Haje Jan Kamps

Pixiq Expert

3 hours ago

Facebook: Photo sharing and premium accounts

The IPO is only one of the many things that are changing rapidly on Facebook. People are starting to point out that there's a huge problem at the very core of Facebook: It's an ad-driven site. And like all ad-driven sites, it has an enormous problem: People [...]

Haje Jan Kamps

Pixiq Expert

3 weeks ago

My first adventure in timelapse photography

I love experimenting with photography, but I've never really had much of a chance to play with timelapses until I started working with the Triggertrap. So, in the process of testing it all, I did a load of timelapses, and I figured that (since we've now [...]

Haje Jan Kamps

Pixiq Expert

4 weeks ago

Choosing your first dSLR camera

Whenever a new excuse for buying stuff (Christmas? Birthdays?) rolls around, the retailers are rubbing their money-grabbing little paws in glee, in anticipation of making a killing over the holiday seasons. Be that as it may, fact remains that there is a lot [...]

Haje Jan Kamps

Pixiq Expert

4 weeks ago

This self-portrait was taken by a stranger on the Internet

Today's post is brought to you by the how-bloody-meta-is-this department... So, I've been playing with different concepts of automating the taking of photos, by using the Triggertrap universal camera trigger I invented. As part of the upcoming Triggertrap [...]

Haje Jan Kamps

Pixiq Expert

4 weeks ago

The Avengers and Adventures in Terrible Headaches

Avengers is one of those movies that makes you wish your cinema seat had a seat belt - it's a no-holds-barred thrillride cocktail of two parts great casting, one part witty script, a large splash of VFX, blended with copious amounts of visual gags, a squeeze [...]

Haje Jan Kamps

Pixiq Expert

1 month ago

Eased Timelapses: Adding some acceleration to Timelapse videos

So I've been playing with timelapses a fair bit recently, and I've learned a lot of magical and mysterious things... For example, have you ever considered how it's pretty awesome to be able to speed up time by taking a photo every 2 seconds, and then playing [...]

Haje Jan Kamps

Pixiq Expert

1 month ago

Free Photography School

You're just starting out in photography, but you can't quite seem to get the hang of things? Or perhaps you've been taking photos for a while, and you're itching to get some inspiration to develop? Or maybe you've always been a person who learns best when they [...]

Haje Jan Kamps

Pixiq Expert

1 month ago

Carving out an online identity

Have you ever thought about how important an online 'brand' is, even when you're a person, rather than a brand? It's something that sprung to mind recently, when I was looking through my Twitter followers. Some of them have great, very easy-to-recognise icons [...]

Haje Jan Kamps

Pixiq Expert

1 month ago

Can you fix the focus on a blurry photo after the fact?

I seem to be on a roll this week, with finding incredibly interesting topics to write about over on Quora. In this case, the question was as simple as it was interesting: "Is it possible to focus an unfocused image with a computer program?". Answer... There [...]

Haje Jan Kamps

Pixiq Expert

1 month ago

Should you do a photography degree?

I was browsing Quora the other day, and found an awesome question: What's the benefit of studying photography? At first, I just answered 'Not much'... But then I erased those two words, and let things get a little bit out of hand. Enjoy: Let's take the first [...]

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