Digital Photography School has sparked another Canon vs Nikon debate by posting the following infographic earlier today: As much as I would’ve liked to see more technical data, I can only assume that the resulting infographic would be about 5x larger due to the wide range of products each company provides! On a more personal […]
Lytro: The Camera That Lets You Shoot Now and Focus Later
In the past couple of days, the tech and photography world has been abuzz with news of Lytro, the focus-free camera that promises to change how you take pictures forever. Lytro is the brainchild of a young Stanford Ph.D named Ren Ng. While the technology has existed since the mid-90s, Dr. Ng was able to take […]
Rosa de Agua
Your eyes aren’t deceiving you — the picture below really is a water rose. Photographer Fer Gregory describes how he created the stunning image: To take this picture I made a basic “rose” shape out of a plastic bottle, I taped it to a twig and then I placed them upside down to pour the water […]
Learn SLR Photography Online with Camerasim
I have owned my DSLR for over a year now, but I still don’t feel completely comfortable with its myriad of settings and options. Sure, I have it set to manual mode most of the time, but I’m forever questioning my choices due to the fact that I’m a casual shooter with limited time (and […]
The Development of the Camera [Infographic]
This one is for my photographer friends. Created by Mashable in conjunction with Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom®, it sure makes me nostalgic about the cameras of my past. (Like the Kodak DX3600, which was the first digital camera I ever owned. It was HUGE and boasted a paltry 2.3 megapixels, but I was the first of my […]
Child’s Play: A Book Bed
In the East, it is not uncommon for people to use thin mattresses in lieu of a bed. The mattresses are folded/rolled and stored away during the day to save space. (This is, in fact, how my family slept when we lived in Korea.) Creative photographer Yusuke Suzuki has taken this concept and transformed it to […]
“You know when you’re ready.”
This funny ad for the Canon 40D was published in Digital Photographer magazine back in 2008. …Sometimes, I fear that J is thinking the same thing when he looks at me. Via PetaPixel. You may also like: The Secret Lives of Superhero Toys Kids Recreate Best Looks from the Golden Globes Disney’s Hollywood Studios Star […]
Latest Additions to “Disney Dream Portrait” Ads
The Disney Parks Blog has posted the latest additions to Annie Leibovitz’s “Disney Dream Portrait” series. The three new photos include Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen and Alec Baldwin as the magic mirror from Snow White, Penelope Cruz and Jeff Bridges as the title characters of Beauty and the Beast, and Queen Latifah as Ursula […]
Photo Opportunities: Hundreds of Tourist Photos as One
Conducting online keyword searches for world-famous monuments and tourist hotspots, visual artist Corinne Vionnet culled thousands of tourists’ snapshots for her series Photo Opportunities. Each image in the series was created by superimposing hundreds of pictures of the monuments — the effect is quite haunting and ethereal, and inevitably wistful. Saint Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow Tiananmen […]
Model-Morphosis
I don’t follow fashion, so the only reason I was even aware that New York Fashion Week is currently underway is due to the Facebook feeds of my fashion-forward friends. That being said, I stumbled upon a series of posts from the NYTimes Magazine Blog called Model-Morphosis and I couldn’t help but be intrigued. Because […]