Computer Photo Of Nuclear Attack On Washington D.C.

This computer generated image posted on terror forums depict what would happen if a nuclear attack took place in Washington D.C.

Read article about it here.

Great Photographers: Trey Ratcliff

Great Photographers: Trey Ratcliff

Trey Ratcliff's HDR Tutorial

What is HDR?

Excerpt:

HDR is short for High Dynamic Range. It is a software technique of taking either one image or a series of images, combining them, and adjusting the contrast ratios to do things that are virtually impossible with a single aperture and shutter speed. Most of the images in “Your Top 100 Favorites” are HDR, so you can take a look there if you want to see more examples than in this tutorial.

Read Trey's Tutorial

The CF/SD Performance Database

The CF/SD Performance Database Is Back
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
By Rob Galbraith

Excerpt:

The CF/SD Performance Database, our collection of memory card write speed results from Canon and Nikon digital SLR cameras, is relaunching. We've updated the database with test data from the Canon EOS 40D, EOS-1D Mark III and EOS-1Ds Mark III plus the Nikon D300 and D3, introduced sortable results tables and more.

Results from other models will be rolled out in the days ahead, including for the Canon EOS 30D, EOS 5D and EOS-1Ds Mark II, as well as the Nikon D80, D200 and D2Xs. You'll also find card-to-computer transfer results for the latest CompactFlash cards, with more CompactFlash and SD/SDHC results to be posted soon.

Visit database.

Scott Kelby's Photo & Computer Back-up Strategy

Excerpt:

Never erase a memory card until you have two backups

I backup in the field to an Epson P-5000; that way I have one backup on a hard drive, and the original photos still on my memory card, which I put back in my memory card case.

When you import photos onto your laptop (like into Lightroom), make sure you have a backup of your photos on an external drive as well (or two drives in my case, because I don’t store all my photos on my laptop)

Make sure your main photo library is backed up someplace that’s 100% safe and secure, because there is no replacing those original digital negatives (for me, that place is a Drobo).

Don’t forget to have an offsite duplicate backup (in my case, it’s another Drobo, but it can also be just a large external drive sitting in your safe deposit box, or at work, but you have no way of knowing that, should you need that backup, it will work, which is why I have 2nd Drobo).

Complete article.

What To Do If Hard Drive Disaster Strikes!

Hopefully, you religiously back up your critical hard drives, just in case one or more of them fail. Back what do you do if one of them fails and you have no backup and your efforts to resurrect your crashed drive fail? Drivesavers may be the answer:

"DriveSavers handles more dropped, damaged, corrupted and traumatized drives in one day than most data recovery providers do in one month. As a result, our engineers can successfully recover data from all storage devices and all operating systems -- from legacy to state-of-the-art. We are authorized and recommended by leading computer and storage device manufacturers; our recovery work will never void the original warranty.

"Close and long-term relationships with leading hard drive manufacturers help us keep pace with changing data storage technology and inspires the development of proprietary software and hardware so advanced, we consistently rescue data other service providers simply abandon.

"DriveSavers engineers are the best in the industry at physical and logical data recovery and second to none when dealing with firmware failures and micro-component repair. Trained and certified by leading encryption vendors, they can reliably recover lost data from all encrypted hard drives, peripheral devices and software."


Drivesavers Website.

Joe McNally in Dubai

Joe McNally in Dubai. Go here for more information (and to see some of the photos that came from this shoot).

Senior Graduation In Sedona, Arizona

I shot this image yesterday, Wednesday, May 21, 2008, during the senior graduation ceremony at Red Rock High School in Sedona, Arizona. This is a composite of seven different images, all shot hand held, at f4.5, 1/80 sec, ISO 500 using a Nikon 18-200mm lens on my Nikon D300. The images were stitched together using Photoshop CS3's photomerge feature. Click on the photo above to see a larger image.

Lightning Bolts Above Chaiten Volcano

Lightning bolts appear above and around the Chaiten volcano as seen from Chana, some 30 kms (19 miles) north of the volcano, as it began its first eruption in thousands of years, in southern Chile May 2, 2008. Cases of electrical storms breaking out directly above erupting volcanos are well documented, although scientists differ on what causes them. Picture taken May 2, 2008.

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From Pangea Day: Mutual Recognition

Here's another film from the Pangea Day Event. I'm including it in my photography blog because human relationships -- how we treat one another -- is, in my opinion, the most important part of any work we do, photography or otherwise.

This short documentary offers a unique and intimate perspective into the thoughts of a Moroccan imam and his wife as they discuss their romance. They describe their thoughts about how to build a deep, trusting, and enduring relationship in this film that shows the specific ways the Islamic faith relates to the universal concepts of love and respect. Directed by Jehane Noujaim.

Watch On Pangea Day Website.

From Pangea Day: Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot

Pale Blue Dot
Words By Carl Sagan

In 1990, Carl Sagan persuaded NASA to use the Voyager 1 spacecraft to take a photograph of the planet Earth from a distance of 4 billion miles. The result was simply arresting: a portrait of our home as a tiny, fragile speck of blue adrift in an unimaginably vast sea of space. In a commencement address for the public release of the photograph, astronomer Sagan offered these profound words:

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there -- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam."

Watch Complete Movie On Pangea Website.

Annie Leibovitz’s Disney Fantasyland

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