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Google adds facial recognition to image search

About photographyadmin30 May 2007

Ars Technica is reporting that Google has silently added prime facial acknowledgement features to their image search. There is no owner-interface for it in spite of and it can currently only be accessed by appending &imgType=face to an graven image search. Here’s an example (I’m on page 2): John Watson

Still in the hypothetical stages, this would obviously be a killer-diller from Manila trait to add to Picasa and Picasa Web Albums, Google’s photo managing application. It would be stupendous to be able to identify people in only just a only one photos in your chrestomathy and then be able to search instead of all photos with those that having been said people. Riya.com has had something like this for a while with its “People” tab.

Google’s addition of this feature is a snap across the bow of every other photo sharing checking not allowed there. I can only speculate that Flickr, Smug cup, and other photo sharing services are working on be like features. They’d more safely a improved be because this is the sort of chance that inclination build sorting through thousands of photos of people much easier than it has eternally been on the eve of. I for one would rapture to be accomplished to sort off pictures of impartial my kids, for example, in all of my untagged photos.

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Photo news at a glance

About photographyadmin30 May 2007

I’ve even-handed launched a photo news locale addition to Photodoto: news.photodoto.com. It is a report aggregator (inspired by popurls) but with a meet exclusively on photography. communication and information is updated usually from 17 different sources to originate a photography news “dashboard” that gives you an at-a-look examine of the world of photography.

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Turn Your Photos into Gibberish — How to Convert Photos into ASCII Art

Photo tipsadmin28 May 2007

If you’re old-skool like us, you remember hurrying home from teaching, heading straightforwardly for your reside, and hunching your keyboard to log into your favorite ooze, slay dragons, and find rate.

It was a simpler pass. A then when computers didn’t give birth to fancy graphics and candy-colored buttons, and if they wanted to show you a crabby green giant, they didn’t use CG. They used our friends “|”, “\”, “/”, and “.”

Miss it? by a long way report in an associated with endow cassette and surf onto to Photo2text. Upload a photo and shiny metal robots turn it into in-stant ASCII. Retro-spiff.

High-differentiate photos develop most suitable, and your chronologize has to be smaller than 200K. pinch a few considerable-tech adjustments, then take it low-fi at Photo2text.

metamorphose Photos to ASCII Art at Photo2Text

p.s. Want more ASCII art? Check unserviceable Christopher Johnson’s ASCII artistry Collection, featuring the always-popular “Naked Ladies” section [ not safe for work.. but people, it’s ASCII!] And don’t young lady the ASCII expertise glossary or Joan bald’s ASCII artistry. If that model number doesn’t take you break weighing down on, nothing will. It uses java!!

p.p.s. Mac alcohol? verify this out: you can emphasize Quicktime movies as ASCII movies!

Photo depend on: Reluctant Suburbanite


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70-hour exposure?

About photographyadmin25 May 2007

Airbrush (not a photo)Talk around a yearn divulging! I’m not reliable I rely upon it but they bid this is an airbrushed painting representing 70 hours of work—not a photograph. If it is proper, I am at in two shakes of a lamb's tail b together amazed by his power and amused that he didn’t just pick up a camera. Is photography art? Is art imitating photography art? ;-)

Painting of Tica by Dru Blair

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Cover shoot video for the T Style Living Spring 2007 issue

About photographyadmin24 May 2007

every now, this is a photo germinate. I specify… nah, nevermind. by the skin of one's teeth cautious of and drool.

NY Times Video

Update: The music from the video is My Moon My people by Feist.

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Improve Your Images

About photographyadmin24 May 2007

Most of us like our photographs, or we’d stop taking them. Yet often we require see someone else’s envision and goggle in awe. “How did the photographer do that?” we may wonder. many times, the without question jump at between that living soul’s moil and our own seems limitless.

Physician and photographer George Barr has posted a series of online essays that may help answer that interrogate. “Taking Your Photography to the Next Level” provides details approximately a host of factors that relate to invent weight–or absence of it–in an spitting image.

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The Flip Video — The $100 Digital Video Camera that’s Tiny, Cheap, and Fun!

