The Blog of Hans Eisenman

2000 Frame Per Second Camera

This is really slick.  No doubt it will lead to all sorts of never seen before images and sequences.  Imagine some of the things we will be able to see are just too fast for the human eye and heretofore uncapturable by video--like the little gremlins that, in broad daylight,  steal one sock from each of my pairs. 

Seriously though, this is pretty cool.

Frequent photo flubs: 15 picture pitfalls and how to avoid them

Link: Frequent photo flubs: 15 picture pitfalls and how to avoid them - CNET.com.

You know the feeling: you've just snapped that once-in-a-lifetime moment, and you're already thinking about how big you want to print it. It looks great on the camera's LCD, and everyone in the room wants a copy of it. When you get home, you eagerly load it up on your PC, only to discover it's too blurry to even make out the faces. We've all been there.

Thanks to our friends at Webshots, we had a boatload of photos to browse through in order to pick examples of the most typical mistakes that snapshooters make. For instance, a camera phone is fine for the occasional spur-of-the-moment shot, but if you know you're going to be at a party, an event, or some other venue where you'll want to take photos, please--use a real camera. The only truly bad photos we saw were clearly taken with camera phones. So, by remembering a few simple rules and taking a few minutes to page through your camera's manual--if necessary, by trashing your old clunker and buying a new camera--you'll increase your odds of shooting photos that impress, not distress.