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Samsung’s Galaxy S10 #SpaceSelfie satellite left hanging from tree on Michigan farm

31 Oct

Samsung’s campaign to promote its new Galaxy S10 5G smartphone came down to Earth with a crash this week when the high-altitude weather balloon central to the #SpaceSelfie promotion dropped out of the sky and was left dangling from a tree in Michigan.

The company had set up a microsite that allowed fans to post their selfies to a Galaxy S10 5G floating at the edge of the atmosphere. A picture of the phone displaying the selfie, overlaid on a real-time view of the Earth, would then be sent back to the sender for them to post on social media using the #SpaceSelfie hashtag. According to Samsung however, ‘weather conditions’ forced the balloon supporting the camera to drop back to Earth a little earlier than intended, where it ended up caught in a tree on a farm in Gratiot County, Michigan.

The Gratiot Country Herald reports that Nancy Welke heard a crash at around 8:45am, just as she and her husband were about to go outside to check on their horses. Upon going out to investigate they discovered the remains of the solar-powered apparatus in their field, with a parachute tangled in the branches of a tree. The balloon, which when inflated was half the size of a basketball court, was found a little further away caught in overhead power lines.

The Space Selfie campaign was launched on October 23 and was designed to demonstrate that the Galaxy S10 5G is so ruggedness it can be sent into space (almost). The balloon was sent to 65,000 feet above the Earth and actress and model Cara Delevingne was the first to ping a picture and have her face on the screen of the phone in ‘space’.

Of her 44 million Instagram followers 5m watched Delevingne’s teaser video of a spaceman delivering her phone, and at the time of writing 267,698 people had liked the resultant picture. The campaign was supposed to run to the end of this month, but on the loss of the critical device to make it all happen the Samsung/Spaceselfie microsite is now down too.

The #SpaceSelfie still managed to attract well over 6000 images on Instagram, though not all the pictures that appear under the hashtag are strictly related. According to Marketing Dive, the agency that ran the campaign for Samsung, the system used a combination of human and automated moderation to ensure no inappropriate images got through, though inevitably there are some random shots of a cup of coffee in the mix.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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SLC-2L-10: Left Brain / Right Brain

31 Oct

Photos by Sara Lando and David Hobby except where noted.

Just as most of us are either right- or left-handed, it is said that we all have a dominant side of our brain as well. Left-brained people are supposed to be more analytical and methodical, whereas right-brained people are more artistic and creative.

For most photographers, one of these two areas is probably a relative strength; the other a weakness. But ideally, you need the whole package. Which is something we were exploring earlier this month in Porto, Portugal. Read more »
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One week left to enter the USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition!

11 Sep

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There’s just a week left to enter the 2016 USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition! 

The USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Competition was founded in 2013 by Charlie Waite, one of the world’s most respected landscape photographers, and this year, the competition is bigger than ever. With a top prize of $ 15,000, the contest spans five main categories, ‘Environmental Value’, ‘My USA’, ‘Black & White’, ‘Classic View’, and ‘Urban’.

In addition to these five categories, DPReview is partnering with the competition to create a new award – ‘Life in the Landscape’, which will be judged by DPReview’s editors and writers. An additional special award, ‘Wild Landscape’ is sponsored by Future Publishing.

The competition is divided into two main classes – the USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Award and the Young USA Landscape Photographer of the Year Award. To enter Young USA Landscape Photographer of the Year, you must be 18 or under on the closing date of September 15, 2016. There are 7 categories within each of the two classes and up to 20 images may be entered across some or all of these categories, and photographers can enter the same image in more than one category and / or special award.

To enter a single image costs $ 10, while $ 30 allows you to enter up to 5 images, and $ 45 allows you to enter up to 20 images. Entrants for the Young USA Photographer of the Year Award pay a flat fee of $ 10 for up to 20 images.

The deadline for entry is September 15th. 

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Discover the Secrets of Lightroom: 48 Hours Left to Save 50% Off Our Lightroom Mastery Course

31 Aug

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If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about Adobe Lightroom, now’s your chance to do it with our brand new Lightroom Mastery Course – and if you act fast you can save 50%!

Over the last few years here at dPS we’ve noticed that the most common tool that our readers use to process their photos is Lightroom.

Along with this rise in the use of Lightroom we’ve noticed that many of our readers are coming to us with questions about how to use it most effectively and the feeling of being overwhelmed by how to get started with it.

So earlier this year we approached Pro Photographer and Lightroom Expert Mike Newton to create a course for our readers on how to Master Lightroom.

Mike went above and beyond and created Lightroom Mastery – a course that we’ve had some fantastic feedback on.

Here’s what one of our readers said about the course a few days after it launched.

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Belle wasn’t the only one – much of the feedback was along similar lines with readers reporting that they finally felt like they knew how to take control over Lightroom and to develop a workflow to help them take their photos to the next level and create beautiful images.

Early Bird Special: Ends in 48 Hours

Over the last 4 weeks we’ve offered Lightroom Mastery at an Early Bird discount of 50% off. We’ve also been putting everyone who purchases a copy in the draw to win $ 1000 USD toward new camera gear.

