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Blackberry 10 Camera Features ?Timeline Lens? that Captures Moments You Miss

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May 1st 2012 - 0 comments

The new Blackberry 10 operating system was unveiled BlackBerry World 2012 today, and one of the amazing new features that wowed the crowd was the new camera app. It features a seemingly-magical “timeline” lens that lets you rewind sections of photographs in order to recover moments that your fingers weren’t fast enough to capture. Did [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/57/67/465767.gif[/IMG]

The All.Round Camera Concept: A Bendy Take on the DSLR

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May 1st 2012 - 0 comments

Concept products aren’t a rarity. In the world of cars and computers concepts usually make us ooh and ahh at their beautiful styling and implied functionality, but in the world of cameras things can get a bit, strange. Such is the case with a new SLR concept by industrial designer Arti Patel called the All.Round [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/57/33/465733.jpeg[/IMG]

Photographer Captures His Daughter?s Journey from Birth to Womanhood

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May 1st 2012 - 0 comments

Ever since she entered the world 30 some-odd years ago, Alison has had her father Jack Radcliffe‘s camera pointed at her. Radcliffe, a Baltimore, MD-based photographer, started out by documenting her life casually as new parents commonly do, but slowly became more interested in the relationships involved in growing up. He writes, My photographs of [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/57/00/465700.jpeg[/IMG]

Humans of New York: A Photographic Census of New York City

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May 1st 2012 - 0 comments

The United States is a diverse country, but there are few places in the US as diverse as New York City: “the greatest city on earth.” In many ways The City’s diversity makes it a street photographer’s gold-mine, and it’s this mine that photographer Brandon Stanton has been meticulously digging through over the last couple of years. [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/56/71/465671.jpeg[/IMG]

Instagram and its Impact on the World of Photography

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May 1st 2012 - 0 comments

A Guest Post by Guy Prives. If you were not on a hot-air balloon for a journey around the world or in a Tibetan monastery on a pilgrimage yet have experienced these images on Facebook then it’s likely you’ve already been exposed to Instagram. “Instagram” the photo-sharing application, recently bought by Facebook, allows participants to [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Instagram and its Impact on the World of Photography[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/56/61/465661.jpeg[/IMG]

MIT Develops a New Self-Cleaning, Fog-Resistant, Anti-Glare Glass

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May 1st 2012 - 0 comments

MIT researchers are at it again: the university’s latest research project to receive attention from tech blogs the world over is their new self-cleaning, anti-glare, fog-resistant glass. They’re calling it “multifunctional” glass, and by using a nano-textured surface it eliminates glare and fogging entirely, essentially making it invisible. As an added bonus, water droplets “bounce” [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/56/31/465631.gif[/IMG]

Olympus OM-D EM-5 Called the ?Most Capable Micro Four Thirds Camera?

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May 1st 2012 - 0 comments

The Olympus OM-D EM-5 generated quite a bit of buzz when it was first announced due to its retro OM-inspired styling, but now reviews of the camera are suggesting that its potential as a camera are on par with its sleek form. dpreview has published a comprehensive review of the camera, giving it glowing marks [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/56/15/465615.jpeg[/IMG]

The 10 Most Popular ?Photographers? on Instagram

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May 1st 2012 - 0 comments

We’ll go ahead and start by saying that we’re using the term “photographer” lightly; in reality we should probably say “users.” But there’s a certain irony to calling celebrity Instagramers “photographers” that we quite enjoy. Unlike Flickr where many of the best loved users are well known photogs showcasing their most recent work, Instagram’s top [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/55/73/465573.jpeg[/IMG]

You Don?t Own Anything Anymore: Copyright Law in an Internet Age

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May 1st 2012 - 0 comments

John Herrman over at BuzzFeed has written up an interesting piece on how and why “grabby” terms of service have become ubiquitous in the online world of social media: In a world where sharing a photo is strictly a matter of getting another copy made and mailing it, or getting it published, copyrights are pretty [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/55/60/465560.jpeg[/IMG]

