Super slow motion footage captured by high speed cameras usually shows slow movements (if any), but German studio The Marmalade came up with a brilliant way of speeding up the movements: a high-speed robot camera operator.
Here are a few videos showing the new Canon Rebel T4i/650D's touchscreen LCD in action. The navigation options (e.g. pinch to zoom and swipe to change) are very similar to controls found on smartphones.
Here's a random but interesting piece of photo-related trivia: did you know that Kodak used a calendar that had 13 months? It was called the "International Fixed Calendar", and was proposed by a guy named Moses B. Cotsworth in 1902. The system divided each year into 13 months of 28 days each, with one or two days each year not belonging to any month. The extra month was named "Sol", and appeared between June and July. Although it was never officially adopted by any country, Kodak founder George …
A couple of weeks ago, reports confirmed that Olympus ex-CEO Michael Woodford would be settling with his former employer out of court rather than taking them to task for his unfair dismissal. Woodford was let go after blowing the whistle on Olympus' financial scandal, but now it seems he will have the last laugh as The New York Times has finally put a figure to the settlement: $15.4 Million.
Rounding out a day packed with Apple announcements and general excitement at the WWDC 2012, here's one final Apple tidbit coming from rumor site Apple Insider. According to them, recent job postings at Apple hint at the possibility of an Aperture mobile app coming in the near future. After receiving a tip from an anonymous user, Apple Insider found that the Aperture team is looking to fill quite a few manager and developer positions, many of which require experience developing on the iOS …
It looks like previous rumors about an updated photo stream in iOS6 were right. Apple has officially announced what they're calling "shared photo streams," which are exactly what they sound like: mark certain photos or albums as "shared," choose who you would like to share them with, and you're done. The folks you chose to share the album with will get a notification (if they have an iOS6 device or a Mac with Mountain Lion) and be able to browse, like and comment on your pictures in iPhoto, …
Laptop bag straps make for pretty comfortable camera straps since they're designed for carrying a good amount of weight on your shoulders, but they usually come with clasps that aren't compatible with strap mounts. Nano_Burger has the solution: add clasp-friendly loops to your camera using some thin strapping, staples, and Gorilla glue. The sturdy loops will last the lifetime of the camera, and can be cut off if you ever decide to switch to a different strap.
Big updates coming at you from Apple's WWDC for the MacBook Pro line today, the most impressive of which was their super thin, "next generation" 15-inch MacBook Pro that now boasts a retina display. With 220 pixels per inch, and over 5 million pixels overall, the screen will offer 4-times the resolution of previous models -- needless to say we're impressed with the photo edition possibilities here.
Ever wonder what the f-number of your eyes are? It can easily be calculated using the human eye's focal length (~22mm) and physical aperture size.
Eye-Fi cards have seen their fair share of competition, but a new product from memory manufacturer PQI could pose a bigger threat than they're used to. The Air Card, as PQI are calling it, made its debut at Computex 2012 and, for the most part, offers exactly what we'd expect from a WiFi memory card: it creates its own WiFi hotspot when the camera is turned on, at which point photos appear automatically on whatever tablet, phone or PC you happen to have connected. The card can even connect to …
Being Brave is a series of portraits by photographer Andy Brown showing children before and after tooth extraction surgery. Brown first photographed each child bright-eyed and smiling in the waiting room, and then captured their faces again as they were waking up from general anesthesia.
Over the last month we've featured two re-interpretations of Robert Frank's classic photo book "The Americans" -- one controversial and minimalistic, another analytical. And now we bring you a third, very different, auditory take on Frank's classic work.
About a week ago, Winnipeg-based photographer Tristan Shea Penner made quite a splash in the DIY world by releasing the above video about his DIY alternative to the Kino Flo lights that iconic headshot photographer Peter Hurley uses. People were intrigued by the quality of the portraits Penner was getting with his rig, while managing to keep it semi-portable at the same time. The only problem was that the video didn't get specific on how to build the rig for yourself, so Penner put together a …
Firmware updates roll out all the time, but rarely are they worthy enough to take serious notice of. A new firmware version for the Canon EOS 7D, however, may bring with it several new features that have the rumor mill spinning at the moment. According to Canon Rumors, a couple of days ago a Canon CPN site briefly posted details on firmware version 2 for the 7D before realizing their mistake and taking them down, but not before plenty of people caught a glimpse.
A great timelapse is a labor of love, and photographer Cameron Michael's Manhattan Project is a result of the love he has for the incredible city of New York, or more specifically the island/borough of Manhattan.
Having just mentioned National Geographic yesterday, it's appropriate that we're featuring a photographer whose work has been used in the magazine many times over. David Doubilet is certainly one of the greatest underwater photographers in the world, and his work in both fresh and salt water, in both black and white and color, really leaves one breathless.
Photographers and cinematographers are infamous (or maybe just famous) for using their children to create sometimes moving, sometimes cute, but always creative photo and video projects. Take, for example, Dutch photographer Frans Hofmeester's time lapse of his daughter from birth to age 12.
