Although technological advances have paved the way for smaller and cheaper camera models to enter the market, there haven’t really been any major innovations in terms of the hardware itself within the past decade. That’s why you see “classic” lenses and camera bodies still demanding exorbitant amounts of money on eBay, or on …
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Practice Your Digital Photography Skills On the Web
There comes a time for many amateur photographers when they decide to abandon easy-mode point-and-shoot cameras, and switch to a proper DSLR.
That’s when the learning starts.
And it’s not easy to get your head around the complexities of taking good pictures. It’s not just understanding exposure, shutter speed, aperture and so on, but
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Find Your Stolen Camera with Stolen Camera Finder
What can you do if your camera’s been stolen?
Not much, to be honest. Apple’s iPhones and iPads might have built-in locate-me technology, but the same cannot be said of most cameras, even the expensive DSLR ones.
A website called Stolen Camera Finder might be able to help, though.
It makes use of the data that your camera saves …
Photobucket Goes Retro with New Instagram-y App: Snapbucket
Cool kids take note. Photo and video sharing service Photobucket is making a move into trendier territory with the release of their new Snapbucket app, available for download on Androids as of today (the iPhone version will be available soon).
Contrary to their other app, Snapbucket allows users to apply vignettes and other artful …
Extra ‘Color’ for the Royal Wedding
Remember Color, the iPhone photography app designed to be used where people gather together?
Well, there’s a pretty big gathering of people expected in central London tomorrow, and the people at Color and one UK newspaper have decided to make the most of it.
Color and the Daily Telegraph have joined forces to create citizen news …
Photo Duo Creates Harry Potter-Style Moving Photos for the Web
Remember the moving photos that appear in newspapers and magazines in the Harry Potter stories?
Well someone’s come up with a digital equivalent that could bring news articles to life on tablet computers, phones and e-readers.
Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg worked together to create subtle animated GIF images for the web. They’re …
Photographers Join Forces For Tsunami Benefit iApp
Some of the world’s finest photographers have joined forces to document the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami – and raise money for its victims in the process.
The photojournalists – Dominic Nahr from Switzerland, Adam Dean from the UK, Shiho Fukada from Japan, James Whitlow Delano, Keith Bedford, and Paula Bronstein …
Photo Stream: Apple Photo Sharing Service Revealed?
Is Apple planning some sort of social photo sharing application in the next version of iOS?
The team at 9to5 Mac have uncovered evidence of something new called Photo Stream.
Does the name sound familiar? It might well do, if you’ve been using a Mac for a while. Years ago, Apple created a system called Photocast, built into its …
CNN Strikes a Chord with Google Over Facial Recognition Article
CNN’s Mark Milian published an article yesterday concerning a facial recognition feature that Google’s been working on. You’d be able to use such a feature to take a photo of someone and, if that person allowed it, receive relevant information about him or her. The piece reads very much like an interview with the app’s developer and …
Google’s Facial Recognition App: Take My Photo, Get My Contact Info [UPDATE]
Google is working on a mobile application that will delight some and creep out others—THERE CAN BE NO MIDDLE GROUND!
It’s a facial recognition app that’ll allow you to take a photo of someone, which it’ll match to photos in that person’s Google Profile, and then return that person’s contact information to you,
Artist Transforms Video Game Stills Into Photographic Art
We at Techland hold firmly that video game designers are some of today’s best artists. But we also realize that mainstream art snobs sometimes dismiss the genre as not real art.
That’s why we love the work of Thibault Brunet, a photographer who’s capturing and retouching screenshots to capture the landscapes and portraits found in
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Instaprint Instaprints Your Instaparty Instagrams Instantly
You gotcha iPhone? Check. You gotcha Instagram app? Check. You gotcha sleek wall-mounted instant photo printer? Hmm, maybe soon…
Instaprint is the latest rider on the bandwagon that is Instagram, the filter-tastic social photo app for iThing owners everywhere.
The premise is this: you’re at a party, or some big corporate shindig, …
