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A “tool for photographers to trigger cameras or flashes based signals from various sensors”
Photography
Exhibits
Images of bioluminescence: from the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Image Library.
Jeff T. Alu: mostly greyscale, somewhat abstract landscapes; prints available.
Library of Underwater Images by John Petrak: Extensive, high quality, and well organized.
Jørn Tompter: Many pointless portraits of boring people and pictures of walls painted with pictures, but there are few strongly original compositions here that make it worth a visit. The site is entirely in Flash.
A tribute to the beauty of Wild Skies.
The Gigapxl Project: “Defining the upper limits of large-format photography [...] The Project's near-term goal is to compile a coast-to-coast portrait of America”.
Liquid Sculpture: High-speed images of splashes.
Michel-Jean Dupierris: he's here, here, and here.
A Photographic Study of The Fly
Bryan Jones’ combined expertise as a biologist and photographer results in a website full of beauty, wonder, and insight. Here is a macrophotographic study of the green bottle fly.
National Wildlife Federation Photo Contest
Great pictures, usefully organized (although this fellow is definitely not a mammal).
Bettr
Flickr’s API allows third parties to construct alternative ways to experience the photography stored on the site. I find this application (which comes with a convenient bookmarklet) to be a more pleasant way to browse someone’s “photostream”.
iPhone Photographs by Chase Jarvis
Getting a lot out of a small camera.
Christina Lutters
A powerful visual instinct energizes her photographs and her designs of webpages.
Nikon Small World: 2010 Gallery of Microphotography Contest Winners
Miroslaw Swietek
Dew bejeweled slumbering bugs at 3 am. I especially enjoy the magnified ocular hexagons.
Mike Matas
Several stunning photographs and OK time-lapse movies. The design is notable: an elegant scrolling display without flash (but with javascript). Also has a portfolio of interface design work, which explains why the page design is so sweet: the catalog includes several of the excellent interfaces used in the iphone. ☞ more
Photographs from the Scopes “Monkey Trial”
“Marcel C. LaFollette, an independent scholar, historian and Smithsonian volunteer uncovered rare, unpublished photographs of the 1925 Tennessee vs. John Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’ in the Smithsonian Institution Archives.” ☞ more
Information
James Duncan Davidson has some useful articles about photographic techinques and tools.
Viewfinder: “[...] a novel method for users to spatially situate [...] their photographs, and then to view these photographs, along with others, as perfectly aligned overlays in a 3D world model such as Google Earth.” Visit the link for an impressive video, and read the brief article in the NYT.
The Histogram as the Image: cleverly hiding the “real” image as the histogram of a gif file.
Wayne Yoshida: Notes on equipment and film. His description of the problems with rendering shadowed flesh tones on the Epson 750 are precisely what I've encountered with this otherwise excellent printer.
Sense and Sensors in Digital Photography: A very interesting article by Charles Maurer full of good sense on the subjects of resolution, sensors, lenses, and more.
Here are some practical notes by Charles Maurer on color matching for digital photography, published 4 Oct. 2004.
KenRockwell: No-nonsense assesments of equipment.
Small Flashes used Creatively: A series of tutorial articles.
PetaPixel
A bit heavy on the advertising, but plenty of great articles and photography. ☞ more
Pixiq
Tracks events involving photographers and the police. ☞ more
The Online Photographer
“Our mission: to help connect today's photo enthusiasts to photography's culture: its tradition, history, industries, best practices, accomplishments, literature, theory, legal issues, and current events.” ☞ more
Strobist: Welcome to Strobist.
“This website is about one thing: Learning how to use off-camera flash with your DSLR to take your photos to the next level.” ☞ more
Who’s the Dick?
Guy uses a photograph without permission to promote his commercial album, which is itself a re-performance of someone else’s music, and the photographer he ripped off gets called a “dick” for not lying down.
Clarkvision
Articles and detailed demonstrations of techniques and topics in various areas of photography.
Detailed Review ofthe Canon Powershot S3 IS
More useful than the owners’ manual in many places, and a detailed study of this impressive little camera’s performance.
Big Sensors + Little Cameras = Amazing Photo Quality
David Pogue looks at new (November 2009) small cameras that perferm well in low light: the Canon Powershot S90 and the Panasonic Lumix GF1, an interchangeable lens “Micro Four Thirds” camera. With examples of the output.
CHDK Wiki
CHDK allows you to extend your Canon camera’s functionality by loading a program from the memory card. It makes no permanent changes to firmware and is completely reversible. You can add a battery meter (strangely absent on some Canon models), live display of overexposed areas, and much more. You can even write scripts to control your camera.
Kodak Kills Kodachrome Film After 74 Years
Kodachrome was superb technology. It took me a long time to learn how to use it, and then it became obsolete. But not really obsolete: film and digital are different media, although that’s not widely understood. Now, obsolete or not, it’s gone.
Multicolr Search Lab
Find images from Flickr that contain the color combination of your choice. This is a slick, fun, and possibly even useful tool. ☞ more
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