Many of you have taken up this offer already but we wanted to let you know today that there are just 48 hours left to take advantage of it.

At midnight (US EDT) the competition closes off and we’ll be reverting the course to its full price so now is your last chance to take advantage of this Early Bird Offer.

Discover How to Transform Your Images Today

This online course includes 16 modules and just over 3hrs of video tutorials.

Here are some of the things you’ll learn:

  • Editing – How to use the crop tool, basics panel, tone curve panel, color panel, split toning, details panel, and lens corrections panel, all while improving the image.
  • Tools – Using the spot removal brushes (cloning/healing), red eye correction tool, graduated filter, radial filter, and adjustment brushes!
  • Workflow – Lightroom presets, finding lost photos, stacking, the face finder tool, lights out mode, and more advanced topics!
  • Creative Techniques – How to Create Panoramas and HDR images.
  • How to Bring your Photos to Life – Full Photo Edit Workflow.

… and much much more.

And remember – when you order before midnight EDT this Friday, not only will you save a whopping 50%, you’ll also go into the draw to win USD $ 1,000 to spend on your photography.

So don’t wait – grab Lightroom Mastery here – or you might miss out!

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Diverging Diamond: Novel Highway Design Eliminates Hazardous Left Turns

02 Jun

[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture & Cities & Urbanism. ]

diverging diamond interchange design

The diverging diamond interchange has been heralded as the new cloverleaf and condemned as pedestrian unfriendly, but it does do at least one thing remarkably well: it eliminates dangerous left-hand turns that tend to cause the worst kinds of accidents.

As confusing as they look, studies so far suggest they reduce crashes by up to a third and fatal crashes by more than half. At first look, these interchanges appear incredibly complex to navigate, but, on the ground, drivers find it easy to follow their directions.

diamond interchange diagram

Drivers never have to turn to get left, which is the most dangerous part of a typical interchange, merging their way into position instead. To accomplish this the roads cross and uncross gradually.

no left turn interchange

While these diamonds date back decades in France, they were only recently imported to the United States. A graduate student named Gilbert Chlewicki thought he had designed the system, only to discover it existed in Europe. There are now dozens of diverging diamonds in over 20 states across the US.

All of their benefits aside, diverging diamonds still have critics. Charles Marohn, an engineer and writer about bad road designs, maintains these interchanges are terrible for bikers and pedestrians. Of course, so are classic clover leafs.

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Like the infamous Magic Roundabout in England (with five smaller roundabouts circling a larger one), it may just take time for people to get used to the idea, too.

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48 Hours Left to Save up to 90% on These Great Photography Deals

30 Dec

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Over the past two weeks we’ve put together some great photography deals to help you improve your photography in the new year but as 2015 comes to a close so will the deals.

As this post goes live you have approximately 48 hours to take advantage of this promotion.

Each year at this time we announce the most popular deals so I thought I’d list them here in order of popularity.

Congratulations to Sebastian Michaels for topping the list again – this year with his new Black and White Photo Artistry course.

  1. Black and White Photo Artistry
  2. Cole’s Classroom Lightroom Course
  3. Landscape Photography Bundle
  4. Mike Newtons 104 Lightroom Presets Pack
  5. Phil Steele’s Event Photography Course
  6. Photography Concentrate Composition Skills and Light Skills Guides (or get the bundle)
  7. Photo Nuts Photography Courses
  8. Natural Light Photography eBooks
  9. Portraits eBook Bundle
  10. 101 dPS Lightroom Presets
  11. $ 10 eBooks Day (plus Ed Verosky eBook Bundle)
  12. Snapn Motion eBook (and Snapn Motion eBook Bundle)

Which deals did you snap up this year?

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No Child Left: 10 Eerie Abandoned Daycare Centers

16 Feb

[ By Steve in Abandoned Places & Architecture. ]

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Won’t somebody please care for the children? Sorry, Helen Lovejoys of the world, these 10 eerie abandoned daycare centers just don’t care any more.

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abandoned daycare center Pripyat Chernobyl(images via: Boston.com, WXXI and Boing Boing, Miles O’Brien)

Let’s get this one out of the way post-haste: an abandoned daycare center in the nuclear ghost town of Pripyat, Ukraine. Like every other public and private facility in the former Soviet atomic boomtown (no pun intended), Pripyat’s daycare center was abandoned suddenly in 1986 when the nearby Chernobyl reactor exploded and governmental authorities couldn’t hide, er, became aware of the scope of the subsequent disaster.

abandoned daycare Pripyat Chernobyl(image via: Inmobiliaria Lares)

Before the catastrophe, Pripyat’s schools and childcare centers – this one appears to be a combination of both – must have been pleasant places suffused with bright primary colors, echoing to the joyful voices of cheerful children and dedicated caregivers. That’s hard to imagine now. Kudos to Flickr user Inmobiliaria Lares for the still life (heavy on the still; light on life) photograph above.

