Mashable are reporting that Google is adding their +1 Button to image search. This means that when you seaech for images you will be able to share them with others using Google Plus etc. Here is a question though, is this a great tool to get the images of more photographers seen or would you be a little concerned by it? Get the full story over at Mashable.
We just picked up on this story which sounds incredible. The go ahead has just been given on the creation of what will be the worlds largest digital camera. Using 189 CCD sensors to create a 3.2 Gigapixel image, this beast is just bind boggling to think about. For more head to Rob Galbraith’s site.
At the recent Photo & Film Expo Greg and I took some time to talk to some interesting people including Kelvin Reynolds, Regional Manager-Southern Africa for Epson and Kristin Saus-Opuszynski who is the Senior Business Manager for Prophoto: Epson Europe and was part of the design team for the highly successful (not to forget award winning) R3000 and R2000 printers. We sat down for a discussion on Epson, printing etc. After the break are some points we have taken out of the discussion.
I have a fascination with time lapse and when I come across one that is this good I have to share it. This is a masterpiece and you can learn more about the photographer who created it over at Mashable’s website who made this one of their videos of the day.
I spotted this via Peta Pixel recently. Don McCullin is perhaps one of the best known war photographers of our time and in a CNN video shares how he is coming to grips with the things he has seen. It is a very insightful interview.
Sony Ericsson gave a bunch of creatives the freedom to hack, play, you name it with a bunch of their Xperia smart phones and a few of them came up with some seriously cool things relating to the camera on the phones. Check out the video or get the full story at Engadget.
You may recall that we had a Photos For Hope Gallery running on our site where images uploaded would be printed for Photos For Hope by Foto First. Well, COUP digital magazine featured several of the submitted image during that period leading up to Photos For Hope. Here is a link to COUP’s blog if you wish to learn more about those photographers and see their images.
You may recall that in our June 2011 issue of PhotoComment we featured the work of wedding and portrait photographer Catherine Hall (no relation) from the USA. We originally “met” via Skype recording an episode the This Week in Photo. Now Catherine is hosting TWiT (This Week In Tech) Photo. She kicks things off by interviewing Chase Jarvis. You can find out more on her blog or read on for her words on this new venture.
Tuesday 2 August 2011 was the official opening of the Gautrain service from Rosebank to Pretoria. With it also being the beginning of the month Greg and I were doing the rounds delivering the latest issue of PhotoComment to various stockists. Instead of driving everywhere we decided to go to Rosebank first and then catch the Gautrain to deliver the magazine in Sandton City. On the train we met Heather Mason and Jon Hrusa who were covering the story of the trains opening from various perspective as well as for the European Pressphoto Agency. A picture of Greg and I – captured by Jon – is on the EPA site here. You can also read Heather’s story on 2Summers.
(yes I know, I dont look terribly exciting in the photo)
Just spotted this amazing stop animation video shot using Nokia’s N8 on Mashable. For more on the story and behind the scenes check out the full story on Mashable.
Recently we have shared a few iPhone adapters lenses etc for enhancing your iPhone photography. On one of those post we got a comment that sparked our interest and we though we could share with you the story of Jaco Hoffmann and how his cellphone camera adapter won him a trip to see the Northern Lights. Here is his story.
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I really enjoy following David Hobby’s Strobist blog and today is one such illustration of why. The video above is one he posted and dives into it a bit here. I don’t think I have ever seen so many Canon bodies with so many flashes in one rig.
A photography studio based in Canada (2D Photography) created a Rube Goldberg machine to take photographs. A what machine? A Rube Goldberg machine, which is defined on Wikipedia as:
a deliberately over-engineered machine that performs a very simple task in a very complex fashion, usually including a chain reaction.
The studio began construction on it in January and it is finally here in full working order. This is one of the most difficult of such machines I have ever seen I think. It is incredible to watch. You can get the full behind the scenes story about it on at 2D Photography’s site. It has also been mentioned at Huffington Post and was a topic of discussion in this weeks episode of This Week in Photo.
There is a very interesting new service that we spotted on Mashable. Its called Photorank and simply put, it is a way to rank how influential you are as a social photo sharer. Does that make sense? Designed by Olapic – a photo crowd-sourcing site – Photorank looks at your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram activity and ranks how you do in terms of photo sharing in social spheres. Such a service allows for you to find impactful or inspiring images through following people that follow and share more images through social mediums. For more information check out the post over at Mashable or try the service at Photorank.me
It has been a rather busy week here as we are wrapping up the August issue of the magazine. There are some great images inside this one with the Student Portfolio coming from an award winning Vega student, a review on a Canon DSLR and… I think I might be saying to much already but it will be out in the first few days of August so sit tight.
With the flu fighting hopefully drawing to an end we can catch up on all the products and other things we have had to review. Look out for our upcoming review on an Olympus camera, The Samsung Galaxy S II superphone, a book or two and that is just the top of the to do list.
I spotted this over at Engadget recently and as one who is in the market for a new phone – and is busy testing the new Samsung Galaxy S II – there is one thing that gets to me about the iPhone 4, it gets all the cool toys. Check out the video to see how the Olloclip offers a wide angle with Macro and a Fisheye lens for your iPhone 4.
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