In a new book, data-viz guru Nicholas Felton highlights a wave of photographers mixing deep data into their art. The infographic designer is the ohor of Personal Annual Reports that weave measurements into a tapestry of graphs, maps and statistics to reflect the year’s activities. Now the creator of the Reporter app and Facebook’s Timeline […]
Another goodie by DigitalRev’s Bokeh blog on how to get your photos into art galleries. Not that art isn’t subject to commercialism. Galleries have to pay bills and sell the art exhibited, which might hold some photographers off some compromises necessary to get accepted by art houses. Uniqueness, difference and inspiration are key to get […]
Following up on the last post on virtual reality, 360° videography is its sibling. If you’re about to make a decision about where to take your photography, I’d give 360° videography a very close look. Yes, in many aspects it’s a still experimental field, yet sure if you’re doing it with the right equipment and […]
Virtual reality is coming and transforming the way we see and learn about things. Now, you can walk through a faraway city or see a hotel room in faraway say Sydney. Without being there. All this can be done at the comfort of your home. Using your smartphone. While photos are a reflection of reality […]
And you thought drone photo- and videography is the next best thing, giving you views, perspective and angles nothing else gives. True that, yet there is growing controversy about the dangers of drones. They might just crash into people should battery fail, or to some it is only a matter of time that a big […]
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It’s the next big thing in the photography world: dual camera smartphones, giving users the power of a wider and a longer lens built in to the phone, each with own imaging sensor. It’s like having a traditional camera with a wide angle lens and a telephoto lens mounted simultaneously. By circumventing the physical requirements […]
Hipsters beware, you’ll soon be able to call a Leica smartphone your own. Or at least a Huawei smartphone fitted with Leica camera and optical technology. Or a Huawei phone with a red dot. The two are teaming up. It also didn’t escape Leica that smartphone sales eat into the boutique luxury segment the venerable […]
Nothing short of potentially heralding a new age of camera design? As we all know there is no camera without a lens, a physical necessity carved in stone since the invention of photography. Lenses today are near perfect, we think, and we’re willing to spend top dollars on them. Now a team of U.S. engineers […]
There’s always a better time to buy a digital camera. Something better, faster, technically more advanced is always around the corner. Not so this time. Chapeau Olympus to the Olympus PEN F. What an iconic piece of beautifully crafted and designed precision engineering. A tribute to the original PEN F produced between 1963 to 1966, […]
If you can’t wait for the conclusion, please download the scientific paper titled Understanding and Predicting Image Memorability at a Large Scale right on. But wait, at the end of this post you can even test whether your photographs are memorable or not, based on the work of researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial […]
Well, did a routine medical the other day. The whole program. One value was a bit elevated and required follow-up tests. In the course of more exact health screening at the hospital I came across two familiar names: Canon and Olympus. And you can also find Nikon Instruments‘ microscopes, super-resolution systems and other medical equipment […]
The camera that sees at night. 12.2MP on a full-frame sensor with a maximum ISO sensitivity of up to 409,600… Flabbergasted, to say the least. Add the 5-axis in-body stabilization, 4K internal video recording and the solid lineup of new and legacy glass that excels on the α7 series… The Sony Alpha α7SII is available […]
The recent National Geographic Travel Contest, edition 2015, made me think. How come that the first prize of such a certainly prestigious contest goes to a black-and-white photograph, a photograph of divers swimming near a humpback whale off the western coast of Mexico. What a capture. The winner a black-and-white image; this in the days […]
Dear all, apologies for not having written and posted anything for so long. Appreciate your the emails received, rest assured all is fine over here, it’s just there are times in one’s life when one has to set priorities that are not always compatible with everyday life. And then there is the family. What’s more […]
It was one of those moments I wished for an even wider lens. 28mm were just too narrow. Trying to capture the scope of environmental disaster in the pristine Maldives would even ask for panorama format. Alas, the 28mm had to do to document the poisoning of the Maldives’ unique coral world. I’m talking about […]
