Author: Martin Douglas Hendry
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![[Re-visit] Cartier Bresson’s Maxim, and The Dying Art of the Dark Room](https://martindouglashendry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/henri-cartier-bresson.jpg?w=450)
Before I began studying my PhD, I had incubated my love for photography through appreciation, and occasional writing on the topic. This post, originally written in 2011, contains some interesting insights – as well as a snapshot of the pre-academic author. ~ ‘Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst’ – Henri Cartier-Bresson. ~ THE…
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SUSAN SONTAG: ON PHOTOGRAPHY Susan Sontag‘s 1977 book “On Photography” is home to some of the most widely cited thinking in the field. It remains a solid overview of the field nearly 40 years after it was first published. The 1st chapter is an essay called “In Plato’s Cave”. It contains some of the best insight in the book. So, lets take…
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New icons for Instagram, Layout, Boomerang and Timelapse A BIG CHANGE? As of today, if you update your phone and go to open up Instagram – you’ll notice something has changed! The iconic icon (I’m hilarious) has been replaced with a much simpler and bolder design. The cartoony depiction of a camera – based upon…
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![014. [Infrastructure, Culture, Processes] iCloud, Cloud Storage, Privacy and Consumer Imaging](https://martindouglashendry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/620x349xicloud-0905-pagespeed-ic-dilahbyinp.jpg?w=800)
Disclaimer: this article discusses the usage of cloud storage in consumer imaging in relation to the recent leak of a batch private images of public figures. The article focuses on this from a technological perspective – examining the shift from data stored personally to the cloud. I have not reviewed the images myself and refer…
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![013. [Technology, Infrastructure, Processes] Imagga Automatic Image Tagging API](https://martindouglashendry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/imagga.jpg?w=1012)
Bulgarian start-up Imagga has developed what it describes as “Powerful image recognition APIs for automated categorizations & annotation of visual content.” Using the APIs a user can upload an image and then be instantly presented with a series of relevant “tags” that can then be attached to the image metadata through clicking on a series…
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![012. [Technology, Infrastructure, Process] Lytro Light-Field Photography Web Player Goes Open Source](https://martindouglashendry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/illum2.png?w=640)
012. [Technology, Infrastructure, Process] Lytro Light-Field Photography Web Player Goes Open Source
What is it? The Lytro Illum (alongside their eponymous first generation camera) are best understood as the first iterations of presenting plenscopic imaging to consumer photographers. In plain English, Lytro have created two “light-field” cameras – these (unlike traditional cameras) capture light information for the whole focal plane within an image, rather than a single…
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![011. [Culture, Goals, Infrastructure] The Lomo’Instant Camera](https://martindouglashendry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lomoinstant4.jpg?w=620)
What is it? The Lomo’Instant camera is a new model of camera devised by Russian film revivalists Lomography. Previously Lomography’s camera models (especially the “Diana”) have been found themselves at the fore of renewed interest in film photography – and particularly the use of toy cameras that produce unique images. The images produced by these…
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![010. [Culture, Goals, People, Process, Infrastructure] “20 Day Stranger” app by MIT Media Lab & “Rando”](https://martindouglashendry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20daystranger.png?w=640)
What is it? 20 Day Stranger is an app for iPhone that has been developed by MIT Media Lab’s Playful Systems working group. The app is a peer-to-peer sharing app which partners you with a stranger for 20 days, allowing you to share information with each other about your life. Over this time period the…
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![009. [Culture/Technology,Process] (Paper) Transient Attributes for High-Level Understanding and Editing of Outdoor Scenes](https://martindouglashendry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/weatherchangingbrownuni-640x358.jpg?w=640)
Apologies for the long-winded title on this one – it’s a really good one ~! What is it? A research paper has been released by researchers at Brown University detailing an algorithm they have created which allows users to navigate collections of outdoor images on the basis of a set of “transient attributes”. These attributes include the time…
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