Peripheral smartphone camera goes where the sun don't shine. Your smartphone's camera may be able to do a lot of things, but it can't detach from the phone to see into hard-to-reach places.
That's why Edinburgh-based startup Barwritek created the Eye Eye. It's an HD video camera that's hard-wired to your Android smartphone via a coiled cord, and mounted on a telescoping pole so it can be held up high, underneath things, or wherever else you wish to stick it. The camera itself shoots 720p/30fps video, has a built-in 51-lumen LED for shooting in dark spaces, and can receive third-party lenses.
Japanese boffins invent 4.4 TREEELLION frames per second camera. The essential guide to IT transformation Japanese boffins have invented a way to shoot video at 4.4 trillion frames per second.
You read that right. 4.4 trillion. As in a million times a million, or 1012. The camera uses a technique called “Sequentially Timed All-optical Mapping Photography” that, as explained in Nature Photonics, uses “all-optical mapping of the target's time-varying spatial profile onto a burst stream of sequentially timed photographs with spatial and temporal dispersion.” How to Use a Portable Audio Recorder on a Video Shoot. Nowadays, many people are using portable digital recorders like the Zoom H4n, Zoom H6, or Tascam DR40 to record the audio during video shoots with DSLR/mirrorless cameras.
Now you need some real-world advice about using this equipment properly with external microphones, field mixers, and clapper slates. That's where this article comes in. Read on to find out how to get great sound on a DSLR shoot using a portable digital recorder. DSLR and mirrorless cameras are capable of excellent stills and stunning video, but one area where they are lacking is their audio-recording capability. Using Your Digital SLR Camera Beyond the P Mode. First of all, what is the P mode?
Your camera is blind to the world and has to make a lot of assumptions about it including how much light is out there, where to focus, how fast your subject is moving and the ideal depth of field (or how much in front and behind your subject should be in focus e.g. 2 meters in front and behind the subject or. as much as possible).
Switching your camera to P mode means the camera has to make the best ‘guestimate’ it can for all these unknowns. Why does the amount of light matter to your camera?
The Color Wheel and Color Theory - Colors on the Web. Color Theory is the art of mixing colors to achieve desired effects.
The way colors are combined can be used to create different feelings and responses. A common way to explain the relationships of the different colors is to display them in a color wheel. A color wheel is really just the spectrum twisted around so that the violet and red ends are joined. The color wheel is particularly useful for showing how the colors relate to each other and how you can create new colors by mixing two or more colors.
The color wheel really consist of a continual gradient of the colors in the spectrum, but to make things a little easier I will divide the wheel into twelve distinct colors. Primary Colors Among the colors in the color wheel, there are three colors which are referred to as the primary colors. Why red, Green and Blue? Subtractive Color System As I said above, the primary colors in printing is considered cyan, magenta and yellow. Photography 101: Viewing the World with a Photographer’s Eye, I. In the first of two posts, Ming Thein, a prolific photographer on WordPress.com, offers a big picture view of photography and talks about viewing the world with a visual eye.
He introduces his four fundamentals of photography — from composition to light — and the elements of a great photograph. 5 Free Online Courses to Improve Your Photography. The following two tabs change content below.
Andrea Clegg is a Montreal-based photographer whose interests include sport, landscape and urban photography. Check out Andrea's zine, or find her on Flickr. MOOCs – or massive open online courses, offer free or low-cost access to top-notch courses taught by university professors and professionals. Whether you are just starting out or are a seasoned professional – you are sure to find information in the following five free courses to enhance your photography skills and knowledge. 1. Practice of Art 8 is a series of twelve videotaped lectures by John S. 2. This course, by Anna Divinsky, offers a hands-on introduction to art making for students without any previous art experience. 3. This course, taught by professional photographer Jerad Hill, offers guidance on how to develop basic photography skills. 4.
The Art of Photography is taught by Shane Hulbert of Australia’s RMIT University. 7 more things you didn't know about metering. Recently we wrote about some of the things photographers might not realise about their camera’s metering system.
So overwhelming was the response we came up with seven more! Modern metering systems are incredibly sophisticated and while they may not deliver a correctly exposed image every time, they generally do a pretty good job in most situations. It’s Adobe’s Creative Cloud TITSUP birthday. Ease the pain with its RGB-wrangling rivals. Feature Exactly a year ago today Adobe’s Creative Cloud servers went dark for a whole day, leaving some users unable to open their apps.
Deadlines were missed, clients were let down, digital editions failed to appear and a generally crap time was had by all. For more challenging jobs, stacking elements and effects in layers means you can keep re-editing. Although other apps support layers, not all match Photoshop’s flexibility – click for a larger image Adobe’s social media team assured thousands of panicking creative professionals that normal service would probably be resumed fairly soon and in the meantime they should have a nice day. Peter Rossi's perfect picture nets 2013 Australian Institute of Professional Photography award.
Photo Manipulation. Improve Photography. Excellent infographic shows what it really takes to become a professional photographer. By Dan Havlik posted Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 1:44 PM EDT Yes, anybody with a camera (or smartphone) who enjoys taking pictures thinks life would be much sweeter if they just became a professional photographer.
Well, it's really not that easy and, in fact, amateur photographers who decide to "make the jump" to becoming a pro can do a lot of harm by lowering the value of the occupation through undercharging clients. Photography Tips & Tutorials. Snapper's decisions: Whatever happened to REAL photography? Feature Gradually and quietly, there has been a revolution in photography which has seen traditional film eclipsed by digital techniques. John Watkinson argues that the results of the revolution are not all beneficial, not least because the evolutionary path from amateur to professional has been economically closed off by marketing.
For me the revolution is over. I’m a committed medium format digital photographer. How to Protect Photos on a Nikon D3100 or D5100. You can protect pictures from accidental erasure by giving them protected status on your Nikon D3100 or D5100. After you take this step, the camera doesn’t allow you to delete a picture from your memory card, whether you press the Delete button or use the Delete option on the Playback menu. You can also use the Protect feature when you want to keep a handful of pictures on the card but delete the rest. Instead of selecting all the pictures you want to trash, protect the handful you want to preserve. Then set the Delete menu option to All and dump the rest. The protected pictures are left intact. Formatting your memory card, however, does erase even protected pictures. Protecting a picture is easy: Display or select the picture you want to protect. To remove protection with the camera, display or select the image and then press the AE-L/AF-L button again.
Digital Photography Glossary. Photography Essentials: The Sunny 16 Rule. Pin It With all the sophistication of modern metering system, it seems like the good ol’ Sunny 16 Rule can be dismissed as one of the old relics of the film era. The Sunny 16 Rule. Have you ever heard of the sunny 16 rule? It seems to have all but disappeared in most modern discussions of photography.