Photography

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Submitted by kaylabagcal 4 days ago

my deviantart page I've just joined

Submitted by oblix 13 days ago

ian parker's site some wonderful images of his travels around the world

Submitted by oblix 27 days ago

Photoset on Flickr taken by "Steve took it" - amazing group of photos of water drops on flowers with refracted images. Absolutely gorgeous.

Submitted by tessajanuary 1 month ago

Digital photography site is acquired by online retailer

Submitted by cliff 1 month ago

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In 1994, South African photojournalist Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer prize for his disturbing photograph of a Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture (left). That same year, Kevin Carter committed suicide.

Without the facts surrounding his death, this behavior may seem surprising. But Carter received heaps of criticism for his actions. While in Sudan, near the village of Ayod, Carter found a small, emaciated toddler struggling to make her way to the food station. When she stopped to rest, a vulture landed nearby with his eyes on the little girl. Carter took twenty minutes...

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Photography! Who could have thought that we would now be able to take pictures through a digital camera and transfer to a computer and change the colors or any of the attributes of an image or a photograph?


Digital cameras are sharper and provide high quality pictures that can be used over multiple mediums. Sir John Herschel is a man who invented the term ‘Photography’ in 1839. This was also the year when the process of Photography was unveiled to the public.

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Starting with Olympus and now with Canon coming on strong, digital SLRs are starting to have the ability to preview live video feeds from their main sensors. This means you can flip up the reflex mirror and view through the lens what the final image will look like.

This is technically very interesting, but I'm simply amazed that no one has put one and one together: enable video capture on the SLR camera. And yes, I mean on pro models like the new EOS 1Ds Mark III and 1D Mark III along with the plastic SLRs.

AP - NEW YORK — A wireless memory card for digital cameras now comes with an added twist: Besides making it easier to store and share photos, the latest version of the Eye-Fi card also helps sort images by location.

Reuters - Sony Corp (6758.T) posted a surprise quarterly loss on Wednesday after a weak stock market ate into the value of securities held by its financial arm, but forecast a bigger-than-expected profit this year.

AFP - Japan's Sony Corp. said Wednesday its annual net profit almost tripled to hit a record high as brisk sales of digital cameras and laptop computers offset continued losses from the PlayStation 3.

AP - Hewlett-Packard Co. is negotiating to buy technology services provider Electronic Data Systems Corp. in a deal that could help the world's largest personal computer maker snap up more consulting and data management contracts.

TechWeb - InformationWeek - A burglary victim helped police catch suspected thieves by logging on to her Mac remotely and snapping photos with its Webcam.