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Gigapixel Images (Updated)
Consider this: your new-ish digital camera shoots images containing roughly 10 megapixels. That’s old news. All of the cool people are shooting images with 100 times as much resolution. Images with...
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Shadow Catcher
The woman in the photograph was a poor soul, without friends, the subject of ridicule among Seattle schoolchildren. She lived in a hovel. When the growing city of Seattle cleared its native population,...
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Lens in One Hand, Camera Phone in the Other
Earlier this week, Sony introduced a very different way to think about your cell phone as a portable camera. The DSC-QX100 is the kind of innovative product that engineers love, and marketers don’t...
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Next Spring, Near Paris
Start saving your money. Next May, go to Paris. Leave early on the morning–there’s an 820AM from Paris’s Saint-Lazare Station to Vernon, and then, there’s the taxi. The train arrives at 9:05AM at...
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Grandpa, what’s a camera?
This infographic comes from a website called Lensvid, which is filled with interesting photographic stories, inspiration, reviews and more. The site attempts to explain what happened, but their editors...
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Beyond the Decisive Moment
Henri Cartier-Bresson was one of the great photographers of the 20th century. Best known as a prolific street photographer (for whom color was a commercial concession, not an aesthetic option), HCB’s...
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West Coast Troublemakers, or the Naked Girl with the Big Clock
Ten or fifteen years ago, I read a really good biography of the photographer Ansel Adams. I’ve recommended it often, but somehow, I couldn’t find it on my shelves. A bit of curiosity and research led...
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Gigapixel Images (Updated)
Consider this: your new-ish digital camera shoots images containing roughly 10 megapixels. That’s old news. All of the cool people are shooting images with 100 times as much resolution. Images with...
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