There is something almost primitive about the Lensbaby series of optics. The idea of a hands-on approach to selective focus is quite ingratiating and gives me a feeling of control. Almost from the minute I put the Lensbaby Composer on my Canon, I had an intuitive feel for its operation.
The Composer is the base [...]

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LCD and CRT Monitor Calibration Software
Calibration without a Calibrator
This program will help you to calibrate your LCD or CRT displays without any hardware devices for these desirable values:

Gamma: 0.1-5.0. Value 2.2 is recommended (PC and Mac standard)
White Point: 6500K
Luminance Level: 80 cd/m2
Color Space: Monitor settings, usually sRGB

Precise Results
The program, unlike popular [...]

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Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported. Implemented view modes and corresponding file formats are:

Text, Binary, Hex, Unicode: any files, of unlimited size (even 4Gb+ sizes are allowed)
RTF, UTF-8: RTF and UTF-8 encoded texts
Image: all general graphics formats: BMP JPG GIF PNG TGA TIFF… plus all [...]

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Digital Flapjack is pleased to announce version 1.0 of EmberExporter for Aperture!
We’ve long been huge fans of Ember, the online design scrapbook by Realmac Software, and we’re also huge fans of Apple’s Aperture photo management software, but we’ve been frustrated that there was no way to directly get images from Aperture to Ember. Until now!
EmberExporter [...]

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Runs Everywhere:
ImageJ is written in Java, which allows it to run on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, in both 32-bit and 64-bit modes.
Open Source:
ImageJ and its Java source code are freely available and in the public domain. No license is required.
User Community:
ImageJ has a large and knowledgeable worldwide user community. More than [...]

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ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply [...]

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Image search engine on the local Hard Drive to use image identification face to face based on PSNR-K
Features:
Searching Photos
Delete duplicate images
CoverFlow support
QuickLook support
Drag and Drop Widget support
Image information
Log detailed
Default Manager
Virtual Folder Tools
FinderMenu
License: Shareware – $19.99
Source and Read More: kandalu.net
Technorati Tags: PhotoBrain

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Canon USA Inc. has today issued a wide variety of software updates, both for its digital SLRs and for its compact digital cameras.
The precise selection of updates varies by camera model and operating system, but includes the company’s Digital Photo Professional, EOS Utility, WFT Utility, Picture Style Editor and Original Data Security Tools applications. Almost [...]

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Photographer Peter Karlsson has it all worked out when it comes to travel light. Peter is a Strobist at heart and as such he is using small flashes quite a bit. The coolness comes in when you see how he places his flashes in space.
Instead of your orthodox light stand solution Peter uses a home [...]

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Recently the folk at Nikon Professional Services got in touch with me to see if I’d like to work with them on some videos that they wanted to make. They are starting to produce a series of videos highlighting the work of some Australian photographers and they wanted to shoot this one with me — [...]

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Just got off the phone with some good friends at Freeskier and Snowboard Magazines and learned some painful news. The news of the sudden death of a friend and one of the great skiers of our generation, CR Johnson. I feel compelled to share this here, in large part because we connected through photography.  — [...]

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have logged a lot of air miles over the last few years, and am getting ready to pile on a few more en route to Dubai this week.
On of the biggest advantages of being speedlight-based is being able to avoid the excess-baggage mafia. Given that I usually travel with computer, camera gear, lighting gear (including [...]

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PENTAX Imaging Company announced the latest model in the manufacturer’s megazoom digital camera line: the PENTAX X90. Featuring an extra-wide zoom, longer battery life than its predecessor and an electronic viewfinder, the X90 delivers effortless picture-taking in a wide variety of situations to photographers of all levels. The key feature of the PENTAX X90 is [...]

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If you use Photoshop’s Magic Wand tool, stop what you’re doing and switch to Color Range. This outrageously useful command lets you select an image as easily as the Magic Wand, but with more flexibility and much better results.  — Deke McClelland
Source and Read More: creativepro.com
Technorati Tags: Magic Wand,Photoshop,Deke McClelland

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igma plans to make a mirrorless, interchangeable lens camera with one of its Foveon sensors, the company’s Chief Operating Officer has told dpreview.com. Speaking in an exclusive interview, Kazuto Yamaki also said the company is considering producing lenses for mirrorless systems such as those from Panasonic, Olympus, Samsung and announced by Sony.  — dpreview
Source and [...]

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Canon’s PowerShot S90 might be one of the most powerful point-and-shoot cameras that you can slip into your shirt pocket. Much of the S90’s appeal comes from its ability to overcome the shortcomings that often cripple compacts; it performs well in low light, has the option to capture in Raw format, and it features an [...]

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Imaging Resource Publisher Dave Etchells and Senior Editor Shawn Barnett interviewed David Lee, President of Nikon Inc., and Steve Heiner, Senior Technical Manager, Nikon Inc. at PMA 2010. Read the interview to find out whether Nikon’s interested in the mirrorless-interchangeable-lens market, how the Aston Kutcher campaign has done for the company, and why Nikkor optical [...]

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TruePhoto(TM) Photo Books Rolled Out Nationwide This Week
February 25, 2010: 06:32 PM ET
myPhotopipe.com, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: MPPC), a web-based online provider of digital photo processing, photo finishing, photo-sharing, and related services, today announced the nationwide rollout of its TruePhoto™ photo book product line.
The advent of digital photography led to the development of new technologies designed [...]

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When it comes to protecting your camera from the elements we already know that a condom will go a great way. However, sometimes a more subtle approach is needed. Especially if all you are seeking is to protect your camera from a bit of rain.
The following guest post about creating a camera rain cover from [...]

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There are plenty of great camera bags on the market, but you can often miss that perfect shot by wasting time getting out and setting up your camera. The Cloak Bag solves this by providing a discreet cover for your camera whilst allowing you to take photos – without having to remove your camera from [...]

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Sanho’s HyperDrive Album is designed for digital photographers on the move who require huge storage space or redundancy backup for their photos and the ability to view them anytime, but don’t want to lug a laptop computer around. With capacities of up to a whooping 640GB of storage the USB 2.0 device is also capable [...]

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At PMA 2010, I’ve had the opportunity to get some hands-on time with a number of cameras.  One of the most impressive new cameras that I’ve seen has been the new Nikon Coolpix P100.  To see what makes this camera special, check out the big hands-on review below.
The P100 is a 10.3MP superzoom camera with [...]

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One of the cameras that I have fielded many questions and comments on recently has been the new megazoom, Fuji Finepix HS10. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to spend some hands-on time with a preproduction model at PMA 2010.
The HS10 is a DSLR-like camera in terms of size and handling.  What makes the HS10 so [...]

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Photo Used By Permission of Simon Carter
Climbing photography techniques and tricks is something I’ve been promising to discuss on my blog here for a while, so let’s start the discussion here – with the “vision thing”, because I think this is one of the most important things, perhaps THE most important thing, in photography.
Nikon [...]

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We’ve all heard it from clients before. “I don’t like formally posed pictures of myself. I always look so stiff. Can we get pictures without being formally set up?”
Fortunately for our clients – and for us – the world of formal portrait and people photography is now coming to a new era: Portrait Photojournalism.  — [...]

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