Archives » June, 2008

Blind Photography Exhibition

Ukraine have released the first Photography exhibition for Blind people to enjoy. It uses comprehensive software that traces the lines and details of a photographic image and embosses the details.
This revolutionary technology is a great way for Blind people to enjoy beautiful photography and art, by embossing the image it means that blind art lovers [...]

Weegee Photo’s discovered worth $500K

Photo’s taken by iconic photographer Weegee, aka Arthur Fellig, have been discovered in and old Trunk in Kentucky and have been bought by the Indianapolis Museum of Art for a whopping $500,000.
Weegee aquired his nickname from spookily predicting the whereabouts of a murder before even the police and arriving to take what are now thought [...]

Tip of THe Week - Depth of Field

Last week we saw how aperture can affect the exposure, this week we are looking at how aperture can affect the depth of field.
Depth of Field affects the area that you want to be in focus and look sharp in the photograph, for example you would have a large depth of field for a landscape [...]

Tiffany & Co Shoot and Sparkle

Tiffany & Co have released a new bracelet that will appeal to Photographers far and wide looking to add a little bit of bling to their lives.
The new item to Tiffany & Co’s range is a diamond encrusted camera bracelet, the bracelet is 18 carat gold with a camera shaped charm featuring a diamond for [...]

Fake Photographers

Warning there are a lot of Fake Photographers out there!
It has come to my attention that a lot of young girls trying to get into modelling have been taken advantage of, alot of girls are so excited at the prospect of a modelling career they are putting themselves in danger. Alot of modelling forums [...]

10 Steps to being Paparazzi

Love ‘em or hate ‘em the Paparazzi are an important part of Photography they get the most sought after images of celebrities and make a mint out of them. So how do you becaome a street rat of Photography? I’ve put together 10 steps to help any budding celebrity spotters…

Who are the Paparazzi? The Paparazzi [...]

Lomography

Lomography is brilliant, a friend at University first introduced me to the wonders of Lomography, I had already been doing some photography for some time but I had never heard of Lomography.
Lomography is fun fresh, colourful and vibrant, using different camera’s such as ‘holga’, ‘fish eye’, ‘action smapler’ and colour splash lomographers look at the [...]

Kodak Raises prices by 20%

The Credit Crunch is hitting hard reports of infating, food, petrol, utility bills have been broadcast over th past 6 months warning consumers that the cost of living is dramatically increasing and as usual we will be getting tax increases on these as well.
The one thing that gave us some relief was that the cost [...]

Women In Photography

Yesterday saw the launch of a new website, Women in Photography, just as I was commenting last week on the increase of cameras bought by budding female photographers, Amy Elkins and Cara Phillips have decided to recognise their sisters in photography and feature them on the new website.
The website will showcase a new [...]

Photo Recovery Software

Stellar Information systems have developed a great piece of software that ressurects deleted images and files from computer hard drives, memory cards, and digital cameras! So next time you pull out your memory card without saving and correctly putting away you don’t have to worry about your photos as you can use Stellar Phoenix Photo [...]