Google lets Android users and DSLR owners share their own Street Views
After the Google Street View teams canvased cities around the world, the Amazon rainforest, airports and train stations, it’s finally taking a backseat and letting you take a crack at it. Urban explorers now have a new tool in the Views community that will enable them to plan, shoot, and…
Seeing Underwater
One of the things I feel passionately about is using underwater portrait photography as a means to help someone emotionally heal. When you’re underwater, you have to relax and be honest and maybe face certain fears you have inside. When you see yourself in an underwater portrait, your perception of…
Pinterest or Flickr and more officers on Twitter as Calgary Police push social …
More than 60,000 people currently follow the Calgary Police Service and four officers providing live updates from the field on Twitter. Another 15,200 have signed on for the service’s Facebook updates on crime- and safety-related issues in their communities. And a video the organization shot earlier this year providing the first look…
Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 review
What is Adobe Photoshop Elements 12?Photoshop Elements 12 is Adobe’s latest incarnation of its consumer-grade photo editing software. This new version doesn’t bring any huge changes, but it does include a selection of enhancements and new features both for existing users and newcomers alike. But will these be enough to Adobe…
10 Incredible Underwater Portraits Of Cancer Survivors
Erena Shimoda always had a passion for the sea. Her experience as a scuba diver, going back 10 years, gave her the necessary skills to pursue underwater portrait photography and capture beautiful images transformed by the ocean. After surviving a life-changing car accident in which she lost her father and nearly…
A different kind of robot dance: Flickr photo of the day
The Japanese do love their robots. This well-camouflaged person is, ahem adjusting a giant robot nightclub dancer. Yep, and for 50 bucks you can watch her "dance." Somehow, during a time when almost everyone (well, 99 percent of us) is concerned about money, a Japanese entrepreneur allegedly spent are you ready? The…
What We Think of as Photoshopping Existed Decades Before Photoshop
Photo: A History From Behind the Lens is a 12-part, six-hour television series produced for French television, which aims to discuss some of the hidden technical and aesthetic aspects of what is arguably the defining art form of the past hundred years. In terms of sheer access, photography is something…
Pentax Q, Q7 and Q10 Firmware Updates
Ricoh has issued firmware updates for the Pentax Q, Pentax Q7 and Pentax Q10 compact system cameras. This upgrade adds compatibility with the Pentax-08 Wide Zoom and improves overall stability. The Q7 (pictured) additionally benefits from a new feature that enables lens firmware to be displayed in the set-up menu,…
KODAK SONORA XP Plates Offer New Plate Size and Gauge
Updates allow more printers than ever before to shift to process-free plates ROCHESTER, N.Y. – KODAK SONORA XP Process Free Plates, already in high demand among medium-size printers, are now more accessible for large commercial printers. With new larger plate sizes and a 0.40 mm gauge, SONORA XP Plates are…
The Nikon Df Takes DxOMark’s Low-Light Crown, Outperforms the D4
It seems the Nikon engineers had some tricks up their sleeves when they put the D4 sensor inside the new Nikon Df, because while the sensor earned identical scores to the D4 in almost every category when DxOMark put it through its paces, the Df actually BEAT the D4 in…
