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What Pancake Lenses Look Like On the Inside

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Mar 21st 2012 - 0 comments

I?ve always been fascinated by pancake lenses. It just amazes me that something that small can actually function. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we?ve been taking things apart to determine where and how (and sometimes if) the lenses can be adjusted optically. So, I decided to do two pancake lenses for mirrorless cameras [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/40/93/444093.jpeg[/IMG]

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What Landscape Photos Would Look Like if Earth Had Saturn-Like Rings

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Mar 21st 2012 - 0 comments

YouTube user Roy Prol created this fascinating animation that imagines what Earth would be like if our planet had Saturn-like rings. In addition to views from space, he show us beautiful renderings of what the rings would look like in landscape photos captured at famous landmarks (e.g. the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Christ the Redeemer [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/40/46/444046.gif[/IMG]

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Portraits of People with Their Trash Bins

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Mar 21st 2012 - 0 comments

Singapore-based photographer Aw Zinkie‘s photo series “Republic of Pulau Semakau” explores the idea of a trash bin being an essential part of an individual’s personal space, and a way of examining their identity. Her portraits show the subjects in their personal environments with their faced replaced by held up trash bins. The series also highlights [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/40/22/444022.jpeg[/IMG]

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How To Create A Video Masterpiece With Your Photos (& Get 100,000 Youtube Views)

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Mar 21st 2012 - 0 comments

A Guest Post by Benjamin Jenks from AdventureSauce.com. You love digital photography? Or at least you love when you capture a beautiful moment and you can share that moment with others. What if you could share more of these moments with more people? The technique I?m suggesting is called photomotion. It is a close relative [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. How To Create A Video Masterpiece With Your Photos (& Get 100,000 Youtube Views)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/39/63/443963.jpeg[/IMG]

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Auroras, Meteors, and Photography from the International Space Station

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Mar 20th 2012 - 0 comments

Here’s a fascinating video by NASA that explains what auroras are and what they look like from space. It’s filled with beautiful photographs and time-lapse sequences captured by astronauts on the International Space Station. Astronaut photographer Don Pettit, who maintains a blog about his experiences, writes that taking pictures of Earth is harder than it [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/37/51/443751.gif[/IMG]

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Why This Photograph is Worth $578,500

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Mar 20th 2012 - 0 comments

Last week, a collection of 36 prints by William Eggleston was sold for $5.9 million at auction.  The top ten list of most expensive photographs ever sold doesn’t contain a single work worth less than a cool million. Just a few months ago, Andreas Gursky’s ‘Rhine II’ became the world’s most expensive photograph, selling for [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/36/97/443697.jpeg[/IMG]

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Lost & Found: Snapshots Salvaged After the Japanese Tsunami

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Mar 20th 2012 - 0 comments

The Lost & Found Project is a volunteer effort that recovered three quarters of a million lost photographs after last year’s devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Each of the snapshots was washed, digitized, and numbered, and twenty thousand of them have since been reunited with their owners. Project head Munemasa Takahashi states, After the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/36/60/443660.jpeg[/IMG]

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MIT Unveils Camera That Can See Around Corners

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Mar 20th 2012 - 0 comments

Back in 2012 we shared that MIT was developing a special camera that uses echos of light to see around corners. Now, two years later, the researchers are finally showing off the camera in action. It works by firing 50 “femtosecond” (quadrillionth of a second) laser pulses 60 times at various spots at an angled [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/36/38/443638.gif[/IMG]

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Photographs of ?Invisible Man? Blending into Beijing Locations

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Mar 20th 2012 - 1 comments

After his Beijing studio was destroyed in 2005, artist Liu Bolin (AKA “The Invisible Man”) began a project titled “Hiding in the City” that show him blending into various locations around Beijing. The photographs aren’t Photoshopped — Bolin carefully has his body painted to blend in with each landscape. TIME writes, Each image requires meticulous [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/36/13/443613.jpeg[/IMG]

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Use a Red Dot Sight for Locating Subjects with Super Telephoto Lenses

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Mar 20th 2012 - 0 comments

Photo enthusiast Chris Malcolm needed a better way to aim his 500mm lens at fast moving subjects (e.g. birds in flight), so he upgraded his lens with a DIY sighting aid by attaching a non-magnified red dot sight: They’re designed to clamp onto a gun sight wedge mount, so some kind of adapter is required. [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/35/55/443555.jpeg[/IMG]