Just like point-and-shoots, the camcorder market was also hit hard by the advent of good-quality smartphone cameras. For the average person, all the home video capability they might ever need can now be found in, say, their iPhone. The only problem with that -- besides a higher susceptibility to Vertical Video Syndrome -- is that the videos you take on your smartphone rarely leave your smartphone.
Back in 2010, Lee Morris set out to prove that you don't need expensive camera gear to be a photographer by doing an entire fashion shoot using an iPhone 3G; while people were impressed, many nevertheless said that the use of professional studio lighting and post-processing negated the point he was trying to make.
It seems like almost every time the subject of 4K video cameras comes up, someone inevitably argues that such high resolution is unnecessary. Well, Sony have taken notice, and this week DoP Philippe Ros -- who was hired to shoot a 4K promo video -- jumped to 4K's defense by explaining that it's not all about the resolution.
Here's a great little-known tip coming at you via photographer Dan Carr that has the potential to make using Lightroom just that much easier. If you didn't already know -- and it seems most people didn't -- assuming you have enough card readers, you can actually import multiple memory cards into Lightroom all at once.
A little over a month ago we featured an extended interview with long-time Newsweek Photo Editor Jamie Wellford. It was a longer video than we usually put up but very educational and well worth an hour of your time. And now Photoshelter has put together another long interview/webinar as part of their "What Photo Buyers Want" series, this one with National Geographic Senior Photo Editor Elizabeth Krist.
We all know that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if your company logo showed up in a picture of an alleged killer? Chances are you wouldn't be too thrilled with any of the 1000 words that picture was generating.
George Eastman House released this video recently that provides a quick lesson on the history of the daguerreotype -- the first commercially successful photographic process.
New York Times gadget columnist David Pogue knows something we don't. In this year's list of personal electronic recommendations, he has some glowing words for a soon-to-be-announced digital camera: …
Nikon D800 vs Canon 5D Mark III videos are a dime a dozen, so the folks over at Chrisis Lab decided to take a more hilariously approach to the traditional comparison. Take note, the humor is a bit off color, but if you don't mind a bit of bleeped out cursing and the like then you'll definitely enjoy this surprisingly educational comparison. You'll notice that this is part 2, if you enjoyed it then you can find part 1 here (warning: the humor in the first part is quite a bit more risque).
Most everybody's heard of "Draw Something," the app where you are given a word and you have to draw something that will get the person on the other end to guess that word. But we're photographers and photo enthusiasts! We don't draw, we capture moments! Well, now we're also in luck, because app developer Rumpus has just announced a guessing game for the photographically inclined (or just about anyone who likes snapping and sharing pictures) called What The Photo.
The Image Language is a simple web app that lets you "write with images". Feed it a chunk of text, and it turns each words into the top image result on Google Images. The image above shows what this paragraph looks like when fed through the system.
In his series of overhead photographs title Car Poolers, Mexican photographer Alejandro Cartagena takes a different kind of look at the impact cultural issues like overgrowth are having on his beloved country. The series shows more and more workers who are catching rides into town in the backs of pickup trucks, and even though for them this is simply a means to save money, Cartagena sees them as "silent contributor[s] to the preservation of our city and planet."
Here's a talk Photoshop guru Scott Kelby gave at the recent Google+ Photography Conference on how to "crush the composition". It's a talk that goes beyond the basics of rules of thirds, leading lines, and repeating patterns.
Hand-in-hand with the much-anticipated EOS Rebel T4i -- mentioned in the same press release in fact -- come two new lenses from Canon, both of which boast equally new "Stepping Motor" (STM) technology. The EF 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens in particular has been anticipated for some time because it marks Canon's first foray into pancake lenses. But the new STM technology found in both lenses, especially when paired with the T4i's Movie Servo AF, has everybody curious if not excited.
Every year I meet with lots of students, assistants, young photographers, and photography educators and discuss the business of photography. Over the years I have complied a list of the biggest mistakes that most young photographers make when trying to become full-time money-making commercial photographers. I want to share those with you in the hope that people stop making the same mistakes.
After weeks of speculation and a big picture and spec leak yesterday, the wait is finally over -- the Canon EOS Rebel T4i/650D has finally arrived. Since the T3i release last year wasn't anything to write home about, Canon have really tried to make the new rebel worth an upgrade, and they've done this mainly by introducing an upgraded AF system, capacitive touchscreen LCD and Movie Servo AF that works with the new STM lenses, which also debuted today.
While celebrating its second birthday yesterday, the extremely popular camera app Camera+ revealed that it has sold over 8 million copies since its inception. The question that followed this announcement, naturally, is why hasn't the app gone the way of Instagram and been bought out for massive amounts of money yet. After all, unlike Instagram, Camera+ is a paid app that has made a profit; wouldn't that make it even more appealing to the big guys? Well it has, but Camera+'s determination to …
Last month we shared a long exposure photograph by NASA astronaut Don Pettit that showed star trails and city trails in the same frame. Turns out the photo was just one of many long exposure images shot by Pettit so far during Expedition 31. The photograph above shows star trails, an aurora, and flashes of lightning splattered all across the surface of the Earth.
