Photography related news
A series of photos taken using the iconic Lomo camera, a Cold War-era Soviet camera that enthusiasts have revived when discovering the unusual effects that can be achieved. The retro appearance of the photos have subsequently influenced the popular instagram app.
In pictures: 20 years of Lomography
A stunning set of photos of the annular eclipse seen on the 21st of May, 2012 in the US and parts of Asia. An annular eclipse occurs when the moon is at it’s most distant from earth and only partially covers the sun producing a ring of light surrounding the moon.
There are some excellent photos on this website dedicated to micro-photography. Nikon’s Small World has been running as a competition for the best photos taken through a microscope for over 30 years. Featuring weird and wonderful pictures on the subjects of insects, fungi and crystals amongst others, the best fun is often trying to guess the subject of the image before reading the caption.
The photography sharing mobile app Instagram has been bought by Facebook for a billion dollars this week. This article examines whether the app, with over 30 million users and a billion uploaded images has changed the face of modern photography.
Recreating standard film methods first discovered in eastern Europe in the 90s, Instagram filters give a distinctly retro look to photos mimicking some of the processes photographers used to push photographic boundaries. These include lens flare, vignettes, light leaks and muted colours reminiscent of out of date film.
Whether it’s the clever image processing that can be achieved at the click of a button or the 30 million mobile-app connected customers that have elicited the 1 billion from Facebook is a matter of debate.
Tilt-shift photography is a method of fooling the eye to make real photos appear as though they are of miniaturised scenes. The effect can be achieved by using specialized lenses or digital manipulation and exploits the fact that objects very close to the eye have a very narrow field of focus – if you blur the top and bottom of a standard photo the effect becomes apparent.
This page illustrates 50 examples of the effect – many of these are hard to imagine as real scenes.
A collection of stunning photos on the National Geographic website featuring flowers, cacti, moss, etc displaying the intricate patterns and vivid coklours seen in nature
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