Every now and then, I come across someone complaining about the photoshopping of images in the media, particularly magazines, and this is often linked to a demand for natural photography. I am no great fan myself of the plastic look, or bad photo retouching generally (which I am guilty of myself). It is the …
Tag Archives: 3d
The art of photography and incredible technology changes to come
How will our art evolve when we have 3d, omni-focus, very large dynamic range, high-speed video cameras rather than single focus, narrow dynamic range, still (and sometimes hd video) cameras? The development of omni-focus cameras (that is, cameras that can keep everything in sharp focus at all times, with no focusing required) has been talked …
Borders no more
I was saddened to see Borders in Birmingham this weekend selling off everything including store fittings. Borders has been my favorite book store for a while, especially their out-of-town stores on retail parks. I preferred the style of their stores to those of Waterstones. It also removes one of the more interesting options for ebook …
Just seen #Avatar in 3d at IMA…
Just seen #Avatar in 3d at IMAX in Birmingham. Amazing. (Usual corn in a few places but overall an incredible experience.)
Challenges to the DSLR
The micro-four-thirds system has introduced cameras that have all the characteristics of DSLRs without the reflex mirror system because of the use of electronic viewfinders (and hence they are not actually DSLRs) but currently these viewfinders are not as good as optical viewfinders especially when shooting fasting moving subjects and/or in low light.