Topic: PHOTO - on June 15, 2007 at 6:15:00 PM CEST
Kodak Unveils Brighter CMOS Color Filters
Eastman Kodak Co. has unveiled what it says are 'next-generation color filter patterns' designed to more than double the light sensitivity of CMOS or CCD image sensors used in camera phones or digital still cameras. The new color filter system is a departure from the widely used standard Bayer pattern — an arrangement of red, green and blue pixels — also created by Kodak.
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Topic: PHOTO - on June 14, 2007 at 10:54:00 AM CEST
How Canon Camera Lenses Are Made
A series of videos showing how Canon camera lenses are manufactured and in particular an EF 500mm F4L IS USM lens.
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Topic: PHOTO - on May 31, 2007 at 11:10:00 AM CEST
Nikon’s Visual Sketch
With this philosophy, photographer Yoshiaki Kita set out from China on a long trip, drawing a 35,000km-long line from the Eurasian Continent to the African Continent, capturing the people and cultures along the way. Kita’s photos and commentary show how people’s lives and surroundings vary according to the various climates, elevations and faces he encounters.
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Topic: PHOTO - on April 22, 2007 at 11:42:00 AM CEST
2007 Pulitzer Prizes
Racing barefooted after kicking off her flip-flops, Cyndie pushes her son Derek Madsen, 10, up and down hallways in the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento on June 21, 2005, successfully distracting him during the dreaded wait before his bone marrow extraction. Doctors want to determine whether he is eligible for a blood stem cell transplant, his best hope for beating neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer, which was diagnosed in November 2004.
pulitzer.org A Mother's Journey 1 A Mother's Journey 2 A Mother's Journey 3 A Mother's Journey 4
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Topic: PHOTO - on April 14, 2007 at 10:28:00 AM CEST
Self made camera
One Russian blogger made a camera from the two matchboxes and a tin beer can. Somebody submitted us his camera and photos he made in St. Petersburg.
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Topic: PHOTO - on April 10, 2007 at 10:37:00 AM CEST
Kazuhiko Kawahara
Kazuhiko Kawahara - called Palla - is an artist from Osaka. He originally studied architecture and worked as an architect for 10 years but then gradually got more and more into photographing architecture and transforming these photos to reveal the patterns hidden in modern cities. Palla started his weblog Pallalink.net in 2002 where he posts his pictures, layering and shifting them under the influence of his online audience’s comments - a journey into rich cityscape structures. Visiting his website and browsing around his archives is a must! Here are some of his most beautiful images, some comments on the projects he is currently working on and moreover how he creates those stunning compositions.
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Topic: PHOTO - on April 10, 2007 at 10:28:00 AM CEST
Dave Hill
Über die Motive von Dave Hill lässt sich ja vielleicht noch streiten aber die Looks der Bilder sind zweifellos außergewöhnlich. Die Shots erinnern auf Surreale Weise an eine Mischung aus Ölgemälde und tatsächlichem Foto.
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Topic: PHOTO - on April 9, 2007 at 3:01:00 PM CEST
Anto Kamarian of Cigars by Chivas in Pasadena California, Yeah You, Photography is Still Not a Crime
Read what happens when a store owner tries to bully photographer/blogger Thomas Hawk.
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 30, 2007 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Rarindra Prakarsa
My name is Rarindra Prakarsa. I live in Jakarta, Indonesia. Indonesia is very interesting country, unique place for photographer around the world. Million of interesting objects: Landscape (13.500 islands here in Indonesia!), Culture (400 language), journalistic (hmmm). I am amateur photographer since 1995.
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 29, 2007 at 1:40:00 PM CEST
The Taste of Color
Swedish photographer Björn Lindberg shoots food pr0n based on single color compositions.
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 23, 2007 at 11:57:00 AM CET
Open Source Photography
Tutorials, techniques and how-tos.
This group deals with all open source software available to photographers. It intends to be a forum to share experiences and advances in the area of OSP. From image post-processing using the GIMP, sharing plug-in experiences and scripts, to open source tools used for creating and tone mapping HDR images, and much more. We intend to cover the hottest pieces of open source photography software. You can start getting familiar with all the options you have by checking the big picture.
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Topic: PHOTO - on March 21, 2007 at 6:02:00 PM CET
Commons Picture of the Year 2006: Results
The Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2006 competition is now over, and the winner has been selected. Thank you all for voting. Of the 658 Wikimedians who voted, 83 selected Aurora Borealis as the Wikimedia Commons Picture of 2006. Sans domicile fixe in Paris takes second place with 78 votes. Both Blue Jay and Hoverflies mating in midair had 70 votes and have been awarded joint third place.
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