July 29, 2011

Shooting in JPG mode is convenient because you instantly have a file you can throw onto the Internet, but if you're serious about photography, you might want to think about shooting in RAW if you aren't already. The reason is that only shooting JPG is the equivalent of letting the camera make a print for you and then tossing the negative -- something film photographers would never do. Here's a simple diagram by Haje Jan Kamps and Reddit user jannne to help you understand the differences.

Filmmaker Philip Bloom recently helped Lucasfilm shoot parts of their upcoming film Red Tails. The behind-the-scenes video above gives an interesting glimpse into what it looks like when pretty ordinary DSLR gear meets the big budget world of Hollywood filmmaking. The cameras are hooked up to some pretty serious equipment.

Yesterday we shared some fun portraits of dogs taken while they shook of water, but you can take similar portraits of people too. It's called "jowling", and is far less adorable. Here how Urban Dictionary defines "jowling": …

Update on 12/18/21: This video embed has been removed by its creator, but the video can still be watched over at FastCompany.

Facial recognition technology has become ubiquitous in recent years, being found in everything from the latest compact camera to websites like Facebook. The same may soon be said about location recognition.

It's not a microscope stop-motion animation, but this stop-motion ad Kia created for its 2012 Picanto is pretty incredible. Over the course of 25 days and nights, they used 1200 bottles of nail polish to paint 900 individual fake fingernails. Each nail took a whopping 2 hours to paint.

There has been a lot of discussion regarding social media sites and their scary-sounding terms of services that always sound like rights-grabs. Here's what Photoshop guru Scott Kelby had to say after trying out Google+: …