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  August 23, 2016

  Uncategorized

  [Re-visit] Cartier Bresson’s Maxim, and The Dying Art of the Dark Room

  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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  May 11, 2016

  News, Uncategorized

  WHY!!? Instagram’s New Design

  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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  August 12, 2014

  Emerging Innovations, Uncategorized

  009. [Culture/Technology,Process] (Paper) Transient Attributes for High-Level Understanding and Editing of Outdoor Scenes

  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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  May 6, 2014

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  4. [Tech] Vhoto Video Photography App

  What is it? VHOTO is a new app currently only available on the iPhone. It allows users to pick the best images to keep from video captured using the phone.  In order to be able to do this – the app scans video detecting “blur, contrast, faces, smiles” in order to present users with a range…