Microsoft Research Cliplets. What Are Cliplets? A still photograph is a limited format for capturing a moment in time. Video is the traditional method for recording durations of time, but the subjective “moment” that one desires to capture is often lost in the chaos of shaky camerawork, irrelevant background clutter, and noise that dominates most [...]
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Microsoft Research Cliplets
Posted in Photography, Spring 2012, tagged Cinemagraphs, Cliplets on March 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
National Geographic Image Collection Book: Preview the New Photo Book
Posted in History, Photography, tagged history of photography on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
National Geographic Image Collection Book: Preview the New Photo Book.
175 Photos of Day Taken at Night
Posted in Photography, Spring 2011 on February 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The 175 photos that follow look like they might have been taken during the day. But it’s not day. It’s night. The photos are lying, thanks to long exposures that soak in the colorful nightlife. via 175 Photos of Day Taken at Night. Thanks to Luis Cruz for the pointer.
YouTube – snapfactorys Channel
Posted in Photography, Spring 2011, tagged Photography on January 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
YouTube – snapfactorys Channel. Some noce video tutorials for photography.
Computational Photography May Help Us See Around Corners – NYTimes.com
Posted in Computer Vision, Photography, Spring 2011, tagged Computer Vision, In the News on January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Computational Photography May Help Us See Around Corners – NYTimes.com. ANYONE who has witnessed the megapixel one-upmanship in camera ads might think that computer chips run the show in digital photography. That’s not true. In most cameras, lenses still form the basic image. Computers have only a toehold, controlling megapixel detectors and features like the [...]
Photograph – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Posted in Photography, tagged history of photography on July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A photograph (often shortened to photo) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene’s visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of [...]
Visual rhetoric – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Posted in Information, Photography, tagged rhetoric on July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Visual rhetoric is the fairly recent development of a theoretical framework describing how visual images communicate, as opposed to aural or verbal messages. The study of visual rhetoric is different from that of visual or graphic design, in that it emphasizes images as sensory expressions of cultural meaning, as opposed to purely aesthetic consideration (Kress [...]
Shutterbug: Point Of View
Posted in Photography, tagged Sharing, Shoebox on July 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Shutterbug: Point Of View. In the entry hall of our house, there is a picture of two young sisters. When the picture was taken, Marion was 14 years old and Helen was 7. That was in the mid-1920s. Marion was my mother; Helen, my aunt. Both are dead now. The oldest picture in my family [...]
GUEST SPEAKER: Aaron Hertzmann (U Toronto) “Non-Photorealistic Rendering and The Science of Art”
Posted in Guest Speaker, Photography, Summer 2010 (BCN), tagged NPR on June 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Title: Non-Photorealistic Rendering and The Science of Art Prof. Aaron Hertzmann, PhD University of Toronto Thursday June 3, 2010 Abstract This will be an informal talk in two parts. First, I will describe some of my previous work and background in Non-Photorealistic Rendering, which aims to create images and animations that appear hand-painted, drawn, and [...]
BCN Event: “Fashion, from etchings to the internet”
Posted in Photography, Summer 2010 (BCN), tagged BCN Events, Exhibitions on June 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
http://w3.bcn.es/V53/Serveis/Noticies/V53NoticiesLlistatNoticiesCtl/0,2138,120312746_123877461_3_1263669788,00.html?accio=detall&home= The “Images of Fashion” studio gallery at the Disseny Hub Barcelona (DHUB) gives an overview of the various systems used for representing and promoting fashion. The exhibition deals with systems that range from etchings, the first images to represent the world of fashion, to the most up-to-date media: television and the internet. The exhibition [...]
