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How to Create a “Standard Import” Preset in Lightroom 4
Introduction The following is an excerpt from the SLR Lounge Lightroom Workflow System Workshop on DVD, a system designed to increase your post production speed by 5 to 10 times! Click here to learn more. In this article, we are going to talk about creating a develop preset that you would like to apply to all of [...]Show More Summary
Second-Hand Smoke: 1860s
1861-65. "Two unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms holding cigars in each other's mouths." Ninth-plate tintype, hand-colored. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress. View full size.
The Quickest Workflow To Get 24P Raw Video On A 5DmkIII
A few days back we reported about the Magic Lantern team hacking a 5DmkIII to shoot 24p RAW video (probably the best thing that ever happened to Canon, even if they did not mean that).
While this was super good news, the process of getting...Show More Summary
Space Cadets: 1952
From 1952 comes this conflation of two popular genres in the children's TV show "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet." Photo by Charlotte Brooks for the Look magazine assignment "Cowboys and Meteors." View full size.
My First Concert: Lighting Craziness
A few years ago, I managed to start working with one of my favorite groups of musicians, a progressive heavy metal band from Pennsylvania called Shadow Gallery. This has led to me collaborating with them in a number of ways. I did some publicity photos for them, shot a music video (in another first for [...]Show More Summary
Cloud getting crowded, and that means bottlenecks
As data-transfer shifts increasingly to the cloud, the servers stacked in datacenters handling the data become increasingly crowded. Virtualization means multiple users can share a single server. This has positive aspects: servers don't sit idle, scalability is less of a concern, and datacenter efficiency improves. Show More Summary
People in glass houses
Where does the line exist between public and private? At which point does photography become voyeurism, or even exploitation? When you live in the Zinc Building, a glass-fronted set of apartments in New York’s TriBeCa district, this question has just been thrown into sharp relief by a new exhibition at the Julie Saul gallery in [...]
Bullettime Effect Created Using 625 Pinhole Cameras
London Grammar just released their new video - Wasting My Young Years. One of the most interesting things about this video is that it features several bullet time shots that are not only shot on film, but are shot on 625 pinhole cameras.
So,...Show More Summary
First Be A Photographer
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Microscopic crystal 'flowers' build themselves in a Harvard lab
Imagine peering into a microscope and finding yourself in a garden. That's the case at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where researchers have found a way to shape microscopic crystals into complex and often beautiful structures. Inspired by coral reefs, sea …
Brightwood Car Barn: 1943
Washington, D.C., circa 1943. "Potomac Electric Power Co. substations. Brightwood station car barn." Photo by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.
Introducing... What The Duck on dpreview.com
We've been fans of Aaron Johnson's comic strip 'What the Duck' for years. 'WTD' is one of the best satirical comic strips in the world, and we're pleased to announce that we'll be publishing it on dpreview.com, starting today. Click through for the first in what we hope will be a long series!
10 Photo Editing Programs (that aren't Photoshop)
Adobe Photoshop has become ubiquitous since its introduction more than 20 years ago, but it isn't the only game in town. In this article, we've selected 10 photo editing programs that aren't all as well-known as Photoshop, but which are well worth investigating if you're looking for other options. Click through for a link to the full article.
In-depth look at Google+ Photo Update with the Team that Designed it
At its I/O developers conference a couple of days ago Google introduced various updates to its Google+ social networking platform, many of which will be of interest to photographers. As well as changes to layout, images can be 'auto-enhanced',...Show More Summary
Video Pick: PDN’s 30 Panel at Palm Springs Photo Fest
If you didn’t get a chance to attend the PDN‘s 30 panel at this year’s Palm Springs Photo Festival, you can now watch it below! The symposium, called “PDN Presents: Strategies for the Emerging Photographer,” took place on Monday April 29 and was moderated by PDN Editor Holly Stuart Hughes. The panelists were: 2013 PDN‘s [...]
Curves: Weekly Photography Challenge
This week – as a follow up to our article Composing with Curves – your challenge is to take and share an image on the theme of ‘Curves’. Read Composing with Curves, choose one of the types of curves mentioned (‘C Curves’, ‘Arches’, ‘S Curves’, ‘Circles’ or ‘Implied Curves’) and go out and try to [...]Show More Summary
Australia's V8 Supercars fly down the track in Austin, Texas
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World Rally Championship driver drives off 20-foot cliff
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Racing through summer at Agassiz Speedway
Dell's thumb PC, Project Ophelia, to ship in July
Dell's thumb-sized PC called Project Ophelia, which is the size of a USB stick, will start shipping in July for around US$100. The Android-based device will plug into a display's HDMI port so that it can run applications or access files stored remotely. Show More Summary
All Nite: 1941
July 1941. "Street scene in Chicago Black Belt." 35mm negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
May’s other-worldly photo competition
To celebrate the launch of my newest book, Surreal Photography: Creating the Impossible, it seemed entirely appropriate that the theme for May’s competition should be surreal. Whether you construct a meticulous composite of gods and monsters battling it out in an as-yet undiscovered universe, or create a scene at five degrees to the world we [...]
