Category Archives: Online Photography Community

Photography WordPress Themes

By DSLRBlog Editors | Published August 13, 2009

As you know I’ve been slowly (very slowly, sometimes) working on a series of reviews of website templates for photographers. This has given me a bit of insight into the advantages and disadvantages of various kinds of solutions.
Along with the team over at Photocrati, as well as a couple teams of web designers, I contributed [...]

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DPReview Joins the Blogosphere

By Brad Leclerc | Published November 6, 2008

That’s right, one of the biggest names in digital photography is starting not one, but two brand-spanking-new blogs.
From DPReview.com…
Dragged kicking and screaming into 2008 we’ve finally decided to break the code of silence which hovered over the inner workings of the dpreview beast and launch our very own blog, or blogs to be more precise.
They’ve [...]

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Viewfinder: See Pictures Matched with 3D Google Earth Scenes

By Chris Garrett | Published April 9, 2008

Viewfinder is a project from the University of Southern California that promises to allow you to see your pictures in context within a 3D Google Earth scene. It’s not ready to try out but the demos are very impressive.
Here is what they say about it:
“Viewfinder” is a novel method for users to spatially situate, or [...]

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Flickr Launches Commons

By Chris Garrett | Published January 16, 2008

What can be achieved when you combine thousands of images, tags and photographers? Flickr thinks they have the answer with their Commons feature. Check out the info over at the Flickr Blog
What if we could lend this wonderful power to some of the huge reference collections around the world? What if you could contribute your [...]

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Photosynth Wows Audience at Ted

By Chris Garrett | Published January 10, 2008

We have talked about Microsofts super-cool photosynth acquisition before but never seen it demonstrated quite so well as this video from TED
Using photos of oft-snapped subjects (like Notre Dame) scraped from around the Web, Photosynth (based on Seadragon technology) creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation.
I am sure you [...]

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Flickr Introduces Stats

By Chris Garrett | Published December 14, 2007

If you have ever wanted to know more info about your Flickr traffic, who looks at what, and where your views come from, the Flickr has the feature for you!
We’ve designed stats on Flickr to give you all sorts of insight into how people arrive at your photos.
The stats are updated daily and include referrers [...]

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Flickr Photo Editing Live

By Chris Garrett | Published December 5, 2007

Flickr has now launched the joint-venture photo-editing feature with Picnik. This allows you to do basic tweaks to the pics in your photo stream. While not Photoshop, the ability is welcome, particularly when you have uploaded your pics on the move, for example from your phone camera.

When you first hit the edit button you are [...]

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The Disturbing Side of Flickr

By Chris Garrett | Published November 30, 2007

Geekpreneur has a list of disturbing Flickr horror stories. What makes them most disturbing isn’t just the events but how powerless Flickr users are to stop them.
Most of the people on Flickr are a friendly sort. They’re helpful and chatty, and they usually have something nice to say about your pictures. Most of them. [...]

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Which Famous Photographer Are You?

By Chris Garrett | Published July 31, 2007

Which famous photographer are you?Ansel Adams: Known for large scale silver gelatin landscapes especially of Yosemite National Park
“Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.”

Click Here to Take This Quiz
Brought to you by YouThink.com quizzes and personality tests.

Via: D’Arcy

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Virgin Mobile Flickr Photo PR Disaster

By Chris Garrett | Published July 19, 2007

I just read this fascinating story over at Gillianic Tendencies
What it seems to have happened is that Virgin Mobile, or an advertising agency they hired, decided to save lotsa moola and attempt some good PR (backfiring, obviously) by using Flickr photos with Creative Commons licenses (specifically, the ones that allowed commercial use) in a recent [...]

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