Visualization

What does it mean to say, "Find your photos?" Traditionally that meant literally just finding where particular photos reside on your computer (or a physical location back when film was king). But with new tools and advanced technology, finding your photos can mean finding not just the photos themselves, but finding the exact location where you took a photo. This, in turn, will make it even easier to search for the photos themselves later. Microsoft Pro Photo Tools, a free download available at the Microsoft Pro Photo Web site, enables you to apply location information to your photos so you can always know exactly where they were captured.

It gets even better though. Leveraging the power of Windows Live Local, Pro Photo Tools will then determine the location name information for the photos based on the GPS coordinates. This allows you to have more meaningful location information attached to your photos, which is especially helpful when you want to later search or images based on their specific location. Full article at the link below

Microsoft Pro Photo: Geotagging Goes Mainstream

'CSI' sleuths out Microsoft's latest technology

The Microsoft technology behind the scenes:

Photosynth. Stitches together a large collection of photos and turns them into 3-D images, viewable from any angle. Due out by year's end. Preview at labs.live.com/photosynth/default.html
HD View. Still in the labs, this imaging technology is kind of like Photosynth on steroids. research.microsoft.com/ivm/HDView/HDabout.htm
Microsoft Surface. Interactive tabletop computers recently made their commercial debut in some AT&T stores. Microsoft.com/surface
Orb motion-based controller in futuristic bedroom on Microsoft Home website uses OLED (organic light emitting display) technology to change the artwork, video clips and Web pages shown on the wall. Considered five to 10 years out.

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By Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY

A guidance counselor at a Manhattan prep school is murdered while the prom is taking place in the gymnasium.

Forensic scientists for the New York police attempt to recreate the crime scene by uploading hundreds of camera phone thumbnail photos snapped at the dance onto a computer.

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The PC screen fills up in a concentric square pattern, revealing a wide shot of the gym at the center. Investigators can manipulate the images to show close-ups of the scene from every angle.

This episode of the CBS crime drama CSI: NY, scheduled to run Wednesday night, is fiction. But the technology at its core, Microsoft's Photosynth software, is real. It analyzes scores of images for similarities and stitches them into a three-dimensional reconstruction.

'CSI' sleuths out Microsoft's latest technology - USATODAY.com

I don't know the source of these photos so cannot apply any credits, but thought they were worth a post. 

Microsoft Surface: consumer version in 2011?

Microsoft Surface is a tabletop computer that’s controlled by physical touch instead of a mouse or keyboard. Image: Microsoft

Microsoft’s tabletop computer could appear in homes in three years or less, the executive in charge of its development said this week.

Since unveiling the Microsoft Surface product last year, the company has gotten plenty of feedback from businesses and enthusiasts who want to get their hands on the technology, said Tom Gibbons, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s (MSFT) Specialized Devices and Applications business. And Gibbons said he feels confident that the touch-based computer could be affordable enough for consumers in three years or less. “In the three-year time window, we absolutely see how to get there,” Gibbons said. “If we can beat that, we’ll try to beat that.”

FORTUNE: Big Tech Microsoft Surface: consumer version in 2011?

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html

8. Use of Your Content.

Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

I haven’t tried it yet but I thought the group mind find this interesting.

No, it’s not a Photoshop replacement, but it is a remarkably well designed basic photo-editing and sharing application.

No layers here, no fancy pants masking. But for 95% of your photos, it offers pretty much all you need to fix ‘em up, and it does it with style.

Whether adjusting exposure, white balance, or hue, touching up blemishes, or distorting your image, Photoshop Express provides an easy slider and thumbnails to give you an instant preview of your image at various settings.

So what does it cost? It’s free

http://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html

The 75th Anniversary of NIKKOR Lenses

Tokyo – Nikon Corporation is pleased to announce the 75th anniversary of NIKKOR camera lenses, since the first lens was introduced in 1933. To commemorate this anniversary, we are renewing our commitment to provide NIKKOR lenses that feature advanced functions and superior optical performance. And at the same time, we will introduce several activities to further improve awareness of the NIKKOR brand.

Nikon | News : The 75th Anniversary of NIKKOR Lenses

Time to chuck out your DSLR, here's a blast from the past. Corbis are offering pinhole cameras available to download for free from their website and build yourself, in classic Blue Peter style.

Stock photography, footage, rights: Corbis ReadyCam

"What you see on these pages is not about a particular place, people, time or cause. It’s not about one type of picture or another. It’s not about sportsmen or fashion models or war or politics or the news of the day.
It’s about being a photographer."

Joe McNally: The Moment it Clicks

Photo industry braces for another revolution 

Think of it as digital photography 2.0.

In the last decade, photography has been transformed by one revolution, the near-total replacement of analog film cameras by digital image sensors. Now researchers and companies are starting to stretch their wings by taking advantage of what a computer can do with sensor data either within the camera or on a full-fledged PC.

Some elements of this new era, which researchers often call computational photography, are refinements of existing technology. For example, some cameras can wait to take the photo only when subjects are smiling and not blinking, in effect placing the shutter release button in the hands of the subjects rather than the photographer.

But more dramatic changes could shift the definition of a camera more dramatically. One major area of research, for example, uses computational processing to create a 3D representation of a scene rather than just the two dimensions of traditional photography.

For the full article follow the link below

Photo industry braces for another revolution | Underexposed - CNET News.com