The News Review:
- Gear Gallery: iClones Desktop Hi-Fi and Left-Handed Mouse
- Moon Photos from 1960s Get Digital Facelifts
- Digital frames getting cheaper better
- Celebrate with Style Announces “Cutest Kids Holiday Photo Contest…
- THRUGH A DIFFERENT LENS Female Photographers Depict Their Iran
- Serif PhotoPlus X2 – PC review
- Flotsam & Jetsam: Sam Smith’s Anniversary Remarks
Gear Gallery: iClones Desktop Hi-Fi and Left-Handed Mouse
Wired News – Dec 4, 2007
With the exception of occasionally having to back out of the map mode to use another feature we experienced nary a snafu when traveling with the C720t. WIRED: Photo geotagging is great for users on a mission — house hunting scenic-route mapping. Business card scanner works as advertised with only a few fields coming up with errors. Media player can match up lyrics files to your music enabling scrolling lyrics as music plays. TIRED: Autofocus takes an eternity; shots susceptible to the slightest vibration (particularly problematic when trying to scan business cards so the software can read them). Automatic settings tended to produce badly underexposed images.
Moon Photos from 1960s Get Digital Facelifts
Space Com – Dec 4, 2007
Infact the first three Lunar rbiters proved so successful at this task that theremaining two missions were devoted to mapping the entire lunar surface. During the interveningfour decades image-processing techniques have taken a giant leap and the LPItook a few small steps to ensure the Lunar rbiter photos continue to looktheir best. “Wedid a minimal contrast stretch and then we used software to de-stripe theimages enhancing their clarity and beauty” ‘Dell said. Age and wisdomWhilethese venerable images are both fascinating and beautiful with Japan’s Kaguya and… “Determiningthe size and frequency of impacting near-Earth debris is important because itwill enhance our assessment of impact hazards both on Earth and the lunarsurface" Kring said. "Acomparison of the Lunar rbiter data represented on our new Lunar rbiter PhotoGallery and future LR images is already part of the analytical plans for theLR mission. ” Thelunar rbiter data might also dictate what future explorers will do when we reachthe moon. “Lunarrbiter images are also being used to evaluate outpost architecture and todesign preliminary traverse routes across the lunar surface. The LR data willaugment the Lunar rbiter data and in small localized areas will provide evenhigher-resolution coverage” Kring said.
Digital frames getting cheaper better
MSNBC – Dec 4, 2007
Kodak one of the leading makers of digital picture frames offers several with wireless capability. Its top model has a 10-inch screen and retails for $249. ?The wireless option is great because you can access your photos from the Kodak Gallery photo-sharing site? said Carr of Kodak. ?You don?t have to install any software; just follow a series of on-screen menus on the frame by using the remote control. ?In September the company launched Picture Mail. It allows friends or family members who also use the free Kodak Gallery to send photos to your digital frame directly. ?It?s great no phone call or e-mail needed to say ?I sent you that picture.
Celebrate with Style Announces “Cutest Kids Holiday Photo Contest…
CameraTown.Com – CameraTown.Com (press release) – Dec 4, 2007
com isoffering parents the chance to win $250 by uploading those terrificphotos to enter the site's free "Cutest Kids Holiday Photo Contest. " Parents can send individual or group pictures of the kids. Moms andDads are invited to upload "a picture that you would use on a holidaygreeting card (whether you're sending them out or not!)" "It's K if the submitted pictures are posed or spontaneous taken aweek ago or last summer" said Celebrate with Style publisher JoAnneAlter. "We just want proud parents to show the kids at their cutest–asthey would want friends and loved ones to see them. We're hoping thatparents will share the photos they love to look at and that make themsmile. " Celebrate with Style will select a group of finalists from all of thecontest entries and post them in a "Cutest Kids Holiday Photo" gallery. Site visitors will vote for the winner and determine which child orgroup of children will be named "Cutest Kids" for this holidaycontest–and which Mom or Dad will win the $250 prize.
