New Delhi: Who said photography was only for those with normal vision? Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Dustin Adams, Lourdes Morales and Sri Kurniawan, have developed a camera app that can be used by the blind and partially sighted people to fulfill their photography ambitions, reports NewScientist.
As part of their research, Adams and his colleagues quizzed 54 people about what they found toughest about clicking pictures. Now, among those quizzed were some partially sighted, while there were some who were completely blind and others with a degree of light perception. What they answered summed up as the specifications for the app.
One of the respondents said that one obstacle was how to frame a shot. "If I am in a group, I usually have someone advise me on camera placement, even if I take the picture myself."
One of the findings that emerged at the end of the survey showed that while there are smartphones today that offer face detection capabilities and a feature that says the function of the screen buttons aloud when a user taps on them, there is a need for more features to make such apps visually impaired-friendly. ...
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09:38 AM, May 12, 2013
A Spanish organisation - ANAR or Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk Foundation - has come up with a unique project - a phone helpline number that is visible only to children using the technique of lenticular photography to help them report abuse. The number 116 111 is meant to attend to children and teenagers under a risk situation. On this telephone number, only for minors, they can find...
09:31 AM, May 07, 2013
New York: Eastman Kodak says it expects to emerge from bankruptcy protection between July and September. Many of the storied businesses associated with the Kodak name will be gone. It will no longer make cameras, home computer printers, or digital picture frames. It will mostly be out of the consumer film business, providing only supplies and services to the new owners of that business. The reorganization plan filed late on...
08:25 PM, May 01, 2013
Photographs featuring Rihanna, nude from waist down, were posted online by her friend. ...
11:35 AM, Mar 10, 2013
The Kumbh Mela administration on Saturday banned photography at all bathing ghats at the religious congregation, officials said. ...
12:26 AM, Feb 24, 2013
Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke did not just leave his footprints on the Moon, he also left a family photograph on his historic trip to the lunar surface 40 years ago. Astronauts Charlie Duke and John Young embarked on a lunar mission on April 23 1972, to explore the Moon's Descartes Highlands in a Lunar Roving Vehicle. ...
01:00 PM, Feb 13, 2013
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday warned party workers not to use his photograph in banners and posters without party's permission otherwise strict disciplinary action will be taken against them. "You all should remain disciplined. Those using my photographs in banners and posters should immediately stop the practise or strict disciplinary action will be taken against them. Party flags and stickers should also not be misused," Yadav said...
10:25 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Some unseen monochrome photographs of the blood spilled bunker, where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide, are on public display for the first time. Many of the black and white photos did not make the final cut for the special edition published immediately after the war in 1945, but have been flagged up now in Life.com gallery after a trawl through the magazine's archives. ...
02:51 PM, Jan 17, 2013
The news of well known photographer Jagdish Mali being rescued from the streets of Mumbai sent shock waves in the film industry. ...
01:37 PM, Jan 17, 2013
Famously known as Satyajit Ray's photographer, lensman Nemai Ghosh, has worked in close association with him for over 25 years capturing the master filmmaker in his myriad moods. ...
03:34 PM, Jan 07, 2013
A previously unpublished photo of Princess Diana as a teenager is set to go under the hammer. This picture of the Princess of Wales was given to a newspaper a day after she and Prince Charles announced their engagement. ...
11:30 AM, Jan 05, 2013
The government has released pictures of the MV Iceberg sailors, who were held hostage for 32 months by Somali pirates, after the cargo ship was rescued last week. The pictures show six sailors from India along with sailors from other countries including Pakistan. ...
05:30 PM, Dec 28, 2012
Ayodhya: Twenty years after the demolition of the Babri Masjid, CNN-IBN recalls one of the most tragic events in the history of the country, through the lens of a photographer. December 6, 1992 was a day that India will never forget as the Babri Masjid was demolished. At the forefront of action that day were those who were the eyes of the country, the photojournalists. Sanjay Sharma, then with the...
11:50 AM, Dec 06, 2012
Stories of people who inspire, make it believe that there is nothing that is impossible in the world. On this episode, photography gets a whole new meaning. Also, meet an eight-year-old boy who dreams of being the next Sachin Tendulkar. ...
04:14 PM, Nov 04, 2012
New Delhi: A Mumbai-based photographer, Partho Bhowmick, provides the visually impaired an experience in artistic expression, through the use of camera. The students at his workshops are all visually impaired, and they learn to use their other senses to see. The students show how they use sound to gauge direction and touch to measure the object they are shooting. That's how those who have no sight can see images through...
10:25 AM, Oct 29, 2012
A Swedish celebrity gossip magazine published topless photographs of the wife of Britain's Prince William, the former Kate Middleton, on Wednesday and a Danish sister journal is to follow suit on Thursday. The pictures were published despite a decision by a French court on Tuesday to ban gossip magazine Closer from further publishing the photographs and ordering it to hand the pictures over to the royal couple. The injunction granted...
10:45 AM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: An inquiry was ordered after a Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian Army filed a complaint that explicit photographs and videos of his wife were uploaded on the Internet by a serving Major. The inquiry is being headed by a Brigadier. Both the Lieutenant Colonel and the Major are presently serving in Army Aviation Corps in Bhatinda. If sources in the Army are to be believed, this is a...
10:14 AM, Sep 07, 2012
Coimbatore: Incidents during the past week at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Madras) have left me bewildered and worried. Not because a photographer colleague was assaulted on the campus but more so the way the institutes administration is mishandling the development. As someone who loved following the highs and lows in the higher education sector for nearly a decade, I am rather concerned about the drift in the IIT...
02:56 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Chennai: There seems to be no end to the flip-flops on part of the IIT-Madras management. While on Saturday they had clearly stated to media representatives in front of senior police officers that they would ensure withdrawal of the false complaint filed against The New Indian Express photographer Albin Mathew, this stand was reversed at a faculty meet held inside the campus on Sunday where professors were apparently told that...
02:27 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Chennai: The police have registered a case against six persons, including IIT-M Professor Maiya and five security guards of the institution, for assaulting Express photographer Albin Mathew. Both Mathew and Maiya were summoned to the Kotturpuram Police Station on Wednesday evening.After preliminary probe, a case was registered under Sec 147 (punishment for rioting), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 506 (ii) (threat to cause...
07:51 AM, Aug 24, 2012