Deserted In The Desert

abandoned daycare Niland CA(images via: Toadhaven Homeschool)

Niland, located in California’s far southeastern Imperial County just south of the Salton Sea, is home to about a thousand hardy souls and, presumably, their equally hardy children. With the population shrinking by about 20 percent in the past decade and the region’s relentless drought showing few signs of abating, borderline communities like Niland are having an especially tough time surviving. One of the town’s daycare centers, investigated by visitors from the Toad Haven Homeschool, has already bitten the dust.

What Does It Mean??

abandoned daycare center Waco Texas (image via: Trashsociety)

How does one make Double Rainbow Guy doubly tearful? Show him this intense late-2010 scene from an abandoned daycare center in Waco, Texas! Full credit to Trashsociety for the cropped image above, which succinctly captures the former facility in all its dayglo post-apocalyptic glory.

Smell Ya Later!

abandoned Seattle Avalon daycare center hazmat(images via: West Seattle Herald)

HazMat and daycare: two words that never should appear in the same sentence but did, in the June 24th, 2013 online issue of the West Seattle Herald. Reporter Patrick Robinson recounts that after receiving a 9-1-1 call, a HazMat team from the Seattle Fire Department raced to the five-years-abandoned Avalon Daycare Center and began prying boards off the former church’s windows. “It was the smell of chemicals or gas but we put up air monitoring and nothing’s coming out,” according to SFD Spokesperson Kyle Moore. We’re not sure if Moore’s referring to fumes or occupants but either way that’s a good thing.

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9 September, 2013 – Understanding The Left and Right Brain

09 Sep

Most photographers pay little attention to the psychological aspects of image perception. Yet how we perceive things and the way the brain’s different hemispheres interpret what we’re seeing plays a huge role. Find out more in Sharon Tenenbaum‘s new article – Understanding The Left and Right Brain.

"Having been to Antarctica with Michael and Kevin, I would say after having traveled the world and shot nearly my entire life as an exhibiting photographer,  it was one of my highlights in my life and I talk about it, all the time.  The images and experience of seeing something visionary and nearly extinct from the world, to see and experience the wildlife and scenery that does not fear humans is amazing.  The images I shot there won me two Smithsonian awards and nearly 18 other international awards". – Tim Wolcott

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9 September, 2013 – Understanding The Left and Right Brain

09 Sep

Most photographers pay little attention to the psychological aspects of image perception. Yet how we perceive things and the way the brain’s different hemispheres interpret what we’re seeing plays a huge role. Find out more in Sharon Tenenbaum‘s new article – Understanding The Left and Right Brain.

"Having been to Antarctica with Michael and Kevin, I would say after having traveled the world and shot nearly my entire life as an exhibiting photographer,  it was one of my highlights in my life and I talk about it, all the time.  The images and experience of seeing something visionary and nearly extinct from the world, to see and experience the wildlife and scenery that does not fear humans is amazing.  The images I shot there won me two Smithsonian awards and nearly 18 other international awards". – Tim Wolcott

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24 Hours Left to Save 25% on our New Trick Photography eBook

12 Jun

Photomagic_coverAJust on 3 weeks ago we announced our brand new eBook – Photo Magic – a guide to taking 11 special effects/trick photography techniques.

To celebrate the launch we offered dPS readers a 25% Early Bird saving and also put each person who picked up a copy an entry into a draw to win a new DSLR or lens to the value of $ 1500 USD.

As this post goes live there a bit over 24 hours to go to take advantage of this Early Bird Special and to get into the draw to win that gear – both of which offers will be closed off at midnight US Eastern time on 12th June.

Not only will you save some money and put yourself in the running to win the prize – this eBook will give you the ability to shoot 11 great special effects techniques including (click the photos to see larger versions):

zoomeffectZoom Effect

Add a dynamic zoom effect with a slow shutter speed, and learn a super charged variation using your flash.

360panorama360 Panorama

A spherical 360 degree panorama puts you there by showing the whole world from a particular viewpoint.

aperture_masksAperture Masks

Create a romantic, magical or cool background for your night portraits with aperture masks.

flour_hairflickFlour Hair Flick

Half a cup of flour, add three lights and flick hair vigorously for this dramatic action shot.

lightpainting_sparklersLight Painting Sparklers

Sparklers, a sci-fi schoolgirl and some really nifty colour and light tricks create this dynamic light painted photo.

lightpainting_steelwoolLight Painting Steel Wool

Stars twinkling above and fire sparking below lights up the beach in a dramatic combination shot.

littleworldLittle World

Starting with a panorama, create whole planets with this super distorted, super fun effect.

mixing_ambient_flashMixing Ambient and Flash

Capture and freeze motion in the same shot for a striking effect by mixing flash and continuous light.

multiple_exposuresMultiple Exposures

If two are twice the fun, eleven clones are a party! This multiple exposure technique is a unique way to tell a story.

startrailsStar Trails

Capture the majesty of the night sky as it spins eternally overhead with this surprisingly accessible star trail technique.

waterdropletWater Droplets

Natures little lenses create many images with this technique to get you started using water refraction in your photography.

Get more information on this great new eBook here or pick up a copy by clicking the ‘Download it Now’ button below.

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