One of the great achievements of the first truly digital camera system, Four Thirds, was the invention back in 2003 of the supersonic wave filter, the first dust reduction system ever that cleaned the sensor at each camera startup. Right, it came with the honorable Olympus E-1. Today that’s standard equipment — not entirely foolproof, […]
Another outing with the Nikkor 50mm F1.8G special edition (the one with the silver ring), this time the Vienna Ball Bangkok. It’s a solid no-nonsense performer with buttery smooth bokeh and reasonably fast autofocus. Very light with just 190 grams, it doesn’t feel like a cheap build at all. Knurling used in manual-focus lenses is […]
Try finding a place today without GPS — gosh, has technology made life easier. The world is so much less complicated to navigate but, arguably, harder to know. Just the other day I’ve decided to walk to a place in Bangkok I’ve been driving to countless times before. By walking there I was able for […]
By BENGT NYMAN Bird photography is one of the most challenging and rewarding kinds of photography. Free range, hand-held, birds-in-flight photography requires long reach, high resolution, fast and accurate autofocus and effective vibration reduction. Today this equals big and heavy equipment, similar to that used for professional sports photography. However, as opposed to sports, BIF […]
The new Lightroom 6 has face recognition, Panorama Merge (stitch together multiple images, including RAW files to create unique panorama shots), faster performance for importing and perfecting your photos, Advanced Video Slideshows and more. You can order Adobe Lightroom 6 for Mac and Windows from Amazon, B&H Photo or Adorama. For a comparison sheet with […]
It’s the missing link between “traditional” photography gear and the disruptive technology brought along by smartphones: no doubt that a DSLR or top mirrorless camera excels a portable device’s camera in every way possible. That’s not because of the former’s larger sensor or better processing speeds, it primarily comes down to optics. There is no […]
$900 off Nikon D750 kit (B&H Photo / Adorama), or body only $300 off (B&H Photo / Adorama). Plus, Adorama offers more Nikon D750 kits, including exclusive value bundles. For details go here. Or check out the extended huge Nikon savings from B&H Photo and Amazon. Offers expire April 25, 2015.
In the gold rush, neither the gold diggers nor buyers of the gold made the most money. It was the grocers and hardware stores who made the money, those who sold food, shovels, buckets, hammers, nails and tents. Similar dynamics can be found in today’s photography industry. It’s neither the photographers who make the big […]
By ERWIN PUTS When you review the development of the camera technology since 1960, one can discern a 15-year cycle. The period of the full mechanical precision engineered camera started around 1950 and ended in 1966 when Konica announced the Autoreflex. The trend to automation culminated in the Canon A-1 in 1978 and found its […]
Not much is left of the traditional camera. Give or take a few years, and mechanical shutters may be a thing of the past. Even though, what is photography without a shutter’s distinct sound. Countless variations of the “click” have persisted into the smartphone age, as the signal that an instant has been frozen in […]
By the time you’ve read this post, the net growth of this planet’s population has increased by about one thousand human beings. That’s right. One thousand, in the course of a few minutes. That’s 1.5 million more people every week. The planet and its resources don’t expand. Human population does, at a frightening pace. This […]
He was a class of his own: complicated, choleric, visionary, always borderline, conscious and breaking new ground. The movie director known for masterpieces such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eyes Wide Shut and A Clockwork Orange rewrote filmmaking, often to the horror of his bosses. First and foremost though Stanley Kubrick was a photographer. He […]
There’s a perpetual air of mystery surrounding the abandoned buildings of the world. Dutch photographer Hans van Vrouwerf aims to clear that mystery. He explores the rotting, decaying buildings left to the wild. Those asylums, factories, churches and other buildings exposed to the elements are treasure troves for photographers with unique settings, light and ambience. […]
Be it New York, Paris or the Victoria Falls in Africa, chances are a company from Russia has made most stunning panorama visuals of them. AirPano developed a unique technology to visually reinterpret sights we’ve seen a million times, but hardly ever in such, well, realistic virtuality. We had a quick talk with Sergey Semenov, […]