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3 Minutes with Photographer Michael Kern

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Mar 20th 2012 - 0 comments

Photographic artistry can take on many forms. Those that make the greatest impact often challenge convention and blend styles to create something new. Nature photography is defined almost as strictly as Photojournalism where one’s subject must be honestly portrayed with minimal digital alteration (e.g. no composites, cloning, etc.) all while showing animals in the wild versus [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. 3 Minutes with Photographer Michael Kern[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/35/32/443532.jpeg[/IMG]

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Will Wireless Carriers Soon Offer Internet-Connected Cameras?

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Mar 20th 2012 - 0 comments

Imagine a world in which cameras are as connected to the web as cell phones and purchased with contracts from wireless service providers such as AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint. That world may not be too far off. Last week we reported that both Samsung and Panasonic are considering Android-powered cameras that would offer third-party apps [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/35/22/443522.jpeg[/IMG]

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Childhood Toys in a Grown-Up World

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Mar 20th 2012 - 0 comments

After finding toys from his childhood in his grandparents’ attic, photographer Julien Mauve decided to create a series of photographs that imagines what those toys would look like in our serious adult world. The series is titled “Back to Childhood”. You can see more photos from the project over on Mauve’s website. Image credits: Photographs [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/34/82/443482.jpeg[/IMG]

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Tip: Bring Your Own Power Strip When Traveling Abroad

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Mar 20th 2012 - 0 comments

Here’s a simple tip by photographer Benjamin Von Wong for traveling abroad: you can make recharging your devices overseas a breeze by building a charging station using a single power adapter and your own power strip. (via DYIP)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/34/64/443464.gif[/IMG]

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Read it Today: Guy Kawasaki?s ?What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of Us?

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Mar 20th 2012 - 0 comments

—- Update: just a reminder that Guy Kawasaki is on chasejarvisLIVE tomorrow, Wednesday March 21. Details are here…. ——- The jury is out. For some it’s the best thing ever. For others it’s just another social media tool that clutters the horizon, and for others still it hasn’t lived up to the hype that Google [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/34/56/443456.jpeg[/IMG]

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Henri Cartier-Bresson on ?The Decisive Moment?

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Mar 20th 2012 - 0 comments

Here’s what Henri Cartier-Bresson, the father of modern photojournalism, said about his concept of “The Decisive Moment” in an interview with The Washington Post in 1957: Photography is not like painting. There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/34/34/443434.jpeg[/IMG]

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imo Camera Straps: Review

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Mar 20th 2012 - 0 comments

I was sent 2 camera straps by imo recently in order to review them. All in all, a camera strap review is a rather difficult thing because by and large camera straps are often quite similar. So because of that, I’ll try to focus on the differences that these straps have from your typical strap [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. imo Camera Straps: Review[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/33/85/443385.jpeg[/IMG]

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Create a Contact Sheet Portrait Using an Entire Roll of Film

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Mar 19th 2012 - 0 comments

Photographer Mario Zanaria created this contact sheet portrait of a model named Francesca by planning out each of the frames on a roll of film. pianosequenza (via Photojojo) Image credit: Photograph by Mario Zanaria and used with permission[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/31/73/443173.jpeg[/IMG]

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BumpyPhoto Turns 2D Photographs into 3D Color Sculptures

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Mar 19th 2012 - 0 comments

At CES 2012 back in January, Casio showed off a 2D to 3D conversion service that turns photos into sculptures. Now a new Portland, Oregon-based company called BumpyPhoto is bringing the technology to the masses. With prices starting at $59, BumpyPhoto will take your standard photograph, turn it into a 3D model using their special [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/31/30/443130.jpeg[/IMG]

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Unbelievable Fantasy Photos of Ants

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Mar 19th 2012 - 0 comments

Photographer Andrey Pavlov‘s images of ants may look like they were computer-generated or created with dead insects, but they’re actually real photographs of living ants. Pavlov spends hours setting up his fantasy scenes and then waits for his ant subjects to interact with his miniature props in just the right way. You can see more [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/30/62/443062.jpeg[/IMG]