Richard’s Notes

WIRED took a trip to Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin to see their Gallery of Sawn-In-Half Cameras.
[via Steve Splonskowski]

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Save Polaroid
On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film. This site will document the aftermath of this announcement and will serve as a home-base for the effort to convince another company to begin producing the cherished technology that Polaroid has so carelessly abandoned.
This site is not about [...]

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Natalie Norton demonstrates How to Reduce Camera Shake. Useful.
[via Steve Splonskowski]

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flickr has teamed up with the Library of Congress, the Powerhouse Museum Collection, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, and Bibliothèque de Toulouse to start building a public archive of photographs called flickr Commons. Unlike private collections like Getty Images or The Bettman Archive, flickr Commons is open for anyone for any use.
There [...]

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The Big Picture is a wonderful new addition to boston.com that takes the lead in diplaying excellent images in large enough sizes so that one can really feel the impact of high end photography.
More on the rationale on Alan Taylor, the project coordinator’s blog: New Project: The Big Picture.
My mind is working… my photo site [...]

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TinEye is a new web site that takes an image that you supply it and searches for copies of it on the web. It does not work with key words but with pixel and EXIF data so even images that have been cropped or photoshopped can be found.
Wow!
It’s in beta but I’ve just signed up [...]

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Flying with Fish is Steven Frischling’s blog on traveling as a professional photographer. Steven is extremely successful as both a photographer and, it seems, as a blogger. Fun to poke around the site, as well as his professional site, FishFoto.
[via Dale Allyn]

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In the photography world there is much discussion about how to control depth of field through the focal length of the lens, aperture control, the distance from lens to subject and the distance from subject to background. Here are some web sites that discuss and offer resources for understanding and better using depth of field [...]

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The Diagonal Method
The rule of thirds on steriods.
In my experience with visual design and eyeing a composition, one can do it by one’s gut feeling (based on experience) or one can think of learned rules (things that groups of people agree upon) and use those rules as an overlay. What’s interesting is that people [...]

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Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera is about “CHDK” which is a firmware “enhancement” that enables an enhanced feature set on many Canon point and shoot cameras.
I have yet to try it on my wife’s Canon A710 IS but I might.

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k_falls_bob up on flickr has a great illustration of where dust is on the sensor when you find a dust spot on an image.

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Tim Jackson has posted a useful Focus test chart with a nice explaination of how to use it and what the various focusing problems are with lenses and users.
Canon users, don’t be put off by the “Nikon D70″ site title, the chart is useful for any brand camera and lens.
While this chart may not prove [...]

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National Geographic On Assignment
Interesting use of TypePad (hosted blog engine) to post information about National Geographic photographers and writers on the road. Great pictures and stories.
[via Gary Sharp]

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A set of excellent notes on making photo books with Blurb: Want to Make a Blurb Book?.

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A great flickr slide show of HDR images of Chicago.
This is a terrific collection of HDR (high dynamic range) images of Chicago. HDR pushes photograhpy in a fascinating way and while I don’t do it (currently) I love looking at it. Pushing photography toward painting really appeals to me, either with HDR, blur, or other [...]

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Tiger Woods “Threatens Harm” On Snapping Photographers
I have to agree with him (not about the harm) that a cacophony of shutter clicks during a swing would be terribly distracting. This is a gray area where photogaphers want to get the picture scoop of Woods making the shot of a lifetime, and in doing so may [...]

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Adobe Photoshop Express is a free, flash-based online image editor, picture organizer and gallery. It has a nice feel but feels like version 1/beta software in terms of responsiveness. I can’t tell if the slowness and problems I had with it just now are it being in beta or Safari not working too well with [...]

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EOS 5D Firmware Update Version 1.1.1

Now supports high-capacity CF cards.
Allows the latest lens names to be recorded in the Exif information of images taken.
Adds lenses that are compatible with the Digital Photo Professional 3.2 lens aberration correction function.

Sometimes these firmware updates contain small bug fixes as well. However, if you use the 5D and do [...]

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Getty Images to Sell Itself for $2.4 Billion
Getty Images, the world’s biggest pictures and video distributor, agreed Monday to sell itself to the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for $2.4 billion including debt.
Oh boy, Microsoft has the bettman Archive and now this one will no doubt be snapped up by someone else. Gad, media [...]

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DIY - Create your own Bokeh
Love it, this is great and I have to give it a go. Read the comments for confusion, clarification, examples. Fun.
More on what bokeh is.

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