Starry Night Photographs of Landscapes Covered in Lights

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May 1st 2012 - 0 comments

Korean photographer Lee Eunyeol creates beautiful nighttime scenes by installing lights in various landscapes. His artist statement reads, Starry night expresses private spaces given by night and various emotions that are not able to be defined and described in the space. I?ve chosen analogue type for the expression which attempts to install electric bulbs in [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/54/34/465434.jpeg[/IMG]

Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Couples

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May 1st 2012 - 0 comments

A Guest Post by Kaspars Grinvalds from Posing App. In the previous articles in this posing guide series we looked individually at posing female subjects, posing male subjects and posing children. In those individual person portraits the main subject was a single person and her or his personality. In comparison, couple photography is more about [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Couples[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/54/03/465403.gif[/IMG]

Polaroid Land Camera Advertisements from the 1950s and 1960s

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Apr 30th 2012 - 0 comments

Back in the 1950s and 1960s, Polaroid sponsored shows like “The Tonight Show” during which the hosts would take time to endorse the cameras during the show itself rather than cut to commercials. The montage above takes viewers back to a time when fancy new Polaroid cameras cost $69.95 — or $1.19 a week. Here’s [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/52/48/465248.gif[/IMG]

Trigger Your Camera 12 Different Ways With TriggerTrap?s New App

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Apr 30th 2012 - 0 comments

When we told you about the StrikeFinder app earlier, we mentioned that what set it apart was that it used your actual iPhone’s camera; it wasn’t just acting as the trigger. Well, TrigerTrap’s new mobile app is just acting as the trigger, but it’s acting as a very comprehensive trigger. In total you have to [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/52/07/465207.jpeg[/IMG]

Are You on Instagram? POLL

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Apr 30th 2012 - 0 comments

Instagram has been been in the news a lot lately – particularly with it being purchased by Facebook for $1 billion! We’ve talked a little about it in the past and it has always caused some debate within our community – while some see it as a great way to share photos, particularly those taken [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Are You on Instagram? POLL[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/51/92/465192.gif[/IMG]

An 8-Bit Explanation of the Three Basic Components of Exposure

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Apr 30th 2012 - 0 comments

Matthew Gore of Light & Matter created this beginner-friendly video tutorial on the three basic elements of exposure: aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. It’s explained with easy to understand illustrations and examples, and features graphics and sounds that are reminiscent of old 8-bit video games. You can also find a text-based version of the tutorial [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/51/60/465160.gif[/IMG]

Olympus OM-D 5-Axis Stabilization Tested by a Man Suffering From Hand Tremors

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Apr 30th 2012 - 0 comments

One of the interesting features in Olympus’ OM-D EM-5 retro-styled camera is the 5-axis image stabilization, which shifts the sensor in 5 different axis directions (existing systems generally use 2) to compensate for camera shake. It’s a feature that caught the eye of Vimeo user Fiatopichan, who suffers from essential tremor (a neurological disorder that [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/51/46/465146.gif[/IMG]

Starry Portraits Shot Using an Infrared Camera and a Microsoft Kinect

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Apr 30th 2012 - 0 comments

“Dancing with Invisible Light” is a project by San Francisco-based photographer Audrey Penven, who used an infrared camera to capture portraits illuminated by the invisible structured light emitted by a Microsoft Kinect. With these images I was exploring the unique photographic possibilities presented by using a Microsoft Kinect as a light source. The Kinect – [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/51/14/465114.jpeg[/IMG]

StrikeFinder Lets You Capture Lightning and Fireworks on Your iPhone

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Apr 30th 2012 - 0 comments

There are plenty of light-sensitive triggers on the market, some triggers even use your smartphone, but Ubertronix‘s new StrikeFinder app is the first mobile app that lets you actually take the pictures with your phone. Instead of designing a trigger app that attaches to an external camera, the StrikeFinder app released earlier today lets everyday [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/50/83/465083.jpeg[/IMG]

Flash Game: Escape From the Darkroom

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Apr 30th 2012 - 0 comments

“Darkroom Escape” is a simple flash game in which you’re stuck in the darkroom of a photo studio and must escape using only the items in the room. The idea is pretty simple, but the difficult is pretty high. If you can figure everything out without looking up the answers, you’re either a savant or [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/50/49/465049.gif[/IMG]