaced-software
phototropism
- May 13, 2012

This is cool: Plants that can take pictures : -) www.blogs.com . scientificamerican . com /oscillator/2012/05/12/living-photography/
World's Largest Digital Camera Project Passes Critical Milestone
- April 25, 2012

science.slashdot.org/story/12/04/25/1851223/worlds-largest-digital-camera-project-passes-critical-milestone Original article: https ://news. slac . stanford . edu /features/worlds-largest-digital-camera-project-passes-critical-review
picnik.com is free until late April 2012
- January 24, 2012 - 2 comments

The (once pay-only) advanced efects at the online photo manipulation site www.picnik.com/app#/home/welcome are free until the site closes in late April 2012. You might want to check out their cool effects.
+1 an ipernity image to google+
- January 10, 2012

I found a cool trick to +1 to your picture on google+, and thought I'd mention it here in case others are interested. Here is how to +1 and/or share your picture (or presumably anyone's ipernity image) on your social media page on google+: 1) Start an igoogle page 2) go to "Your gallery" in ipernity ( http://www.ipernity.com/doc/wdj is mine), select rss feed at the bottom of the page, and add it to your igoogle page as a widget 3) on your igoogle page, you will see your most recent 3…
MIT's New Camera Can Take 1 Trillion Frames Per Second
- December 13, 2011

On slashdot: hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/13/1340216/mits-new-camera-can-take-1-trillion-frames-per-second The NY Times: www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/science/speed-of-light-lingers-in-face-of-mit-media-lab-camera.html and on extremetech.com: www.extremetech.com/extreme/108773-mit-slows-down-light-with-trillion-frames-per-second-video-camera I have a camera that can do 7 fps.
large panoramas
- November 10, 2011

I confess I never new of this site: gigapan.org It seems to be well-known though. Some cool images!
Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera
- October 19, 2011 - 1 comment

Pretty cool: jonaspfeil.de/ballcamera
GIMP video effects demo
- August 5, 2011

GIMP is usually used to modify or create effects on still photos. However, it is possible to add plug-ins and extra features which let you do effects on short video-clips as well. For example: Steps: 1. I took a video clip (taken on a street nearby my house) to start with. 2. I more-or-less followed the tutorial "Gimp convert a video clip into frames " at youtube.com/watch?v=p3vq2sqB30M Basically, you start gimp in the directory you want all your frames to be…
digital sensors vs film
- August 5, 2011

This is a video of an interesting lecture by Rob Hummel which I thought some of you might like: http://fstoppers.com/a-technical-explanation-on-how-film-and-digital-films-differ I've read some scepticism of the claim by Hummel (who works for Kodak) that gamma rays damage film sensors.
The World's Largest Photograph
- August 1, 2011

http://www.vimeo.com/groups/secondstory/videos/27169163
gimp 2.6 book
- July 23, 2011

I got a look at the GIMP 2.6 Cookbook recently and thought I'm post some comments on it. I think there is at least one GIMP developer on ipermity (tux computers?). For most tasks I use GIMP, but occasionally I use Photoshop for some very special filters it has. My impression is that GIMP's noise reduction (which was called greystoration, but now is called g'mic) is better than PS's. My impression of this book is that it is aimed at beginners. Nevertheless, I like this book for several re…
Lytro camera?
- June 22, 2011 - 1 comment

I just heard of this: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/06/22/auto.focus.camera/index.html Does anyone here have an opinion? Company's website: http://www.lytro.com . I have no affiliation at all with the company, nor know anyone associated with it. Just curious what other people think.
"What makes images memorable?" article
- June 4, 2011 - 1 comment

Interesting article: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/memorable-images-0524.html Also available as a pdf.
Nature photography in the Age of Falsification
- January 8, 2011

I just ran across this article (from 1998!) by Kenneth Brower, which still seems relevant and interesting some 13 years later. It was published in The Atlantic and is entitled "Photography in the Age of Falsification": http://www.theatlantic.com/ past/docs/issues/98may/photo. htm
Philadelphia trip
- October 9, 2010 - 6 comments

Earlier today I took a trip to the KEH folks who were temporarily in Philadelphia, to sell my Nikon D300. I plan on buying a D7000 when it comes out. I have a Nikon p100 and also a panasonic f28 p+s to tide me over until then. On the way back, I took some shots of the Philadelphia buildings and the Baltimore waterway. Though I had no trouble taking pictures in Philadelphia (even standing in the middle of a busy street sometimes to get the shot!), some of the Baltimore shots were interuppte…
beautiful architectural photography and video
- September 23, 2010 - 1 comment

For those who like architectural photography: There is an interesting sequence of photos at http://www.thirdseventh.com/index.php?/thirdseven/mats--lights and a beautiful video at http://www.thirdseventh.com/index.php?/4thdimension/film Hope you enjoy!
trip to Spain
- July 9, 2010 - 2 comments

I'm leaving for Spain today. Hope to have lots of photos to post when I return, on the 18th!

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