Digitalis Photography’s Blog

 

Reflections on the black valley

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GOLD winning image at the SWPP (c) Digitalis 2010
 

Russia in color, a century ago
... extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii...
He used a specialized camera to capture three black and white images in fairly quick succession, using red, green and blue filters, allowing them to later be recombined and projected with filtered lanterns to show near true color images. The high quality of the images, combined with the bright colors, make it difficult for viewers to believe that they are looking 100 years back in time....
 

Group Representing Ansel Adams Sues Over Garage Sale Negatives
A group representing Ansel Adams sued a Fresno man Monday for selling prints and posters under the name of the famed nature photographer, the latest salvo in a dispute over glass negatives bought at a garage sale and purported to be Adams' lost work.
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=40185
 

More camera phone fun

Charles fort keeps a watchful eye over Kinsale harbour. I wonder will produce the first DSLR with on board Photoshop and upload capability. For now the smartphones lead the Market (excepting the horrid image quality).

 

Yin Yang

A cold evening on Owenahinca strand waiting for the light that never came.

 

Elvis Baby!

 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will unveil its latest
exhibit devoted to the King of Rock and Roll as a part of the Museum’s
15th anniversary celebration this September. ELVIS 1956: Photographs
by Alfred Wertheimer will open to the public...
Taken during the year Elvis turned 21, Alfred Wertheimer’s photographs
are a remarkable visual record of a defining time for rock and roll’s
most enduring figure.
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=39871
 

Proper dunes

 Sometimes the light is so nice even a crappy camera phone looks good.

Tra Mór August 2010

 

Image Deblurring using Inertial Measurement Sensors

Microsoft — yes, Microsoft — has demonstrated a technique consisting of a combination of inexpensive gyroscopes and accelerometer attached to a DSLR camera to estimate a blur function from the camera’s acceleration and angular velocity during an exposure and then deblur the resultant image.

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http://www.photoxels.com/microsoft-image-deblurring-works-better-than-image-stabilization/

 

Tuesday Night/Wednesday Morning - Aurora Borealis

Stargazers looking to the sky late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning could see northern lights, or aurorae. According to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the potential light show started Sunday, when the sun's surface erupted and hurled tons of ionized atoms -- or plasma -- into space.

 

"This eruption is directed right at us, and is expected to get here early in the day on August 4th," said astronomer Leon Golub of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). "It's the first major Earth-directed eruption in quite some time."

 

When such an expulsion reaches Earth, it interacts with the planet's magnetic field and can create a geomagnetic storm, the CfA said. Solar particles stream down the field lines toward Earth's poles. Those particles crash with atoms of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere, which then glow like little neon signs.

Sky watchers toward the north late Tuesday or early Wednesday for rippling "curtains" of green and red light, the CfA said.

 

 

Live long and prosper

 Inspired by Aristophanes’ theory that humans were once double-sided
creatures with two heads and multiple limbs before Zeus cleaved man in
two and left him forever struggling to be whole again, Leonard Nimoy’s
photographs reveal his subjects’ other half.
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=39636
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