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Google Glass Will Have a 5-Megapixel Camera
With the first round of Google Glass releases on the horizon, the official specs of the device are finally coming to light

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Glitché App Intentionally Breaks Your Photographs

This iOS app turns your images into glitch art
- By Tim Barribeau on April 19, 2013
Glitch art is a currently popular art trend, which intentionally introduces errors into digital files. That means breaking your images on purpose, corrupting and altering them to create bizarre abstractions and surreal versions of the original photograph.
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Nike PHOTOiD Makes Custom-Colored Sneakers Inspired By Instagram Photos

Wear the colors from your photos on your feet
- By Stan Horaczek on April 19, 2013
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1897 Book of Magic Shows the Wonders of Victorian Trick Photography

Even during the infancy of photography, people were shooting wonderful and unbelievable images
- By Tim Barribeau on April 18, 2013
Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, including Trick Photography is not a small book. Clocking in at 580 pages, this tome from 1897 is a compilation of tricks and trickery from the Victorain age, compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins. While most of its hefty length is devoted to the stage craft that made illusionists and magicians so popular, the last few hundred pages are something equally interesting: early trick photography.
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Adobe Once Again Teases "Camera Shake Reduction" Photoshop Feature

In the future, you might be able to apply IS after the shot has been taken
- By Stan Horaczek on April 17, 2013
Back in 2011, the internet was blown away when Adobe showed off a future Photoshop feature that could take an image suffering from camera shake and fix it automatically. It sounds fantastic, but we haven't heard much about it since then. Now, however, in a promotion for their upcoming MAX conference, they're offering one of their famous "sneak peaks" and showing the filter in a much more realistic setting.
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Music Video Demonstrates How Light Direction Can Transform a Face

This short preview of a music video shows just how different a person can look when lit from different angles
- By Tim Barribeau on April 17, 2013
There are a lot of things to consider when taking a portrait, but this short video is a nice reminder of just how important it is to consider the direction of your light.
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New Gear: Fujifilm Announces X-Series 55-200mm Lens, Updated Lens Roadmap

Fujifilm X-Series shooters finally get a proper telephoto lens, and a raft of new glass is in the works
- By Tim Barribeau on April 17, 2013
Fujifilm X-series is still something of a fledgeling in the camera world, so there isn't exactly an abundance of lens options out there for it. But that number is set to balloon according to a new lens roadmap, starting with the freshly announced FUJINON XF55-200mm F3.5-4.8 R LM OIS for the X-Pro1 and X-E1.
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Project OneRollFifty2: One Photographer Makes Film a Year Long Ambition

Wanting to undertake a year long project and experiment with film, photographer Travis Lawton opted to shoot one roll a week, for 52 weeks
- By Tim Barribeau on April 16, 2013
Many of us have attempted the 365 day photo project in the past — a personal quest to take a photograph every day for a year. But when photographer Travis Lawton decided he wanted to attempt a year long undertaking, he wanted to use film, not digital. And so he created Project OneRollFifty2, shooting one roll of film every week for a year.
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Lightroom 5 Beta Brings Improved Healing Brush, Smart Previews

New tools and other improvements make their way into Adobe's image workflow software
- By Stan Horaczek on April 15, 2013
For many photographers, Lightroom has become a pretty important part of the photographic workflow. Now, the new version, Lightroom 5, is available to try before the final code is ready. There is no new RAW process with this version of Lightroom, so your images won't look noticeably different than they did in the previous version. One of the big jumps from version three to version four was the new process, so don't expect to see a change in your images right off the bat. They have added some nifty new tools, though.
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500px Overhauls Portfolios, Bumps Prices

500px is majorly overhauling its portfolios system and adding upgrades to all accounts — but asking for a bit more money in the process
- By Tim Barribeau on April 12, 2013
Popular photograph site 500px has just announced a plan to overhaul its portfolio system, completely redesigning it from the ground up. The Professional Photo Portfolios are available to members who have upgraded to 500px's "Awesome" level of membership. The new redesign will offer a significant visual update, as well as the option for complete customization via CSS for users who want to go code diving.In a press release, 500px said:
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Proposed Vermont Bill Will Not Outlaw Photographing People Without Their Permission (Updated)

A newly proposed legislation would "make it illegal to take a photograph of a person without his or her consent"
- By Tim Barribeau on April 12, 2013
UPDATE 2: Official word from Representative Nuovo:
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