Category: Photography

Photography

To Make Better Photos, You’ve Got to Throw Them Away

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As reported on Wired. BY PETE BROOK Monica Lopez de Victoria (TM Sisters), Synchronized Swimmer and Artist, Miami, FL. (Issue 9) Mr. Henry X, Weed Dealer, New York, NY. (Issue 01) Meredith Ostrom, Artist, New York City. (Issue 08) Kalle Lindmark, Artist, Malmo, Sweden. (Issue 07) Jonathan Hulland, Human Rights Activist, Rangoon, Burma. (Issue 12) Joey Frank, Artist, Resident at The Intercourse, Brooklyn, NY. (Issue 05) DJ Harvey, DJ and producer, Venice, CA. (Issue 03) Gui…

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Photography

Stop Faking the Funk and Go Make a Picture

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER Feature on NFL Minnesota Viking Jared Allen for MAXIM. Breaking Bad actors Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul for NEWSWEEK/Daily Beast. Photographed on location in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Feature for Field & Stream on Ville Platte, Squirrel Town USA. Feature on 60 million dollar High School football stadium in Allen, Texas. Photographed for ESPN the Magazine. Sniper School photographed for MAXIM. Lyle Lovett for GQ. Basketball guru turned ESPN analyst Jeff Van Gundy photographed at his home in Houston, Texas forMen’s…

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Application Photography

Snapzoom Gives You A Smartphone Camera Mount That Turns Binoculars Into A Super Zoom Lens

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON A lot of people don’t carry cameras anymore, now that they have smartphones. But that means that you could miss opportunities to capture great moments, especially when you’re missing out on the great optical zoom available on some more expensive or specialized dedicated camera devices. That’s what Snapzoom hopes to fix with its binocular mount for smartphone cameras, and the best part is that it’s completely universal, meaning it fits a wide variety…

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Hardware Dev Photography

Samsung announces NX2000 Smart camera: 20.3MP, NFC, WiFi, 3.7-inch touchscreen, $650 with a 20-50mm

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As reported on Engadget. By Joe Pollicino If you’ve been torn between Samsung’s NX300 and NX1000 mirrorless cameras, you should know the company has officially split the difference with its new NX2000. While it likely won’t sway NEX-3N lovers away from Sony, the $650 NX2000 is a Benjamin more than Sammy’s lower-end NX1000 and packs the same 3D-capable DRIMe IV processor and NFC functionality as the pricier NX300 — not to mention the 20.3-megapixel APC-S sensor seen across the line. The differentiating…

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Photography

Ghostly Plane Wrecks Found in Remote, Exotic Locations

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As reported on Wired. BY JAKOB SCHILLER West Sahara Canada Canada Canada Mexico Australia USA Canada Bobsleigh track from the 1984 Winter Games in modern day Bosnia-Herzegonina. From the series Olympic Spirit. Croatia. Yugoslavian military airplane storage. From the series R.I.P Australia. From the series Last Exit. Romania. From the series God’s Debris. View as gallery   Dietmar Eckell has traveled the world in pursuit of ruin. His portfolio is filled with mystifyingly beautiful pictures of abandoned buildings, forgotten military sites…

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Hardware Dev Photography

Panasonic’s 16-megapixel Lumix G6 unveiled with 7fps burst, NFC, WiFi

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Den Panasonic has just announced a new mid-range Micro Four Thirds camera, the Lumix G6, that brings a solid list of specs for a mid-range camera. The 16-megapixel shooter can fire at a respectable 7fps in burst mode, has a top sensitivity of ISO 25,600 and like the recently launched Lumix GF6, has WiFi and NFC for device syncing. It also sports a 1,440K-dot OLED LVF, 0.5 second startup time, 3-inch, 1,036K-dot touchscreen…

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Culture Photography Pure News Story

My lockdown: here’s what it was like living in Boston this week

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As reported on The Verge. By Nathan Ingraham Two wanted men kept a major American city — and my family — on high alert I’ve lived in Boston (or one of its neighboring towns) for almost 14 years, and I can’t remember a time that the entire MBTA, our public transportation system, shut down. No trains, no buses, no commuter rail. Maybe on 9/11, and parts of the system have been out of service during particularly…

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Pulitzer-winning photography captures chilling scenes of Syrian conflict

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris The Pulitzer Prize winners for breaking news and feature photography have been announced, and all depict scenes from the civil war in Syria. The near-century old journalism prize first began rewarding outstanding photography in the ’60s. This year’swinners for Breaking News are Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra, and Muhammed Muheisen, all for the Associated Press, while freelance photographer Javier Manzano picked up the best Feature Photography prize for his…

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