You can create photomicrography with a smart phone and nearly any inexpensive microscope. You do not need any accessories or additional gear. Dr. Annie Morrison shows how she does it freehand with only a smart phone and a microscope. No other gear is needed. It takes...
Art of Video
Imprint Your Face Onto Anyone
Paste your live talking face onto any still face while you chat on Zoom, or create a YouTube video. Xpression Camera is remarkable and somewhat weird software which gives you a virtual makeover. Use for your video chats and live streams. Xpression camera imprints the...
Easy Bokeh Backgrounds
Bokeh circles are formed from points of light. These circles are often lights in teh distance. By using a shallow depth-of-field or wide aperture of yuor lens, the points of light become circles. A long lens increases this effect. The final factor is focus distance....
The Simpsons Quarantine Couch Gag
The opening couch gags are an essential element of The Simpson's 31-season TV show. This is the first couch gag to acknowledge we're all spending more couch time that pre-corona virus. To escape their reality, all of the Simpson family members are wearing VR headsets...
Photographer of the Year
The Societies of Photographers is a group of UK photo organizations. The Society has awarded Dr Fong Chan Onn from Malaysia the prestigious Photographer of the Year 2019 award. Dr Fong Chan Onn, a former cabinet minister in Malaysia, is 76 years old. His photo depicts...
Film Is Back
What do these films have in common? Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Marriage Story The Irishman Little Women The Lighthouse Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Ad Astra Apollo 11 Uncut Gems The answer, as you guessed, is that they were all shot in film rather than digital...
Instant Replay 115 Cameras
At 2019's Super Bowl in Atlanta, CBS Sports had 115 cameras, including three SkyCams flying through the air, and 28 others squeezed into the pylons marking the edges of the end zones. As CBS's Ken Aagaard said "You get these definitive shots right here on the...
Photography and You
Last year alone the estimate is that people took 1.2 trillion photos. A lot of them were selfies. These are different from other photos. The ego is at stake in a selfie which is why there are so many touch up apps out there. Facetune2 is one example. It can smooth out...
Changing Faces
Today you can download software that uses machine learning to perform a convincing digital video face-swap. The video is called a deepfake. It can stitch the eyes of one person onto the face of another person doing lip-sync karaoke. It isn’t perfect yet, but it could...
Music for Video Created by AI
Create unique professional music for your video. Just choose a mood and style of the music you want, Amper can create it in a few seconds. That's the claim made by Amper Music. This new royalty-free music program uses AI to produce music that fits the style of your...
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