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Photoshop competitor unveil brand new weapon
When hearing the words ‘photo editor,’ one would automatically think of Adobe Photoshop within seconds. Various iterations of the program have been a staple for photographers and graphic designers since 1990, and ‘Photoshopping an image’ has become a common phrase for retouching photos. However, Adobe Photoshop is not the only photo editing tool available on…
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National Geographic photographer Jim Richardson showers the iPhone 5S’ camera with praise
There is no denying the fact that the folks at National Geographic know their cameras and are particularly skilled at capturing the world in never-seen-before stills. Photographers and videographers around the world have contributed pictures and documentaries that are more often than not, a visual delight. This is also just why, a National Geographic photographer’s…
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San Francisco to Host the Biggest Photowalk on May 14th
Thomas Hawk, famous professional photographer, along with his buddies Trey Ratcliff and Robert Scoble, has teamed up with Google+ to organize the biggest Photowalk in the history. The event is scheduled for next Tuesday, May 14th, in San Francisco. There’s more to it, there will be an after party and a lucky participant will go…
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Pope Francis greeted by a multitude of smartphone cameras
The world is changing and is slowly moving towards a technology-packed generation where man and machine will stay united forever, with unbreakable bonds of reliance of the former on the latter! The recent proof of that fact was the announcement of the new Pope. Recently, we came across two photographs, one during the election of…
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Lynx A arrives as world’s first point-and-shoot 3D camera
Photography is on the brink of one major upgrade. The usual, wonderful and memorable images that have for ages kept moments alive will soon be replaced with the magic of 3D shooting. Enter, the Lynx A camera, touted to be the world’s first point-and-shoot camera. This one’s shaped like a large tablet and requires the…
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Polaroid to promote smartphone photography with Fotobar-based stores
Polaroid will be on their top game after a while when they set out lifting shutters on sparkling new stores that show off smartphone photography. Based on its based on its Fotobar service, which lets users upload, enhance, and print shots from smartphones or cameras, Polaroid will open up a store to display the captured…
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Frieke Janssens makes tombstone photography in vogue, at $1,060
Keeping in line with the many rewarding captures of avante garde photography that have earned him his mighty name among concept shutterbugs, Frieke Janssens has gone on to raise even more eyebrows. He has now conceptualised the art of clicking people’s ‘last shots’. These will be images of people, they would like on their respective…
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The Super-Secret Spy Lens – The ultimate in capturing people in their essence
When capturing a crowd of people it’s obvious to get them in a natural pose, but try taking a single individual’s photograph and you will quickly learn on how unnatural your photograph will appear. This is because no matter how much you try, if your subject is aware of your lens pointed at them, they…
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Schlieren photography can help understanding how diseases spread
The New England Journal of Medicine has published an image that shows a man coughing which was created by Schlieren photography. Schlieren photography involves shining collimated light past a knife edge onto a target, and variations in the refractive index of moving air create “shadows” of a sort in the image captured on film, and…
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Image Furgurator – New age watermarking
Although this technology is just a day old, the amount of spam companies lining up to buy the technology will rise by the dozen every minute. The name ‘Image Fulgurator’ comes from the Latin for ‘lightning’ (fulgur) and means ‘Flash Thrower’. The device is a modified camera — in this case, an old manual Minolta…
