The PNG image file format is now more popular than GIF: "PNG is now the most popular lossless image compression format on the web. Only the lossy JPEG, which is the most appropriate format for photographs, is used on more sites. While GIF's patent issues mentioned above are long resolved, it's the technical superiority that now convinces webmasters to chose PNG over GIF. PNG results in smaller files most of the time, it supports a much wider range of color depths and transparency options. The only feature where GIF still shines is its support for animation. However, most people find that dancing icons on a website make it look like it hasn't been redesigned in the last 15 years. Animation is mostly used for ads nowadays, and even there, animated GIF's would be considered the poor mans alternative to Flash."
Here's the GIF Search Engine You've Been Waiting Too Long For - Yahoo! News: " . . . Giphy, a search engine focusing solely on the soon-to-be-passé looping file format of Internet past. The web really could have used this thing back in 2012 before we reached peak GIF. But now, with Twitter's GIF-y Vine on the up and up, who needs it anyway? Maybe GIF loyalists. Maybe. But maybe not, considering the search part of the Giphy engine doesn't really work that well. It's kind of slow and doesn't always show the best, most accurate results. Harry Potter GIFs show up with a "Star Wars" search, to name just one unholy offense. Giphy also surfaced only six Saved by the Bell GIFs — and a little Tumblr research pulls up way more than that. . . ."
Getting the shot: Food photography 101Los Angeles Times
Unlike a lot of professional food photography, we don't fake the food we shoot at The Times. Because we're a newspaper, we can't. No artificial results, no doctoring the photos. What you see is what actually happened. To start the series, here's Kirk ...
How Lytro is Shifting Our Perspective on PhotographyXconomy
It was clear that the technology inside the camera—which makes it possible to refocus a picture after it's been taken—would eventually upset all of our notions about photos and photography. But the device itself reminded me of the Magnavox Odyssey ...
Photography's faithful flock to Japan's biggest camera showThe Verge
Once a year, Japan's photographic industry congregates in Yokohama for CP+ — a camera and imaging show that brings out three times as many enthusiasts as it does tradespeople. The four-day long event .... We're not sure what it has to do with ...
Double exposure: the two faces of Viviane Sassen's photographyThe Guardian
Sassen is also that rare thing: a photographer whose work straddles the often mutually exclusive – but increasingly blurred – worlds of fashion and fine art. She has just published another acclaimed limited-edition art-photography book, Roxane, which...
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The month in photography – audio slideshowThe Guardian
The month in photography – audio slideshow. New exhibitions and books by Man Ray, Juergen Teller, David Goldblatt and Garry Winogrand are featured in this month's guide. Pause and click on the links in the captions to be directed to relevant websites.
Fine-art photographer takes his cues from moviesSTLtoday.com
In his art-school years, Gregory was mesmerized by the movie “Blue Velvet” and developed a style that split the difference between documentary photography and psychodrama. The films documents Crewdson's extended project in Western Massachusetts, ...
Guardian Camera Club: Matt Cartwright's portfolioThe Guardian
Guardian Camera Club: Matt Cartwright's portfolio. A review of Matt Cartwright's portfolio. The square within a rectangle composition of 'Hotel near La Rochelle' is formal, complex, and the colours work perfectly with this light. 'Buildings' again uses ...
Photographer Susan A. Barnett examines the art of personal expression in 'Not ...ReporterHerald.com
Barnett's show will run at The Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins from Feb. 1 to March 30. "I was walking down the street with my camera and I was stopped at a light," Barnett said. "Right in front of me was a beautiful woman with ...
The horrifying photography of Don McCullin, now at the National Gallery of ...Ottawa Citizen (blog)
Yet in the 1980s he started to pull away from conflict zones, and more often turned his camera to the still life photographs he created in his shed (“an old, outdoor loo”), and landscapes around Somerset in the south of England. All the photographs in ...
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Street Photography: Exploitative vs RespectBy Darren Rowse
By no means is it in all street photography but there are times where what is presented is very confronting – not only to those viewing the images but sometimes the act of taking some streetphotography seems quite confronting, intrusive and even at times exploitative to the .... This is a very squishy subject with no easy boundaries–that said i get the feeling from some photos, say of homeless people, that the photographer is thinking, “This photo is sure to make me seem gritty and real !
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This Week In Photography Books – Rikard LavingBy Jonathan Blaustein
A Photo Editor (APE) is edited by Rob Haggart, the former Director of Photography for Men's Journal and Outside Magazine. Contributors include fine art photographer Jonathan Blaustein (@jblauphoto), Creative Director Heidi Volpe, ...
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