Another Delaney Gibson photoshoot under my belt!

Shot for Delaney's third album this evening, got some GREAT stuff! She's commissioned me to design the album art/layout as well. Very exciting! Here's a fun peek at the vibe of the shoot:
Stay tuned ad check out Delaney's music @ www.delaneygibson.com

I'm surrounded by the light.

Delaney fell in love with the 'beauty dish'

Getting silly with the reflector

Image Sensor Implants for the Blind

Image Sensor Implants Used as Makeshift Eyes for the Blind

 

 Image sensors and the advent of digital imaging have been met with differing reactions from the photographical community. But what a team of doctors at the Oxford Eye Hospital have managed to do with the technology is 100% digital, and 100% amazing. Clinical trial leaders Robert MacLaren and Tim Jackson have helped two blind men to partially see again.
This miraculous feat was achieved by implanting a 3mm square, 1,500 pixel sensor at the back of each eye; the sensors are then connected to the patient’s optic nerves and a control chip implanted behind their ear. The sensor, which was developed by the German company Retina Implant AG, can then send signals down the optic nerve to the brain each time it detects light.
At this point the two formerly-blind patients, Chris James and Robin Millar, can only perceive light and some basic shapes; but as more time goes on the hope is that each patient’s brain will begin to better interpret the signals coming from the implant.
Of course the treatment is still in its very early stages, but this could eventually mean significantly improved, black-and-white vision for people who have lost the ability to see entirely — a bonafide miracle. And none of this would be possible without two 0.0015 megapixel image sensors.

(May 3rd, 2012 via BBC News)

A Moving Mole: Why Abraham Lincoln’s Portrait Was Flipped for the $5 Bill

A Moving Mole: Why Abraham Lincoln’s Portrait Was Flipped for the $5 Bill

 

If you pay close attention to presidents, or money (or preferably both in this case) you may have noticed that one particular famous photo of President Abraham Lincoln taken in 1864 was the inspiration for the photo we now see on the five dollar bill. But you may have also noticed that the President’s mole is on the wrong side of his face on the money. Well actually it isn’t, the “mirror image” on the five dollar bill shows the President as he was in real life. The original photo, taken using an old technique called daguerreotype, is a mirror image.
Not unlike the tintype photography we posted on earlier in the week, daguerreotype yields a one-off positive on a photosensitive plate. The downside of this type of photography and the lack of a negative is that the final image is at the mercy of the lens optics, leading to the mirror image you see above. So remember, the mole was on the right side of Lincoln’s face… just in case a fifth grader gets indignant telling you otherwise.

Why Lincoln’s Mole Was on the Wrong Side in the Original Five Dollar Bill Photo [Camera Technica]

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Image credits: Wikimedia Commons

TinType Portrait Studio video

Cool Hunting Video Presents: Photobooth

In our latest video we visited the world's only tintype portrait studio to learn about the process and beauty behind tintype photography

Source: http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/photobooth.php