The Ultimate Selfie Machine A 14Ft Interactive Head Displaying Photos Taken Inside Of It

Artist Matthew Mohr has created an interesting and unique piece of art. His project titled As We Are features a 14-foot 3D interactive human head. It was assembled from a skeleton covered with ribbons of LED screens. In its neck, there’s a photo booth where the visitors can capture 3D photos of themselves. Once they do it, the giant head displays their face, turning them into a statue. Since the interactive head combines technology, interaction, and art, it’s also called “the ultimate selfie machine....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 370 words · Peter Denman

The World S First Single Shot 8X10 Large Format Digital Camera Can Be Yours For A Mere 106 000

Large format digital cameras aren’t an entirely new idea. They’ve been around for a little while now, and a number of people have built their own. But they’ve had one big drawback. Because it’s difficult and expensive to make sensors so large, they typically use scanning backs. In the case of DIY options, it’s often the internals of a flatbed scanner. Now, though, an 8×10 large format camera which uses a 9×11 inch monochrome CMOS sensor to record a single shot all at once is available to buy....

December 18, 2022 · 4 min · 732 words · Frank Crowell

The World S Largest Ssd Now Holds 100Tb Of Data

The storage space race never seems to end. With ever-increasing storage demands on both consumers and storage facilities, it’s not surprising. We’re creating more digital content than ever before. Whether it’s text, photos or videos. Now, Nimbus Data have beaten out Seagate’s 60TB proof-of-concept SSD and completely annihilated Samsung’s recent 30TB SSD announcement. Aimed more at data centres than home users, Nimbus Data has announced the ExaDrive, which holds a ridiculous 100TB of data....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 298 words · Jason English

The Yolobox Mini Is An All In One Pocket Sized Live Stream Solution With A Built In Touch Screen Display

YoloLiv has today announced its new YoloBox Mini. Building on the success of the original YoloBox (review here) and YoloBox Pro the new YoloBox mini incorporates many of their features into a smaller package for live advanced streaming anywhere. Sure, you can live stream from anywhere with your phone, too, but the YoloBox Mini provides HDMI and USB video capture, along with dedicated audio inputs and it can even record....

December 18, 2022 · 5 min · 904 words · Grace Zhao

These 3 Basic Principles Will Help You Light Anything

Understanding light is one of the main conditions for successfully illuminating our subjects in photography or videography. Matthew Rosen from KINETEK explains some basic principles of lighting, and how to apply them on different types of surfaces. It’s explained in a simple way, with comprehensive examples, so it will be very useful and easy to follow for all the newbies. There are two types of readable light – ambient, the one in which the subject is, and reflective, which bounces off the subject into the camera....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 464 words · Dawn Martinie

These Are The Best Lenses For Travel And Documentary Photography

Traveling and taking photos is bringing to of the most wonderful things together. Photographer Mitchell Kanashkevich has been capturing his travels for years, ending up with plenty of award-winning photographs. In this video, he shares his thoughts about the best lenses for travel and documentary photography. Would you agree with his choice? Of course, this topic is fairly subjective and depends on the type of travel photography you want to shoot....

December 18, 2022 · 4 min · 767 words · Betty Martin

These Digital Collages Bring Characters From Classical Paintings Into The Modern World

Bringing classical paintings and digital art together can work in different ways. In his project Art History in Contemporary Life, Ukrainian artist Alexey Kondakov uses digital collage to bring together two worlds that seem impossible to merge. Characters from paintings, mainly from Romantic period, get a new life in the photos from modern life. Thanks to Alexey’s fantastic sense of composition and photo manipulation skills, the characters from classical paintings blend perfectly with digital images and create a different, altered reality....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 414 words · Grace Power

These Five Lighting Techniques Will Help You Create Scary Horror Scenes

There are a lot of components that can make a horror movie or photo really scary, and proper lighting is certainly among the most important ones. In this video, Benny from Aputure shares with you five lighting techniques that will make your horror scenes truly hair-raising. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B9X9ToFNmg&feature=youtu.be 1. Uplighting Remember when we were kids and told scary stories with a flashlight under our chin? This lighting effect is used in horror movies and images as well....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 478 words · Haley Harbin

This 99 Device Will Motorize Any Slider

There are some pricy (and awesome) motorized slider solutions out there (we quite like the Syrp Genie), but they are all kinda expensive. Anything with decent controls (screen/app) is 500$ or upwards. What if you throw some creative thinking into it? Videographer Nitsan Simantov constructed a variable speed slider motor from a TurnsPro – a $99 egg timer style panning device (kinda like the Genie Mini we reviewed, but $150 cheaper)....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 228 words · Erin Simpson

This 250Mm F 4 9 Lens Is The World S Sharpest And Has Interchangeable Camera Mounts

It’s a pretty bold claim to say you’re the world’s something-est anything. But that’s what William Optics are doing with their new Redcat 250mm f/4.9 lens, hailing it as the “World’s Sharpest” 250mm lens ever made for full frame cameras. Which, to be fair, is possibly true, as very few 250mm lenses have ever been made for full frame cameras. Interestingly, though, it’s based on a Petzval design, which is typically more associated with “swirly bokeh” than sharpness....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 525 words · Rebecca Vessels

