Photokina Wannabe

Unless you’re a photographer living under a rock, you’ll know that photokina in Köln, Germany opened this week and is already starting to wind down and again this year I wasn’t there. So,… Read More →

Photography Redesigned – Iris by Mimi Zou at Show RCA 2012

This eye-tracking camera by Royal College of Art graduate Mimi Zou is controlled by blinking and squinting – and even recognises your friends when it looks into their eyes (+ movie). via Dezeen… Read More →

New Image Rotation and Scrunching Reloaded

This is a test post trying out both the new Automattic image rotation feature just introduced on WordPress.com and any changes to image resizing on the WordPress.com end, using my (*kof*) slightly off-vertical image… Read More →

When Art transcends the Medium

Totally mesmerizing. (hat tip to Decompos’s Blog) When I was growing up, I barely knew my mother’s sisters due to family internecine warfare. But in my late 20′s I made a journey to… Read More →

How to Take Better Pictures with Your Smartphone’s Camera

Cameraphones have come a long way in the past few years, but they don’t always take point-and-shoot quality pictures on the first try. Here’s how to squeeze the best quality photos out of… Read More →

Dreaming of Photokina

The world’s largest photography event is happening right now in Cologne, Germany and CNET has a great roundup worth reading. One of the most interesting insights I’ve read so far: Fundamentally, mobile phones and social… Read More →

Giz Explains: What Everyone Should Know About Cameras – Camera guide – Gizmodo

Giz Explains: What Everyone Should Know About Cameras – Camera guide – Gizmodo. Specifically digital cameras, but an excellent, detailed primer for those that don’t know their CMOS from their f-stop. (hat tip… Read More →

Tickled Pink

New Camera Alert! My Oly C4000z still works great, but after waiting two years and watching the price on the Oly SP-560uz drop from NIS4000 to just over NIS1200, I jumped at the… Read More →