I don’t know how long this link will be active, but I had to link to this photo gallery of photos by Charlotte Observer photographer Jeff Siner. The photos are from North Carolina’s 79-73 victory over Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The action stuff is great, but the feature (the non-action) work he did is what really impressed me. Check out this great work to see what the rivalry between UNC and Duke is like. Also good toning to get rid of the terrible color cast typically of photos taken in Cameron Indoor. (sorry, only a photographer like me would note this)

**Update 3/15/08**

Well sadly, the gallery has been archived and is no longer up.

High Dynamic Range Imaging, or HDR, is an interesting concept that has come with the advent of Photoshop and digital imaging, specifically when Adobe released it’s built in “merge to HDR” function in 2005 with Photoshop CS2. Explaining what Dynamic Range is would take a long time. But basically, it is a scene’s range in brightness from completely black to the completely bright. For Ansel Adams fans, it’s Zone 0 to Zone 9. HDR imagine could roughly be translated to the traditional B+W photography and printing techniques of dodging and burning although there are some differences. Read the rest of this entry »

Photographers know that an SLR camera lens is very expensive. Although the digital camera has changed the paradigm somewhat, one can still say that the lens is more expensive than the camera itself.

Canon has posted an informative video on how a Canon 500mm f/4.0 IS lens is constructed from beginning to end. After watching the video and seeing the labor involved to put one together, I can now see why they charge so much for the lens which typically is priced around $5,500. Read the rest of this entry »

When I tell people I am a ‘sports photographer’ they often follow-up asking, “With what paper?” So I try to explain how I don’t work for a paper but instead work a team. I thought that was easy enough to understand but have found that it isn’t. Some people have even thought that players hire me. So I thought I would write about all the three main kinds of photographers (there are more but these are the big three). Read the rest of this entry »

Currently there are two main methods, accessible to consumers, to store energy: batteries or capacitors. Capacitors have the advantage of being able to charge and discharge energy in a matter of seconds; the disadvantage being they are large and bulky. Batteries are much more compact, but by using chemical reaction to store and discharge power, they take hours to charge and discharge.

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Researchers at Georgia Tech have created a prototype device that can make digital camera and video cameras unusable.

The devise is able to detect CCD chips in these devices and targets beam of light at them, casting a bright white light on the chip. This makes the resulting image overexposed.

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