Photography – Page 2

Toronto, Then and Now: An exercise in photographic reverse-engineering

October 7, 2010October 12, 2010 Danny X photography, Photoshop, then and now, Toronto2 Comments

Came across this interesting experiment today by Damon Schreiber on the Electroblog. Spawned from a random Google search, Schreiber was inspired to take shots of Toronto from 1977 and recreate the same shots in 2007, being as painstakingly meticulous as one can to make sure the content, staging, positioning, depth-of-field, aperture, lighting, and even time of day are accurately reproduced. The origins of the idea, and indeed the source of the original shots of Toronto from 30 years ago, are all explained in great detail on the photoblogger’s site, and the story…

Fan Expo 2010 – Nerd Girl Pinups interview

September 29, 2010September 30, 2010 Doug Groves Fan Expo, Fan Expo 2010, interview, Nerd Girl, Nerdgirlpinups, Show, video1 Comment

One of the stops we made during Fan Expo this year was the Nerd Girl Pinups booth. For a couple of years now Nicole (friend of the show) and the gang there have hosted a Fan Expo after party a few blocks up from the convention floor. Dave talks with Katherine Curtis and Kenickie Street about what’s new with nerdgirlpinups.com, and gets the lowdown on their new calendar, which you can check out here.

Adobe Demos It’s Plenoptic Lens and Software

September 26, 2010September 28, 2010 kingpinlei Adobe, Bladerunner, demo, Plenoptic Lens, video8 Comments

From the realm of cool news, Adobe recently demoed a radical technology involving a Plenoptic Lens and a new software that will find it’s way into Photoshop eventually. Basically, this new lens (with software help) allows still pictures to be focused and re-focussed AFTER the picture is taken. That’s right! AFTER the picture is taken, you can manipulate the depth of field to pretty much anywhere within the picture. How does it do this? The Plenoptic Lens is basically made up of a whole bunch of tiny little lenses. The…

Panasonic’s New LUMIX GH2 Announced

September 22, 2010September 24, 2010 kingpinlei camera, DSLR, Germany, GH2, HDSLR, Lumix, Panasonic, Panasonic GH2, Photokina, press release2 Comments

Panasonic announced and showcased the highly anticipated followup to their GH1 camera, the LUMIX GH2, at the latest Photokina, held every other year since 1956 in Cologne Germany. More of an update than anything else, it appears Panasonic has listened to their customers and improved the features based on customer feedback on the GH1. In a nutshell, here they are: a brand-spanking new 18 MP multi-aspect ratio sensor that offers 16.05 MP output ISO range of 160-12800 in 1/3 EV steps touch sensitive LCD screen HD video at 1080 60p…