Apple’s new iPad has had me doing some thinking about its potential impact fro the visually impaired, particularly for blind photographers. Reading an article today (thanks, Dad) about a new e-book reader software, Blio, soon to be put out by a company run by Ray Kurzweil, prompted me to consider a new issue, accessible...
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aAuthors@Google: Trey Ratcliff – blind in one eye, Trey Ratcliff is a well-known travel photographer. Here, he describes how he captured his High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. Blind With Camera: Images from a world that is not seen | The Better Indiar – Blind With Camera is based in Mumbai, India, and has recently...
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There is a 2001 Brazilian movie, A Janela Da Alma (Window of the Soul), about blind photographers. The New York Times has a review of the movie. From the NY Times: “Brazilian filmmakers Joao Jardim and Walter Carvalho ponder the old adage “the eyes are the windows to the soul” as they explore vision...
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A Sense of Sight – The New York Times – John Dugdale explains the process he now uses as a blind photographer. Adorama announces the APPOS, the first annual iPhone App Awards for Photography : Picture Business – iPhone app and iPhone photo contests. APH Insights 2010: Call for Entries | Blind Photographers...
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Not too long ago, I posted about A Conversation About the Film Dark Light: The Art of Blind Photographers. Well, that conversation has taken place. The Annenberg Space for Photography’s blog reports about how “Bruce Hall and Corinne Marinnan open our eyes to Blind Photography!“. The subject of the evening was a short film...
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From my time in the tech industry, I've tested cameras of almost every brand and make. Some cameras are better than others in certain aspects. If you're having problems with your vision even more than before (as I am) there are a couple of cameras that may actually be able to help you out...
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As I followed today’s announcement of the new Apple iPad, I began to imagine how, if at all, it could make photography easier. I already have its tiny older sibling, the iPod Touch, which I am using to compose this post. The iPad looks to be mostly a jumbo version of the Touch. The...
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As a Blind Photographer, I thought that I had a slight disadvantage with shooting street photography. Readers of this blog and my other site PhotographyBay.com will know that I like focusing manually for many reasons, one of them is that it allows me to show people the way I see. For those of you...
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Shooting in low light is something that's extremely hard to do. With the exception of Nikon, many autofocus camera systems I've used don't perform that well in this department. However, being a Blind Photographer has forced me to learn how to adapt and deliver only top quality images. Part of this comes form my...
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