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Lytro Images and Digital Paint - A Gallery
A Gallery of Lytro PaintingsHere are a few refocused and digitally painted images. All of the images in the gallery were captured with a Lytro camera, refocused after shooting, saved as jpegs, (a few...
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Playing with the Lytro Light Field Camera
A Gallery of Fun Lytro CreationsI'm on a roll with the Lytro. Probably, because I can see its future.Here are a few refocused and digitally altered images. All of the images in the gallery were...
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Fun TTV with a Lytro Light Field Camera
© John NeelI had a hunch that this would work. And it does.I used a Lytro Light Field camera to record the TTV images on this page. These are the very first experimental images I have produced. I...
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Using the Lytro as a regular snapshooter
The Lytro camera is billed as a "Living Pictures" camera. In Lytro terms that means the image can be refocused after the shot has been taken.However, I am finding that the camera is fun to use as a...
View ArticlePlaying with the Lytro and Studio Artist
A Gallery of Lytro + Studio Artist imagesThe Lytro light field camera is almost a perfect match for paint software such as Studio Artist. Small files are easier to use than the typical large files...
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Lytro Mosaic + Crazy Flexify 2 + Insane ArtMatic Fractals = Wild Textures
Crazy textures and wild backgrounds are fairly simple to make. With computer software there are endless ways to make them. While any image can be mutated into a multitude of textural creations, I have...
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Adding Light to a Lytro Camera
The Lytro is a fun to use camera. While it can shoot under low lighting conditions, there is no on board lighting.However, there a few ways that you can create light by using an LED flashlight or an...
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Personal Perpetual Photography - Lifelogging
About 15 years ago, while working in the research labs at Kodak, I had the idea of a personal black box. The original idea was a wearable device such as a necklace or a pin that would continuously...
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The sands of time: my daughter becomes a mensch
In the advent of Hurricane Sandy smashing into the East Coast and specifically New York and New Jersey, a silver lining occurred. Social media created a storm of do-gooders who banded together to aid...
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Lytro Wiggle 3D - From Perspective Shift Samples
My last post was about the newly announced perspective shift software upgrade from Lytro.New Lytro Perspective Shift - Coming Soon!Here is something cool that you'll be able to do when the new Lytro...
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Photography Aids Marine Science
At times, we may think getting images on terra firma is not always easy. But imagine having to devise ways and means to bring back images of life in the ocean depths. Long before it was possible to...
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Cool Lytro Animated EFEX _ from Lytro Samples
I produced these over the last few days using images from the Lytro website.Lytro light field cameras can be used to produce a number of new possibilities for animation. The main difference in this and...
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Stack Shot of a Tiny Tick
Focus Stacking with a microscope objective is a challenge when working with very tiny subjects such as this tick. The actual size of this nasty little critter is a bit smaller than a pinhead (or the...
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Playing With Lytro Perspective Shift Color Anaglyphs
Stereo Anaglyphs from Light Field ImagesI finally had some time to play with a few of my own shots taken with the Lytro Camera.Here are a few Lytro Lightfield Perspective Shift images, which I made...
View ArticleThe 2012 round-up
If you want 2012 in a sentence, it was all about putting big sensors in smaller cameras and the continued rise of social photography. Nikon and Canon both unveiled smaller-bodied cameras that had...
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A Pinhole Can Change Your Photography - 2013 WPPD
A Pinhole Can Change Your PhotographyThe next pinhole day is April 28, 2013I get a bit excited this time every year as I begin to plan for the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day event coming up at the...
View ArticleOlympus gets tough
Tough or rugged cameras used to be a bit of a laughing stock: badly specced and not really all that rugged, why would anyone bother? But as smartphone photography has taken off, they've evolved into...
View ArticleThe weekly round-up
CES week: it's always busy with hundreds of new camera releases, but it's infrequently exciting because there's often little to differentiate them. The highlight, for me, this year were the refreshed...
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Painting the Pinhole Image
One of my favorite things to do with a pinhole photograph is to finish the image in a digital paint application. Because of their lack of hard details, pinhole produced imagery seems to lend itself...
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Pushing the Pinhole Image
Traditionally, pinhole photographs have been pretty much straight out of the box, so to speak. In the old days of film and paper, there were a few photographic controls to enhance the final rendition...
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