Thursday, June 6, 2013

Instagram not a photography company says Systrom

Instagram's Systrom: We're 'not a photography company'
CNET
Instagram's Systrom: We're 'not a photography company'. During a conversation with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Instagram's co-founders discussed the company's history, and said they want to be about sharing a message, not just about photos.

Indian photographer's work goes to Venice Biennale 2013
Business Standard
Hosted every alternate year for the last 106 long years, the compilation of art projects at the event is extraordinary. ... He is an avant garde artist who has often used photography and film to focus on marginalised issues and communities in ...

Photographer Arnaud Maggs: an eloquent witness to time
Globe and Mail
Arnaud Maggs: Scotiabank Photography Award closes at the end of Sunday at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto. The complete series of Maggs's self portraits as Pierrot, After Nadar, can be seen in the Art Gallery of Ontario's Light My Fire: Some ...

Move Over DSLRs, 'iPhoneography' is Taking Over Professional Photography
Wired
iPhoneography is the latest photography trend to hit full stride in the art world. It challenges photographers to take high quality photos with their iPhone, and to turn everyday moments into works of art. The perks of using the iPhone camera instead ...

Edward Burtynsky, our love of oil, and why photography still matters
Ottawa Citizen
I'm sitting on the balcony of Big Beat Central and listening to a friend lament the state of photography. My friend, a photographer in Ottawa, is dismayed that the specialness of any individual photograph has been lost. He argues that when every day we ...

Newfoundland photographer Marlene Creates honoured at Contact
Globe and Mail
Thursday night's $5,000 BMW Exhibition Prize for photography was awarded at Toronto's Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art to the senior Newfoundland artist Marlene Creates, an event capping off the month-long Contact festival. It was a gratifying win.

EarthTlak / Nature photography: good or bad for environment?
Fairfield Citizen
Nature photography is a wonderful way to share the beauty and wonder of the natural world with others who don't have the opportunity to see a given subject first-hand. An obvious benefit of the artis raising awareness about and generating empathy for ...

Graphene-based image sensor to enhance low-light photography
By Colin Dunjohn
Camera ISO. Why is this so exciting for the photography industry? Camera ISO is one of the three pillars of photography (the other two being aperture and shutter speed). In simple terms, ISO is the level of sensitivity of your camera's image sensor to available light. ... But if you are a sportsphotographer shooting in a poorly lit indoor stadium, in order to freeze action, you have to shoot with a wide aperture (f 2.8 or lower) and try to keep your shutter speed above 500. The only way to do ...
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

This Week In Photography Books – Antonio M. Xoubanova
By A Photo Editor
The photos appear to be made in some sort of urban park. Portraits are interwoven with mysterious sculptural suggestions, like a hole dug beneath a bench, or a circle ... is edited by Rob Haggart, the former Director of Photography for Men's Journal and Outside Magazine. Contributors include fine art photographer Jonathan Blaustein (@jblauphoto), Creative Director Heidi Volpe, photographyconsultant Suzanne Sease and Production Director Jess Dudley of Wonderful Machine.
A Photo Editor

Graphene sensor is 1,000 times more sensitive to light, could enable ...
By Sebastian Anthony
Add extremely low-light, broadband photography to graphene's miraculous list of potential applications. ... Both of these properties make graphene, in theory, perfect for camera sensors, photovoltaic cells, and fiber-optic communications. Now ...
ExtremeTech



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