Mar 05
Getty Images is one of the world’s premiere sources for amazing photos
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Mar 05
Sick of being locked in a perpetual winter? Matt Lief Anderson, a professional traveler and photographer, sent over a few of his recent shots, and they’re a salve for the Cabin Fever-wracked soul. That’s Crater Lake, in Oregon, above—click through for a few others.
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Mar 05
There’s no denying that everything looks cooler in slow motion, but birds of prey on the hunt are particularly mesmerizing through the lens of a high-speed camera. This Goshawk is being lured into attacking a water balloon baited with a piece of meat, and its mid-air maneuvers make even our most advanced fighter planes look primitive.
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Mar 04
Andrew Emond, a Montreal-based photographer, amateur geographer, and DIY gonzo spelunker of the city’s sewers and lost rivers, has just re-launched his excellent website, Under Montreal. The revamped site now comes complete with a fascinating, interactive map of the city’s subterranean streams, documenting Montreal’s invisible rivers for all to see.
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Mar 04
41 Beautiful Black & White Photos
Posted in: Today's ChiliWho needs color when good old black and photography is so simply beautiful? Here are the results from this week’s Shooting Challenge
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Mar 03
You’ve seen it in every movie, every TV show, that dramatizes loss. A fire guts a house, and while there’s real pain in the destruction and damage, the real loss, is in the memories. Photographs, and recordings of a life well lived. It’s human nature to want to preserve the past, to share it with others, to relive our lives as we grow and change. How about a way to really chronicle our lives, for ourselves, for our families?
Check out The Narrative Clip, a tiny, fully automatic camera, with an associated app that can provide you with a cloud based diary of your life, that you can search through, and share, with your friends, family, and social networks. The Narrative Clip is a matchbox sized, 5 megapixel camera that you simply clip on your clothes, and it will proceed to take 2 pictures every minute that it’s active.
The Narrative Clip comes with a storage capacity of up to 4000 pictures and the rechargeable battery will last up to 2 days, allowing you plenty of opportunity to capture all the special moments of a vacation, sporting event, or just the simple moments of your everyday life, the precious seconds that would have likely gone unnoticed. Picture transfer is quick and easy, simply plug into your computer, and upload to the cloud.
So if keeping memories is important to you, why not check out the worlds smallest wearable camera? The Narrative Clip is available for both iOS and Android, comes in white, orange and gray, for right around 279 bucks. Visit getnarrative.com for videos and more information.
[ The Narrative Clip – Your Brand New Photographic Memory copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
Mar 02
Nope, you’re not looking at stills from the Oscar-nominated film Gravity. They’re all real photos, straight from NASA, and they were all shot in space.
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Mar 02
These ephemeral pics capture alcohol exploding at high speeds. They look like the mushroom clouds of atomic bombs or scans of the human brain. And to think, these are substances we put in our bodies on a regular basis.
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Mar 01
The folks at PiFace – makers of hardware interfaces for the Raspberry Pi – wanted to make a camera rig that could create the bullet time effect popularized by The Matrix, but they didn’t want to spend thousands of dollars on cameras. Naturally their first instinct was to see if they could use the Raspberry Pi to make a cheaper alternative. To their surprise, their idea worked!
PiFace calls its rig the Frozen Raspberry Pi or Frozen Pi. It consists of 48 Raspberry Pis each with a Raspberry Pi Camera and a PiFace Control and Display interface, all mounted on a laser-cut wood frame. The computers are networked via Ethernet so they can be simultaneously triggered remotely and so that the pictures they take can be sent to a single computer. PiFace wrote a Python script to collect the pictures and arrange them in order. Skip to around 2:17 in the video below to see the rig in action and people in inaction.
Slow down time and head to the PiFace blog to find out more about how they made the Frozen Pi.
[via MAKE]
Feb 28
If you think every possible use for drones has been thoroughly exhausted, you’re wrong. This clever photographer figured out that the hovering crafts would be perfect for lighting his mysterious scenes from the sky.
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