Remember that Broncolor-sponsored "shootout" video a little ways back, in which the high-end pack-and-heads systems competed to freeze water droplets in a concept shot?
A few of you were like, "Yeah, cool, but couldn't you also do that with an Einstein?"
Yeah, turns out you could. And who better to prove that than Jarek Wieczorkiewicz, who specializes in conceptual sculpted-liquid portraiture. His results, along with a (slightly NSFW-ish) vid, inside. Read more »
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Sure, you could use your hands to hold your phone. But we’re living in the future, and it’s time we started acting like it!
Introducing the SlingShot, a stabilizer and tripod in one: it’s a steadying grip with folding kickstand legs and a ball-head mount that fits any phone (even the iPhone 5).
Take it with you for fantastic phone video and great shots at hard-to-get angles or low light!
The SlingShot
$ 20 at the Photojojo Store
PS … we’re giving away a SlingShot today on Facebook! Check it out here.
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Show boxes inside Google Chrome when a Flash, Shockwave, Adobe Reader, or other plug-in wants to run, allowing you to click to play them.
If you are concerned about the privacy, security, and system stability implications of running plug-ins such as Flash and Shockwave inside Google Chrome, you may have thought about completely disabling plug-ins. Unfortunately, doing so makes some websites difficult, if not impossible, to access.
One option is to have Google Chrome show you when it wants to run a plug-in, but not actually do so, giving you the ability to selectively turn on a Flash widget, play a Shockwave game, display a PDF file with an external viewer such as Adobe Reader, etc….
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A good friend of mine plays bass in an amazing Hawaiian reggae and soul band fronted by his beautiful sister, Hawaiian born singer and songwriter Sarah B. Ever since I heard their music I’ve been wanting to put together a little video collage with photos, when I heard they were playing at a great little place in Salt Lake City I brought my camera along and shot during their performance.
I didn’t really ask if it was ok to bring a camera but you know how it goes, if you act official enough pretty much nobody will dare question you so I shot during their entire set… even though only two people on stage actually knew who I was or what I was shooting for, but that made it an even better time!
Next time you go out bring your camera along and see what you can make and in the meantime check out the fun that I had!
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Last week, 180,000 photo fans from all over the world came together in Cologne, Germany for Photokina.
What’s a Photokina? It’s Disneyland for photo nerds!
WEDONOTKID. We saw lenses the size of buildings, ladies swinging from the ceiling, zoetropes made of Legos and so much more.
It’s the world’s biggest photo conference that comes around only every two years. Along with the conference came camera announcements.
And with it, a flood of tech specs.
If it seems to have blurred into an indecipherable cloud of hyphenated terminology, allow us to translate!
A Guide to the Latest in Digital Cameras
p.s. Woot! We teamed up with our chums at Threadless to help you pack sweet threads + photo gear for your next trip. Enter here.
What’s new? The Impossible Project’s Instant Lab and 8×10 film, Polaroid’s Z2300, and the Instax Mini 8.
This is where it’s at when it comes to the future of phoneography. The innovators at the Impossible Project combined phoneography with analog and came up with this amazingness.
It’s a modified Polaroid-esque camera that fits a phone on top to expose your phone photos directly onto instant film.
That essentially means you’re turning your phoneography into instant prints, and that’s socool.
Dave Bias of Impossible demoed it for us!
Digital analog mashups are the jam (we made a funny!).
The Polaroid Z2300 pretty much does everything a lover of digital and analog would want it to do. It shoots your photos at a decent 10MP and gives you instant prints at your behest.
Oh, and those prints come with sticky backs, so you can stick your photos on album pages, in notebooks, or a bathroom stall ’cause you’re a rebel like that.
You can actually find this one in the Photojojo Store!
This is hands down the most analog newbie you’ll find at Photokina.
The Impossible Project are magicians, we say. They snatched up the last known 8×10 Polaroid machine in 2009 and have successfully made 8×10 integral film — meaning the film contains the chemicals needed to make a photo, good ‘ol Polaroid style.
See the 8×10 prints they had at their booth!
The Instax Mini 8 is a slimmer Mini with a new “high-key” mode for getting brighter prints.
What’s most exciting is that it comes in a bunch of rad pastel colors, like this sunny yellow one we played with here.
