Recent Software Updates (Updated Feb. 17, 2012…)

You may be interested to know of the following updates:

 

Faststone Image Viewer:  Version 4.6

Microsoft Image Composite Editor:  Version 1.4.4

SNS-HDR-Lite:  Version 1.4.14 *New*

Picture Window Pro:  Version 6

Picasa: Version 3.9.0

Nikon Capture NX2: Version 2.3.0

Most other software packages have auto updaters, but you have to manually download and install these…

40 Gigapixel image

Take a look at this amazing 360-degree panorama of the interior of a library.  3,000 individual images were taken and then assembled into this 40 Gigapxel final image.

Field Testers Wanted

This has got to be seen to be believed.

Learn photography just like the astronauts

Hasselblad has made a photography manual originally designed for NASA in 1984, available for everyone.  Good, solid, basic photographic instructions, especially useful to anyone shooting digital images, if you substitute the references to “slides” with “digital sensors”.

Change focus after taking the image

Take a look at "the first plenoptic camera on the market".  From Raytrix, these cameras (plus their fancy software) can allow you to change what’s in focus in your image, and also create 3D images from one single photograph.

Pretty nifty stuff.  Prices for cameras are “on request”…

A Copyright Story

If you are concerned about posting your photos on Flickr or Facebook, or elsewhere on the ‘net, then you should probably watch this movie:

http://vimeo.com/20718237

The portraits of JR

Wow, I’m speechless… this is a fantastic project:

 

And now you too can become part of it:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/948210--this-artist-wants-you-to-cover-toronto-with-your-face?bn=1