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Add Light Leaks to your iPhone photos with Osmo Leaker

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:06:00 GMT

The above photo was deliberately shot into the sun, then edited with VSCO CAM to give it that slightly faded aged looked, before adding the light leaks with Osmo Leaker Pro.

I'm a big fan of apps that do just one thing, but do them well, and Osmo Leaker is one of those apps. With its simple interface Osmo Leaker applies a random light leak to your iPhone photos, reproducing that all to familiar effect that many of us old (and not so old) analogue photographers have experienced at least once in our lives, and if you don't like the resulting leak, then simply tap the film cartridge icon, and the app will generate another random leak.

Whilst this app will not be for everyone, and there are plenty of light leak effects in just about every photo app we own, if you are in to this retro analogue look, then Osmo Leaker [available for FREE from the App Store] or Osmo Leaker Pro [available for £0.69/$0.99/€0.79 from the App Store] may just be for you.

No Location Metadata? No Problem.

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Many of today’s smart phones and digital cameras geo-tag images with GPS data that can be used to automatically categorize one’s images based on location. This information can, of course, be extremely useful in a criminal investigation such as a child abduction. Unfortunately, the GPS information is stored in the image EXIF data, which can be easily altered or removed. I will describe an amazing technique that can, using only the visual image content, narrow the likely locations where an image was taken.

Our favourite Nikon photography week 28 May

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Our favourite Nikon photography from our Facebook page this week is all about birds, animals and insects! It looks like you've been making the most of the good weather outdoors and capturing your local wildlife and insect-life.

How to use spot metering on your Nikon DSLR

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:06:00 GMT

Knowing when to use spot metering is one of the questions we often hear from photographers who are struggling to get accurate exposures. The default matrix, or multi-segment, metering on most digital cameras is accurate and reliable in most shooting situations. However, if you’re shooting into the light or against a light or dark background, the results can be under- or overexposed. It’s not always easy to get the exact light level you want using exposure compensation. For complete control, use spot metering. Instead of taking several readings all over the subject, your camera's spot meter takes one from a tiny area of the subject. Spot metering requires a little more effort than matrix metering but can give much better results.

Photo of the day: 27 May

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:06:00 GMT

'Late Night in Vietnam' by Jpharmd is a great example of street photography and projects the atmosphere of the moment. This picture is particularly helped by its composition, which follows the rule of thirds.

Photo of the day: 28 May

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:06:00 GMT

'Robber Fly' by irass is a stunning example of excellent macro photography.

When to use spot metering

Mon, 28 May 2012 09:06:00 GMT

[Video] We Bet Yahoo Will Buy Pinterest

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:07:00 GMT

In this ReadWriteWeb Hangout, Robyn and Jon speculate wildly about who, if anyone, will acquire Pinterest. Robyn collected responses to the question from RWW readers all week, and they discussed all the possibilities. Jon was pretty sure of himself at first, but Robyn convinced him of her pick by the end.

Here are links to the posts and topics we talked about:

RWW Storify: Who do you think will buy Pinterest? (embedded below)
RWW: Why Flickr & Pinterest Need Each Other
Engauge: Pinterest: A Review of Social Media's Newest Sweetheart
Google+ conversation on this Hangout with Greg Cohn from Yahoo
LA Times: Is Pinterest really worth $1.5 billion?

We hang out at 11:00 a.m. Pacific on Thursdays, and you're welcome to join us or just watch live. (Here's the time for every time zone.) Make sure to follow +ReadWriteWeb on Google+ if you want to watch or participate. We'd love to have you!

Selling Your Photographs When Exhibiting With Digital Photo Frames - Part 4

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:07:00 GMT

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Selling Your Photographs
When Exhibiting With Digital Photo Frames
Giving the customer what they want
might be an advantage with a DPF exhibit

NOTE: On Saturday, April 28 I opened a month long one-man-show of my work: a 25 Year Digital Photography Retrospective in Beaufort NC at the Beaufort Art Center, 204 Turner St.
Virtually all my work was shown on digital photo frames at this exhibit.
See my article about this on Pixiq
Or more on Facebook
Because of this exhibit, I have been thinking about exhibiting in the digital age and how presentations might be enhanced with state-of-the-art techniques.
See my first blog about DPFs:
Exhibiting With Digital Photo Frames (DPF) Part 1
And my second blog:
Buying A Digital Photo Frame For An Exhibit - Part 2
See my third blog:
No-Brainer Setup For A Digital Photo Frame Exhibit - Part 3

How do you sell digital photographs? Especially if those photographs are displayed on digital photo frames? I have been trying to think through this problem for years until I was finally forced to find an answer when I put my work up at my own one-man-show exhibit where my digital photographs were shown entirely on digital photo frames.

