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Photography: Tokyo Reality - Canon EOS 5D MarkII
Interesting what you can do with the latest top-of-the-line digital SLR cameras. Tokyo Reality is a 6 minute movie shot with the new Canon EOS 5D MarkII that comes with full High Definition video capability.
In Live View Mode, this digital master piece from Canon allows to shoot uninterrupted at full HD, 1080 resolution with 30fps. The movie was created within 3 days from 74GB of rushes (after processing).
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DIY: Create a HDR time-lapsed movie
So far San Francisco based photographer Chad Richard is one of the very few who create time-lapsed HDR movies. He uses the new Nikon D700 that allows to take up to 8fps full frame images and post-processes / blend the frames into HDR images with Photomatix. Out of the about 1000 resulting HDR images he creates a 15-20 second long time-lapsed video with QuickTime…
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Photography: Branson DeCou Archive
Photographer Branson DeCou traveled the world for thirty years before his death in 1941. Since 1971, when the University of California - Santa Cruz received his huge slide collection it has been the home of the archive of photographer Branson DeCou.
Branson DeCou produced mainly lantern slides imprinted on glass twice as big as 35-mm slides, that made them delicate to handle and almost impossible for general or public use.
Thanks to a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation the UCSC could buy state-of-the-art scanning equipment and process 1,475 of the 10,000 DeCou slides in their collection.
The 1,475 slides processed and made available online are photographs that Branson DeCou took in Italy during several trips in the 1920s and early 1930s. They show scenes of daily life as well as artwork and destinations…
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Images: There’s another world around here
Insects driving scooters or bicycles, skateboarding through a micro world, playing piano, or snails selling their “house”. There’s lots happening in the worlds that Nicholas from Belgium captures in his Flickr sets.
Our favorite: The Great Escape: A computer keyboard [esc] key walking away on his legs…
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Best HDR images on the web: (Introduction)
We recently mentioned that one of us will soon be going on a long travel around this planet so we got a professional digital camera to capture some of the impressions and share them later.
During the research for the latest in Digital Photography we also came across what is now called High-Dynamic-Range (HDR or HDRI) photography and tone mapping.
There are a few pretty good tutorials on the web how to achieve these effects and software is now also available to substantially reduce the process steps required (If interested we can provide a list of the best links we found).
But we thought that it might be best to introduce this technique by pointing you to the best HDR images and their creators we found on the web.
So following this post we will put together a small series of articles for each of the web sites we found the most interesting…
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Photograpy: 360° Panoramas as small planets
The Flickr 360° photo pool has hundreds of images that look like small planets.
If you want to try this out yourself, there is a “great tutorial online” by Dirk Paessler that shows you how to turn any panorama or landscape photograph into a full-fledged planet….
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Gadgets: ZINK portable Printer
Update 03-Feb-2007: Just added image of Zink 7MP camera with built-in printer. — If you have a mobile phone with a camera you want one of those printers. “Zink Imaging” has launched their new pocket size photo printer at DEMO in Palm Springs this week. It uses special paper with embedded dye crystals that are activated by heat from the printer. The outputs are wallet sized, water resistant 2×3-inch prints in photo quality. The printer tray can hold up to ten papers internally and images are transfers via Bluetooth from mobile phones…
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Photograpy: Jorn Olsen’s cloud pictures
As a short continuation from our “cloud spotting” story we wanted to point you to Jorn Olsen’s impressive photos of so called “Mammatus clouds”…
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Virtual Reality: Fullscreen Panoramas
Hans Nyberg from “panoramas.dk” and Marco Trezzini of “VRMAG.org” have teamed up to create the web site “Fullscreenqtvr.com”. Together they have collected and created ten thousands of QuickTime Virtual Reality and Java panoramas…
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Best News Picture Galleries on the Web
You can read your daily news online or via RSS but there is another way to get informed (and get your daily dose of news pictures). Major media agencies and news papers also provide daily or weekly updated news in pictures. Quite a few of them have even added spoken comments to the pictures so you get some background information together with the images. And often you get multiple images for a news story where otherwise only one of these pictures is included with a longer text. The services we included in the list below are the largest providers and often the source for other news and media sites. They cover news on a global level but some have also regional information. We have broken the list down into the following four sections (Daily picture sources, Weekly picture sources, Yearly picture awards and reviews, Historic and all time famous pictures)…
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