Tag: PHOTOGRAPHY

Photographer Andrew Scrivani recently offered up some helpful tips for shooting the holiday table, although some of the technical tips (e.g., using a light meter) aren't the easiest to pull off when you've got over-caffeinated kids running around. Food photography is easy to botch, and nobody wants to see overexposed shots of your deep fried turkey in your Picasa gallery or Facebook feed. For ...

Polaroid's new creatively named 'Digital Camera App,' from LoL Software, just landed in the App Store, bringing the photo company's vintage analog looks to your digital iPhone photos. At $2.49, it's a bit pricey when the retro photo-making juggernauts are priced at free (instagr.am) and $1.99 (Hipstamatic). Digital Camera App features 30 photo filters, the usual Facebook and e-mail sharing, and ...

Over the next few weeks, Facebook will be rolling out a new feature that brings facial recognition technology to the photo tagging process. Here's how it works: Whenever you upload a photo and want to tag a group of friends in it, Facebook will use facial recognition software to generate a list of suggestions, based on similar photos. If, for example, you upload a bunch of photos with the same ...

A reader asks: Well, it finally happened. My parents sold their house, and have ordered me to trash everything in their basement, including a couple boxes worth of slides spanning half a century. I would love to digitize them, but having tried to do it myself, I've realized it would take me forever. I know there are pricey bulk scanners you can buy (which scare me), and then also online services ...

Share Edward Horsford captured these high-speed images of water balloons at the precise moment they exploded -- and the results are truly incredible. As NPR explains, Horsford took the photos at night, in his own backyard, using a specially timed flash mechanism to get the absolutely perfect shot. A timer on his camera ensures a long exposure of one to two seconds, while an attached microphone ...

After the break, you may watch an interview with the world's strangest cameraman (conducted by CNN's strangest reporter, no less). We mentioned him a while back, but artist Wafaa Bilal has successfully implanted a camera in his noggin. Having named his project 'The 3rd I,' Bilal will transmit the once-a-minute snapshots to a display at the Mathaf: The Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar. ...

As well-constructed and virus-resistant as Apple gadgets may be, they will inevitably crap out. And, once that MacBook begins to whine with a death rattle, you can think of little more than the several paychecks you dropped into it. That's when we, like Michael Tompert and Paul Fairchild, want to go postal. Behold the beautifully cathartic remains of iDevices shot, stabbed and sawn. ...

While we've discussed Google Street View's propensity to catch criminals, all of the service's arresting images don't have to do with arrests. Tumblr user Jon Rafman has compiled an album of incidentally captivating pictures that document natural wonder, human eccentricity, situational irony, accidental surrealism, and urban destitution. (Oh, and lots of urban prostitution, too.) ...

If you have Facebook pictures pretty enough to frame and set on the mantle, you can now print photos directly from the site using Kodak kiosks at Target. Just a few weeks after Facebook announced support for higher-resolution photos, Facebook and Kodak have teamed up with Target to cut out the printing middleman (i.e. flash drives) by installing these kiosks in stores. Target is saying that the ...

For the Canon PIXMA's new ad campaign, Dentsu London (which helped to create those amazing 3-D iPad light paintings) has devised a way to photograph droplets of paint reacting to sound. In conjunction with biochemist Linden Gledhill, Dentsu stretched a membrane over a speaker, dropped a few colors on it, vibrated the paint with a single audio frequency, and shot the whole thing on a spinning rig ...

Share We always thought that the rise of digital photography would, at one point or another, render film obsolete. According to Kodak, however, we (and virtually everyone else) were all wrong. As Wired reports, the iconic film company is enjoying something of a counterintuitive renaissance in this digital age, as sales of color film remain strong, and black-and-white film sales are actually ...

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Buckminster Fuller's infamously fuel-effective and crash-prone Dymaxion Car lives on in the new Car #4, commissioned by British architect Norman Foster and exhibited in Madrid. [From: New York Times] Google just released a brand new Gmail app in the Android Market, which means ...

Ever tried to stage a lunar landing? Well, chances are, it didn't go so well, or even resemble the 1969 event at all. Luckily, a Hasselblad MKWE just went up for sale on eBay at the low price of $33,751. This camera was made specifically for NASA by Hasselblad, and was used by moon-walkers to capture those historic images of golf swings and patriotism. Now, to find a spare spacesuit... ...

Boston.com's The Big Picture is one of, if not the, best photojournalism blogs on the Web. A few times per week, the site publishes a collection of images relating to a specific news event or topic, and, with the aid of the official iPhone app, you could have those stunning photos delivered straight to your mobile device. But the iPhone's cramped 3.5-inch screen is hardly the ideal venue for ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. The above photo is from a pinhole camera placed on a turntable for the duration of the Doors' 'L'America.' [From: Tim Franco, via: Kitsune Noir] Wired's got an ...