Category: Photo
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Big Earth
True Marble™ is a true color, photo-realistic, high resolution, 3 terabyte image of the earth. All data is provided at a base 15 meter resolution. Even if this was not shot in a single time (sattelite imagery is a bit more complex than Gigapan panoramas), this is really stupendous. But even more, you can download…
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JPEG compression abuse
You know it: JPEG image format allows to compress a photo picture without too much loss. But there is some loss. For real. You want an evidence? Open an image, save it in JPEG; Start over 600 times. The image deterioration will cumulate: Generation Loss from hadto on Vimeo.
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Best shorts
Link love Those are the best links I found recently. I could not write a full post about them, but they are worth visiting: Box.net launches a web-based free word processor (via Download Squad) Histoface: How to hide an image in the histogram of another image Safer Code – Secure Coding In C \ C++…
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Free movies (many)
We all love when things come free to us. Here I found a treasure trove of movies that are free to download. Legally. Thanks to the Canadians of the National Film Board of Canada. They give us feature-length movies, documentaries, animated short movies. Everything, of the best quality, at the best price: Free.
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Bird photos in Vincennes
Ten days ago, I went walking in the bois de Vincennes, near Paris, my photo camera in hand in the footsteps of Fabrice Hénon who accepted to share some of his informations. I’m back with pictures of Eurasian Jay and common kestrel. All the photos are on www.YLovePhoto.com : Eurasian Jay Common kestrel
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Fishing sardines, pro advice
If you want to fish sardines, ask advice from a pro : The sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus). This slides diaporama from National Geographic shows sailfishes grouping themselves to hunt a big school of sardines. Really beautiful and utterly technical.
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9 love messages from Planet Earth
You’d believe that our planet is in love. It can be read on its face (on its surface) merely under the form of pretty hearts nicely drawn. 9 other cases. Superb!
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Mega-pixel Obama
David Bergman created a large superb image of more than a billion pixels during Barack Obama’s inaugural address in Washington, on January 20th. Source: YLovePhoto.
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The longest photo
After showing here several record images in terms of resolution, here is a picture (with its own incredibly large quantity of pixels) of a record length: 100 meters. Here, panorama takes it to such extremes… It was taken over the course of 20 days and includes 178 different people. Source: Simon Hoegsberg, via The Online…