What’s new? Nikon’s Coolpix S800C and the Samsung Galaxy.
Walking Photokina, you’ll notice most new cameras have added Wi-Fi, Instagram-ish filters, or Android!
You might be wondering what the difference between a phone with a camera in it and a camera with a phone in it is? And whatever happened to shoes with phones in them?
We were wondering, too, and here’s what we found.
The main difference between this camera and your smartphone is that it shoots photos on a higher-res 16MP sensor and has a 10X optical zoom (to compare, the iPhone 5 gives you 8MP & 3x digital* zoom).
So, it leans a little more towards camera than phone, and lets you do all your favorite Android stuff via WiFi like geotag photos and upload to Instagram or Facebook.
One tidbit: the camera runs separately from the older Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) that it runs on, so the camera can open faster without having to wait for Android to load.
Samsung’s played a competitive match in the smartphone game with their Galaxy S III rivaling the iPhone 5. Now they’ve taken that over into point-and-shoots.
This camera runs on Android’s latest version, Jelly Bean, and shoots with 16MP sensor and 21x optical zoom.
It can also connect to 3G, 4G, and WiFi, which is pretty rad since it means you can upload your photos from anywhere — instead of being dependent on WiFi as is with most digital cameras right now.
*Why does optical vs. digital zoom matter? Digital zoom is like enlarging your photo and cropping it around your subject. Your photo ends up losing resolution and looking all pixelated, which is sad pandas if you ask us.
Optical zoom means your optics do the work, so you get to keep your image nice and high-res. This is more of a happy pandas situation.
See our photos of the Samsung and the Nikon.
What’s new? Hasselblad’s Lunar Camera and the Leica M (and the ME & Monochrom).
Hasselblad was the first camera on the moon, and their new mirrorless camera won’t let you forget it … which may be in part because it costs a fraction of what it does to get to the moon ($ 6K!).
It does all the good stuff a mirrorless will buy you, like a 24.3MP sensor, up to 16000 ISO and can 10 frames per second when in burst mode. Plus, it has a handsome Don-Draper-esque design that doubles as an ergonomic extra.
One thing folks have pointed out is that this camera is awfully similar to Sony’s NEX-7 ($ 1K), which would make sense considering the two companies have partnered and this camera is compatible with Sony lenses.
Check out our photos of the Lunar up close!
Leica had us at hello, and then it wooed us with its lustrous magnesium alloy body.
After you’re blinded by its good looks, you remember that it’s a camera and that you can shoot with it.
So here’s what you need to know about that: a 24MP full-frame sensor, an upgrade from the M9′s 18MP not-full-frame sensor, a faster Maestro processor (their speediest processor yet which also allows for a longer battery life because it’s just that efficient), and Live View, which includes an electronic viewfinder.
Why would you get this pricey camera instead of a cheaper DSLR? A few reasons. Maybe you’re a big Leica fan, maybe you’re looking for a smaller-bodied camera that can deliver images comparable to a DSLR’s (you can thank the full-frame sensor for that), or maybe you just fancy.
See our photos from the rad Leica booth.
What’s new? The Nikon D600 and the Canon 6D.
Someone needs to drop balloons from the ceiling because this camera’s one to have a party about.
It’s the cheapest full-frame sensor Nikon DSLR! Ever! Its specs place it a notch above entry-level DSLRs but at a level that’s more affordable than say, a Nikon D800 ($ 2000 vs $ 3000).
This is awesome because that makes it available to serious photographers who don’t necessarily need all the trims.
For a quickie comparison, it has a full-frame 24MP sensor, while the D800 has a full-frame 36.6MP and the entry-level D3200 has a 24.2 DX sensor, which is quite a bit smaller in size (about 2.3x smaller).
AND it’s lighter and smaller than most pro-cameras, and we think that merits confetti cannons.
Nikon had a Lego zoetrope at their booth among other things! Check out our photos.
It’s like Canon read Nikon’s mind … or vice versa!
The 6D is the most affordable full-frame Canon DSLR yet! Balloon drops all around!
It’s also priced at $ 2000, making it almost $ 1500 cheaper than a 5D MarkIII, Canon’s benchmark pro camera.
Since you might be wondering about how the sensor compares, here it is: the 6D has a 20.2MP full-frame sensor, the 5D MarkIII a 23.4MP full-frame sensor.
