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Tourist Remover Online Photo Editing Service
This is pretty cool for your holiday pics. You know how annoying it is when you go somewhere full of tourists and every picture has people in the way of the view? With this online photo editing service you can remove those annoying blobs right out of the picture
Remove moving objects such as tourists or passing cars from your photos. Take multiple photos from the same scene and the «Tourist Remover» blends them into a composite photo without any interfering elements.
I wonder if this can remove noise too? That’s how they clean up movies by differencing two frames right? I am going to have to give this a go when I finally manage to get out of the house to a populated area …
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FlickrInspector
I just saw on Thomas Hawks blog a neat little tool called flickrInspector. This service analyses your Flickr information and shows various fun things like your most popular images, your favourites etc. Of particular interest for me is it shows that I have passed my one-year anniversary with Flickr, I have been a member 367 days today!
Wow, that means I have had my Canon 350D just over a year, I will have to do a retrospective …
- active since 367 days
- Photos: 1500
- average upload rate per day: 4.09
- first photo uploaded on 15.07.2005
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Photographer Ethics – Diana Photograph Controversy
I have just been asked what I think about this kuffufle around the publication of the “Diana death picture”
The ‘last photograph’ of Princess Diana taken moments after her fatal car crash has been published by a foreign magazine.
The black and white photograph shows the Princess being given oxygen in the Mercedes at the crash site at a Paris underpass.
Now it is an emotive subject for a lot of people but I can not make my mind up about this. On the one hand it seems in poor taste and is bound to upset people but on the other hand why ought she be treated any differently? Why is it ok to have gratuitous pictures of Iraq conflict victims but not a princess?
Personally I would never have taken it in the first place, let alone been in a position to sell it, Diana or not. I’m not entirely sure there is any good to come from this other than a big payday for the photographer.
What do you think? Would you take and sell this picture or not? Should it be published?
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Photography Makes You Happier Than Chocolate, Music, TV, Wine
According to research by the open university on behalf of Orange, looking through photographs is more effective at relaxing us than troughing on chocolate or swigging bottles of wine.
Getting Snappy Makes You Happy
Looking through photo albums makes you happier than chocolate, music, TV or even your favourite tipple, according to research revealed today by Orange.
The results show that the mood of those viewing photographs was consistently lifted by 11% during mood measuring tests whilst the groups who tried to eat, listen, watch, or drink their way to happiness registered a mere 1% increase.
The study, carried out for Orange by Peter Naish, Doctor of Psychology at The Open University compared the moods of people using four typical cheer-up treats with those browsing their favourite snaps.
The tests demonstrate that looking through personal photo albums produces an improvement across all measurements including a person’s sense of relaxation, brightness, calmness and alertness and even their sense of being valued and popular – resulting in a higher happiness score overall.
In contrast, the pick-me-ups people commonly rely on were only successful in helping them relax: Wine by 14%, chocolate by 8%. Photo albums were proven to be a far more effective way of unwinding, with subjects recording an average relaxation score of 22% – substantially higher. So before reaching for the bottle after a hard day consider that apart from relaxation, wine and chocolate offer little additional benefits. In fact, the wine drinkers actually rated themselves as feeling 6% less satisfied after their drink. Only those that flicked through photographs showed a consistent positive shift across all measures of mood.
This research was released to promote their new photo service so I wouldn’t cancel that therapy appointment just yet, ha, but I do agree with the findings. For a really nice relaxing browse through Flickr I recommend the Slickr Screensaver.
In fact as well as looking through photographs I find taking them quite relaxing too. Well, when things are going well, heh.
Red Eye gives away your age.
If you’re like me you’d have thought that red eye is a problem, not something that you would want to have in your photo. Well it turns out that some smart fella has found a use for it, to tell your age. Yep your age.
Red eye is caused by the light being bounced off the blood vessels at the back of the eye. There are red-eye prevention techniques that have a pre-photo flash to get the iris to constrict and reduce the red-eye effect. It turns out though as you get older the muscles that constrict the iris are weaker and don’t do as good job. So basically the more red-eye that appears, the older you are. Its probably not that simple in practice, read more about it here at the Discovery website.
For me I still think I will continue to try to get rid of it!
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Photographer Ethics: Should the camera never lie?
Two stories about Newspapers “doctoring” images, one laughable, the other more serious from The Digital Photography Weblog
OK this is plainly ridiculous, the “truth” of the story was restored by this superficial change, who cares what colour the sky was though really? So either way, an over reaction right? How about this one …
In this one the image was intentionally created to show a false impression of Police neglect of the prostitute problem. As far as I can tell this photographer was not sacked.
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