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Photo of the Day: “drunken-pumpkin”

This is one of the old ones that seems to get trotted out every halloween, but it doesn’t mean it’s any less funny. This is the epitome of creative pumpkin carving. Enjoy!

Wallpaper of the Day : Wantagh Park HDR

Wantagh Park Wallpaper, originally uploaded by justinflood.

Well for once, one of the photos I’m posting here is my own. This is an HDR panorama image of Wantagh Park, in Wantagh, NY, that I turned into a wallpaper for my MacBook. The size is 1280×800. Please feel free to use and enjoy it.

Photo of the Day: The Purest Form Of Art.

Discuss.

Photo of the Day: What’s all the eggcitement about?

Today’s shot of the day is a little something funny. Don’t be afraid to break a few eggs to get a good shot! Be creative, do something different!

Photo of the Day: Trees Snow and Shadows

Today’s image is a gorgeous shot of a winter landscape with a few trees dotting the landscape. The gorgeous sky makes this photo.

Why would anyone want a 9 megapixel cameraphone?

According to an article by UnWired View:

Digital Imaging Systems, a German-American developer of camera module technology, announced the availability of DIS6931 – the first ever 9 Megapixel camera module created for mobile devices.

Basically, a handset equipped with this camera module will be able to take photos at a 3488 x 2616 pixels maximum resolution. Even more, since the module features uber-fast autofocus (less than 300 milliseconds), a fast click-to-capture time (less than 200 ms) and high-quality lenses, the phone to integrate it should be among the best when it comes to photo quality.

No offense to the camera manufacturer here.  I’m sure it’s a marvel of modern technology, but there is absolutely no way that this thing will really be able to take pictures that are even WORTH being 9 megapixels.  It’s just simply physics.  The sensor sites on these tiny little cameras are just far too small to ever let enough light in to expose a really nice photo unless your in the perfect daylight conditions.  Granted, miniaturized technologies like autofocus, mechanical shutters, and better quality lenses will make the pictures less blurry, and reduce problems like chromatic abberation,  but the main problem of the majority of these camera phone’s is noisy, grainy photos.  This is due to the fact that a tiny little lens is letting in tiny amounts of light onto a tiny sensor.

The sensor itself is just not physically big enough to collect light in any sort of real way.  Couple that with the fact that most cameraphones have either no flash, or a tiny mostly ineffective LED flash, and the fact that most people take photos indoors where lighting conditions are poor at best, and you get the recipe for bad phtoography.   So now instead of 3 and 4 megapixel grainy cameraphone pictures, get ready to have 9 megapixel grainy cameraphone pictures.

Color me not so excited.