Two things that are making some photographer’s ears perk up:
Here’s what Canon’s booth was like. Pretty epic.
Which ones? The Fuji XF1 and the Casio Exilim EX-ZR100..
I know, right?
With DSLRs and shiny mirrorless cameras everywhere in sight, little did we expect a point-and-shoot to catch our eye.
Lately, Fuji’s been all about retro bodies and outfitting their cameras in dapper leather wrappings.
And that’s what we like about the XF1! It has a super slim (1.2″) rangefinder-esque body that comes in a several faux-leather colors.
What we found especially fun when we played with it is that it comes with a manual focus lens, which zooms in and out from 25-100mm. It’s 500 bucks, but sometimes you just need things.
This is what it looks like in real life! Cute, eh?
You know that part in the Exorcist, when her head rotates in ways it just really shouldn’t?
That’s kinda like the Casio’s Exilim EX-ZR100! Except less scary and more handy.
The ZR100 rotating screen is totally optimized for the most convenient selfies (kewl new slang for self-portraits). It rotates to face you, so you can see what you’ll look like in the photo. The screen simultaneously acts as a stand, so you can prop your camera without having to set up a tripod! Smart.
So who goes to Photokina? You’ll find a mix of dealers, distributors, and companies having to do with any kind of camera-related gizmo you can think of.
Then, there are simply photo fans who come to see what’s up.
We picked some especially stylish Photokina attendees to feature in a fashion roundup for a better idea of who you might find there!
See all of their photos on our Tumblr post!
Pretty much any camera-related company that you can think of has a booth at Photokina. Each one shows off their best, and if you look closely, you’ll find some really unusual stuff.
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The way you frame and crop your shots has power to give a sense of size to a scene that may not actually be there.
For example – the shot to the left of a field of tulips is framed in such a way that there is not beginning or end to the tulips anywhere inside the frame.
While the field tulips may in fact end just beyond the edge of the frame in any direction – the feeling that this framing gives is that of a never ending sea of tulips.
To get the effect the photographer has managed to get the angles right so that there’s no horizon and they’ve filled the frame with their subject.
To see the same principles illustrated again – check out the two following images. The first shot actually contains a lot more flowers than the second one – but because there’s a break in the flowers with the horizon there’s a sense that the flowers are limited to a certain area. Whereas the second scene could actually have a lot less flowers in it – but they go on and on in the mind of those viewing the shot.
The same principles can be applied to numerous other situations. For example the same thing is done in the following image of a sailing boat:
The boat is seemingly in the middle of an ocean – as there’s no end to the water in the frame. However the inclusion of land in any direction or even a horizon would have interrupted the water and given the image a different feeling.
Again it is a combination of the angle that the photographer is shooting from (from slightly above) and the framing of the subject.
Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.
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A sneak peek at a new collaboration, see more of Jonathon Baker’s fabulous work at The Hive Gallery at Trolley Square in Salt Lake City.
While navigating through worksheets in Excel 2010, pressing slash on the keyboard shows the ribbon shortcut keys. Learn how to prevent this from happening.
While navigating through cells in a Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet, have you ever seen letters and numbers appear next to options in the Ribbon like the below screenshot?
If so, you may have accidentally pressed the slash (/) key. Doing so activates the menu to satisfy compatibility with Lotus 1-2-3 users, who would normally press this key to access menu options. However, many younger accountants and computer users barely remember this program, if at all, and do not need this ‘feature’ occurring when their fingers slip pressing arrow keys. To disable this:…
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Tuesday night at 8:56PM I received a message from The Hive gallery in Salt Lake City, they were in a bit of a bind. They had an art show, all about video games, opening in three days and due to a cancellation they were short one artist.
Video game show? I was in… I had absolutely NO idea what I could do with a day’s notice but I did already have a shoot scheduled the next day with the beautiful Kianna. It seemed meant to be.
We shot all four images within 12 hours of receiving the assignment. As you can see, we had a bit of fun.
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The Hive Gallery | Trolley Square | Salt Lake City
Show Opening | Friday March 2, 2012 | 7PM – 9PM
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – Come say hi!
Model Kianna Gunn
Pac Man Illustrations by Jonathon Baker
Photo Assisting by Brooke Rowley
