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
Like most everyone the past week I’ve been overwhelmed with iPhone hype and I swore I wouldn’t let it get to me. Well the inner Apple nut in me took over. I became a possessed man in the 11th hour and ended up getting one. Having used my iPhone now for a decent amount of time I wanted to share some of the apparent short comings and many of its amazing features as it relates to real use in the field. iPhon
So about a year ago Photosynth was announced by Microsoft and to be honest I was unimpressed. For those that don’t know what Photosynth is it’s a unique technology approach to allow users to search across a vast number of images in a very interactive way. To quote Microsoft’s take on this I’ll quote their web site: “Our software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object,
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
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
Last night at 11:53PM, after 4 months of civily requesting a refund from www.mp4converter.net for their non-functioning MP4 Converter software (MP4 Converter – 3.2.10.0418) , I left a rating on VersionTracker.com warning others to avoid their software and their company. This morning at 5:44AM I received a confirmation email from my podcast hosting company that my account has been closed per my request. The only
I was recently pointed to a Popular Science web site on a prototype camera developed by Adobe called the Light-Field Camera. This camera provide 19 Depth of Field Options for each photo taken. With Adobe software you can instantly view one image with different depths of field or combinations of. Don’t get me wrong I really like new technologies, but the use of Depth of Field (DoF) is on average one of the most