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Great set of photos!
Great set of photos!
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National Geographic Photo Contest 2011
There's still time! The deadline for entries for this year's National Geographic Photo Contest is November 30. Photographers of all skill levels (last year more than 16,000 images s…
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Great timelapse!
Great timelapse!
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24-Hour Time-Lapse of Downtown Dubai
On 11/11/11, Gerald Donovan aimed his Canon 5D Mark II and 14mm f/2.8 at Downtown Dubai and set it to shoot one photograph every 30 seconds. He left it there for 24 hours, and then took the 2880 photographs and turned them into this beautiful time-lapse showing the passing of a day. What’s neat is that the reflection of the sun and moon can be seen going up and down the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
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How do people come up with things like this?
How do people come up with things like this?
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Kaufmann’s Posographe: An Amazing Exposure Calculator from the 1920s
Kaufmann’s Posographe is an intricate pocket-sized mechanical calculator invented back in the 1920s. Measuring 13x8cm and filled with tiny scribblings, the device allowed photographers to approximate the exposure values they needed by simply sliding around six small pointers.
Here’s a look at the front and back of the Posographe, along with a diagram of its innards:
Technology has come quite a long way since then, eh?
Kaufmann’s wonderful Posographe [History of Computing]
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Beautiful shot!
Beautiful shot!
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Awesome!
Awesome!
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#bacteria #blood #amazingOur Amazing Bodies!
After flicking through many YouTube videos on this stuff, I thought I'd GIFitize one of them.
Here the video is showing a real White Blood Cell (in this case a 'Neutrophil' or 'Phagocyte') chase down and gulp a foreign Bacteria, that would probably cause food poisoning or a nasty tummy bug if left to multiply.
On average the human body has 26.5 Billion white blood cells, they work 365/24/7 seeking out yummy treats (Bacteria etc), this is their primary job within our immune system. sometimes though the bacteria can become too numerous, like if you have eaten chicken that's not cooked properly. If this is the case they will cause the human body many problems… You probably know what I mean if you have ever had an infection of some sort… Not very nice!
A cell in the bone marrow (hematopoietic stem cell) then gets to work to make significantly more White Blood Cells to fight the large amount of bacteria in your body. Keeping a healthy diet and eating well will ensure you don't get too many nasty tummy bugs!
The video is sped up, as in real time this whole chase is much slower in comparison (Can't remember the exact speed).
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Okay, last one for today…
Okay, last one for today…
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I'm not boring you, am I?
I'm not boring you, am I?
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Sleepyhead…
Sleepyhead…
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Reconstructing the old
A fun project I would like to do is reconstructing old photo’s, that is reenacting the shot. Argentinian photographer Irina Werning did just that. Here is a short behind the scenes:
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Moving
Well, that was the perfect time for rebooting this blog. NOT! After my last post, I’ve been VERY busy at work. We were moving to a new building, where the IT infrastructure is maintained by another party, the hospital. We managed to arrange they give us a virtual network on top of their network, so we can still use the university computers (although we rolled out new laptops for everybody). Still, it is a huge improvement over the hospital network, since we are NOT behind a firewall that blocks almost everything! I was very happy to be home at the end of the day, so updating the blog was not a priority. In the meantime though, I redecorated my daughters room.
The day before we moved to the new building, I managed to get some shots while the floor was still empty. That is, without people… Below are two of them. Processing was similar for both the shots: I took the standard 3 shots (-2 eV, 0 eV, 2 eV), created an extra -4 eV shot from the -2 eV one, removed some chromatic abberation, saved all as TIFF and used the four TIFFs to create an HDR image. Then the tonemapping, removing some noise, adjusting levels and curves, removing some more noise, and then I sharpened the image. I used my Gorillapod for the first time (I tried it out earlier of course, but now I REALLY used it!). Especially in the second shot it came in handy: I wrapped its legs around one of those poles to get a shot from above.
The HRM department
Another one from the office
