Earlier this year we saw the launch of two search engines -- Stolen Camera Finder and GadgetTrak Serial Search -- that help find stolen cameras by searching photos on the web for the serial numbers. The idea is neat, but no one knew whether it would actually help recover stolen gear or not. Turns out it does work.
Emotional Breakdown is a cool new web app that attempts to gauge the …
This comment posted (and deleted) by Reddit user WonkoTheLucid shows why photographers need …
Millions of people know Instagram as a fun way to share photographs, but …
Last week we featured Shopobot, a new website that can show you the price history of camera …
You’ve probably seen countless photographs already of the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan back in March, but …
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DEAR PHOTOGRAPH is a neat photo project by Taylor Jones that collects pictures of pictures from the past in the present. These are images that show old photos held up and aligned to the present day location, offering a glimpse into what once was.
Twitter has just announced that they will be launching their own photo-sharing service that will let you attach photographs directly to Tweets, competing with services like TwitPic. Rather than host the images themselves using their own servers or Amazon's S3 storage, they've decided to partner with photo-sharing giant Photobucket. It'll be interesting to see whether photographers feel more comfortable sharing their images on Twitter now that the functionality will be baked into the service itself, especially after recent brouhahas involving third party services.
If you’re both a photography lover and a Mac user (there’s a lot of you out there, right?), computer …
Google Street View photos won't be limited to the exterior of buildings for much longer -- the company has just announced Google Business Photos, a service that will allow Google websites to show the interiors of local businesses. If you thought having vehicles equipped with Street View cameras driven up and down every street in every city was a tedious project, for Business Photos Google is planning to have photographers sent to businesses that apply for the service. Crowd-sourcing the imagery would definitely be less labor intensive, but shooting inside private property requires permission.
There have been a number of devastating tornadoes in the Southeastern United States this past week, with the homes …
The Stolen Camera Finder is a new search engine developed over the past …
Back of a Webpage is a creative new site that imagines what popular …
Looks like Nikon has a new 50mm lens primed for announcement. Earlier today a …
Hiding or censoring part of an image through obfuscation is as easy as selecting the area in Photoshop and applying the Pixelate->Mosaic filter, but what if you don't have an image editing program at your disposal? If you're seriously paranoid about your privacy on the Internet, there's a new service called PhotoHide that helps you quickly add these pixelated areas to any photo. Everything is done through the web browser, and you can download the final image once you're done.
For a Yahoo HackU programming competition, a group of students at the University of Washington created …
Emphas.is is a newly launched Kickstarter-esque website that brings the latest Internet craze of crowd funding to photojournalism.
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Pummelvision is a neat little website that aims to help you see your …
The people behind camera comparison and recommendation website snapsort have just launched …
Google just launched a new eBookstore containing over 3 million titles (the web’s …
Nikon is a player in the 3D game now, though not by releasing any 3D-capable camera. Instead, they’ve announced …
Goodwill has an online auction site called shopgoodwill, and categories in the …
If you're like a lot of people, you might have felt the urge to secretly shoot where there are signs posted prohibiting photography. Strictly No Photography is a website that aggregates these photographs, giving the public a glimpse into various things that are off limits to cameras. There's photographs from museums, theaters, and even a collection of "no photography allowed" signs.
FindTheBest is the latest startup founded by …
DropMocks is a new photo sharing service designed to help you share photographs online as quickly and easily as possible. Created with HTML 5, the service has a minimalistic homepage that invites you to drag and drop photos into the browser. It then adds those photos into a simple gallery, and provides you with a short URL you can share. It's a bit like file hosting service DropBox, except for photos and done through the browser.
A Day in the Life of MIT (ADITL) is a neat project in which members of the MIT community take pictures on a particular day and then pool the photographs together to provide a snapshot of what life was like on that day. ADITL 2010 happened yesterday, and hundreds of people contributed images to the collection.
San Francisco-based photographer Michael Jang has worked …
When we featured Strobox back in 2009, it was a simple idea: provide an easy way for photographers to create lighting diagrams and share them with others. Since then, they've upgraded their website to include a gallery where you can browse photographs done by others, view their lighting diagrams, and comment on them.
If you don't have a full arsenal of lightning equipment, you can filter the photos by what kind of lighting equipment was used to browse photos that are more relevant to you.
Google has a useful account on YouTube called GoogleWebmasterHelp that publishes short video answers to search engine optimization (SEO) questions submitted to them. If you have a website promoting your photography, then thinking about SEO can help you drive more visitors to your photography.
Tilt-shift lenses are usually pretty pricey, so many people fake the effect during post-processing by selectively blurring sections of their photographs. There's even simple web-apps that can add such blur to give your photographs a miniature scale model effect.
If faking the effect isn't legit enough to satisfy your photo-geekiness -- and you'd rather not drop big bucks on it either -- there's a nifty do-it-yourself solution you need to check out: Bhautik Joshi over at cow.mooh.org has a new DIY Tilt-Shift project that teaches you how to convert an old lens into various kinds of tilt-shift lenses.
Here’s a pretty cool idea: StudioShare.org is a website through which individuals can rent …
We wrote about Snapsort at the …
Sylights (short for “Share Your Lights”) is a …
Google has a new feature that photographers may enjoy: you can now customize …
If you need to fix some red-eyes in a photo, but don’t have …
Just last week we wrote that the Museum of London had released an augmented reality iPhone app …
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