It seems like every few weeks another long-lost photo archive is discovered and digitized, and the newest of these archives is a set of one thousand historical images taken as part of a Farm Security Administration project in the early 20th century. The photos -- some of which were taken by the likes of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Russell Lee -- were originally put together to combat poverty, but have instead become an important glimpse into what was then simply everyday American life.
For his project Flying Houses, photographer Laurent Chehere photographed various buildings and then Photoshopped them to transform them into surreal UP-style floating houses.
Light painting photography is going more and more mainstream. A light painting photography team from San Francisco called the "Aurora Light Painters" recently auditioned for America's Got Talent 2012 in Austin. It was quite a hit with the audience and judges alike.
Here's a cool little trick courtesy of Justin Leyba from ImagineNow Entertainment. If you're trying to get smooth video and you find yourself lacking in the camera dolly department, getting some cheap furniture sliders will offer an easy solution. The above video was shot using just that, a tripod with all three legs placed on top of furniture sliders that you can find on Amazon for under 15 bucks.
Those of you lucky enough to already have Photoshop CS6 already know about all the popular, highly-advertised features like Content Aware Move. But there are a lot of smaller improvements that come with each re-design of Photoshop that never get to see the limelight. In honor of those small (but often highly useful) improvements, Photoshop Insider Scott Kelby put together a short YouTube video that highlights a few of them for you.
Here's an interesting project that photographer Gabriel Verdugo Soto put together this last weekend by slapping together an old polaroid lens/aperture mechanism and a micro four thirds camera. In order to keep the lens in focus, he measured the distance from the lens to the polaroid paper in the orignal camera and used macro tubes to ensure the same distance was maintained between the lens and the sensor. The whole thing was then attached to a 52mm ring, and held together using that white epoxy …
Besides sharing some impressive specs at that Google Maps presentation we mentioned yesterday, Google also unveiled a new street view tool that should go a long way in further mapping out our world. The Street View Trekker, as they call it, is a backpack-mounted street view camera that allows the wearer to photograph and document places that can only be reached using the good ol' shoelace express. According to Engadget, the 40lbd Android powered backpack packs 15-megapixel cameras, an on-board …
Alongside picture and spec leaks for Canon's soon-to-be-announced T4i, details on their up and coming 40mm f/2.8 pancake lens have also surfaced. Besides pictures and schematics, which you can see above and below, we now know that the new EF lens will also be an "STM" lens -- meaning it will be sporting a silent AF motor. Weighing in at only 130 grams and with a speculated price under $200, this has the potential to be come a portable amateur favorite pretty quick.
Here's another behind the scenes video showing fashion street photographer Scott Schuman (AKA The Sartorialist) at work, this time in Madrid.
Just one short day away from the official release, massive leaks have sprung regarding Canon's new Rebel T4i. Courtesy of Canon Rumors, we now have a full list of specs for the T4i/650D. As previously rumored, the camera will indeed sport an 18-megapixel APS-C sensor, articulating touchscreen LCD, 9 cross-type AF points and a better "hybrid" AF system for live view and video recording. But the specs we hadn't yet heard of include: ~5fps continuous shooting, ISO 100-12,800 (expandable to …
In many Asian cultures it's common for families to gather together for formal portraits on special occasions, but this tradition is becoming much harder to coordinate as more and more young people are moving abroad for work. Photographer John Clang has a new series of photographs that features an interesting solution to this problem: Skype webcam projections. Clang visited various individuals around the world and had them video chat with family members in Singapore. By projecting the feed onto …
Fresh off the press: Canon Price Watch just put up the first images of Canon's up and coming T4i -- which is rumored to drop this Friday. Interestingly enough, Canon Price Watch seems to think that the new Rebel will be announced tomorrow, a day earlier than expected, alongside the rumored 18-135mm IS STM and 40mm f/2.8 pancake lenses.
Mike Warren has written up an in-depth tutorial on how you can build a 360° camera hat using 6-8 disposable cameras. The cameras are worn around the head like a crown, and are simultaneously trigger using a single shutter release with the help of servo motors that depress the shutter when triggered. Warren writes, …
Earlier today Google gave a sort of "state of Google Maps" address to many of the biggest names in tech, and one of the most impressive statistics to arise out of the presentation was that so far, Google Street View cars have driven over 5 million miles and collected over 20 petabytes of imagery. To put that in perspective, that means that the street view cars have travelled enough miles to complete 10 round trips to the moon (and then some) and have stored more than 80 times more information …
Peter West Carey of DPS has a neat trick for always having a gray card "at hand": he suggests using your hand as a gray card when you don't have a card handy. You'll need to start with an actual gray card for "calibration": …
