Keyword: photography

For decades, NASA has produced extraordinarily detailed images of distant objects, including galaxies seen as they existed only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. These images do not emerge from telescopes as finished photographs. Instruments aboard telescopes, spacecraft, and robotic explorers collect raw data, which are transmitted to Earth and processed through sophisticated, multi-stage systems. The James Webb Space Telescope provides a powerful example. Because Webb observes…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing photography from a process centered mainly on capturing an image into one that also includes intelligent reconstruction, refinement, interpretation, and creative transformation. AI tools can reduce noise, restore damaged photographs, correct lighting, remove distractions, expand backgrounds, improve resolution, and combine images in ways that once required advanced technical skill. AI has expanded creative possibilities. These possibilities include pan…

Technological innovation occurs at the confluence of knowledge and imagination. Technology then shrinks, merges, and often reappears inside something more powerful. Devices that once dominated homes, offices, and studios fade when their functions are absorbed by smaller, cheaper, more capable systems. Television moved from bulky furniture built around broadcast programming to thin, networked screens connected to streaming, gaming, video calls, apps, and on-demand entertainment. Computers foll…

The Ipernity platform functions much like a great rainforest. Each night, shortly after midnight, the servers clear, the systems refresh, and the site hums with renewed energy. In these early hours, Ipernity runs fast and clean, like dry air beginning to gather moisture. As users upload photos, exchange likes, and leave comments, they saturate the digital atmosphere with activity. Gradually, as the hours pass, this accumulated load begins to weigh heavy. Latency creeps in like rising humidi…

"BETWEEN TWO ISLANDS: JULIA MARGARET CAMERON AND HER CIRCLE" By Adam Yamey A chance encounter with an inventor of photography led to JULIA MARGARET CAMERON (1815-1879) becoming a pioneering artistic photographer. Her work transformed photography from the straightforward, unimaginative copying of nature into a creative artform. Born in Kolkata (Calcutta) with British, Bengali, and French ancestry, she was educated in France, married in India, worked in England, and di…

Photography does not come with a set of rules, it comes with an aspiration to capture the unusual. Found on > 500px.com/im_sagar_official ""He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." A.E. (1879 - 1955)

…. but a necessity. Because society needs images …. through works of Art. …. That are examples of Goodness and Hope. …. That share the Love of God in the World. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Photography is a major force in explaining man to man -- Edward Steichen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For this reason, I believe in the universa…

Pictures that tell a story in situations that call for you to be like a fly on the wall.

What makes Ipernity an online photo sharing community that works? Read my take on this important and timely subject.

To begin with, you can use any tethering software -- only later will you use the advantages of solutions tailored to astrophotography. Here I'll discuss both options.

The Moon not only is a stepping stone for humankind's exploration of the universe. The Moon also is a good stepping stone for your astrophotography and often the first distant target people shoot.

Well I should begin from the beginning. Back in 2009 I got a descent bridge camera, the Panasonic FZ18, a nice little camera for the money. I knew my main interest was nature photos, so I got well into using my Raynox Macro Conversion and taking photos of insects. I began posting on Flickr and a local person Andy Phillips noticed my stuff, well I noticed his as well. He had amazing photos of the most incredible moths!! How does he do it, I had to know. So we began by going to a well lit foot b…

A standardized image format is something most users take for granted -- JPG, GIF, PNG and even TIFF are household names when it comes to (web)-images & editing. If you use a dSLR, you have gotten used to adding a tool or two, to process the Nikon or Canon RAW formats. With the astronomy cameras, the formats & necessary conversions become a real mess -- especially if you use a one-shot color "OSC" camera.

At one of the Ipernity groups, a somewhat lively debate has developed. How it will evolve remains to be seen. On one side of the discussion is the notion that people’s commenting on others’ photos is excessive and essentially not very constructive. There is also the complaint that some of the photos receiving comments are “far-from-perfect.” Of course, if perfection is truly the standard required for one to express appreciation for another’s works, there is probably no danger that people wi…

For this article, I use the eclipse on April 15th 2014 as an example and as a location I have picked San Francisco. The path of the moon & the timing is dependent on your own location and you will have to make adjustments for that. Here are some examples and a bit of background of the various attempts : www.ipernity.com/doc/stargazer95050/album/389379

Supernovae are among the most powerful events in our universe and they emit unimaginable amounts of energy. And long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away that has happened but it took 11.5 million years and only now does this energy reach us, some of it visible to our eyes. Look up at the sky & search for the M82 "Cigar Galaxy" -- it will be over in a few weeks.

If you're like me, when you move house you pack everything into labelled boxes so you have some idea of where things need to go when they reach their new home. Of course, it takes some time to unpack everything and, again if you're like me, years later you find some odd box that you never got round to unpacking and start to wonder why you even wanted the things you put in it... But things were not so organised when I moved here from f****r. Over there, in a way, my photos were already packed i…

All my spare time over the past few days seems to have been consumed by my migration from flickr. There's still a bit of sorting out left to do but I'm ready to start moving forward here now and posting pics that were never part of my flickr photostream. Some of these will be the backlog that I was going to get round to posting there but today it was a beautifully sunny bank holiday Monday and I went on an outing with a friend and took the first photos I have taken since moving to ipernity. Ha…