THRUGH A DIFFERENT LENS Female Photographers Depict Their Iran
Spiegel nline – Dec 4, 2007
Their styles and vision differ hugely but all of the photographs deal with identity — and many turn the traditional views of Iranian women on their head. A woman in a headscarf photographs herself in a mirror pictures of Ayatollah Khomeini cover the wall behind her and her lens also captures three laughing bare-chested men in the corner of a cramped room. The photograph by Mehraneh Atashi of a men’s sports center in Tehran is just one of 70 striking photographs by young Iranian women on display in Berlin’s Cicero Gallery. Entitled “Made in Tehran” the show exhibits the work of six young Iranians all born between 1974 and 1981 who have all studied photography in Tehran. While the woman have very different artistic visions the photographs are all marked by the theme of identity of being young and female in today’s Iran and of how that generation views the past. While some of the photographs capture everyday scenes others use collage and other methods to create individual and distinctive photographic styles. Newsha Tavakolian is a photojournalist who has been working for the Iranian press since she was 16 and who won the National Geographic Society photo award in 2006 for her photo essay entitled “Iran: Women in the Axis of Evil… While the woman have very different artistic visions the photographs are all marked by the theme of identity of being young and female in today’s Iran and of how that generation views the past. While some of the photographs capture everyday scenes others use collage and other methods to create individual and distinctive photographic styles. Newsha Tavakolian is a photojournalist who has been working for the Iranian press since she was 16 and who won the National Geographic Society photo award in 2006 for her photo essay entitled “Iran: Women in the Axis of Evil. ” She has chosen to depict young Iranians in their everyday life: Women in headscarves sit smoking in a caf?or demonstrate for peace; young men celebrate with their friends around a campfire. Two young women in headscarves walk under a billboard of a suave young man wearing shades and sitting in a convertible. Mehraneh Atashi’s series of photographs called Zourkahneh or “power house” show young sweaty men in a sports center. The young photographer managed to get into this exclusive male world and the result is a highly unusual series of images.
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Serif PhotoPlus X2 – PC review
Pocket-lint.co.uk – Dec 4, 2007
Naturally once you\’ve grown accustomed to using the software you can disable this feature but having the main tasks such as how to crop retouch and alter images immediately puts the user at ease. <br><br>The Makeover Studio is a bar that runs down the far left-hand side of the screen and covers all the basic functions from cropping to Red Eye Removal. Along the top of the page you\’ll find Quick Fix Studio Filter Gallery and Instant Artist. Each has been enhanced and improved. Each one opens in its own window and offers previews of any changes you may wish to make to see how they work. We found this approach worked well. <br><br>nce you\’ve got to grips with the basic editing tools you can start to change your images as there are a host of new layer effects… We found this approach worked well. <br><br>nce you\’ve got to grips with the basic editing tools you can start to change your images as there are a host of new layer effects. <br><br>nce you\’ve got your images cropped and edited Serif has added services to get them distributed. So now you can create discs or even order prints online. None of these features are new or particularly novel but they do make tasks easier to handle. <br><br>Also shipping with PhotoPlus is AlbumPlus SE Pro which has also been overhauled and easier to use.
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Flotsam & Jetsam: Sam Smith’s Anniversary Remarks
Scoop.co.nz – Scoop.co.nz (press release) – Dec 4, 2007
Being mistaken atfour different demonstrations for an undercover cop theone pleasant confrontation being as I sat smoking a pipenear the Reflecting Pool and a long haired guy next to mesaid “FBI?” and I said “Nope” and he said “CIA?”: and Isaid nope and he said “Smoke much” and I said “Half andHalf all day long” and he said “Cool” and gave me his lovebeads. Having half our circulation department in jail andfinding needles hidden behind stacks of papers in theoffice. Having one of my advertisers – ex-CIA agent HarryLunn then running an photographic gallery tell me in theaftermath of the riots that if anyone burned down his storehe was going to burn down my house. And another advertiserLen Kirsten of the Emporium telling of a woman who came inand saw the stack of Gazettes on the floor. “Isn’t that a communist paper” she asked and Len replied “No the editoris a communist but the paper isn’t”Being visited at myoffice by a 9th precinct cop who would occasionally drop byto talk politics. fficer Donald Graham listened to mebetter in those days than he would later on. Taking partin a day-long Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee boycott of DC Transit buses… Get a rubber stamp marked ‘Photo by Roland Freeman. Allrights reserved” and I won’t run any more of your friggin’photos without credit. ” Two weeks later Roland became theGazette’s photo editor later becoming an associate ofMagnum author of a number of books the first photographerto get a fellowship from the NEH and subsequently three from the NEA the most recent last June. Sitting in oursmoky living room watching the TV coverage of the riotsincluding what was going at that moment just four blocksnorth of us on H Street. Going the next morning through theneighborhood and feeling – as troops marched past therubble – like I was in World War II Europe. Two of thefour major riot strips were in our circulation area – 150 businesses and 52 homes in our neighborhood had been damagedand things would never be the same. By the time all thishad happened I had just hit 30 years of age.