News tagged with photographers

Asteroid collision that spawned Vesta's asteroid family occurred more recently than thought

A team of researchers led by a NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) member based at Southwest Research Institute has discovered evidence that the giant impact crater Rheasilvia on Asteroid (4) Vesta was created ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

UIUC team will show can't-tell photo inserts at Siggraph (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Visitors to this month's Siggraph Asia conference on computer graphics from December 12 to 15 will witness a presentation from a team at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign on how ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

Search for frozen camera may reveal who climbed Everest first

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Everest historian believes he may have pinpointed the last resting place of mountaineer Andrew Irvine, who died on a mission to climb Mount Everest in 1924, almost 30 years before the successful ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 29, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Solar camera strap could put an end to dead dSLR batteries

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new concept introduced by Yanko Designs could put an end to dead batteries on photography excursions. The Solar Camera Strap is a sturdy strap to secure the camera and to power it via thin ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

Webcasts push solar eclipse to the masses

(AP) -- It was one of the best places in the western United States to watch the annular solar eclipse, and people drove for days just to get to this dusty stretch west of Albuquerque.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Kyoto prof rolls out omnidirectional wheelchair

(PhysOrg.com) -- A mechanical engineering professor has taken the wraps off his vehicle that is designed to become a next-generation wheelchair. As its formal name suggests, this is the Personal Mobile Vehicle, ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way

Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3

First ever photo of fish using tools

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new paper soon to be published in Coral Reefs reveals the first ever photographs of a fish, in this case the blackspot tuskfish, using tools to acquire their food.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 17 | with audio podcast report

Existence of exoplanet 'Fomalhaut b' called into question

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fomalhaut b, thought to be the first exoplanet photographed directly, has come under increased scrutiny due to evidence of an unexpected divergence from its expected orbit. Paul Kalas, James ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 5 report

iPhone app uses crowd sourcing to help the blind

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of innovative thinkers from several universities working together on a joint project to merge existing technology (the iPhone) with a real-world crowd sourcing application to help blind ...

Technology / Software

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

How much longer can photographic film hold on?

(AP) -- At Image City Photography Gallery, Gary Thompson delights in pointing out qualities of light, contrast and clarity in one of his best-selling prints - a winter-sunset view of Yosemite National Park's ...

Technology / Other

created May 30, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Google Maps taking viewers inside shops

Google's free online map service is letting shops, gyms, restaurants and other small businesses provide viewers glimpses of what lies behind facades seen on Street View.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

New method could lead to narrower chip patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have found a novel method for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just by exposing it to certain ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 5

You shoot and Croppola composes

We envy photographers who are experts at composing beautiful pictures and would like to achieve the same result. Croppola is a user-friendly online tool that helps photo-lovers to make the most of their pictures.

Technology / Software

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Faster computer graphics

Photographs of moving objects are almost always a little blurry — or a lot blurry, if the objects are moving rapidly enough. To make their work look as much like conventional film as possible, game and ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast