Depth of field iPhone apps Useful iPhone apps for calculating depth of field for a given focal length and aperture. [via Edward McKeown]

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Flickr Officially Comes to the iPhone I think it’s fascinating that the camera in the iPhone is the most popular (used) camera on flickr. I do think it would be fun to use this app for taking pictures on hikes and uploading them on the hike. Might have to try that. Flickr app at iTunes [...]

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Roger Cicala of Lensrentals.com has posted an excellent article on Controlling Depth of Field. All photographers, beginning to advanced should read this. Roger is a clear thinker, good explainer and a terrific writer. [via Leandro Karunungan]

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Photography Tips From National Geographic Experts Actually, aside from a stupid multi-page web presentation, the tips are quite useful. Basic but good, basic information here. [via Leandro Karunungan]

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Adorama, Blurb & Lulu – Book Printing Review A well written review by Raoul Gatepin including video of three web based photo book services. His conclusion is they all have enough weaknesses so that none is the overall winner. [via Lens Culture]

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jeff.stiefer has posted a useful comparison of what the Canon 100mm f/2.8 macro lens will do at different apertures.

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The Annenberg Space for Photography The Annenberg Space for Photography is an entirely new cultural destination dedicated to exhibiting both digital and print photography in an intimate environment. The space features state-of-the-art, high-definition digital technology as well as traditional prints by some of the world’s most renowned photographers and a selection of emerging photographic talents [...]

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Chase Jarvis’ 5 Secrets for Exceptional Photographs from SilberStudios.Tv on Vimeo. This is quite a good short interview with excellent advice. The entire site looks great including a blog that has, at least today, a nice interview with Ansel Adams on visualization as it’s top post. [via kottke.org]

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WordPress resists Canon attempt to take down Fake Canon blog Chuck Westfall is the Technical Information Advisor for Canon. Fake Chuck Westfall is his satirical alter-ego on the Internet. Canon is not pleased with the latter, and wants the Fake Chuck Westfall blog taken down before customers are somehow tricked into thinking that it’s the [...]

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SoFoBoMo: The Solo Photo Book Month This photo book making month is in the spirit of NaNoMo – National Novel Writing Month where you write a novel in a single month. In this case, we make a photo book in a single month. The photo book is in PDF form, rules here. Heck, even if [...]

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Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures This is a great site. If you lose your camera, look here and you may find the pictures on it and the person who found it. If you find a camera email four images from it to this site and they’ll post them so the owner can find it. [via [...]

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LIFE photo archive hosted by Google Wow, this is a huge collection of images, many infamous that are now easily browsed and searched. What a fantastic resource. [via Daring Fireball]

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Time Lapse Tutorial This is a very useful tutorial on setting up and shooting time lapse photography. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

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Idee labs has made a nice interfact for searching for Flickr photos by color or tag. Click on a color or write in a tag, click the color or tag to eliminate it or make groups. This is a heck of a lot of fun. [via kottke.org]

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This is a bit different from the string with a bolt on it you screw into the tripod hole and stand on it. This is easier and more “flexible.” Find it here: Figital Revolution (no pod).

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The Visible Dust BriteVue Sensor Loupe™ 7X is for looking inside your DSLR (any brand) in “sensor cleaning mode” (mirror locked up) so as to see dust on the sensor. If you routinely clean dust off of your sensor and you haven’t tried this product this post will change your life. I’m not kidding. Most [...]

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Hovis Bread TV Commercial This video has been making the rounds and for good reason, it’s great. And, there’s lots to be learned even for us still photographers in the ad. Each scene is beautifully set up and choreographed, keeping the focus on the boy and the bread but showing the context, less to show [...]

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Cross-industry body publishes metadata guidelines Photokina 2008: The Metadata Working Group, an alliance between Adobe, Apple, Canon, Microsoft, Nokia and Sony has published its first guidelines on the use of image metadata. The guidelines suggest methods to increase interoperability and storage of shooting settings and other associated data in digital images. It aims at standardizing [...]

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Design215 has a useful Megapixels Chart to help determine what kind of resolution is needed to make different sizes of print. Whether it’s absolutely accurate is less important than that it’s giving us a general idea. Of course having more resolution is useful if you routinely crop your images before printing.

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flickr has a new embedable slideshow feature and works quite well. Here’s a quick slide show I made on the of my flat marco set from my images up there. For more on it see flickr’s post: Our new slideshow: pass the popcorn!.

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