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  • LockCircle brings LockPort secure HDMI ports to Nikon D800

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    Accessory maker LockCircle has announced it will offer its ‘LockPort’ durable HDMI socket bracket for the Nikon D800. The LockPort800 combines a mounting plate that secures to the base of the camera with a miniHDMI-to-standard HDMI adapter that bolts onto it. This provides an easy-access full-size HDMI connector while also protecting your camera’s miniHDMI socket from damage. The mounting plate is designed so that the camera can still be used with other mounts, tripod plates and accessories, in tandem with the LockPort. The LockPort800 will be available from June 2012 at a cost of $ 199/€99.

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  • Google Gmail – Automatically Archive a Conversation you Respond to

    Respond to a lot of email in Gmail and need to keep your Inbox clean? Send your e-mail and archive the conversation in one step.

    Are you a very popular individual or work a job such as customer service that requires sending a lot of e-mail via Gmail? Or are you just looking for another way to keep your Inbox clean? If so, you may often find yourself replying to e-mail conversations and then immediately archiving them.

    With the “Send & Archive” feature in Gmail Labs you can do both in just one step by adding a “Send & Archive” button below your composed messages….

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  • Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts UEA, Norwich

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    Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts UEA, Norwich
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  • Flickr Integrates More Deeply With Pinterest Providing Attribution and Links Back to Flickr Photos

    Flickr Integrates More Deeply With Pinterest Providing Attribution and Links Back to Flickr Photos

    Pinterest has been one of the most popular social sharing sites of the past year. It’s growth has been explosive. Last week Pinterest said that Monday and Tuesday were their highest traffic days ever. Last month Experian said that Pinterest was now the third most popular social network behind Facebook and Twitter.

    Photographer reaction to Pinterest has been mixed. Some photographers have been pleased with yet another avenue for their work to be seen, promoted and enjoyed by the world. Other photographers have expressed reservations about their work being pinned to the site without their permission, which they feel is a violation of their copyright. One of the big concerns about Pinterest has been that oftentimes photos are pinned without any sort of attribution to the original photographer. With so many beautiful images floating all over the web it seems easy for users to simply grab an image anywhere and pin it.

    In what seems like a win-win-win for Pinterest, Flickr, and photographers, Flickr and Pinterest are announcing today that they are more deeply integrating their two sites. Most significantly, photographers will receive attribution on any of their Flickr photos that appear on Pinterest both in the future and for any of their Flickr photos posted in the past. This attribution will visibly include their name as well as a link back to their original Flickr photo.

    “We want to embrace photo sharing, make it easy and beautiful and at the same time want to ensure that photographers are credited and attributed correctly. We also will continue to work with Pinterest on future enhancements to make sure Flickr members get the best tools to maintain control while sharing their photos with the world,” said Flickr head of product Markus Spiering.

    So what does this new deeper integration between Flickr and Pinterest mean more specifically?

    First, starting today Flickr members can share directly from Flickr to Pinterest. Pinterest will be included in Flickr’s share infrastructure.

    Second, all Flickr photos pined to Pinterest (for both new photos and old photos already pinned from Flickr) will include attribution, including the Flickr photographer name, photo title, and a direct link back to their photo on Flickr. This attribution cannot be edited by the Pinterest user and will ride with the photo wherever it is repinned on Pinterest.

    Third, anywhere someone grabs your photo that is linked back to Flickr (even non-Flickr blogs, websites, etc.) your attribution will flow through into Pinterest as long as your Flickr photo is the linked original source of the image.

    Fourth, as always you can always opt out of Pinterest sharing entirely. Flickr has a setting that you can enable which will restrict your Flickr photos from being pinned to Pinterest or shared elsewhere on the web.

    Today’s announcement should go a long way towards improving the relationship between Flickr photographers concerned about unauthorized photo usage on Pinterest and Pinterest. While someone still could download/screenshot your photo and reupload it to the web without attribution, at least where images are pinned directly there is a serious attempt being made here to credit the photographer for the image.

    This is also smart from both Flickr and Pinterest’s viewpoint. Although Flickr/Pinterest declined to release the total number of Flickr photos that have been pinned to date, the number is very large and now this means that Flickr just earned a boatload of new links directly back to Flickr. This should be good for Flickr’s page view count and drive traffic back to the site. For Pinterest, they are getting valuable real estate as a direct sharing partner for Flickr photos which should also drive more existing Flickr users to their site.

    Flickr more deeply integrating with one of the hottest social sharing sites on the web right now is yet another positive step forward for Flickr and is more evidence that Flickr is serious about ramping up innovation on the site as promised earlier this year. For Pinterest, this can be seen as a positive step forward in showing that they are more serious about addressing copyright/attribution concerns which have plagued the site over the course of the past year.

    You can follow me on Pinterest here and on Flickr here.


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  • Photo Restoration – Digital Retouching by Masterpiece Framing

    This video highlights a recent photo restoration project. Watch as artist Matt Puchalski from Masterpiece Framing transforms an old photo back to its original state. Three hours of digital retouching are condensed into three minutes. Masterpiece Framing is Chicagoland’s premier custom frame gallery and design boutique. We frame pictures, restore photos, print images and place art. Visit www.mframing.com to learn more.

  • Shaaark! – Nurse

    Jacques is at the hospital picking up Robert after surgery. Jacques finally summons the courage to ask Becki out on a date. She agrees, but Jacques has to bring Robert along while the effects of the anesthetic wear off. At a romantic dinner for two, with one hanger-on, Becki reveals to Jacques how to win her heart. She wants all the sharks to know about the changing sea temperature and sea levels. Can Jacques convince the other sharks how serious this matter is, and thereby win Becki’s heart?

