http://www.imaging-resource.com/news The Imaging Resource News page is the best way to stay on top of all the latest in the fast-paced world of digital imaging! Up-to-the-minute news as well as coverage of the latest articles and reviews covering digital imaging hardware and software of all types, professional and amateur. From digital cameras, printers and scanners to the latest image editors and more, we cover it. The IR News page is read by industry professionals and enthusiasts alike. Come check us out today... en havlik@gmail.com Copyright 2013 2013-05-21T15:38:24+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/NPICS1/LOGOS/IMAGINGRESOURCE-2009-144x86.GIFhttp://www.imaging-resource.com/news11470 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/21/photographer-finds-perfect-surface-for-his-tintype-photography-old-tin-cans http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/21/photographer-finds-perfect-surface-for-his-tintype-photography-old-tin-cans David Emit Adams, has been creating tintype images on discarded, weather-beaten cans he's found on the desert floor. "The deserts of the West also have special significance in the history of photography," Adams says. "I have explored this landscape with an awareness of the photographers who have come before me, and this...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-21T15:38:24+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/21/living-dangerously-custom-firmware-hacks-unleash-your-inner-camera http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/21/living-dangerously-custom-firmware-hacks-unleash-your-inner-camera published an article that might be of interest to you and your digital camera. If, on the other hand, you find yourself altering your path to avoid walking under ladders and crossing paths with black cats, you may just want to don your peril-sensitive sunglasses and sit this one out. Today, we're talking firmware -- and not the kind you nonchalantly download from your camera manufacturer's website. These are firmware hacks, and while that word is often bandied...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-21T15:00:58+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/corel-woos-customers-unhappy-adobe-subscription-only-creative-cloud-plan http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/corel-woos-customers-unhappy-adobe-subscription-only-creative-cloud-plan announcement that Creative Suite was to become Creative Cloud two weeks ago, a sizeable portion of the web has been in uproar over its new subscription-only pricing. There are certainly plenty of Adobe customers who buy most or all of the Creative Suite and upgrade at every release, and they're thrilled because they find themselves both saving money and getting new features. For those who need only a small subset of Creative Suite, or who skip several releases before each upgrade -- and there are more than a few photographers among...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-21T01:56:13+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/yahoo-unveils-revamped-flickr-photo-service-with-1tb-of-free-storage-space http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/yahoo-unveils-revamped-flickr-photo-service-with-1tb-of-free-storage-space it would purchase photo blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion, Yahoo also unveiled a complete redesign for its Flickr photo sharing service, including offering 1-terabyte of free storage space for users. Yahoo's announcement came at a press event in New York City tonight, where the company showed off screen shots of the new Flickr, which looks radically different from the service's previous incarnation with bigger photos and much less surrounding white space. Flickr's main photo...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-20T23:19:16+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/clipping-magic-masks-images-quickly-easily-and-for-free-at-least-for-now http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/clipping-magic-masks-images-quickly-easily-and-for-free-at-least-for-now Clipping Magic is a website that has been making some waves over the last few days for doing one thing simply and extremely well: clipping images. It's a single-serving web app to which you upload your image, broadly mark the foreground and background areas, and out comes a handy, clipped PNG for you to play with. It's an incredibly simple and fast tool, and doesn't require fine painting of edges or marking of large swaths of the image to find the most appropriate place to clip. That does mean you don't have quite the same...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-20T19:22:18+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/adoramas-flashpoint-180-mono-light-set-promises-affordable-portable-flash http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/adoramas-flashpoint-180-mono-light-set-promises-affordable-portable-flash Strobist blog will tell you, off-camera flash can take your photography to the next level. Photography is all about capturing light, and the more of it you can put on your subject, the more the camera has to work with -- but on-camera flash is typically harsh, unflattering and unnatural. The problem with off-camera lighting gear is that it can be rather pricey, especially if it comes with its own power supply for portability. A new single-light...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-20T19:17:43+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/Yahoo-acquires-Tumblr-photo-blog-platform-for-1.1-billion http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/Yahoo-acquires-Tumblr-photo-blog-platform-for-1.1-billion acquire popular photo blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion in a move that has many photographers who use the service worried. In an announcement on her own Tumblr page, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer said "we promise not to screw it up," and in a nod to Tumblr's particular style, accompanied the post with an animated GIF. Yahoo! seems to be acknowledging that Tumblr is a very different property with a different user-base than Yahoo! on its own has. In that Tumblr post, Mayer said: "Tumblr is...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-20T16:28:04+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/harrowing-inside-the-jaws-footage-shows-grizzly-bear-eating-gopro-camera http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/harrowing-inside-the-jaws-footage-shows-grizzly-bear-eating-gopro-camera this crazy clip of a lion munching on a GoPro mounted on a miniature robotic tank. Now, here's a Grizzly trying to make a snack out of naturalist and wildlife documentarian Brad Josephs' GoPro, which he had set up on the Alaska Peninsula to get footage for the BBC's Great Bear Stakeout. "I had a young bear actually chew on the camera," Josephs says about the below clip. "Amazingly there was no damage to the camera!" The...