The Atlantic magazine looks at the Russian space programme today
The Atlantic's 'In Focus' photo blog has collected a fascinating series of images from the Russian space program. Looking at both Zvyozdny gorodok, the training center just outside Moscow better known as 'Star City,' as well as the Baikonur Cosm...
AUDIO AD 071 “First Look” £765 ex vat
I was not aware this kit existed till it arrived this afternoon, it’s a three channel professional audio mixer with three XLR inputs and two XLR outputs. This mixer from Audio Developments has been designed for a variety of applications. However,...
Yahoo! and the Decline and Fall of Flickr
For those of us who remember it, Flickr was once an amazing place. More than just a website or a bucket of features, it was a vibrant community made up by professional photographers and amateur photo junkies alike. Before Facebook would even allow you to upload anything more than a profile picture, Flickr was the...
Facebook Mobile Overhaul Makes Photos More Prominent
If you’ve been browsing Facebook on your mobile device today you may have noticed something was different. That’s because just yesterday the social-networking giant took a few tips from their recent acquisition Instagram by making the photos on both their mobile applications and mobile website up to three times larger. Individual posts and photos now...
Nikon D4 No Longer Coming with Free XQD Card and Reader In The Box
Sadly the gravy train has left the station, at least where the Nikon D4 is concerned. In the past, D4 owners were pleasantly surprised when they opened up their treasured new possession to find that Nikon had thrown in a complimentary 16GB XQD card and reader, but no more. Henceforth, shipments of the Nikon D4...
Marc Jacobs Slaps Graffitied Store Photo onto Shirt, Gets Last Laugh
Don’t mess with Marc Jacobs. That’s the lesson graffiti artists should take from a teensy little altercation between Marc Jacobs and the infamous graffiti artist Kidult. When Marc Jacobs employees awoke to a vandalized Soho boutique the morning after the Met Ball, they snapped a few photos before starting to clean it up. But instead...
My Thoughts on Mat Honan’s Gizmodo Article on How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
Flickr Product Chief Markus Spiering Shoots an Old Skool Polaroid Camera at Last Month’s Mission District Photowalk Quote from Mat Honan’s Gizmodo article on Flickr: “Flickr wasn’t a startup anymore,” explains the engineer, “people didn’t really want to work that hard to turn the entire product around. Even if they had, Flickr [was] very techie...
Trippy Music Video Features Monster Silhouettes Singing in Bokeh
This music video for the song “Solidified” by Gramatik features an interesting technique: custom bokeh shapes that move. We’ve featured creative bokeh techniques in the past, but they’ve all focused on floating words or static shapes. Director Brad Hasse went a step further by having his monster silhouettes in the out-of-focus light points move around...
Photoshop Touch 1.2 relaxes image size limits, but with a catch
Adobe has recently issued updates for its Photoshop Touch app on both the Android and iOS platforms, bringing a number of updates and new features, and taking the version number up to v1.2.
Key among these is a change that answers critic...
Canon 5D Mark III (Body Only) Available
More Canon 5D Mark III (Body Only) cameras become available via B&H. This time you don’t have to buy the kit with the lens. Check it out following the link (click here).
Canon 5D Mark III (Body Only)
Photographers: You’re Being Replaced by Software
The image above is one-hundred percent fake. It has no connection whatsoever to the world of things. I created the bolts, lights, textures, and everything else in a free, open-source, relatively easy-to-use software package called Blender. It’s easy enough that even a novice user like me is able to make a pretty convincing image. If...
Is This Britain’s Most Photogenic Face?
Beauty may only be skin deep, but apparently it’s also scientifically measurable. At least that’s what Lorraine Cosmetics was banking on when they put together the Britain-wide beauty contest “Lorraine: Naked.” Contestants, who were not allowed to have had any plastic surgery, were asked to send in a photo with no makeup on, and after...
