Digital Camera News, Reviews and Tips
Paul Nicklen is renowned Arctic and Antarctic wildlife photographer. Has a passion for these regions and the wildlife within, which is demonstrated by both his photography and words about life there.
In late-2009, I passed along a short video about his encounter with a leopard seal in Antarctica. While it was only less than 2-minutes long, it was a very powerful video, featuring Nicklen’s world-class photography and a very cool story. [Read more…]
Turns out Arizona Cardinals Wide Receiver Larry Fitzgerald is quite the photography enthusiast. He got deeper into photography when his point and shoot camera didn’t do the scene justice when visiting the Roman Colosseum. [Read more…]
This video from PhotoShelter shows off what goes into the cool photos from Threadless Tees. If you are into off-camera lighting, you’ll dig this behind the scenes look. Check it out below. [Read more…]
They say adding motion to a timelapse is the way to make it really shine. The folks at Beepshow used an Air France jet as a 5000 mile dolly to capture this cool timelapse on an 11 hour flight from San Francisco to Paris.
The timelapse was captured with a Canon 5D Mark II and 16-35mm f/2.8 lens. Audio was mixed on an iPad and the whole thing was edited in iMovie and After Effects CS5.
Yet another reason to always get the window seat.
If you’ve got half an hour to spare, the above video features a great casual conversation between Chase Jarvis and Vincent Laforet. There are lots of little nuggets of wisdom in here, and it’s just fun to hear the guys talk shop for a while. You can find the full 2-hour version on iTunes as a podcast.
If you want more of the nuts and bolts of HDSLR technique, check out the recent creativeLIVE course taught by Laforet. It’s about 20 hours of content for $149.
This is an interesting story of a man who has had his image stolen from his Flickr account and used thousands of times.
What would you do?
[via FStoppers]
Yuri Arcurs is one of the worlds’ top stock photographers – and he’s got the studio to show for it.
bindermichi Flickr Pro Account as of February 1, 2011
Unfortunately, Flickr has been categorized lately as having a bit of a hair trigger when it comes to deleting photographers’ accounts as a result of an alleged violation of the Flickr Terms of Service. According to numerous reports, once an account is deleted, it’s deleted. Period.
That “shoot first, ask questions later” corporate attitude appears to have caught up with the photo sharing service today in a very bad way. According to Mirco Wilhelm (aka Flickr Pro user bindermichi), a Flickr staff member accidentally deleted his account when Wilhelm reported abuse by another Flickr member. [Read more…]
Digital photo-realist artist extraordinaire, Bert Monroy, spent the past 4 years cooking up this masterpiece of Times Square that serves as a tribute to the “who’s who” in the world of digital imaging.
The flattened image is 6.52GB and was built with almost 3,000 individual Photoshop and Illustrator files. The image is zoomable on his site if you want to get closer up to personalities like Russel Brown, John Knoll and Scott Kelby (among many others) within the image.
The finished image will be on display at Photoshop World in Orlando, Florida from March 30 to April 1, 2011.
[via John Nack]
Photographer Alfred Zhao captured this 272 gigapixel image of the Shanghai skyline using the GigaPan EPIC Pro and a Canon 7D with a 400mm f/5.6 lens and 2x teleconverter attached. He was setup and started shooting at around 8:30am and after 12,000 images were in the bag, it was just before dusk. It took months to complete image and get the final 1.09TB file uploaded.
Just how big is a 272 gigapixel image? 1 gigapixel = 1000 megapixels = 1 billion pixels. That’s 272 BILLION pixels. Printed at standard resolution, this image would cover over 7000 billboards.
But now it’s done and Zhao holds a world record for the largest digital photo. There’s no time to rest though, as Zhao says, “This is not the end of my panorama journey, it is a new start, challenging the limit is an infinite process. New records will appear in the future, it is only a matter of time.”
Full details in the press release below. [Read more…]