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Shooting Kodachrome Film in 2012

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Jul 17th 2012 - 0 comments

Like everyone else who heard that Kodak was discontinuing Kodachrome in 2009 — and that Dwayne?s Photo would not develop the slide film after 2010 — I shot as much Kodachrome film as I could acquire, before that “last developing day” deadline. Eighteen months after that final day, people have still tried to develop Kodachrome [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/64/76/496476.jpeg[/IMG]

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Dizzying Animations that Show What San Francisco Looks Like to Superman

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Jul 17th 2012 - 0 comments

Director Kevin Parry recently finished creating a music video for the song “Water Falls” by Kalle Mattson. Filmed by Andrea Nesbitt, the video features some crazy time-lapse shots over great distances in San Francisco. Parry has also turned the shots into these animated GIFs that show you what various locations would look like if you [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/64/58/496458.gif[/IMG]

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Panasonic G5, FZ200 and LX7 Picture and Info Leak One Day Before Announcement

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Jul 17th 2012 - 0 comments

One short day away from making all of these camera announcements officially, Panasonic has sprung a massive picture and info leak through several channels, including a Telegraph UK article which has since been taken down. According to the British paper, three cameras will be unveiled tomorrow, with the main event being the announcement of the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/64/45/496445.jpeg[/IMG]

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Reverse Lens Macro: Close Up Photography Lesson #3

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Jul 17th 2012 - 0 comments

This is the third in a series of four lessons on close-up and macro photography by Andrew S Gibson, author of Up Close: A Guide to Macro & Close Up Photography. In my previous articles I looked at two easy techniques for getting closer to your subject ? using close-up lenses and extension tubes (you [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Reverse Lens Macro: Close Up Photography Lesson #3[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/64/14/496414.jpeg[/IMG]

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The First Instagram Photo Uploaded Exactly Two Years Ago

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

Exactly two years ago today, Instagram testers uploaded the very first image to an app called Codename: a simple photograph of a sandaled foot and a dog. Three months later, Codename launched to the public as Instagram, the $1 billion photo app that boasts 50 million users who have shared 1 billion photographs. (via Instagram)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/62/89/496289.jpeg[/IMG]

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Actor Matthew Fox?s Photography From the Set of ?Lost?

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

During the filming of ABC’s television show “Lost,” lead actor Matthew Fox, who played Jack Shepherd on the show, decided to create a photo book with some behind-the-scenes images of the show’s set in Oahu. Fox’s collection is a lo-fi mix of black and white photographs and color medium format photos taken with a Holga [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/62/53/496253.gif[/IMG]

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Give Dad His Hair Back with Fuzzy Face Photo Frame

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

The Fuzzy Face Photo Frame is reminiscent of the classic children’s toy, Wooly Willy, only applied to your most treasured family photos. Vendor Fred & Friends suggests: Give your mom a mustache, hang a mullet on [your] ex-boyfriend, grow junior some sideburns. Simply insert any 4×6 photo and use the included magnetic wand to ‘paint’ [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/62/32/496232.jpeg[/IMG]

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Scream Activated Photo Booth Featured on the NBC Today Show

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

After a tour of the blogosphere last month, photographer Billy Hunt‘s scream activated photo booth the Screamotron3000 caught the attention of the folks over at NBC Today. This past Sunday Hunt went on national television to share the joy of scream photography. Here are some of the photos that resulted from the show’s cast and [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/61/97/496197.jpeg[/IMG]

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

“We shall never cease from striving – and the end of all our striving is to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” -TS Eliot Stephen Covey passed on today at 79. The following is pulled from his 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I admit to have gleaned [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/61/84/496184.png[/IMG]

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Fujifilm Primed to Announce Low and High-End X Models at Photokina

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

Photokina is only a couple of months away, and it looks like Canon and Nikon won’t be the only ones making major announcements and shaking up the camera market. According to Fuji Rumors, Fujifilm — initially reported to have a cheaper X-Model camera in the works — will actually be announcing two new models, one [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/61/56/496156.jpeg[/IMG]

