A photo of a balloon, mid-burst, can be achieved by amateur photographers. Brent Schneeman Phred Petersen, RMIT University High-speed photography in still images and cinema seems to be the latest rage. And while modern technology has made much of the equipment easily...
Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation Photos of beautiful landscapes may be lovely while you look at them but it’s the photos of fellow Homo sapiens that you’ll remember long after the album has gone back on the shelf, a 2011 study has found. Neuroscientists from MIT in...
Westminster Abbey doesn’t want you to take any selfies. Jay Zagorsky, Author provided Jay L. Zagorsky, The Ohio State University Have you ever pulled out your camera or phone in a museum or historic place and suddenly found a staff person telling you “no photographs”?...
Some of the earliest applications of photography came in the fields of archaeology and botany. Pictured is a photograph from botanist Anna Atkins’ Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions (1843). Nancy Locke, Pennsylvania State University Much like a...
It’s been 70 years of instant photography, thanks to Edwin Land, on the left. AP Photo Ann Elsner, Indiana University It probably happens every minute of the day: A little girl demands to see the photo her parent has just taken of her. Today, thanks to smartphones and...
