Since the iPhone 3GS, you could tap on any part of the image in the Camera app to lock focus and exposure. The exposure and focus however shifts as you recompose your image. New in iOS5, you can finally lock focus and exposure on a spot and keep it locked even as you recompose the [...]
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Looking and seeing
Tay Kay Chin, one of Singapore’s most well-known photographer, in an interview in 2005: People looking at ordinary scenes in life translated into pictures often have one of the two reactions – “boring” or “hmm, why haven’t I see it all these years”. I think people who think they know everything in life or photography [...]
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One step forward for Camera+, ten steps backwards for photography
Today, tap tap tap announced version 2.2 of their popular iPhone camera app: Our main, new feature in this version is something we call Clarity, which, in a nutshell, is our response to Apple’s HDR It’s suppose to help turn photos taken under terrible lighting into slightly useable ones. In short, another step towards photography [...]
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“Ridiculous” to optimise sites for iPhone
Rob Haggart of the blog A Photo Editor and professional photography portfolio software A Photo Folio, wrote in 2008: A reader asked me awhile back about optimizing websites for the iPhone which I immediately dismissed as ridiculous and then, what do you know, I was out of the office later that day and tried to [...]
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Pulitzer-Winning Photojournalist Slams World Press Photo Awards
Pulitzer-winning photojournalist, and winner of several World Press Photo Awards (19751, 19862) slams the selection of the 2009 World Press Photo winners: The World Press Photo of the Year is stunning for its lack of content or any other journalistic values. The jury’s selection is yet another setback for a profession that is already in [...]
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Missing the point
Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov muses about chess and computers: The moment I became the youngest world chess champion in history at the age of twenty-two in 1985, I began receiving endless questions about the secret of my success and the nature of my talent. Instead of asking about Sicilian Defenses, journalists wanted to know [...]
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Aperture 3: I’ll Pass
No tethering support for Canon 5D2, or for that matter, any Canon cameras newer than the 350D. Even the inelegant workaround, the Hot Folder Import Script doesn’t work. And even when it does, it is still more clumsy than Lightroom 2 or Lightroom 3′s implementation of Auto Import, requiring an additional script to work. As [...]
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Angry photographer rants
An angry, traditional photographer rants about how microstock photographers stole his big, fat pay cheque away, calls microstock low quality, and Robert—whose shot was bought by Time—a pervert: Congratulations Robert, you’ve just become the poster-boy for exactly what is wrong about iStockphoto. A stock rate previously known to be $3,000 for the cover of Time [...]
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Film bigots II
I took issue with a bigoted and misleading write-up by a group of “elite” film photographers at Anti Lomography with my previous post. Someone, who posted a comment under a link to rangefinderfilipinas.com, replied: Sorry, but you missed the point. Or a lot of points, I should say. If you read past the ‘about’ page, [...]
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Film bigots
Over at Anti Lomography, a group of film purists are attacking what they deemed as their inferior film counterpartslomographers who use “old film cameras that are generally of extremely poor quality and overpriced”. They claim they aren’t anti-digital and support digital photography as one of the best ways to learn photography. But they would later [...]
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