Digest photo news # 9: the best materials beginning of August

Hi, Habr.

The ninth selection of interesting materials on the photo-theme. August was marked by the emergence of several interesting technologies, the Heprlapse craze, a cool hack for getting very soft light using a ring of 27 light bulbs. If someone wants to get a digest in the mail - you can subscribe to the newsletter in our blog.

The main part of the materials presented in the digest, in English. Materials in Russian are marked separately.
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Technology and Soft

• Algorithm that can change the time of year in a photo
• A technology that allows you to manipulate 2D objects in a photo using three dimensions
• Pics.io goes into beta testing: photo collection in the cloud
• SwivelCard: USB business card, on which you can upload your photo portfolio
• Lenstag - protect your camera and photos from theft
• Narrative - a small automatic camera that shoots every day
• 365project - one photo every day
• onOne Software gives its Perfect Effects 8 ($ 100) for free

Inspiration

• A selection of stunning portraits with Behance
• Photos of musicians before and after the performance
• A photographer turns food recipes into colorful pictures of flying ingredients.
• 30 amazing photos taken just in time
• "Light tornadoes" and other impressive examples of light painting
• Beauty and symmetry in photos of mosque architecture

Equipment

• This fascinating world of flash batteries - complex answers to simple questions.
• Vacuum cleaner for cleaning the sensor from dust
• The first and last lesson on cleaning the camera Attention, this is a joke, beware :)
• How I got rid of the syndrome of buying new lenses
• Rare Canon EF 1200mm on sale for $ 165k

Process

• 5 tips to take good photos on vacation
• DIY: 27 light bulb for a nice soft light
• Wedding photography infographics: everything is not as simple as it seems
• Photograph the starry sky (astrophotography)

Hyperlapse and Timelapse

• DigitalRev - How to Shoot Hyperlapse
• Timelapse: Visit to Pyongyang (Vimeo)
• A new algorithm turns a first-person video into a very smooth hyperlapse

Books and Pulp Fiction

• 23 free e-books on photography
• 23 more free books on photography
• Confession of a photographer who does not distinguish colors

miscellanea

• Before and after makeup - Adme.ru
• My dirty (photographic) secrets
• Infographics, which allows you to understand when you can use photos from the Internet
• Making Instagram filters in Photoshop: Sierra and Brannan

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Previous issues:

Previous Digest (# 8 - end of July)
Digest number 7 - the beginning of July
Digest number 6 - the end of June
Digest number 5 - the beginning of June
Digest number 4 - the beginning of May
Digest number 3 - end of April
Digest number 2 - the beginning of April
Digest number 1 - the end of March