Posts Published in December 2012

Tutorial: How to Create a Wet-Plate Look Photography Using Photoshop

Tutorial: How to Create a Wet Plate Look Photography Using Photoshop wetplate

Faking the look of old films is becoming ubiquitous in the world of mobile photo sharing apps, but so far the popular apps have stuck with various films and not older photographic processes. If you want to create a photograph that mimics the look of a wet plate, it’s actually pretty easy to do in Photoshop.
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Instagram Sees Drop in User Base, Is the Policy Backlash to Blame?

Instagram Sees Drop in User Base, Is the Policy Backlash to Blame? instacam

All over the Internet today, reports have spread like wildfire that the Instagram Policy Backlash has cost the picture sharing service as many of 25% of their active users. All of these initial reports stemmed from data collected by app metrics firm AppData, an analytics firm that keeps track of daily, weekly and monthly active users for any given app — and the company’s most recent readouts on Instagram showed a decline of nearly 25% in daily active users (from 16 million to 12.5 million).

Seeing the massive metrics drop, AppData immediately told The New York Post that it was “pretty sure the decline in Instagram users was due to the terms of service announcement.” As people have taken a closer look at the numbers, however, they’ve begun to realize that something doesn’t quite make sense.
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Canon France Facebook Photo Hints at a Mysterious New Product

Canon France Facebook Photo Hints at a Mysterious New Product canonad

Canon France has published a mysterious teaser ad to its Facebook page that shows a woman pointing some kind of invisible camera at a couple of ping pong players. The short (translated) message states, “Soon, we will share information that will change the way you look at the world…”
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Fantasy Photographs of Children Living in the Reflection of a Pond

Fantasy Photographs of Children Living in the Reflection of a Pond reflections 10

For his project titled Reflexion Autour du Bassin, French photographer Alain Laboile created fantasy photographs of his children, seen through the reflection of a small pond.
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Amazon Listing Suggests Apple Aperture 3 Replacement May Be Nigh

Amazon Listing Suggests Apple Aperture 3 Replacement May Be Nigh appleaperturex

If you’ve been thinking about buying a copy of Apple’s Aperture 3 for your post-processing work, you might want to hold off for a bit. A replacement may be on the near horizon — at least according to a new book listing that has popped up over on Amazon Canada.
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Minimalist Photographs Showing the View Through an Alaskan Cabin Window

Minimalist Photographs Showing the View Through an Alaskan Cabin Window RDZsT

When photographer Mark Meyer wakes up every morning in Alaska, the first thing he notices is the view through his room’s windows. Over time, he began to notice that this view took on a wide range of appearances across different times and seasons (mostly cold weather). He then started capturing a casual series of photographs that show the abstract, minimalist views that appear due to the rain, snow, and fog. The project is called An Alaska Window.
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Nikon’s Service Center Can “Change” the Green Tint on Your D800

Nikons Service Center Can Change the Green Tint on Your D800 greentint

Back in April, there was a small hoopla amongst Nikonians who purchased the Nikon D4 or D800 and discovered that the LCD screen had a greenish tint when compared to the D3s and D700. Nikon denied that anything was wrong with the new cameras, and stated that it was actually the older models that were too cool. A couple of months later, it was rumored that a soon-to-arrive firmware update would address the issue. That update has yet to arrive.

There’s now some good news for those of you looking for a fix “change”. Photographer Noah Bershatsky is reporting that Nikon’s service center will actually do the correction “change”.
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The Photographs Norman Rockwell Used to Create His Famous Paintings

The Photographs Norman Rockwell Used to Create His Famous Paintings norman1

Painter Norman Rockwell‘s illustrations graced the covers of countless magazines over the course of the 20th century, becoming a much-loved piece of American culture for their simple snapshots of life. You might recognize many of the works, and even the name behind the paintings, but did you know that virtually all of the images started out as photographs?
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Toshiba Building a Lytro-like Smartphone Cam That Lets You Refocus Post-Shot

Toshiba Building a Lytro like Smartphone Cam That Lets You Refocus Post Shot toshibalytro

Lytro is currently the only camera on the market that lets you refocus photographs after they’re shot, thanks to its fancy schmancy (and proprietary) light field technology, but it won’t be the only one for long. Toshiba is reportedly developing its own Lytro-style camera that will target a different segment of the photography market: smartphone and tablet photographers.
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The Story Behind an Iconic Photograph of Michael Jordan in Flight

The Story Behind an Iconic Photograph of Michael Jordan in Flight michaeljordandunkstory

You might recognize this iconic photograph of Michael Jordan flying through the air during the 1988 NBA Dunk Contest in Chicago. It was captured by renowned Sports Illustrated photographer Walter Iooss Jr., a man who has created some of the most memorable photographs of athletes over the past fifty years (another of his iconic photographs is “The Catch“).

As a followup to its ranking of the 100 greatest sports photographs of all time, the magazine caught up with Iooss to find out about the story behind this photograph.
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