Instagram is known as a place where people use photos to flaunt their lifestyles, both real and fake. 50 Cent may be one of the biggest names to do so on the “fake” side: he claims he’s broke and that he takes photos of fake money for marketing reasons.
Part of what can make an image both visually appealing and conceptually interesting is the connection between its different parts. An image is a whole made of differentiable elements, and these elements can either be separate or have a variety of relations between them. To make an image which is indeed a whole and not just different layers on top of each other, a photographer needs to make the layers (or elements) communicate with each other. But how? One way, which I will detail here, is... more
Could your smartphone camera one day be turned on and used by the government for surveillance? That’s what Apple is warning the public about as it continues to battle the FBI in court.
Apple has been in a highly publicized legal battle with the FBI, which is demanding that Apple help bypass the security features of the iPhone 5C that was owned by the gunman in the... more
Sony are back with the sequel to 2012s surprise hits, the RX1 and RX1R. The new RX1R II still packs a full frame sensor into a barely-larger-than-a-compact body, but this... more
If you were into photography in the early days of digital cameras, you probably remember the “revolutionary” Sony Mavica line, which used 3.5-inch floppy disks as 1.44MB “memory cards”.
The Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD5 of 1997 was the first of the series to record its 0.3 megapixel photos onto the 3.5-inch floppy disks that were widely used at the time (and which are now known as the “save icon” by younger generations). It... more
Kodak Alaris has announced a major update to its Moments image sharing app, which allows for direct printing to Kodak Picture Kiosks and online ordering of print products. The company has added to the app what it calls visual storytelling capabilities. Read more
This week, Flickr announced that they are taking away one of the key free functions: the ability to auto upload photos from your computer directly to Flickr. Now you need to sign up for a pro account for access to the same function.
Now, we dont have much to complain about: they still give you a free terabyte of free storage, and the new interface is slick. But when I... more
