The world’s most amazeballs digital photography company isn’t Canon or Nikon. It’s a tiny company in Tucson, Arizona: Spectral Instruments. They make the craziest digital cameras on the planet. This one has a dynamic range so incredibly big that it can photograph both the sun and the stars in broad daylight.
Last year’s Sony NEX-C3 is the best camera you can buy for $750. It delivers professional image quality and the flexibility of interchangeable lenses in a compact package. Here comes its successor, the Sony NEX-F3. Is it worthy of its lineage?
It seems like England’s Olympic athletes aren’t the only ones interested in setting world records this year. Photographer Clare Newton has just been awarded a Guinness World Record for the world’s longest photo that measures over a kilometre in length.
Remember that post from a few weeks ago about the Descriptive Camera, the camera that spits out written descriptions of a scene rather than a photograph of the image itself? Yesterday, while I was at ITP, I had the chance to try out the Descriptive Camera for myself.
Light painting is one of those magical photography techniques that never gets old. Fancy effects! And even… dresses? Mmhmm. Atton Conrad, an advertising and art photographer, used light painting to dress his models and make them look gorgeous.
You could mount your GoPro to your helmet on your next snowboarding trip, but placing it on a puppy is a more wonderful way to use it. Because who doesn’t love puppies? People who have withered black hearts, that’s who.
Chances are you’ve got a digital camera of some sort in your pocket or bag, but you’ve never given too much thought to how it really works. Pictures go on computer, not film. Right, well, here’s a simple and straightforward explanation of how that happens.
