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Pentax Crowned Best In DSLR Online Buyer Satisfaction

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Jun 30th 2012 - 0 comments

You’d think the biggest name in DSLR online buyer satisfaction would be someone like Nikon or Canon, but according to J.D. Power and Associates, it’s actually Pentax. J.D. Power and Associates released their 2012 DSLR Online Buyer Report a couple of days ago, and it was Pentax that took the crown, scoring 899 our of [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/03/56/490356.jpeg[/IMG]

JVC and Sony Going After GoPro Market With New and Upcoming Action Cams

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Jun 30th 2012 - 0 comments

Where the action cam market is concerned, GoPro is king. For the last few years if you wanted to go sky diving, snowbording, mountain biking, or any other extreme sport and video tape yourself doing it, you’d probably be strapping a GoPro to one of your appendages. Sony and JVC, however, are looking to get [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/03/44/490344.jpeg[/IMG]

Fully Automatic Cardboard Photo Booth Yields Timeless Silver Gelatin Photos

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Jun 30th 2012 - 0 comments

Falling somewhere in the “really cool idea” category, this fully-automatic, working photo booth is made entirely out of cardboard. Everything from the outside to the gears, cogs and belts that make up the innards is all cardboard and 100% automatic. To use the machine all you have to do is insert your cardboard token and [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/03/32/490332.gif[/IMG]

Travel Photography Inspiration Project: United Kingdom

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Jun 30th 2012 - 0 comments

With the world turning its interest to the UK as the Summer Olympics approach, let?s get a jump and see what DPS readers think of the country. We?ll see enough of the pomp and circumstance in a month, but for now, travelers and residents alike let us peer through their lens. This is the eleventh [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Travel Photography Inspiration Project: United Kingdom[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/03/04/490304.jpeg[/IMG]

Flickr Partners with Nokia to Beef Up Maps and Geotagging

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Flickr announced today that it has partnered with Nokia to overhaul its geotagging feature. The new maps and satellite images will offer increased coverage (e.g. bye bye photos in ambiguous blobs of land), detail, and zoom. The company isn’t turning its back on Open Street Map completely, though: the old map tiles will still be [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/02/17/490217.jpeg[/IMG]

Seeing Beyond the Human Eye

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

“Science can be beautiful. Art can be scientific.” This latest episode of the PBS series Off Book, titled “Seeing Beyond the Human Eye“, looks into how science and photographic techniques are helping transform how we see the world. Technology defies the boundaries of human perception. From photomicrography to astrophotography, size and distance are no longer [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/02/05/490205.gif[/IMG]

A Nighttime Photograph of a Mountain Biker on an Arch

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

This idea came to me after I had shot this photo in the daytime. I had been seeing a lot of celestial-type shots on the Internet, but most were just landscapes with no action. My main focus is action sports, and I love a challenge. I figured I would give it a try. To start [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/01/89/490189.jpeg[/IMG]

How to Simulate Looking Through a DSLR Viewfinder

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

If you’re creating a short film that requires a “through the viewfinder” clip, there’s an easier way to create it than pointing your camera through an actual viewfinder (does anyone actually do that?). In the short tutorial above, Luke Neumann of Neumann Films shows how you can simulate the look of a viewfinder by overlaying [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/01/66/490166.jpeg[/IMG]

Shepard Fairey Installs 100-foot Mural

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Shepard Fairey has a new installation in London’s Pleasure Gardens. The 10-story mural is part of the London Pleasure Garden’s vision of emulating the 17th and 19th Century tradition of ‘communal spaces where people from all walks of life converged to listen to music, admire paintings, stroll, drink, flirt and immerse themselves in the culture.’ [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/01/62/490162.gif[/IMG]

Zoom Zoom: Samsung WB100 Packs a 16MP Sensor and 26x Lens

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Love to zoom? Samsung has launched a new camera for you. The WB100 is a new superzoom camera that features a 16-megapixel sensor and 22.3-579.8mm equivalent lens. Features include dual image stabilization (i.e. both optical and digital), 3D photography, live panorama creation, 720p video recording, ISO 80-1,600 and the option of being powered by either [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/01/50/490150.jpeg[/IMG]

