Photography

Digital Photography has reached the masses, and with a new, full-color guide users can immediately start having fun with their digital cameras. It provides dozens of tips for taking better pictures and getting creative with digital photography at an affordable price. Topics covered include composing good shots, playing with light, close-ups, self-portraits, action shots, and event photography. Read more

Kingston Technology just announced that award-winning sports photographer Peter Read Miller has published a new series of tips and techniques for Kingston’s Icons of Photography Website. This month, Peter Read Miller provides insider tips on how to get great shots during a football game.

Whether it’s your favorite NFL team or local school team, Miller’s tips are invaluable for those who want to capture great action shots like a pro. Kingston’s “Icons of Photography” website profiles some of the world’s most respected photographers. Each month the company spotlights a different Icon plus their tips, techniques and an online gallery of images. Advice and anecdotes are shared for taking better pictures on topics ranging from lighting and backgrounds, to color profiling and making the most of equipment. Through ‘try it yourself’ suggestions, Icons explain how they tackle their own photography challenges. Read more

As convenient as digital cameras are, there are times when, quite simply, it’s not convenient enough. Camera phones are often the quicker, more convenient way of recording that memorable, instantaneous moment. But then the trouble rolls in. How to get the photo off of the phone? Unless you e-mail it to yourself through the phone, spending money to use the internet via your wireless provider, chances are that the photo is going to stay in your phone forever. Except if you use the Parrot Photo Viewer. Read more

How many pictures do you have on your hard drive? Do you back them up? We all want to save our memories that we are creating with our digital lifestyles in a safe place - but do we really do this? Plus, how do you transport your large files? Can you email an 8GB file to a friend? Companies are starting to catch on that we need to manage this content we keep creating everyday. The products available today amaze me as their size and price are simultaneously getting smaller and smaller. For instance USModular and EDGE Tech Corporation are just a few companies addressing these needs with smaller large capacity drives.

If you’re ready to take your personal video into the high-definition age, InterVideo/Ulead has just introduced DVD MovieFactory 5 that includes easy disc authoring and production, new creative options and support for tomorrow’s HD-DVD and Blu-ray formats.

With new economical DV and HDV camcorders available, people can shoot personal and family movies in high-definition as well as produce the content and burn it to discs that can be played back in full HD resolution. While MovieFactory 5 delivers tomorrow’s disc format support, it is surprisingly easy to use even by inexperienced users. The software’s Video Editing Toolbox includes a unique Multi-Trim editor that includes responsive AccuCut scrubbing controls to zoom in to the frame-level to precisely remove unwanted footage. Read more

Challenge: Put together a video postproduction suite based on Hollywood's networked model
Difficulty: Surprisingly easy
Estimated time: 2-4 hours
You're capturing superb content -- video, photos, music, the web. All of it – personal and event work -- needs to be turned into educational, informational or entertaining videos and video-enabled slide presentations. However, all of the content – raw and work-in-progress – is overloading your system and you are constantly running out of disk space to store and retrieve Read more

At the PMA (Photographic Marketing Association) show which is running this week in Orlando, FL, Verbatim introduced a new family of single and double layer MiniDVD DigitalMovie media that adds the unique classic movie reel look to the discs with widely compatible DVDR media.

The company already offers a complete line of standard size DigitalMovie DVDR media that provides storage capacity of 2-hours of theater quality video or 4,700 photos. The new three-inch discs provide up to 1.4GB (single layer) and 2.6GB (double layer). The mini discs store 30 minutes (single layer) and 60 minutes (double layer) of high quality video that can be played on virtually every standard DVD player in use today.

There are a lot of memory card brands on the market, but in reality, the majority of memory cards you will find are actually made by only a few major players in OEM arrangements with other manufacturers who want to put their name (and reputation) on the product. One of the largest manufacturers of flash memory is a company named Advanced Media, Inc. This company is a subsidiary of RITEK Corporation, which just happens to be the world's largest optical media manufacturer.

Finally, a phone service that tailors to camera phone users! Vizrea Snap is a downloadable software application for mobile phones and PCs, and has introduced a free trial of its flagship product. Vizrea Snap helps you organize all your photos (as well as video and audio files) and easily share them with your friends and family on the Web, PC, or camera phone. It also automatically sends photos between a camera phone and a PC or Web site in an organized way.

The two major causes of blurred images in photography are hand movement and subject movement. Helping to solve this dilemma is Panasonic's six -mega pixel Lumix digital camera (Model No.DMC-FZ7) with two new features: MEGA Optical Image Stabilization and a High Sensitivity Mode.