This week Photoshelter’s Photography 2.0 came to San Francisco as part of their City Tour campaign. With the momentum of four previous events, an all-star collection of participating speakers, a well orchestrated video log of previous speakers & panels on the Photoshelter blog and a variety photographers blogging about the event the attendees were primed and ready to experience everything Photoshelter. Thre
It’s not too often that you come across a new technology that makes your mouth drop open. Raoul Pop pointed me to a video demonstration of Content-Aware Image Sizing Demo by Dr. Ariel Shamir (YouTube). I highly recommend taking a look at this. In short software has been written that allows for images to be “retargeted” or “resized while adapting image content and layout”. The cool thing
Normally I don’t focus on gear, but because I’ve been waiting for news of the next generation of Canon 1Ds this leak (Thanks Amazon.com) is of particular interest to me. Canon’s 21.1 megapixel EOS 1Ds Mark III: thanks, Amazons – Engadget.com Note: Amazon pulled the leaked pages, but Engadget.com has some screen captures. After using the 1Ds Mark II (16 megapixels), thanks to some generous frie
A little off topic to the normal photography discussion in time it will relate. Nostalgia wise it’s always interesting to think back what you first did when new technology became affordable. At some point with the right anniversary I imagine the question will turn to what was your first digital photo, but for now… what was your first CD purchased? Mine was
One of the longest standing challenges facing photographers has been working with photographic media that inherently has a lower dynamic range than what we, the photographer, see with our own eyes. This challenge has spurred a lot of innovative solutions enabling photographers to push film and digital media to their limit. These innovations have included various darkroom techniques for film, graduated neutral density
I’ve recently put together a collection of iPhone photos in my gallery. Photos included are from MacWorld 2007 in San Francisco and some recent studio photography work of product shots.
So you use Flickr… what else is out there that is going to enable you to get the most out of it? Thanks to Flickr’s API a lot of people have come up with some very interesting tools. As I’ve learned there are a lot of things to discover from GreaseMonkey scripts to external sites that enhance the Flickr experience. Below (in no particular order) are my favorite external sites that enable me to more
Admittedly this is off my normal topic of discussion, but I had to post a few links about the iPhone from this past week. I wouldn’t post them if I didn’t think they were entertaining or note worthy so definitely check them out. The absolute must see of all these links… A Woman Tries to Buy Out An Entire AT&T Store’s Supply of iPhones with $16,000 Cash Only To Be Unpleasantly Surprised (Vi