U.S. Wildfires Photographed From Space

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Massive wildfires in the Rockies have destroyed hundreds of homes and scorched tens of thousands of acres over the past week. To get an idea of how massive these fires are, check out this photograph captured by a NASA satellite. The GOES-15 satellite keeps a stationary eye over the western U.S. and the smoke from [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/01/38/490138.jpeg[/IMG]

Speed: Weekly Photography Challenge

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

This week your photographic challenge is to take and share an image on the theme of ‘Speed’. Feel free to interpret the theme in any way that you wish. Once you’ve taken and selected the ‘Speed’ image that you’d like to share – upload it to your favourite photo sharing site or blog and either [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Speed: Weekly Photography Challenge[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/01/17/490117.jpeg[/IMG]

Digital Cameras Are Cheap to Charge

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Ever wonder how much you’re paying to keep your rechargeable camera batteries juiced? The answer: probably around a buck or two a year. Researcher Baskar Vairmohan of EPRI conducted a study to determine the effect of popular gadgets on our nation’s power grid, calculating the annual electricity costs of various devices. He found that an [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/00/87/490087.jpeg[/IMG]

The Best Photography Course I Ever Took

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

I often ask myself, ?When and how it is it that I decided to become a commercial photographer?? The answer to this question is usually a long drawn out tale that goes back to when I was a junior in high school back in Miami. I?ll save you the long story and only share the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/00/65/490065.jpeg[/IMG]

An Engine Rebuilding Stop-Motion Created Over 11 Months

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

UK-based nothinghereok purchased an old engine off eBay to replace his old one and then began to document the disassembly process with his DSLR. He soon realized that the project would make a neat stop motion video, so he ended up shooting over 3,000 photographs during the 11 months of disassembly. After combining the photos [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/00/56/490056.gif[/IMG]

Portraits with Witty Hand-Painted Signs

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Artists Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson Paulsen have a two-year-long project titled 100 Posterworks that features B&W portraits in various locations, with standard compositions, featuring witty messages on hand-painted signs. Through the posters we address philosophical questions, comment on political or artistic issues, quote, complain, poke fun and indirectly document our lives. They can be [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/00/37/490037.jpeg[/IMG]

Instagram Now Accepting Comments and Likes from the Browser

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Watch out, Flickr — Instagram is coming for you. The popular photo sharing app has quietly updated its website to include commenting and liking on individual photo pages. Previously the website was “read only”, and any interaction with the social network was limited to its mobile interface. The new website, which also features larger images [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/00/18/490018.jpeg[/IMG]

Pentax K-01 REVIEW

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Jun 29th 2012 - 0 comments

The Australian press presentation of this design landmark was a glamorous affair, embedded in the annual fashion week and held in Sydney’s Overseas passenger terminal at dusk, overlooking the Sydney Opera House. As the drinks flowed and the canapés consumed, examples of the new camera, resplendent in its signal yellow and black livery, were handed [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Pentax K-01 REVIEW[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/99/92/489992.jpeg[/IMG]

How to Create the Google Logo Using Photos of Tossed Paint

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

To celebrate Google+’s one year anniversary, photographer Alex Koloskov and retoucher Genia Larionova teamed up on a photo project to recreate the Google logo using photographs of paint. They tossed paint matching the colors of each letter into the air multiple times and picked out the best shapes, which were then combined in Photoshop. Here’s [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/98/79/489879.jpeg[/IMG]

Aviary Photo Editor Raises $6M Towards Further Improvement and Growth

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

When Picnik bit the dust several months back, it handed the web-editor baton, in large part, over the the Aviary photo editor. Since then Aviary has been running on all cylinders making consistent improvements and otherwise trying to get you to forget about that one Pic-something editor — and it doesn’t look like they’ll be [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/98/44/489844.jpeg[/IMG]