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-20T15:46:45+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/camera-deals-of-the-day-canon-powershot-elph-520-hd-for-110-panasonic-gx1-f http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/20/camera-deals-of-the-day-canon-powershot-elph-520-hd-for-110-panasonic-gx1-f Best Buy is offering a great low price on the compact Canon PowerShot ELPH 520 HS 10.1 MP digital camera in black for just $110 with free shipping. Read our Canon PowerShot ELPH 520 HS review for more details.   Panasonic GX1 Compact System Camera...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-20T13:53:29+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/18/canon-t5i-digital-slr-gets-comprehensive-support-in-new-dxo-optics-pro-upda http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/18/canon-t5i-digital-slr-gets-comprehensive-support-in-new-dxo-optics-pro-upda DxO Optics Pro version 8.1.6 include the following Canon EOS Rebel T5i (aka EOS 700D / EOS Kiss X7i) Leica M...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-18T20:31:15+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/18/adobe-camera-raw-8.1-release-candidate-arrives-supports-olympus-e-p5 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/18/adobe-camera-raw-8.1-release-candidate-arrives-supports-olympus-e-p5 controversial, subscription-only Creative Cloud product line, including the next-generation Photoshop CC, Adobe has issued a release candidate version of the Photoshop Camera Raw 8 plug-in. As the company promised at the Creative Cloud launch, Camera Raw 8.1 also compatible with the existing retail release of Photoshop CS6. The move is a little unusual, as in the past, Camera Raw updates have typically only functioned with the latest version of Photoshop, a fact Adobe justified by stating that it wasn't...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-18T05:43:06+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/van-gogh-like-starry-night-images-showcased-in-winners-of-earth-and-sky-pho http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/van-gogh-like-starry-night-images-showcased-in-winners-of-earth-and-sky-pho 4th International Earth and Sky Photo Contest were announced this week and there are some amazing shots of the night sky and the surrounding landscape. The contest was created by The World at Night (TWAN) in conjunction with Global Astronomy Month and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). The theme of this year's contest was "Dark Skies Importance," and it was designed to showcase preserving "the natural beauty of a starry sky" by preventing the encroachment of light pollution on the world's...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-17T21:37:12+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/from-daguerreotype-to-gelatin-silver-30-minute-crash-course-photo-history http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/from-daguerreotype-to-gelatin-silver-30-minute-crash-course-photo-history (read more) ]]> 2013-05-17T21:13:57+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/death-valley-timelapse-captures-rare-southern-aurora http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/death-valley-timelapse-captures-rare-southern-aurora (read more) ]]> 2013-05-17T19:49:54+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/the-camera-bag-think-tank-photos-logistics-manager-30-will-haul-all-your-ge http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/the-camera-bag-think-tank-photos-logistics-manager-30-will-haul-all-your-ge The new Logistics Manager 30 is a $500 rolling gear bag, with more than 3,500 cubic inches of storage. It features an expansive inner with customizable layout; retractable handle; and plenty of security for keeping your gear safe (including a TSA approved main zipper lock). According to Think Tank, the Logistics Manager 30 can hold: "...multiple super telephoto...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-17T18:10:46+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/camera-deals-of-the-day-canon-t4i-kit-750-nikon-s9500-327-plus-amazon-deals http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/camera-deals-of-the-day-canon-t4i-kit-750-nikon-s9500-327-plus-amazon-deals GetItDigital via eBay offers a Canon EOS T4i DSLR Camera with 18-55mm & 55-250mm IS Lenses Bundle available for $749.99 with free...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-17T14:34:31+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/Zachary-Roses-Petheadz-Instagram-photos-combine-pets-and-their-owners-in-a http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/Zachary-Roses-Petheadz-Instagram-photos-combine-pets-and-their-owners-in-a Driftwood Photography has made his Instagram account massively popular by putting a unique spin on photographs of pets and their owners. Rather than just snapping a cute shot of someone holding their cat, Rose instead uses an innovative combination of forced perspective and multiple devices to transpose an in-camera shot of the critter over the face of the owner. Dubbing his project Petheadz, he takes a headshot of the pet, and then carefully places the camera — still showing the image on playback — so...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-17T13:54:10+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/google-io-recapped-whats-new-for-photographers-in-android-google-plus-and-m http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/17/google-io-recapped-whats-new-for-photographers-in-android-google-plus-and-m (read more) ]]> 2013-05-17T05:22:52+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/16/hengki-koentjoros-dreamy-black-and-white-underwater-photos-capture-the-myst http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/16/hengki-koentjoros-dreamy-black-and-white-underwater-photos-capture-the-myst Hengki Koentjoro spends hours underwater armed with a digital SLR and a pair of flippers but his love of photography began on land with the spectacular American vistas captured by Ansel Adams. "Ansel Adams is an inspiration for me," Koentjoro has said. "I’ve been studying and learning his trademark method, called the zone system. This system teaches that the perfect photograph should expose all tones ranging from the blackest black to the whitest white. This awareness of an image’s contrast is an element...
(read more) ]]> 2013-05-16T21:44:32+00:00 http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/16/olympus-e-pm2-review-the-best-compact-system-camera-for-those-stepping-up-f http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2013/05/16/olympus-e-pm2-review-the-best-compact-system-camera-for-those-stepping-up-f Olympus PEN E-PM2 just may be one of the most ideal compact system cameras for budding photographers looking to step up into a more sophisticated, interchangeable-lens system. The E-PM2 is slightly smaller, lighter and more affordable than its fraternal twin, the E-PL5 -- which we also recently reviewed. It also features a less robust build and lacks a physical Mode dial, relying heavily instead on the touchscreen controls of its fixed 3-inch LCD monitor. However, the E-PM2's touchscreen is responsive and convenient, and even offers touch focus and...
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