Photography at the Inauguration

A couple interesting photography notes from the Inauguration today:
Mashable has a nice piece on the coming of age of Microsoft’s Photosynth, as it was featured on CNN.
Additionally, Stephen Shankland over at Cnet has shows off satellite images of the Capitol Building and the crowd of onlookers.
I know there is a ton of other photography-related snippets [...]

Microsoft Discusses Digital Photography

While at Photokina, Microsoft’s Kostas Mallios took a moment to discuss the company’s efforts to help photographers solve problems. According to Mallios, Microsoft has been focusing on providing applications that help pros and advanced amateurs, such as Expression Media 2 (a professional asset management tool that comes bundled with Capture One).
Mallios also pointed to [...]

Photosynth Leaves Beta

As of this morning, Microsoft’s Live Labs project, Photosynth, is out of beta. The application / browser plugin combination allows you to stitch standard photos into 3-D panoramas.
Currently, Photosynth is Windows only — if you aren’t a Windows XP or Vista user, you’ll have to wait to get your photo-stitching fix. Photosynth uses a desktop [...]

New Photosynth Demo

Last year, Photography Bay dropped a note on the power Photosynth technology that Microsoft is developing.
Microsoft has been working hard and has posted a new demo video of Photosynth, which is pretty darned amazing stuff.

[via Crunchgear]

Licensing Photographs, Stock Photography, Photoshop, and the Groovy New Photosynth

Yet another example of Photoshop retouching working magic on some otherwise average photos.
A practical lesson on license management and copyright of your photos.
Check out 8 Microstock Websites and What the #&!! is Microstock Anyway. While you’re at it, get some insight into iStockphoto.com by Rich Legg.
Photosynth looks like an awesome new tool. Chalk one [...]