  • Skyrim in Virtual Reality using HMZ-T1, TrackIR & Kinect

    Skyrim played through a simulated Virtual Reality environment using a head mounted display, head tracking, motion sensing and speech recognition. I’ve also written up a walkthrough on how you can do it yourself too: zookal.com This is what was used for the demo: – Skyrim – A first person action role-playing game for the PC. – Sony HMZ-T1 – High definition head mounted display with Stereoscopic 3D. – Microsoft Kinect – Track movement and gestures. – TrackIR 5 – Head tracking. – TrackClip Pro – Used with the TrackIR 5 for more accurate head tracking. – Shoot – Speech recognition software. – FAAST 0.9 – Software used to map Kinect gestures to the keyboard I’ve setup the Sony HMZ-T1 head mounted display to use Stereoscopic 3D as well as attached the TrackClip Pro on it for head tracking. I had to place the TrackIR 5 on a wire hanging from the ceiling as it needed to be around head level to track my head movements properly. The Kinect was setup on the PC using PrimeSense’s OpenNI drivers. I used FAAST 0.9 with a custom script to map certain gestures with the keyboard, such as walking on the spot to move in the game, leaning left, leaning right, jumping and moving my right arm forward to use the sword. Shoot was used to map several speech commands with actions in the game as well, such as saying ‘Open Menu’ and ‘Close Menu’ to trigger the in-game menu, as well as using commands to navigate through the menu. All the devices to do this cost less than 00, although it is still …
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • Nikon D3s

    Video Rating: 4 / 5

    Learn how to use a Nikon D5000. This high quality video looks at the important essentials of the D5000. The information can also be used for similar Nikon cameras such as the D40, D60, D5100, D3000 and D3100. Visit www.richard-berry.com for more photography videos and online photography lessons.
    Video Rating: 4 / 5

  • Johnny Depp – Digital Painting with Cintiq 21 UX Wacom

    My Music on ITUNES : itunes.apple.com My Music on AMAZON : www.amazon.com My Music on AMAZON France : www.amazon.fr Print on canvas in limited editions : www.stval.fr I’m Stephanie Valentin (website : www.stval.fr), afrench artist violinist, singer, composer, painter and sculptor I often put new artwork and free downloads on my website www.stval.fr – How to draw videos – Free brushes for Adobe Photoshop (CS2, CS3, CS4) and Gimp – Painting tutorials (french and english text and pictures) – Free celebrity wallpaper – Digital art gallery and print – Free songs to download (mp3), lyrics and sheet music – Free online dress up games – Oil painting (musicians, artistic nude, animal…) – Photo retouching tutorials and pics – 2D and 3D animation – Sculpture Subscribe to my channel : youtube.com Time lapse digital painting in photoshop CS4 Time : 5 hours Tools : Adobe Photoshop CamStudio Tablette graphique – Graphic tablet – Wacom Tablet – Cintiq 21 UX

  • Kurv Magazine White Story + BTS Video

    In keeping with my commitment to stay true to my vision and to continue shooting in a style that is my own, I shot this white story for Kurv Magazine’s spring issue in a way I’ve always wanted to see a White Story.

    Shot and Edited by: Marty Martin

    I’ve done plenty of white stories over the years, but I always sort of compromised here and there because whoever I was shooting for didn’t want to go exactly in the direction I wanted to take it in. In the end, I was always a bit disappointed in the results. But not this time. This shoot, I’m fairly pleased with.

    Again, I collaborated with Rodney Burns from Church Boutique in Hollywood, California. I can’t even begin to describe how amazing it is to work with Rodney. He’s on my DVD, I write about him all the time, and yet every time I work with him it feels so magical, as if it’s the first time we’re collaborating and I can’t believe my eyes! He’s THAT good! He pulled these pieces from designer Furne One that truly blew my mind. And he coordinated the clothing to compliment the pieces. I trust his eye completely and just KNOW that my shoots are going to rock because of his amazing taste.

    I wanted two blondes for this shoot. I’ve worked with Sarah Deanna before and she’s just amazing. She’s as beautiful on the inside as she is on the out! She also is publishing a book soon called Model Skinny. She writes about her healthy secrets on how one can get skinny and stay skinny the healthy way! I love a girl who gives back to our industry in a positive and loving way! I thought Jennifer was a good match for Sarah Deanna because, well ,she’s a stone cold fox as well! Both girls were on point and really knew how to emote for the story. James from Photogenics helped me cast this shoot. It was nice to work with “the old team”, so to speak.

    I worked with make up artist Camille Clark from AIM Artists. I’ve worked with Camille many times when I lived in LA and she’s a very talented make up artist. I was excited to work with her again and ended up using her on 3 out of 4 editorials that I shot in LA. Hair stylist Jonathan Mason came on board that day. This was actually the first time I worked with Jonathan and that day we sort of bonded to the point that now when I am in LA, he’s my go to hair stylist. Thanks again to Timothy Priano, owner of Artists by Timothy Priano, for making that introduction!

    I used window light and Christmas tree lights behind a silk against a backdrop  as my lighting sources. That’s it! I know, I’m sorry I don’t have some great big lighting set up to break off for you. This is my lighting and how I see fashion shot and I never have liked seeing things over-lit. I’ve said that numerous times. Over and over, I’ve reiterated how I use one light, or “less is more” or keep it simple. Well, I’ve gone even more simple now, using available light from a window or the continuous light from the room we are shooting in as my key or main lighting source.

    Of course, I used the Nikon D3 and my 85mm lens for the shoot. I also used my 24mm lens and a 50mm lens as well. I think what makes this shoot really work is the amazing styling from Rodney and the emoting from two very professional models, Sarah Deanna and Jennifer. And me staying true to my vision! More to come and excited to continue to share with you my vision! Keep it real! xoxo


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