A lot of photographers are glad they took out LensRentals’ damage waiver on equipment when accidents happen.
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The Damage Waiver Bearly Covered This One
The Damage Waiver Bearly Covered This One
May 21, 2012 By
Geotagging, without the privacy issues: Canon offers a solution
May 18, 2012 By
Geolocation can be great for keeping track of where you’ve been, and what photos you’ve shot on your travels, but it also has a dark side. Location-aware cameras are increasingly common, especially in smartphones. If you don’t know that your specific device is capable of geotagging (or perhaps, incorrectly believe that the function is disabled), that can lead to you giving out much more personal information than you intended when you share your images.
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The Camera Bag: A Tilt-Shift Lens You Can Print Out and Make Yourself
May 14, 2012 By
Tilt-shift lenses are great for giving your images that miniaturized or shallow depth-of-field look but they can be expensive, very expensive. If you’re a photographer on a low budget — and who isn’t short of cash these days?
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Portable event photo kit promises to reinvent the guestbook
May 14, 2012 By
A New York-based startup will soon unveil an open air, portable event studio setup that it claims will couple “the fun of a photobooth with the quality of a professional studio”. Detailed information isn’t available yet, but the mobile studio looks to be based around a Nikon D800 digital SLR, plus a variety of other hardware and software, including both a printer and projector. After each guest has a set of photos taken, they’re given a chance to choose their favorites, which are then projected for all to see, while two copies of each photo are printed
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The Nearly Forgotten Mother of Modern American Photography, Gertrude Käsebier.
May 13, 2012 By
American photography has many fathers, like Mathew Brady and Alfred Stieglitz , but there was just one woman who was its mother, Gertrude Käsebier . Not only was she one of the first American women to have a successful career as a photographer, but she was one of the first photographers anywhere to focus on the family.
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Should You Post Photos on Instagram that Were Shot with a Digital SLR?
May 2, 2012 By
One of the more contentious debates to spring up from the increasing popularity of photo editing and sharing app Instagram concerns how people are capturing their images.
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Should You Post Photos on Instagram that Were Shot with a Digital SLR?
Exploding photographers, disappearing clothes, and the development of film
May 1, 2012 By
It’s been a while since I wrote a history article and two or three people seemed to like them. Since I’m one of those two or three people, and it’s my blog , I figured it was about time to do another one. I’ve pretty much covered the development of early cameras and lenses so it’s time to consider the way we recorded those images so other people could see them
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Spy Pictures from the Prague Secret Police Surveillance Archives
April 30, 2012 By
History is the tale told by the winners and nothing proves this better than, “Prague through the Lens of the Secret Police” a collection of “surveillance” photographs taken between 1970 and 1989. Published in 2009, these are pictures made by nearly 800 secret police who job it was to roam the streets of Prague and photograph suspicious behavior. And as such, they are a total failure.
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Photo Gear History: With the Multiplying Camera, the More Lenses, the Better
April 27, 2012 By
Sitting for your picture in a Daguerreotype photographer’s studio in the middle of the 19th century was a form of torture for both sitter and photographer. An agonizing experience, it required the subject to sit for several minutes, immobile while clamped into neck braces and head supports.
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Begone, aberrations! New Lightroom 4.1 release candidate brings defringing controls
April 27, 2012 By
Four weeks after it debuted the first release candidate of Photoshop Lightroom 4.1, Adobe has today released a second release candidate version of its popular photographer-centric imaging application. Lightroom 4.1 RC2 adds new defringing controls that help squash chromatic aberration, and adds support for twelve new camera models. It also aims to fix eleven bugs present in the previously release candidate
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