Archive for the 'General Tips' Category

Apparently, it has been 150 years since color photography has been invented. Yes, this surprised me too, and I don't remember seeing any color photos from that time. I think the earliest color photos I've seen are from the 1905 San Francisco earthquake.
Like most inventions, color photography was somewhat accidental. ...
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May 18th, 2011 | Posted in Cool Pictures, General Tips | Comments Off

When it comes to taking pictures, it is always difficult to get the final product to look right.
I found a some tips to helping photographers, but the tips themselves aren't really that much of a help because they are rather obvious. Yes, I definitely think that the skin tone should look normal ...
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February 28th, 2011 | Posted in General Tips | Comments Off

Who is this man? He is Evan Emory, and because of a YouTube video he made, he could face 20 years in prison.
What was his crime? He sung a sexually explicit song to a classroom full of elementary school students. Actually, he claims that he didn't. All he did ...
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February 19th, 2011 | Posted in Culture, General Tips | Comments Off
There has been some suggestion from online commentators, in giving your children a Flip Recorder as a gift and learning tool, thus allowing them to create their own inner videographer ability. However, there is another piece of technology, that can be harnessed and works just as well, with great video apps, introducing the iPhone. Prices are similar, for example, you could find a ...
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April 2nd, 2010 | Posted in General Tips | Comments Off

Those of you who have take macro shots know the pain of getting the correct lighting on small subjects. Fortunately, Brando has a solution.
Brando, a tech and gadget company who is based in Hong Kong, have created a Circular Macro Half/Full LED Light Source. It is a essentially a donut-shaped flash, ...
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January 19th, 2010 | Posted in Accessories, Cool Pictures, Digital Art/Photos, General Tips | 1 Comment
So the other day I was having kind of a bored moment on YouTube and I figured I'd take advantage of it to go see what I could see, and as it turns out, there is an ungodly lot of people out there who've taken video and infrared footage of rooms that they believe to ...
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December 30th, 2009 | Posted in Cool Pictures, Cool Products, General Tips | Comments Off

This isn’t the first photographer that chose an iPhone to express his art. Apparently the simplicity of the device keeps him “devoted to only composition and the perfect photo opp.” This time we’re talking about the iPhone 3GS and its camera which can pull off a couple of tricks for Japanes professional photographer Koichi Mitsui. ...
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October 29th, 2009 | Posted in Camera Phone, General Tips | 2 Comments

It used to be that, in Chevy Chase, you could buck the law as long as you were in a sufficiently large group. They had speed cameras, but the cameras would snap a picture of whatever was in front of it. If there were two, three, or more cars, it was impossible to tell which ...
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September 17th, 2009 | Posted in General Tips, Non-Digital Cameras, Spycam | 1 Comment

Now, most people, if pressed, will say that it's not exactly a terrible idea to have traffic cameras. It's a way to help deter irresponsible driving behaviors, a way to make people think twice before they, for example, blast through a red light. And in an age when a cop can't be on every corner, ...
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September 8th, 2009 | Posted in General Tips, News, Non-Digital Cameras, Spycam | 3 Comments

Most photographers prefer to have colored pictures over black and white images. However, there is something classic about the black and white pictures these days. And one secret is in the software to enhance images taken to which Nik software plans to focus on.
And to guide people for more creative images in the black ...
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July 31st, 2009 | Posted in Accessories, Cool Products, Digital Art/Photos, General Tips | Comments Off