Dreamlike Photo Manipulations of Earth and the Starry Night Sky
For his project titled "Unrealistic Scenes", photographer Nathan Spotts composited his own landscape photographs with digital artwork of planets floating in the starry night sky.
Bruce Davidson on Photographing the New York City Subway System
Back in the spring of 1980, Magnum photographer Bruce Davidson began to photograph the subway system in NYC for his project titled Subway. NYRBlog has published an interesting essay -- an excerpt from the introduction of Davidson's book -- in which the photographer talks about his experience: …
Case With Built-In Cameras Reveals the Journey of Checked Baggage
Earlier this month we shared some advice from an anonymous airline baggage handler, who revealed that hard-sided “spinners” suitcases are safest if you must transport valuables (e.g. camera gear) in checked baggage. To see why, check out the video above by Delta Airlines. They drilled holes into a hardcase and installed six outward-facing cameras to document what a bag goes through after it disappears behind those black rubber flaps and before it emerges onto the conveyor belt in the …
Siri Ported to the Canon 5D Mark II?
A Swedish hacker and robotics student named Björn Mabrö is claiming that he has successfully developed a custom firmware for the Canon 5D Mark II that adds Apple's Siri voice assistant to the DSLR. Mabrö claims that the hack allows the camera to respond to 124 different voice commands that control everything from the shutter to changing values in settings.
CameraTrace Emails You If Your Stolen Camera is Detected On The Internet
Looking for a lost camera on the web by searching for its serial number in uploaded photos is nothing new (see Stolen Camera Finder), but GadgetTrak's new CameraTrace service takes it one step further. For a fee of $10 per camera, the service will actively monitor the Internet for your camera's serial number. If it ever pops up in a photo uploaded to popular photo sharing services, you'll get an email notification. Back in August, GadgetTrak's manual Serial Search helped a photographer recover …