Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling. After standing on the sidelines while professional content-troll Righthaven fights in court, the newspaper company that seeded the ve
Stephens Media, the Las Vegas–based media chain, is fighting to keep its latest business model alive: copyright-trolling.
After buying his first digital camera, Ren Ng tried to snap a shot of his vivacious 5-year-old daughter. Like many young, active children, it was incredibly difficult to focus the image properly and capture her fleeting smile in just the right way. And th
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/ren-ng-lytro/
After buying his first digital camera, Ren Ng tried to snap a shot of a family friend’s vivacious 5-year-old daughter. Like many young, active children, it was incredibly difficult to focus the image properly and capture her fleeting smile in just the right way.
And then it came to him — what if you could take a picture, and then adjust the focus later?
Ex-Stanford student Ren Ng is just about to launch a new kind of camera that will blow you away. Don’t believe me? Try clicking around on this photo of a Scuba diver standing in front of distant mountains. This is a single exposure, taken with one camera.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/lytro-camera-lets-you-focus-photos-after-you-take-them/
This is a single exposure, taken with one camera. See how you can move the point of focus anywhere, even after you have taken the photograph? I told you it was cool.
The Via PanAm app, by award-winning photographer Kadir van Lohuizen, studies migration in North and South America via photography, video and audio links
Link: Kadir van Lohuizen launches an iPad app – British Journal of Photography
Apple has just released the update to its professional-level movie editing app Final Cut Pro for just $300. Previously, the application cost $1,000. Final Cut Pro X is available now, from the Mac App Store. Remember when Apple completely reworked iMovie,
Apple has just released the update to its professional-level movie editing app Final Cut Pro for just $300. Previously, the application cost $1,000. Final Cut Pro X is available now, from the Mac App Store.
When I have to start worrying about when and where I can use my device based not on the law or the content owner (whole other issue), but on a third party manufacturer’s initiative, then I have a problem. I have a problem because we’ve gone to a whole new level of this post 9/11, quasi Orwellian society that’s being built around us
An Apple patent describes a system for allowing venue owners to override compliant cameras. The patent describes using an infrared signal that compliant cameras would detect; in the presence of thi…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/16/apple-patents-mobile.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
This is part of an increasing trend to designing hardware and software that allows remote parties to override the instructions of the owners and users of devices. This trend, coupled with the increasing degree to which devices are privy to our secrets, our sensitive information, and even our biological functions, worries me an awful lot.
For photographers familiar with TinEye’s reverse image search engine, Google’s announcement today of a new reverse image search engine should be welcome news.
Link: Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » Google Adds Reverse Image Search
The three companion apps have been enhanced, and for a limited time the price of Adobe Eazel has been reduced to $2.99. Details: Adobe Eazel (watercolor painting) – You now have easy access to the …
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2011/06/photoshop-cs5-ipad-companions-get-new-features.html
The three companion apps have been enhanced, and for a limited time the price of Adobe Eazel has been reduced to $2.99. Details:
It’s been just over a year since the original iPad shipped, and only now are we really seeing apps that are suited for the bigger multitouch screen. One of those is Snapseed, a new image-editing app from Nik. You may know Nik for its expensive and excelle
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/niks-snapseed-brings-pro-level-photo-editing-to-ipad/
The level of polish is high. Not only are the built-in filters good, but there are lots of extras in the UI. For instance, tapping on a control point lets you cut copy and paste as well as delete it, and the dots also contain the initial letter of the last parameter you adjusted. You can also tap and hold a “compare” button at any time to peek at the previous version.
IOS 5 adds plenty of new features to the iPhone, but one group of users who will be particularly happy with the new operating system will be photographers. The most obvious feature is the update to the camera app itself, but there are lots of other tweaks
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/what-will-ios-5-bring-for-photographers/
First, the camera application. The headline feature is that you can now use the volume switch to fire the shutter. This is a lot easier than tapping an on-screen button. Ironically, a third-party app which enabled this — Camera + — was booted out of the App Store in August last year.
Rob: I need to get into the history of Nick Onken, tell me how it all started. Where are you from? How old are you and when did you get into photography? Nick: I’m 32 and from Seattle. I started getting interested in photography about six and a half years
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/06/07/nick-onken-interview/
In my opinion it’s that realism that you can create, real moments and authenticity. It comes from your taste in wardrobe, people, props, clothes, locations. Everything is about your taste, and how you see. Then that all goes into that picture and into that set. You’re creating an action, and a theme, and a story. And then you’re shooting it. And then you’re snapping that camera at the right moment, or a series of moments and then you’re coming back and editing, I think editing is a big part of it as well. I would say the key to my style of photography is me feeling that moment.
I think this is great for a couple of reasons. First the leading player in the Twitter photo space twitpic is a total ripoff for photographers. When you use it you are giving them the right to sell your photos through some fine print in the TOS. Many people don’t read TOS agreements and twitpic doesn’t really advertise or clearly disclose that they can screw you over and steal your rights.
Please note that this bug only impacts customers who are saving metadata to JPEG files with a rare characteristic.(JPEG files must have an unusually large block of private camera data included in the file to be susceptible to the bug*) This scenario is so rare that we do not believe that it is necessary for customers who have already upgraded to revert to the previous version of Lightroom or Camera Raw. However, the bug could cause image corruption which falls within our highest severity category of bugs.
Link: Potential JPEG Bug in Lightroom 3.4 and Camera Raw 6.4 « Lightroom Journal
I’m happy to report that the three recently announced Photoshop companion apps are now available for download: Adobe Color Lava for mixing colors & sending them to Photoshop (demo) Adobe …
via John Nack on Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2011/05/photoshop-cs5-apps-for-ipad-now-available.html
Adobe Color Lava for mixing colors & sending them to Photoshop (demo)
Adobe Eazel for creating watercolor-style paintings, then sending them to Photoshop (demo)
Adobe Nav for selecting Photoshop tools & managing open documents (demo)
One year after acquiring Microsoft’s Expression Media, Phase One has released a new version of the asset management software under the name Media Pro
Link: Phase One launches Media Pro photo manager – British Journal of Photography
AFP said it used Tungstene to detect tampering in a faked photo purportedly of Osama Bin Laden’s body that was circulated last week.
Link: Rob Galbraith DPI: AFP using new forensic software to detect faked photos
ElcomSoft was able to crack Nikon’s Image Authentication System (priced @ $489). They were able to extract the original image signing key and use it in several forged photographs that successfully pass Nikon Image Authentication Software validation: “Niko
via Nikon Rumors: http://nikonrumors.com/2011/04/28/nikon-image-authentication-system-cracked.aspx
ElcomSoft was able to crack Nikon’s Image Authentication System. They were able to extract the original image signing key and use it in several forged photographs that successfully pass Nikon Image Authentication Software validation
If you lose your phone or your computer, there’s a fair chance you’ll get it back if you’re using some kind of tracking software. As we have seen before, Apple’s Find my iPhone service has rescued more than one lost phone. But what about your other gadget
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/04/stolen-camera-finder-finds-stolen-cameras/
If your camera is stolen, you now have at least a chance of finding it thanks to the Stolen Camera Finder by Matt Burns. It works by searching the web for photos bearing the serial number of your camera. This number is embedded in the EXIF data of every photograph you take.