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Sensor Size: A Relative Size Comparison Tool for Camera Sensors

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

Idan Shechter, the guy behind Camera Size, has launched a new website for photographers who understand sizes better through visual comparisons than through specs and figures. Sensor Size is a website that offers quick visual comparisons of sensors found in popular digital cameras. Select the cameras you want to check out from a couple of [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/61/40/496140.jpeg[/IMG]

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11 Most Popular Point and Shoot Cameras Among Our Readers

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve highlighted the best selling DSLRs, best selling DSLR Lenses and best selling compact camera systems among our readers. Today we’re moving onto best selling* ‘point and shoot‘ cameras. In actual fact I’m not sure ‘point and shoot’ is the best term for this list – really it is [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. 11 Most Popular Point and Shoot Cameras Among Our Readers[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/61/22/496122.jpeg[/IMG]

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Landscapes Illuminated by a Floating and Glowing Square

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

Montreal-based photographer Benoit Paillé‘s Alternative Landscapes project features photos of various outdoor locations lit with a glowing square. The images aren’t Photoshopped: Paillé actually suspends a 1×1 meter cube for the beautiful illumination seen in his images. Alternative Landscapes by Benoit Paillé (via Colossal) Image credits: Photographs by Benoit Paillé and used with permission[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/60/97/496097.jpeg[/IMG]

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Researchers Develop Camera That Uses Natural Light to See Around Corners

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

Researchers Ori Katz, Eran Small, and Yaron Silberberg of the Weizmann Institute in Israel have made a giant leap forward where camera technology is concerned: They have developed a camera system that can both see through things and around corners without using x-rays or complex lasers. Using natural light, a CCD camera and what’s referred [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/60/82/496082.jpeg[/IMG]

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What Do You Do For A Living? I?m A Commercial Photographer

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

New York City is unlike any other city in the United States. Most young professionals who move here do so to be the very best at whatever it is they want to do for a living. If I were an accountant, I would want to work for the very best accounting firms. If I were [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/60/69/496069.jpeg[/IMG]

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Printing Photos Onto Grass Using Photosynthesis

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

Here’s a short news segment on artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey that contains a brief section on the duo’s amazing giant grass photo prints (skip to 2:43). We get a glimpse of how they use a projector to print images onto sheets of grass with the help of photosynthesis. (via Fstoppers)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/60/51/496051.gif[/IMG]

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Reuters Photog Gets Into a Fight With a Bull, Somehow Saves His Camera

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

When firefighter Joseba Etxaburu isn’t putting out flames he works as a photo stringer for Reuters, and for the past 12-years he’s been attending the San Fermin festival in Spain, more commonly known as the running of the bulls. This year, however, while covering the release of wild cows into the bullring, he got a [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/60/39/496039.jpeg[/IMG]

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Photo Shows Elusive ?Red Sprite? Above Lightning Storm

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

Photographing lighting from the ground is cool enough, but if you happen to be taking pictures of a thunderstorm from, say, space (we know, unlikely, but never say never) on rare occasions you may capture something like what you see above. This is a picture of a “red sprite,” a phenomenon that takes place when [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/60/08/496008.jpeg[/IMG]

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Super-Resolution From a Single Image

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

“Super-Resolution From a Single Image” is an interesting research page by computer scientists over at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. It details the group’s efforts to create sharp enlargements of small photographs, and offers comparisons between their algorithm and other popular ones being used and researched (e.g. nearest neighbor, bi-cubic). The large image [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/59/95/495995.jpeg[/IMG]

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Gory To Graceful: The Best Action Photos From The Running of the Bulls

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Jul 16th 2012 - 0 comments

10 years ago or more, I made the trek to Pamplona, Spain for the annual running of the bulls. No intent to run, just a hope to learn something, watch a 400 year old phenomenon I’d read about in Hemingway’s the Sun Also Rises, and engage my passive interest in watching mostly drunk party kids [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/59/91/495991.png[/IMG]