Photography

Photographers create a hundreds, if not thousands, of 10-20MB files a day and storing these images safely has become a challenge.
Personally I use several backup methods to insure I don’t loose any of my images. I have three Western Digital My Books, two NAS drives (which are aging and due for failure,) and I […]

Hanging picture frames can be a royal pain, especially frames that require multiple wall hooks.
Before the existence of fancy laser levels or cool tools, like the ones I’m about to show you, my grandfather taught me how to use scotch tape and string to make it a little neater than marking pencil lines directly […]

When the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500K was announced back in March I was very impressed by the specs, so much so I was doubtful if it would really be as good as it sounds. My wife’s friend recently got one and allowed me to mess with it this weekend and I’m stunned. It’s amazing!
The […]

For some, the most difficult part of a move might be arranging your furniture in your new home. No one likes having to move heavy furniture around to find it’s best location but it’s something we all go through whenever we move.
Thanks to a new web site named PlanningWiz you can quickly and easily layout […]

PopPhoto’s Zach Honig went to Wal-Mart and bought $200 worth of different four or eight pack single use and rechargeable batteries so he could test them and calculate the cost per shot for each battery.
The rechargeable battery test results were a bit surprising. Kodak’s Value Charger “offers the lowest cost per shot for rechargeable […]

I’ve always loved my Leatherman multi-tools which combine a knife, wire cutters, and a pair of needle nose pliers into a small convenient, portable, and pocketable package but they were heavy. So heavy that they could easily pull down your pants if you’re not wearing a belt.
Because of their heft I ended up stowing […]

Bruce Schneier wrote a fantastic article that appeared in today’s Guardian about the continuing harassment of photographers by idiots who believe that photography is some how related to terrorism. He drives home the point that there has never been a connection.
Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography. Photographers have been harrassed, questioned, […]

Fauxto is a free photoshop like online image editor. It allows you to edit photographs in your web browser using brushes, layers, fill tools, eraser, and most other common photoshop like features.
Surprising, Fauxto is speedy and works quite well for what it is doing through your browser.
Personally, I’ll stick with Apple’s Aperture and Nikon’s Capture […]

Canon has posted a step by step tour of their lens manufacturing plant and they guide you through how they manufacture a Canon camera lens from beginning to end.
It’s unreal how many steps it takes to manufacture one camera lens and you can see why they’re so expensive. It’s not just thrown together overnight. The […]

I had no idea how much work goes into manufacturing camera lenses. I imagined that each lens was cut completely by machines and camera lenses were turned out by the hundreds everyday.
This video shows the extensive and laborious steps that go into making a video camera lens but the same exact process is used to […]

I’ve had my first Mac for just about a month now and I’m absolutely not missing Microsoft Windows in the slightest. However, I am missing some applications that are native to Windows.
I’m using the following programs in Parallels Desktop for Mac but I wish there were native Mac OS X versions of them so […]

Since January around 75 developers have been actively working on design specifications for an open source radio control helicopter thats functions as an aerial video camera platform.
Aside from typical quadrocopter features as following:

Easy built up kit, despite of partial SMD assembly, for everybody, who
knows , where´s the hot end of the soldering-iron

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Mashable is reporting about a new photo editing site which is expected to be open in public beta in mid May called, Graphita.
Graphita allows photos to be edited through your web browser:
Whith Graphita, you can use existing photos or upload your own to be edited. Add different stamps in different sizes, speech and thought […]

Exploit code for a critical vulnerability for Adobe Photoshop has been made publicly available.
US-CERT warns:
US-CERT is aware of a possible vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop that may allow an attacker to cause a stack-based buffer overflow. By persuading a user to open a crafted bitmap file (e.g., .BMP, .DIB, .RLE), an attacker may be able […]

Photographers love showing off their prints using light boxes because they back light the image. This brings out the details in a print without adding any reflections.
A new trend in photo framing is to combine the frame with a light box, but these frames can cost hundreds of dollars. You can make one yourself for […]

You can be just like Stan Lee and create your own comic, but this doesn’t require any drawing skills. With Comeeko you use your own photographs.
You simply upload your own photos, choose a custom layout, then them add the photos in the order you want, and write your own text bubbles. You can even add […]

Often you need to post an image in a blog post or on a message board as part of comment or critique of it (so it’s used under fair use) but going through the steps of saving the file to your hard drive, and then uploading it somewhere you can host it, is a bit […]

Even your 3 year old’s artwork can be hanging in a world class museum to be admired by others!

Ok, so this is a bit of a cheat but still a neat effect and it’s free!
[Museumr]

Tags: photography, photos, art, museum

Adobe will announce Creative Suite 3 in New York City on March 27, the company confirmed on Monday. According to reports Adobe will be offering around a half dozen different bundles, each at different price points and will include different application packages.

I must admit, as a Professional Photographer I am only mildly interested in the […]

A new feature in Google Toolbar 3 Beta for Firefox and Google Toolbar 4 for Internet Explorer is the ability to add custom search buttons for sites that you search often. Google offers a Button Gallery so you don’t have to go through the process of creating buttons yourself but the gallery is missing a […]