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Understanding the exposure triangle: ISO, shutter speed and aperture

Jan24
by on January 24, 2015 at 3:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's

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Jo Plumridge is a British writer and photographer who specializes in design, travel and comedy pieces. As a photographer, she focuses on portraiture. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission. Even with the advent of digital technology, the most important steps in becoming a great photographer remain the same: understanding ISO, shutter speed and aperture. But understanding the three isn’t always an easy task — so we’ve developed a cheat sheet on each function and how it interacts with the others. To start, your camera will need to be on manual mode,…

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Why smartwatch battery life matters more than smartphone battery life

Jan24
by on January 24, 2015 at 12:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Opinion

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Every day I wake up, wander over to my desk and unplug my phone from the wall. I’ll be lucky if it makes it through the day without needing an additional charge. The same thing happens with smartwatches: you wake up, unplug it, and wrap it around a wrist and you’ll be lucky to get to 8 pm without needing a charge. I have external batteries and battery cases for my phone(s). Sure, I can also plug it back into the wall, but for the sake of mobility, these little accessories of power mean I can keep using my mobile phone as…

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Go ask Alice, when she was just a small postage stamp

Jan23
by on January 23, 2015 at 11:39 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Shareables

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The UK’s Royal Mail service is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with a set of postage stamps depicting scenes from the book. An updated take on the story is presented in a series of 10 individual stamps by award-winning illustrator Grahame Baker-Smith, with the updated images of Alice based on his daughter. The White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat and other famous images are also part of the collection. Popularly known as Alice in Wonderland, the original story was conceived in 1862 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a teacher at Christ Church in Oxford, to entertain children on a…

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You can now view Samba video previews on your smartwatch

Jan23
by on January 23, 2015 at 10:34 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Gadgets, Product Launches

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With the Samba video chat app now firmly entrenched on the Android platform, the company has extended its reach into wearables with a new video response feature now available for smartwatches. Samba, which specializes in reaction-based video chat, now offers glanceable preview videos immediately on receipt for any Android smart watch. With the Samba app, friends and family can send video messages to each other with the recipient’s reaction automatically recorded and sent back. The resulting video plays fully synchronized with the original. The new smart watch preview is designed to be a hint of the video that awaits you on the…

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