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Getty Images, Inc. is mighty proud that its photographers have earned more than 80 awards and top honors over the past year from a variety of the most prestigious industry organizations, including the Overseas Press Club (OPC), National Professional Photographers Association (NPPA), Pictures of the Year International and World Press Photo. According to the company, …
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Toshiba says its newly designed Satellite laptops are equipped with an innovative face recognition software technology, which provides users with a fun and convenient way to log in to a personal computer. The new technology harnesses the Satellite’s built-in Webcam to grant or deny access by quickly referencing a database of stored digital images of …
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“This is by no means a full and finished product, but it’s coming along nicely thank you very much,†writes Jamie Harrison of TrustedReviews.com on the beta version of Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom 2. “Adobe has listened to users and by letting them continue to try the beta is sure to provide a very useful and …
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SeaLife has introduced the new DC800 underwater digital camera, an 8-megapixel shooter that can dive down to a depth of 200 feet or 60 meters. The DC800 includes a wide-angle lens with 4x optical zoom that can auto focus up to 2 inches (5 cm) and features a video mode, allowing users to capture high-resolution …
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He actually calls them “Nodal Points,†the intersections of the lines when you subdivide a frame into thirds, vertically and horizontally. And it’s his way of illustrating the Rule of Thirds. Professional photographer David Sizer offers this insight in his latest post in his blog, Digital ProTalk. David writes, “…lets discuss what makes a great …
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Canon has released new firmware for the EOS-1D Mark III (Version 1.2.3) and EOS-1Ds Mark III (Version 1.1.2) professional DSLR cameras. Both updated firmware offer a more functional controller and two new button customizations. The multicontroller’s autofocus functionality used to be limited to toggling between two AF points; now it can be used to navigate …
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In his Lighting 102 series, David Hobby (of Strobist fame) shares his techniques with gels, that piece of plastic you stick in front of your flash to alter the color of the light. Gels not only have the capacity to change the color of your lighting, they also have a very useful ability to balance …
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Verbatim Americas, LLC announced today a half-terabyte (500GB) 2.5-inch portable hard disk drive. It’s the world’s first, according to Verbatim, to feature an industry standard 9.5mm Z-height drive. The new drive utilizes three 166GB platters striped with Perpendicular Magnetic Recording at 5400RPM. The PDA-sized drive joins the company’s SmartDisk line of portable HDDs, which currently …
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New from Amherst Media is The Sandy Puc’ Guide to Children’s Portrait Photography. The book offers a thorough understanding of what it takes to run a professional studio that caters to children’s portrait photography. In the book, acclaimed children’s portrait photographer Sandy Puc’ shares her own experience as a studio owner: how to design a …
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DPReview.com today posted their review of the Fujifilm Finepix S100FS, a DSLR-style digital camera with the convenience of a single, built-in lens offering a humungous 14.3X optical zoom (28-400mm equivalent). “It represents an awful lot of camera for comparatively little money and one that is more flexible than a DSLR kit for the same outlay. …
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