Taking photos of other people’s art is generally not good photographic practice. But what about when art melds with the human form? For this week’s Shooting Challenge, you’re going to photograph a tattoo.
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The Auto Awesome enhancements in Google+ are great for livening up drab pics and bursts of photos with animations, but you’ve got to dig through your albums to discover if the features were even triggered. That’s no longer an issue in the wake of an update: Google+ now sends notifications whenever it creates Auto Awesome animations, filmstrips and panoramas. The alerts are rolling out today on Android, iOS and the web, so you won’t be left wondering about your photo collection again.
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Source: Virgil Dobjanschi (Google+)
In photography, we have access to an unlimited palette of colors. But how good of a photographer are you, really? What can you do with just one?
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It’s not hard to make the arctic beautiful. But the observatories, abandoned factories, and shipwrecks scattered across its white expanse? That’s tougher. For landscape photographer Reuben Wu, that was exactly the allure of the arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
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Photography used to be a hard hobby (or profession) to get into. If you wanted to take even decent pictures, you had to spend a good bit of money on equipment and lenses, and then there were the development costs to think of. But these days, almost everyone is carrying a decent camera with them at all times, and there are tons of (relatively) inexpensive solutions for achieving difficult shots. One particularly difficult subject to shoot is a bird. You’ll either need a great lens for shooting them from a safe distance, or truly understand the meaning of patience. That, or get clever.
The Bird Photo Booth is probably the most clever way to take pictures of birds that I’ve seen. After all, what is the one place you can guarantee that you’ll always find birds? A bird feeder. So the idea is to put a camera next to the feeder, so you can snap great, close-up pictures while your feathered friends come in for a bite to eat.
Designed to look like one of the original Polaroid cameras, this device features mounts for either an iPhone, iPod Touch, or GoPro camera, and a macro lens. Then, you can use any WiFi-enabled device to watch, and capture pictures at the perfect moment. You can even use FaceTime to talk to the birds, if that’s your thing. The Bird Photo Booth will set you back $150, and you’ll need to supply the bird feed and camera.
Source: GeekAlerts
[ Bird Photo Booth takes the hard work out of photographing birds copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
When kids love camp, they really, really love camp. And they’re not hard to spot since they never shut up about it—often into adulthood. So for those of you who relish the nostalgia of those carefree, summer days of yore, you’ll probably want to look away now. The blog English Russia has posted a collection of gorgeous, haunting, and totally creepy photos of abandoned Russian summer camps. Because golden childhood memories, it seems, don’t age so well.
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Science is awesome. And thanks to the internet age, it’s easy to be witness to that fact. For example? This beautiful image of the photomultiplier tubes in the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment detectors, which mesmerized millions when it started circulating online this week.
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This week the folks at Sony have revealed the Sony NEX-5T, a next-generation camera aiming at users hoping to step up from compact DSCs and those wishing for a second camera not quite as massive as their DSLR. This device works with a 16.1 megapixel image sensor with ISO 25600 up front and a 180-degree […]
With the Sony Alpha 3000, Sony is targeting the entry-level user wishing to carry with them the power of a professional photographer. Sony is aiming to reach a balance between the “emotional needs and wants” of the user, needs and wants generally taken care of in both compact system cameras and a full-sized DSLR-style cameras […]
Facebook has allowed users to create personal albums for quite some time, with the albums having different setting options based on how the user plans to share the content. Given the nature of the social network, however, it isn’t surprising that Facebook has taken this a step further, rolling out a shared photo albums feature. […]
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