Though it may look fake and unreal and impossible and not allowed on Earth, the camera stabilizer in the video is completely real. You can’t make it shake. It’s like magic decided to defy physics and ignore gravity. All I want to do is park myself in front of a mirror and do as many twists and turns and spins as possible to see if I can get the camera off track. Like this guy.
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Your eyes might tell you differently, your brain might make you believe something else and that gut of yours will say you’re right but you’re not. There is only one person in this video. You will only see one woman’s face. It may look like a different person but it’s not. The magic is in the lighting. Simple lighting changes can change a person’s face so much that they look like different people.
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Rob Jenkins and a team of scientists at the University of York’s Department of Psychology have demonstrated that people can recognize a suspects’ face reflected in a victims’s cornea 80 percent of the time:
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The same service you’ve been using with your smartphone for several months is hitting the desktop world this week with Google+ Auto Backup. This software ships – strangely enough – … Continue reading
The thought of venturing into the frozen Antarctic wilds with modem equipment is not a fun thought for most of us. Making the trek into that incredibly harsh and cold … Continue reading
These images look pretty great considering they’re 100 years old. They look even better when you learn they’ve been sealed in Antarctic ice for 100 years.
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Family photos can happen any time, but all-clan snaps seem like an imperative around the holidays. Does your family still do them? Is it a last-minute smartphone camera affair or do you have an aunt who busts out a DSLR?
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Post-processing is an important part of photography, and it becomes even more important with smartphone photos that may lack depth of color and and dynamic range. With the advent of Instagram and its imitators, filters have come to rule the day for most casual photogs, but many of us demand more control. Here are five great tools for making your photos sing to your very own tune.
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These are the most photographed places in the world according to Google Maps’ Panoramio service, which collects geolocated images uploaded by Google users. Of course, many people take photos and don’t upload them to Google Maps but to other local services. In any case, it’s a very neat map.
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Using a pinhole camera she fashioned from an Assam tea tin, Heather Champ recorded the sun’s path over the past year—from Winter Solstice to Winter Solstice—in what just might be the ultimate form of delayed gratification. The San Francisco-based photographer placed the makeshift device outside her home for the duration, and the resulting ultra-long-exposure solargraph represents 365 days of world turning. [Champalicious via @jtotheizzoe]
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