Covering the Austrian Panopticonic Eye
In London, two Austrians were detained because they were taking digital images of buses. The police invoked “fighting terrorism” as the reason they required the deletion of the images from the tourists’ camera.
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Giacomo Brunelli Eyes Animals
Giacomo Brunelli is a great photographer and he set out to capture the spirit and essence of everyday animals in a new book.
Shooting the Street Corner
Richard Howe has taken on an interesting art project: Shoot images of various Manhattan street corners in New York City. Here’s one shot of “Malcolm X Boulevard (Lenox / Sixth) from 111th Street to 147th Street.”
When Art Meets Science is it Always Art?
The San Francisco Chronicle asks a fine question about the legitimacy of art meeting science as we ponder the image of an electrograph of a brass wire gauge in the year 1900:
Should we consider “Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible,
1840-1900” an art exhibition just because the San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art has organized it?
Digital Resolution: Can Less Be More?
by Guy Lerner
Most people buying digital cameras for the first time are lured by the numbers game. For them, the more megapixels, the better the camera. But not all pixels are created equal.
Unlike most things digital, when you’re talking pixels, smaller is not necessarily better. Pixels used by imaging sensors (the light-recording components found in most digital cameras) vary in size from one manufacturer to another and from camera to camera. I’m no scientist, but it makes sense that pixels used to convert light information coming from a lens would perform better if they had a larger surface area to capture as much light as possible. Put another way, given the same number of pixels on an imaging sensor, the sensor with the larger individual pixels will record more light information – and be able to produce higher-quality digital images – than the one with the smaller pixels.
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