Destaques

Fotografia

Tutorials on Photography

Making fine prints in your digital darkroom (Light & color | Pixels, images, & files, etc), Image editing with Picture Window Pro (Introduction | Making and using masks | Contrast masking, etc), Understanding image sharpness and MTF (Introduction | Film and lenses | Scanners and sharpening | Printers, etc), Color management ( Introduction to Color science and Color management | Implemention part 1: Setup, working color space, profile anatomy, etc), Digital cameras vs. film, Canon EOS 10D Digital SLR, A simplified zone system for making good exposures, Photographic technique, Canon FS4000US 4000 dpi scanner, Epson 2450/3200 Flatbed scanners, Eliminating color fringing (lateral chromatic aberration).

Jodies Coston's Free Online Photography Course

Li a primeira parte do curso e é muito bom. Você pode começar quando quiser e pode contar com a ajuda da instrutora que ao final de cada módulo sugere um exercício relacionado ao tema estudado. Os temas são:

• Composition And Impact - It's A Beautiful Photograph, But Do You Know WHY It's Beautiful?


• Aperture And Shutter Speed - How They Work Together.


• The lens - choosing camera optics.


• ISO, Grain, Transparency vs. Negative, Specialty Films


• Fun Effects - Camera Filters, Soft Focus, Zooming And Panning


• Landscape, Nature and Travel Photography


• Portraits And Studio Lighting


• Studio Lighting - Still Life and Product Photography


• Tying It All Together

Assim que arrumar minha impressora farei o curso.

India launches world's first education satellite

"Millions of illiterate people in remote, rural India could soon have access to an education, as a satellite devoted exclusively to long distance learning was launched on Monday. It is the world's first dedicated educational satellite, according to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)."

Siberian boy 'brought up by dog

A seven-year-old boy who has been brought up by a dog for the past six years has reportedly been found in Siberia.

Police in the Altai autonomous region were on a routine patrol in the woods when they spotted the boy in front of an abandoned house with the elderly dog.

It is thought the undernourished boy was abandoned by his parents and survived by living off the food he shared with the dog. (...)

Feral Children

Feral children are children who have spent much of their formative years in the wild, without any contact with other humans for a significant period of their lives. Cases of feral children are thankfully rare, but are of immense interest from a scientific and educational point of view. Feral children provide data which help to answer a number of questions:

• How close is human nature to the nature of an animal?


• What aspects of human nature are genetic, and what aspects are learned?


• What does consciousness mean?


• Could we learn how to speak to animals, or could we teach animals to speak to humans?