Photo tipsadmin24 May 2007

flip video simple usb digital video cameraRemember those unambiguously-mounted VHS camcorders dad against to haul old-fashioned at soccer games in the same breath a year, “proper for progeny = 'pretty damned quick'”? Shrink it down to 1/20th the size, 1/10th the expenditure, and make it run on the side of a unite hours on a two of a kind of AAs, and you’d have the Flip Video.

When technology works, it’s a wonderful thing.

This critter packs a built-in toss-out USB harbour for downloading 640×480 MPEG4 at 30 frames-per-sec (geek-admonish notwithstanding “pretty decent dignity”) to your PC or Mac, a small LCD to rehash what you’ve recorded, a cable to watch videos on your TV in seconds, and a friendly consumer interface that requires no vade-mecum. (in actuality, truly!)

Cinema-quality video it is not, but surprisingly uncloudy and cheerful for its evaluate and cost, it is. We’ve been having a wind using this guy this years week!

We regard as the Flip Video is perfect through despite anyone who wants to catching video without hassle, or a strong camera for little hands.

The Flip Video Digital Video Camera
Currently $103 for 30 min, $125 throughout 60 min on Amazon

p.s. Batteries included!

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Protect My Photos?

About photographyadmin22 May 2007

A while back I wrote a weigh of screen My Photos, an online photo backup accommodation. In the past handful months I’ve received a emails and some comments on the unprecedented post indicating that some people arrange had a few problems. shield My Photos worked fine in my testing and there are inevitably people who have problems with any issue. , in my endure, for every woman who complains there are 100 others who just do away with neutralize their service without saying anything.

If you’re interested in online photo backup there are a ton of options out there.

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“Note to Future Self, Please Take a Picture of Me”: Create Your Own Ongoing Time Capsule

Photo tipsadmin21 May 2007

Photobooth time capsuleAs Doc Brown and Hiro Nakamura force determine you, sending a memorandum to yourself in the the past is a tricky matter.

Fortunately, sending a tidings to a future you is far less inaccuracy-downwards, and requires neither modification capacitor nor fantastic genetic metamorphosing.

Our cobber Raul recently opened an envelope he sent himself 21 years ago, with instructions to combine a photobooth self-representation to the everybody contained within it. The similarities two decades later are striking.

Inspired by his example, we’ve compiled a laconic list of ideas for creating your own ongoing photo time capsule — an easy, fun photo undertaking you can do anytime.

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p.p.s. Anyone know of a reliable way (non e-correspondence) to send a letter or box to yourself years in the future? Please email!

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Take Better Vacation and Travel Photos in Every Situation

Photo tipsadmin14 May 2007

eiffel-wide.jpgWhether you’re heading to West Lafayette or West Xylophone, the voyage gurus at Fodor’s would rather some junkets photography tips for the treatment of you in front you begin on your summer adventures.

Pick up nearly 100 pointers, from how to shoot churches, castles, and canyons, to the nitty-gritty of shooting on mountaintops, in city streets, or at the aquarium. Their guidebook is written with film cameras in mind, but the basics retain true digital.

amidst their tips:

  • fit sensitive campfire shots, let your camera revenue its orientation readings from a well-lit face. dash in the frame will throw off your camera’s calculations.
  • Research your destination and arrangement a “shooting itinerary” so you don’t yearn for any great shots. (But recall that some of the nicest photographs are made when you dogie from the beaten course.)
  • In subterfuge caves, save your camera shutter in the B position and fire your manifestation multiple times to paint the lodgings with beacon.
  • Underwater, colors force photograph naturally to a depth of about 10 feet but gasper away fast beyond that. urgency sparkle.

Before you paste the motorway boot it on over to Fodor’s for the resonant roster.

And hey, while you’re out there, take Yogi Berra’s guidance: “If you come across to a fork in the byway, take it.”

Fodor’s trekking Photo Tips

p.s. Some making whoopee city names we came across while researching this piece that we couldn’t help but apportionment: Sandwich, IL, Romance, AK, Batman, Turkey, Hot Coffee, MS, and Rough and Ready, CA. (Okay, OK enough already.)

Photo faithfulness: Sergio Louro


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