I’m happy to announce that JMG-Galleries.com has taken on a new look and feel and a new stock photography section has been added. In fact the stock photography section is itself a web site unto itself JMG-Stock-Photo-Video.com. Check it out and let me know what you think. I’m still putting the finishing touches on the site and will be adding several thousand more images to the existing 1200 or so photogra
One of the best-kept secrets when it comes to making dynamic photo slide shows is Fotomagico. Fotomagico makes creating professional level presentations incredibly easy. I’ve been using Fotomagico since version 2.0 and since that time Boinx Software have been regularly releasing updates. Just this past week version 2.5 was released introducing some key enhancements. Before getting too focused on the new enhan
Photography Bay has dug up an interesting patent filed by Canon regarding “Iris Registration”. The patent titled “PICTURE TAKING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME” (Pub. No.: US 2008/0025574 A1) details a mechanism for a camera to capture an image of a photographers iris and embedding it in the pixel data of the images they take. “Another object of the present invention is to prov
Over the past week a catchy video has been circulating the web titled “Here Comes Another Bubble” (Note: this link is dead as of 12/11/07). The video has music created by the Richter Scales sung to Billy Joel’s “We didn’t start the fire”. The video itself is comprised solely of photos of a variety of technology icons who have started Web 2.0 companies that many think are way over p
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