The Digital Photography Weblog is retiring. This is a sad development (heh -- see what I did there?) for loyal readers, but fits right in with the evolution of Weblogs Inc. This blog will remain archived for reference and searching. Also, readers might enjoy other blogs in the Weblogs, Inc. network, including Engadget and Download Squad.

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Cabo Verde by by FotoBen

Camera: Nikon D70
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 200 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV

Editor's Note:
We have already featured some outstanding photography here on the Digital Photography Weblog and we are looking for more. Have a great shot? Then submit it for consideration to our Flickr Group.

Golden Red Hunter-Jumper by Isabelle Ann

Camera: Canon EOS 30D
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 98 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 1 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Editor's Note:
We have already featured some outstanding photography here on the Digital Photography Weblog and we are looking for more. Have a great shot? Then submit it for consideration to our Flickr Group.

untitled by rymus

Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1250)
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 150 mm
Focal Length: 0, 224, 264, 181
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 16777217/50331648 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Editor's Note:
We have already featured some outstanding photography here on the Digital Photography Weblog and we are looking for more. Have a great shot? Then submit it for consideration to our Flickr Group.

You know Jonathan Greenwald? No? Nice chap, lives in Brooklyn... you must know him... tallented bloke, snaps pictures with a Canon 20D... runs a photoblog called Shrued... no? He is an IT Manager by day but still seems to find the time to upload a picture at 6AM everyday. Well, if you really don't know ol' Greenwald head on over to his photoblog and say I sent you.

Image from the blog shown here is Rowing For Life plenty of other images of note including Sunset over Metropolis, Circles and Lines and Next Train.

Relax at Santorini by colivery

Camera: Canon PowerShot A70
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 9.4 mm
Focal Length: 2, 301, 213, 159
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Editor's Note:
We have already featured some outstanding photography here on the Digital Photography Weblog and we are looking for more. Have a great shot? Then submit it for consideration to our Flickr Group.

big eyes by Joachim Guanzon

Camera: Canon EOS 20D
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/1.4
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 2 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Editor's Note:
We have already featured some outstanding photography here on the Digital Photography Weblog and we are looking for more. Have a great shot? Then submit it for consideration to our Flickr Group.

Alien Skin Software, makers of photoshop plugins, have released Blow Up, for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. This their latest offering gives the highest quality image enlargement available basically simplifying and improving image enlargement, making it easy to convert web graphics to print and create large format and gallery prints from digital photographs.

Blow Up scales image up to 10000% - 10 times in each dimension - with no stairstep, halo, or fringe artifacts. The plugin supports CMYK, RGB, Lab, Grayscale, and Duotone image modes and can resize multi-layered documents without the need to flatten first. It also works with 8-, 16- and 32-bit compositions, including RAW and HDR images. Blow-Up can resize an image in a new document, leaving the original untouched.

The Blow Up plugin is available for $199. Registered users of other Alien Skin products receive discount pricing when ordering direct. Online ordering can be made at http://www.alienskin.com.

'clouds drift away when they see you' by andrebernardo

Camera: Canon PowerShot A510
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/3.2
Focal Length: 9.8 mm
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Editor's Note:
We have already featured some outstanding photography here on the Digital Photography Weblog and we are looking for more. Have a great shot? Then submit it for consideration to our Flickr Group.

Reiter's Camera Phone Report has a post covering the MiShow 'mommy-focused' photo/video "biography" sharing site. Basically another photo storage site complete with tags and the like but one aimed specifically at a niche audience.

Covington Innovations has a step-by-step guide to removing haze from Aerial photographs.

Another instance of doctored photos appearing in the mainstream press in this case the Spanish version of the Miami Herald where the printed picture was manipulated to show two Cuban police officers apparently ignoring prostitutes gesturing to a tourist.

Floppy right angled viewfinder on your Nikon DR-4, DR-4, DR-5 and DR-6? Earthbound Light has a fix.

Jimmie contacted us regarding the shout out for readers blogs. His resides at http://www.cornershots.com/about and is subtitled Urban Imagery from NYC. .Jimmie says that the blog has been going for two years. Beggining his photographic exploration with a Canon S45 but has worked his way up to a 5D.

There are 318 photos available on the site. The current opening shot is dramatic with the dusk lighting adding great atmosphere to the converging angles. But it was the wonderful genBundle (pictured) that really scored a hit for me. Follow that up with some stylish panoramas and several creative uses of artifical light and you have a superb showcase for Jimmie's talents.

Sunrays by Isabelle Ann

Camera: Canon EOS 30D
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 41 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Editor's Note:
We have already featured some outstanding photography here on the Digital Photography Weblog and we are looking for more. Have a great shot? Then submit it for consideration to our Flickr Group.

Brass Fixture by Mike Ledford

Camera: Canon EOS 30D
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/1.8
Focal Length: 50 mm
Focal Length: 1, 50, 907, 605
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

Editor's Note:
We have already featured some outstanding photography here on the Digital Photography Weblog and we are looking for more. Have a great shot? Then submit it for consideration to our Flickr Group.

Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs sounds amazing. They think so too by stating, boldly, that it "will change the way you think about digital photos forever". Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space.

Using this data you can walk or fly through a scene, zoom in and out, see where different photos were taken in relation to one another and find similar photos to the one you are viewing.

The photos are analysed to highlight hundreds of individual distinctive features - this could be a door frame corner or a a door handle. These features are linked and matched, with multiple images of the same item its 3D position can be calculated. The zooming feature sounds impressive too - you can, well, zoom right in!

It sounds mightily impressive and the potential they talk about - with photos having unique IDs and links to tags, urls and such like equally so.

But it is not yet available and no release date has been given. In the meantime have a look at the video and keep an eye on the teams blog.

Seems a little harsh... the Charlotte Observer has sacked a staff photographer for altering the colour of an image to, as he states, "to restore the actual color of the sky". He said the color was lost when he underexposed the photo to offset the glare of the sun.

The paper has issued a statement "Accuracy is among our most sacred journalistic values. That goes for the photographs, as well as the words, that we publish.So, it is with much regret that I inform you that the color in a photograph in Thursday's editions was inappropriately altered before it was published. The photo, taken by Observer photographer Patrick Schneider, appeared on the front of the Local & State section. It depicted a Charlotte firefighter on a ladder, silhouetted by the light of the early morning sun."

In the original photo, the sky in the photo was brownish-gray. Enhanced with photo-editing software, the sky became a deep red and the sun took on a more distinct halo.