This Algorithm Is A New Way To Fix Distortion In Your Wide Angle Selfies

More and more modern phones come with an ultra-wide-angle camera. When it’s a front camera, it lets you capture more people into a group selfie. However, those heads near the edges of the frame will get distorted. A group of researchers has come up with a new method for dealing with this problem. They have created an algorithm that makes your group portraits distortion-free and flattering for everyone in the photo....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 347 words · Jennifer Nelson

This Alien Themed Shoot Is The Scariest And The Funniest Maternity Shoot Ever Mildly Nsfw

How often do you see a maternity shoot that makes you start crying with laughter? Well, this might be the one. Inspired by Alien, Todd and Nicole Cameron had the idea for the funniest (but also the scariest) maternity shoot I’ve ever seen. Photographer Lila Carter turned their idea into reality, and I bet that the resulting photos will make your day. Before we go any further, I’ll warn you that some images may seem too brutal....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 394 words · Robert Vanluven

This Amusing Image Puts Unrequited Love In Terms Photographers Can Understand

This image, which puts unrequited love into a context that photographers can understand, seems to have been doing the rounds on Facebook today, although I’m not sure who put it together. The lens choices for the image are quite interesting. It’s easy to see how somebody could get worked up over the 200mm f/2, especially when one looks at the work of folks who use it, like Keydrin Franklin. You’d better stop eyeing up that 50mm f/1....

December 18, 2022 · 1 min · 151 words · Samuel Shiner

This Breathtaking Panorama Was Taken On Mars

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has provided us with some spectacular (but also fun) photos so far. After capturing amazing Earth-like clouds, it has again captured a sight that might remind us of our home planet. The rover reached the top of Vera Rubin Ridge and captured photos that were stitched into a breathtaking panoramic landscape. The panorama shows interior rim of the Gale Crater. Curiosity captured 16 side-by-side photos on 25 October 2017 with the wide-angle camera in its left eye....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 233 words · Dennis Robinson

This Colorful Camera Kit Replica Is Made Entirely From Paper

We have seen some interesting items inspired by photography gear, such as a chocolate Nikon camera or lens-inspired watches. Seoul-based design studio DOTMOT has also found inspiration in photography. It has created a colorful replica of a photography kit, consisting of a DSLR, two interchangeable lenses and an external flash, and everything is carefully crafted out of colorful paper.Advertisements The paper camera kit was made to resemble a film camera, both in its shape and size....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 234 words · Jason Thomas

This Deep Dive Looks Into Log Vs Raw Footage And How They Differ For Colour Grading

These days, whenever a new camera is released – particularly one geared towards video – I see two questions that come up repeatedly for days. “Does it have a LOG profile?” and “Can it shoot raw?”. They’re valid questions, but there are some pretty big differences between the two. In this video, the team at Syrp Lab take a deep dive into both to show how they differ and the potential problems you can run into....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 438 words · Benjamin Mcmanus

This Guy Built His Own Ai Powered Robot Camera Operator To Follow Him Around And You Can Too

James Bruton is one of the biggest names in robotics on YouTube. He’s made all kinds of crazy contraptions and robots that work on a seemingly endless number of mechanical and physics principles – not to mention a lot of electronics wizardry. In this video, he takes a look at the one problem that plagues YouTubers shooting videos on their own. Eliminating boring static camera shots. So, he made a robot with a camera to move and follow the subject....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 305 words · Virgil Ruddock

This Guy Striking A Pose For A Wildlife Trail Camera Will Make Your Day

When photographer Jeff Wirth set up his trail camera on a log, he was hoping to take photos of bobcats. Little did he know that, other than wild animals, he’d also end up with a photo of a dude with a wild sense of humor. While he was going through photos, Jeff noticed a photo of a guy who struck a pose on the log. The photo made him laugh really hard, and Jeff kindly shared the laughs and the photo with the rest of us....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 463 words · Jimmy South

This In Depth Colour Theory Guide Helps Create Harmony And Impact In Your Photography

Colour can be one of the hardest things to master in photography. The real world doesn’t always provide the most pleasing colour for our images. Even within the same scene, different colours can clash and compete for attention. It’s a subject that many graphic designers study religiously to get perfect harmony in their work. But for photographers, it’s a subject that seems to skip by many. It shouldn’t be, though....

December 18, 2022 · 3 min · 564 words · Bennie Lopes

This Is How To Make Profiles In The New Camera Raw Lightroom

Earlier this month, Adobe released a new “massive update” for Lightroom and Camera Raw. The update brought Sony A7III support, along with a few other new Canon & Panasonic cameras. This update wasn’t without issue, though, and a bug fix update was released a couple of days ago. The update did add a new “Profiles” tab, though. It includes six new Adobe Raw profiles, a whole bunch of creative profiles and the ability to create your own....

December 18, 2022 · 2 min · 271 words · Charles Williams