Sunday, May 11, 2014

Beautiful Poster Shows How We Got to the Cameras We Use Today

Beautiful Poster Shows How We Got to the Cameras We Use Today: "f you’ve ever wanted a visual history of photographic cameras, this poster by Retrofuturismo-Kitsch, should suit your needs. Taking a look as far back as basic camera obscuras and all the way up to the Sony Mavica, this graphic pulls out some of the most iconic – and unusual – cameras to ever hit the market."



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A Step By Step Guide to Making Your First Panorama Photo

A Step By Step Guide to Making Your First Panorama Photo: "While visiting an art gallery or a photography exhibition, at times you may have noticed certain landscape photographs have extremely elongated fields of view. They seem quite impossible to have been photographed with a standard camera. If you wonder how such elongated photographs are made, you are not alone. I had my first encounter with a panoramic image of the Himalayan mountain range being displayed at Das Studios in Darjeeling, a Himalayan resort town in West Bengal, India. That photograph had a huge impact on me and it led me to searching for ways and means to photograph panoramic images."



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Levitation Photography: Techniques for Defying Gravity – PictureCorrect

Levitation Photography: Techniques for Defying Gravity – PictureCorrect: "Levitation is one of the most intriguing subjects in trick photography; it has inspired millions of people since its invention in the mid-19th century. The ability to harness the creative aspects of the photographer and combine it with real-life images has resulted in a combined revolution of art and science."



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