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Picturelife lets you store every photo you've ever taken — every great memory, every cherished moment, every smile and every sunset, all together in one place.

Update: There is now a new way to tether your camera to the iPad that does not require jailbreaking the iPad. Check out the new video here. Are you a photographer and an iPad owner? If so, you are really going to love this. Are you a photographer who swore you would never buy an iPad because it’s just an over-sized iPod Touch? Well you are about to change your mind.

Create lens and "tilt & shift" blur effects on a photo by choosing subjects to be in focus and let the app do the blurring. Preview your results immediately with sophisticated LiveBlur algo which ensures that your photo will look exactly like the one you can make with a professional lense and pro-level skills.

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Students studying the Graduate Diploma of Advanced 3D Production course from New Zealand's (Auckland) Media Design School have built a robot which allows a DSLR camera to take 360 degree panoramic HDRIs. In 3D packages these images are shown to effectively simulate realistic settings and lighting effects.

The OCC project arose from our need to shoot HDR images for film production using Canon cameras. Canon has stubbornly chosen to stick to its standard 3-shot method for bracketing shots - one metered shot and two additional shots one or two stops above and below the metered shot. For texture shooting, it is sometimes necessary to shoot 5,7,9 or even 11 or more stops of bracketing around the metered exposure. We’ve since found that the OCC system can work with other brands like Olympus and Sigma cameras.

Voici un droplet que j’ai fait dans Compressor 3.5. Il permet de prendre des clips tournés avec la Canon 5D mkII et de le convertir en ProRes 422 (HQ) pour travailler dans FInal Cut Pro. Aussi, si vous avez faites votre prise de son avec l’adaptateur DXA-5D de Beachtek, ce droplet vous permettra d’enlever la fréquence (20KHz) qui désactive le contrôle automatique du gain.

iCloseBy.com has announced the release of iMarkMySpot, a new App for the Apple iPhone which is used to "one-touch" Geotag and Geocode digital photos with exact GPS locations.

Photographer and general media guy. Work a day job to pay the bills, do photography to pay for photography. Consume info, regurgitate thoughts.

Copy this bookmarklet to your bookmark toolbar: Retrieve Preset Then if you see a Flickr photo you like, click the bookmarklet and the Preset Extractor will attempt to generate a Lightroom Preset for the Flickr photo you are viewing. Only photos that have a Creative Commons license, or are in the public domain, or are part of our Flickr Group will work with this tool.

Magic Lantern is an open platform for developing enhancements to the amazing Canon 5D Mark II full frame digital SLR. This camera is a "game changer" for independent film makers: * It allows the use of a wide range of lenses (anything that can be adapted to the EF mount). * The 35mm full-frame sensor is larger than the RED ONE's sensor, Super 35 film. It is approximately the size of VistaVision. This means shallower native depth-of-field than anything on the market, except for the Phantom 65. * The dynamic range and latitude are close to the capabilities of high-end HD cameras. * The low-light performance is currently unrivaled, even by the RED ONE.

As you may know, Apple added Flickr uploading to iPhoto ‘09. As you may guess, I was a little perturbed at this since I pay my mortgage by selling, er, a Flickr upload plugin for iPhoto. I acquired my copy of iLife ‘09 yesterday and decided to dive deep on how Apple have implemented Flickr integration in iPhoto ‘09. Here are the results of my investigation. Be aware as you read that this is the result of a morning’s click-around investigation and not months of serious use. I will do my best to give an honest assessment of what is in iPhoto ‘09, and you’ve already read my full disclosure in the previous paragraph.

HyperDither is an OS X image processing utility that converts color or grayscale images to 1 bit black & white using a sophisticated dithering routine. Specifically, HyperDither implements the “Atkinson” dithering filter. Years ago, during the development of the first Macintosh, Bill Atkinson (of HyperCard, QuickDraw, MacPaint & now nature photography fame) discovered a very elegant dithering filter to convert greyscale image data for the 1 bit black & white Mac video display. The dithering produced by this routine was much higher quality than the now-a-days ubiquitous Floyd-Steinberg or “Error-diffusion” filter (used by QuickTime, PhotoShop).

La gestion des couleurs pose donc en gros 4 cas de figure : * Vous n’aimez pas la photo : problème résolu, rendez-vous ici * Vous publiez essentiellement sur le web : achetez vous une corde et une poutre… Chaque moniteur rend les couleurs différemment ! * Vous faites imprimer vos photos chez un tireur : votre cas n’est pas désespéré * Vous imprimez vous mêmes vos photos : Yeah ! mais un sacré boulot vous attend…