Image: Eddie Adams Popular photography as we know it was presented to the public in the 1840s. It was proposed as the ultimate portrayal of reality and the eternal confinement of history - unlike art or prose, photographs are not easily altered. They have been used to depict the terrors and truths...
There are hundreds of iPhone applications available on the market, from games through to photo editing and sharing applications, many of which are available through the Apple App Store. It is a well known fact that the 2 megapixel iPhone camera isn't the best phone camera around and even more...
While it is something of a trite cliché to say that a picture paints a thousand words, since the invention of the camera, photographs have brought the realities of the world to the eyes of ordinary people.
Several famous UFO encounters can be difficult to dismiss as swamp gas or weather balloons -- especially among claims of humanoid creatures. These fifteen cases can make even skeptics scratch their head.
Photography has potential to be both the most equalizing and polarizing art form imaginable. All you really need to get started is a camera — any will do — and an ability to understand what looks good. On the other hand, there are people who swear that you need 50 lenses, a full flash setup and at...
The War in Iraq has been one of the most significant events of the last decade. Journalists, both those embedded with military units and those who have undertaken their own investigations, have contributed defining and sometimes harrowing images of incidents as they have unfolded. These photos,...
The EXIF data of a photograph contains the file data related to that image. It includes the shutter and aperture settings and the type of camera used. It can also provide the date when the picture was taken, or (if programmed) the image and copyright data. Professional photographers (or anyone...
The Sydney Opera House hosted a gathering of 5,200 nude people on Monday. The event was for a photo shoot by photographer Spencer Tunick. Tunick went on record regarding the Sydney event to say:"It was difficult to get the straight participants to embrace the gay participants and vice versa,"...
The term paparazzi originated from a movie in the 1960s entitled La Dolce Vita in which a male character named Paparazzo who is a photographer has always been looking for the next big thing to happen so that he can shoot a laudably unique and one in a million photographs of people who are deemed...
An autopsy is also known as a post-mortem examination. It is a thorough medical examination of a deceased individual in order to determine the cause of death. A pathologist, coroner, or medical examiner does the medical examination in order to ascertain not just the cause of death, but other...