And then the answer became obvious. For starters I put up a sign that read:
All Work Is For Sale
in digital
or print format
ask for a price list

I then realized that my work being in digital format and on DPFs was probably an advantage rather than a disadvantage to the old way of framing photos that a buyer could purchase immediately off the wall.

It would also mean that I would not be stuck with a closet full of unsold photographs that might take years to sell. In brief a digital photo frame exhibit solved a number of problems: I would only print when given an order, and I would not be saddled with printing, matting, framing, transporting, hanging and storing dozens of my photographs.

Photography has often been limited by conventions that were developed earlier by painters. It made sense to sell one-of-a-kind paintings directly at an exhibit -- although even then the buyer would often had to wait until the show came down to pick up the work, as the artist would want the work to still be displayed but with a sold sign.

Yet photography, being so flexible, could be custom ordered in a number of sizes, framed or unframed. The customer would get to decide. So instead of framed ready-to-buy work, I would offer my work in any size to be framed by me or the customer, in print or digital format. What I was doing was giving the customer many more choices. The only downside was that they would have to wait for a printed order to be shipped to them. However, if the order was for work in a digital format this could be done almost instantly via email, but a print might take up to 2 weeks before they received it.

Digital also solved another very important but nagging problem with photography. All film color processes before digital faded noticeably over time -- this meant that museums and collectors did not buy color photography. As a result very little gallery quality color photography was produced. Yet digital, if printed properly with the Giclée printmaking process, is now archival and quite collectable. As was explained to me, Giclée does not use dyes instead it uses pigments making it much more permanent. So in a sense digital has opened the door to collectors who want to buy color photographs.

This still leaves the nagging problem of how do artists protect their work from being copied especially when sold in digital format? And the answer was obvious although still not without risk -- the sale of a digital image would involve an agreement with the buyer that the photo would be for personal use only and that they could not share the photograph with anyone -- not unlike the restrictions put on software.

In my next blog I will go into much more detail about selling digital images as digital picture files and how this might open up an entirely new way to sell work.

NOTE: See a list of my other articles here at PIXIQ. www.pixiq.com/contributors/rick-doble

For more about my approach to photography see my book: Experimental Digital Photography.

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PP columnist Martin Middlebrook launches E-Zine

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:07:00 GMT

Photojournalist and PP Columnist Martin Middlebrook has just launched his new E-Zine, available online as a downloadable PDF

Pictures I Will Never Take

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:07:00 GMT

About a week and a half ago in our News Roundup, I wrote about a series of photographic essays on the topic “pictures never taken.” Because of this and more, I feel compelled to write about the pictures that unfortunately will never grace my memory card.

Daredevil Photographer Dangles Off the Edge

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:06:00 GMT

Think you can stomach this set? A daredevil from Detroit named Dennis Maitland recently started a scary series where he takes photos of himself with his feet dangling off the edge. Photographed in and around Detroit, these rooftopping-style shots (as previously seen with Tom Ryaboi) are almost guaranteed to induce that queasy feeling of vertigo. [...]

Portraits by Luke Hayes

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:06:00 GMT

The majority of these were taken on behalf of the Design Museum, others were commissioned by the Guardian, The Design Association Tokyo, Zaha Hadid and The Serpentine Gallery. More Photos

POTRAITS OF RUSSIAN TYPES (late 1800s)

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:06:00 GMT

Amazing and very interesting vintage photography portraits of Russian people. Enjoy :) Original article

20 Beautiful Fashion and Advertisement Photographs Inspiration

Mon, 28 May 2012 08:06:00 GMT

Suresh Natarajan is a leading fashion and advertising photographer. His stunning images reflect his belief that creative thinking should be visual. His timeless images have also adorned innumerable editorial covers. Look for Great Subjects: Certain subjects like babies, flowers and sunsets may be cliché, but if you are stuck for ideas, they can help you [...]

Latest PHOTOGRAPHY ARTICLES RSS Feed

Add Light Leaks to your iPhone photos with Osmo Leaker

No Location Metadata? No Problem.

Our favourite Nikon photography week 28 May

How to use spot metering on your Nikon DSLR

Photo of the day: 27 May

Photo of the day: 28 May

When to use spot metering

[Video] We Bet Yahoo Will Buy Pinterest

Selling Your Photographs When Exhibiting With Digital Photo Frames - Part 4

Selling Your PhotographsWhen Exhibiting With Digital Photo Frames Giving the customer what they wantmight be an advantage with a DPF exhibit

PP columnist Martin Middlebrook launches E-Zine

Pictures I Will Never Take

Daredevil Photographer Dangles Off the Edge

Portraits by Luke Hayes

POTRAITS OF RUSSIAN TYPES (late 1800s)

20 Beautiful Fashion and Advertisement Photographs Inspiration

Selling Your Photographs
When Exhibiting With Digital Photo Frames
Giving the customer what they want
might be an advantage with a DPF exhibit