What on earth is Google thinking? Don’t they already have a photo sharing service called Google+? Or better yet, Picasa? Then there’s that other service by the name of Pool Party. Isn’t that something that Google has whipped up as well? Turns out all these things are sort of true in one way or another, Google has its hands deep into more than one photo-sharing or otherwise social networking with photos site, Photovine only being the most recently uncovered.
Twitter has long been open to third-party clients that add on features such as serving feeds to mobile apps or hosting photos. It's been rumored that Twitter would be pulling in more of these services as native features and indeed today the company has announced its first native photo-sharing service.
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It's already reaching summer-like temperatures here in Texas with temps of 91 degrees not counting humidity here over the weekend. That means that driving through my neighborhood, I enviably see kids playing in a water hose, using water guns, or tossing water balloons at each other. I was constantly picking up water balloon shards last year out of my yard with the kids all playing with them constantly. An artist has taken some water balloons and used them to create some really cool photos.
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Brazilian police have come up with a system to scan the faces of people in crowded areas, checking them against a central database to see if they're wanted bad-duded. I love this. Truly, these are like the grandpappy of the wearable systems from Snow Crash. It's a set of glasses with a camera fitted to them. The camera can grab 400 faces per second out of a crowd and send them all to a central database. If there's a match, a notifier pops up on a screen and lets the officer know that there is a wanted criminal afoot.
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Every year as people travel for work and vacations millions of photos are taken in places where important events happened in history. A cool new application has surfaced that is being designed by folks from MIT that mingles old photos with new ones.
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Portable photo printers are great for those special occasions where you want to print photos right then to give out. They are also a great device for those who like to do their own scrap booking. Epson has announced a new printer called the PM225 PictureMate Charm that is portable and promises quality photos.
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Epson announced a new printer in their Stylus Photo line today called the PX650 all-in-one. This printer is targeted toward digital photographers and doesn't even require a PC to function.
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Canon introduced three new photo printers today that sport quite a few new features that you'll likely be interested in. First up is the PIXMA MP560, which is an all-in-one inkjet that sports duplex printing, photo correction and Wi-Fi.
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Sony subsidiary MotionPortrait have been demonstrating their latest 3D technology: automatically creating a 3D graphic from a 2D photo of a person's face. The system - also called MotionPortrait - can identify the mouth, eyes and other features of the human face, and in two seconds construct a 3D representation of that face which can be manipulated, rotated, or even overlaid on top of video clips.
Video demos after the cut
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So what does an avian photographer knows about product photography? Not much, but a good image is all in the lighting and background. With the right equipment, product photography is in fact very simple, and twice as straightforward in a consistent lighting photo studio. A professional light tent with balanced lighting and seamless background can be costly, up to thousand of dollars, and is out of reach for small profit auction retailers or ecommerce that regularly add product images to their online catalogs. What we have for review today is an affordable product with an infinity virtual backdrop that the manufacturers claim can be used by anyone, regardless of experience, to get high quality product shots –- the Pro Cyc MyStudio20 Tabletop Photo Studio. (setup video after the cut)
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