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In a world where terror lurks in the least likeliest of the places, it is no surprise that people get terrified at the slightest of the provocation. Nightmares scare factory in Niagara Falls is one such place which scares the hell out of the visitor’s coming there. And worse, they capture their extremely terrified faces in a camera and publish in on flickr.com!! In a day, more or less anyone can fall prey to their evil tricks and tantrums. So beware, you never know when you would be taken in by one of them and your comical face photographed!

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Hilarious Portraits of Terrified People

Show them the best off-camera flash image for a chance to win cash and a spot in the pages of Popular Photography. They humbly suggest you bust out your camera flash (or flashes) and create a submission for their October Photo Challenge. They are looking for a fantastic photo shot with off-camera flash. Whether you trigger it wirelessly or you go old school with a sync cord, you can put it anywhere except your hot shoe (unless you’re using the hot-shoe flash as a trigger).
The winner will get $100 and a spot in the pages of Popular Photography magazine. But, also be sure to send your entry around to your friends because the images with the most votes will be featured on PopPhoto.com as Photo of the Day. So, get out there and start shooting. It could be portraits with a single light or a massive interior with a whole gang of flashes. Just make it creative. Send them your best photo shot with off-camera flash by October 31, and you could earn $100 and your photo published in Popular Photography Magazine. The image that gets the most votes before the close of the contest will be featured as Photo of the Day on PopPhoto.com.

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Enter Our October Photo Challenge: Off-Camera Flash

Yoshiyuki Inoue, Panasonic’s Senior Engineering Planner talked to Tec Radar about the wildly popular LX line of high-end compacts, and tested that we might soon be seeing a much larger sensor in the cameras. He talked to them about how the LX5 hasn’t been as received as well as its predecessor, the LX3, and that rather than immediately release a new camera, they decided to tweak it with firmware before going for a hardware upgrade.
Where it gets really interesting is that they mentioned that a future version of the camera might get a major sensor bump: One aspect that is being given serious consideration for the camera that replaces the LX5 is increasing the size of the sensor, Panasonic’s Mr Uematsu even joked that it could have a 1in sensor like the new Nikon V1.
A one-inch sensor would be a major increase in surface area from its current 1/1.63″ version, and could potentially boost it beyond any other compact. The Canon S100 and G12 have a 1/1.7″ sensor, and the Olympus XZ-1 is another 1/1.63″. By bumping up to a full inch, that’d put it beyond everything short of the Fujifilm X100, which has a custom APS-C sensor. This would help battle the noise problems that many have complained about with the LX5, and if Panasonic can keep the price down in the sub-$400 range like you can currently grab one for, they might be on to something big. If this does happen, expect an announcement to occur at Photo kina 2012, which is said to be an important one for Panasonic.

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Panasonic LX6 To Get One-Inch Sensor?

There’s a definite need for that right now, as everyone in some way or another is a photographer.What does that mean for the professional? Even professionals are being impacted by cell phone technology.
If you haven’t been to iPhoneography, take a quick tour. There you’ll find every app imaginable, how to use it and the results you can get from it. You’ll also find camera, oops, I mean cell phone reviews, resources and tools you can use right along with your cell phone camera.
Have you heard the latest app to be released this week? Its called Color, developed by 8 times serial entrepreneur Bill Nguyen, who has sold previous companies for as much as $850 million.
Color is an app that allows you to simultaneously use multiple iPhones and Androids to capture photos, videos, and conversations into a group album. There’s no attaching uploading or friending to do so. You just share together in a new, moving social network.

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What Do Photographers Really Want From a Cell Phone Camera?

The Lytro Camera and this shoot-now-focus-later technology could be the next revolution in the photography industry. Or it might not be. I think the facial recognition and smile detection software innovations are amazing technologies that are out there in current digital cameras. Those technologies seemed to have the potential to be a big deal when they came out, but I’m not sure they made such a huge splash after all, though. Only time will tell with the Lytro technology.
When Lytro was announced earlier this year it promised the ability to take photos in a way completely unlike any other camera, allowing you change the focus — and possibly even the angle of the shot — after it was already taken. The concept spartked some heated discussions among photo communities. Since then, we’ve seen fashion shoots and shuttle missions captured with the camera, but solid details are still sadly lacking. Word is that the camera is meant to launch later this year, but that doesn’t leave much time to get this thing onto shelves.
According to AllThingsD, Lytro is gearing up for launch, including getting the manufacturing started to get the first units into peoples hands.

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Lytro Cameras Entering Production

The online marketplace for stock media and creative components, announced today that its collection now includes more than 800,000 royalty-free stock video clips (the largest archive on the web), along with millions of other assets, including stock photos, illustrations, music tracks, sound effects, and After Effects motion graphics projects. Recently, Pond5 opened its doors for contributors of 3D models as well; the 3D collection will launch for buyers later this year.
Prices on Pond5 are set by the artists themselves, and start at just $1 for images and illustrations, $2 for sound effects and $5 for stock video and music. Pond5 artists come from all over the world, and earn an industry-leading 50%
share of all sales. The agreement with artists is non-exclusive, and sellers on the site retain full ownership and rights to their content.

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Find All Stock Media in One Place – Pond5, The World?s Stock Media Marketplace, Arrives in Europe

iStockphoto a new online community for creatives. Feast provides abundant helpings of inspiration from a diverse group of designers, photographers, directors, writers, marketing professionals and more. Feast’s centerpiece is a unique public mentorship between cutting-edge leaders in diverse fields such as photojournalist Mario Tama External link and writer, director and producer Kirby Ferguson External link, and protégés who apply to work with them online. In pre-launch, 25,000 people registered for Feast and 300 applied to be October protégés.iStockphoto offers easy, affordable inspiration with millions of vetted, royalty-free photos, illustrations, video, audio and Flash® files. Using the most advanced search in the business, customers download a file every second from a collection of more than nine million files for business, marketing and personal projects.

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iStockphoto Launches “Feast,” a New Online Community Serving Up an Inspired Public Mentorship

We know from experience that if we mount multiple copies of a given lens on one camera, each one is a bit different. One lens may front focus a bit, another back focus. One may seem a bit sharper close up, another is a bit sharper at infinity. But most are perfectly acceptable (meaning the variation between different copies is a lot smaller than the variation you’re likely to detect in a print). I can tell you that, but showing you is more effective.
Here’s a good illustration, a run of 3 different 100mm lenses, all of which are known to be quite sharp: the original Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro, the newer Canon 100mm f/2.8 IS L Macro, and the Zeiss ZE 100mm Makro. The charts shows the highest resolution (at the center of the lens) across the horizontal axis, and the weighted average resolution of the entire lens on the vertical axis, measured in line pairs / image height. All were taken on the same camera body and the best of several measurements for each lens copy is the one graphed.

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How Much Do Copies of the Same Lens Differ From One Another?

Photography is a great hobby for people to spend their leisure time in an interesting and profitable way. But people have to follow some important tips and tricks to make good their photographs which Popular Photography and PopPhoto.com have released in their collection of easy-to-understand tutorial in the form of a book, the details of which are available on POP PHOTO.com

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Popular Photography’s New Book, Take Your Best Shot Is Now Available

Every year, Nikon’s Small World competition puts a call out to photomicrographers, asking for their best ultra-magnified images. The following photos were all captured using microscopes. The subjects are incredibly small, the capture process is extremely complex and the results are nothing short of incredible. These 20 are the best, as picked by a panel of expert judges. Nikon has left the public vote portion of the contest open, so you can still go and check out some of the other entries

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Gallery: The Best MicroPhotography of 2011