A huge storm has hit Flickr as of late and sadly most of it is a predictable story. The components of this story comprise of… – a very open system with many protection options – a talented but naive photographer – availability of high resolution images for download (to be confirmed) The surprises… – Flickr making a bad situation worse by deleting the story of the effected artist
It would seem it’s official, my “Mobius Arch Pre-Dawn Light” photo won the “People’s Choice Award” for Landscapes in the Outdoor Photographer “Vanishing Treasures” photography contest. Outdoor Photographer Vanishing Treasures Contest Winners Announcement Thanks to everyone that voted. Every little bit of support means a lot. For those that have yet to see the image here
In 2003 I was blown away with the news of the first widely published gigapixel image, by Max Lyons. In fact seeing the gigapixel image (comprised of one billion pixels) of Bryce Canyon sparked my interest in digital panoramic photography (see Mastering Digital Panoramic Photography). Today I’m blown away by the news of the first terapixel image (comprised of one trillion pixels). Unlike the more scenic gigapixe
Today on the Flickr Blog it’s been announced that the slideshow function has been updated. Announcing Slideshow 2007 (Web User Edition) – Flickr Blog I’m interested to see this in action in more than one way. For one it will be nice to see this applied on the Flickr site and it will be neat to see how it may be employed via the Flickr API. In looking at my Flickr site this change is in effect as of
I’m not sure how this slipped by me, but Wired published a very interesting development in March “Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries“. It’ll be interesting to see how this is used in the future to detect altered photojournalism photos. As we’ve seen repeatedly particularly with the high profile case of Allan Dietrich, previously noted in my post “Ethics of Photography: Career Suicide by
Photo Taken With An Apple iPhone … Or was it? One of the few things that was not demonstrated at the Macworld 2007 Keynote Address by Steve Jobs was the use of the camera built into the iPhone. Those looking for the first sign of an image from an Apple iPhone seem to have stumbled upon it recently. The EXIF data seems to confirm the image was from an iPhone, but it should be noted it is possible to edit EXIF da
Sometime ago my friend Oskar approached me with the results of an experiment that was mind blowing. He ran an experiment which enlightened me regarding the aspect of working with JPEG format files that drastically impacts image quality. At the core of Oskar’s observation is that when working with a JPEG file, in many programs (potentially even Photoshop), each alteration made will prompt a save in the program b
I just received word, as an iView Media Pro affiliate, that iView Media Pro will no longer be available after May 16th. Now that iView Media Pro is part of Microsoft the application has been assimilated into Microsoft Expression Media. Looking at the Microsoft Expression Media page it looks as though Microsoft is finally ramping up its design and image product line to compete with Adobe’s software suite. Unfort