If you’re looking for inspiration, knowledge, or want to trace the history of photography, here’s something for you. Europeana Collections’ impressive digital gallery features 2.2 million images, covering the first 100 years of photography. Among the featured names, there are Man Ray, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge and Nicola Perscheid, to name a few. The photographs come from 34 countries, and many of them are free for the visitors to download and use.
The complete photography guide to shooting in museums and galleries
I dropped into the British Museum on Monday and spent a few hours in the Mesopotamian galleries with a brief flit through the Greek and Roman rooms, too. I don’t often take photos in museums—that’s mostly the subject of another article—but there were plenty of people using their phones to take photos of the artefacts on display. Getting the best out of a museum with an iPhone might not be the easiest, but there certainly are some techniques that any photographer can apply in order to improve their exhibition photography.
Instamuseum turns your Instagram account into a virtual reality 3D gallery
If scrolling through a plain old Instagram feed isn’t exciting enough for you, a new free online app called Instamuseum lets you turn it into a virtual museum.
To create your gallery, you’ll need an account on Sketchfab, but that is also free. To let people view them, you need simply to embed them into your website.
Pentax K1 sample images have been released showing off the Pixel Shift Resolution
Ricoh have today released a set of sample images for the recently announced full frame Pentax K1 DSLR.
I have to admit, I was a little underwhelmed with the images, until I saw what the Pixel Shift Resolution feature can do.
FIND THIS INTERESTING? SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS!