With the development and application of digital technologies, the digital camera is more popular than other electronic products for all ages. The operations of digital cameras are facile and the user interface is similar in most brands. Auto-focusing is a common but important feature both for still image photography and video photography. Traditionally, focusing sensors are utilized for auto-fo...

This paper examines recent acclaim for professional embedded photojournalists who visually document the experience of US soldiers in Afghanistan using the popular mobile photo application Hipstamatic. These photos have stirred controversy among fellow journalists and cultural critics regarding the use of photo filters in Hipstamatic and similar app Instagram, their contribution to the de-profes...

DEAR EDITOR Photography is an essential part of plastic surgery given the visual nature of our specialty. Its uses are innumerable; it enables us to document form and function, helps us plan an operation, assists us in teaching, serves a medico-legal purpose and may even assist with research.1 This is by no means an exhaustive list. Yet, despite its indispensability to the proper practice of pl...

Computational photography combines plentiful computing, digital sensors, modern optics, actuators, and smart lights to escape the limitations of traditional cameras, enables novel imaging applications and simplifies many computer vision tasks. However, a majority of current Computational photography methods involves taking multiple sequential photos by changing scene parameters and fusing the p...

The smartphone plays a significant role in media convergence, and smartphone photography is reconstructing the way we communicate and think. This article aims to explore the smartphone photography practices of urban Chinese smartphone users and images produced by smartphones from a techno-cultural perspective. The analysis consists of two types of data: One is a semi-structured interview of 21 ...

This study focuses on gender perspective to explore the Taiwan married women’s experience in using the camera. Unlike Western women who dominate the family photography for a long time, early family photography in Taiwan is mainly responsible by the male. Until the early '80s women had more shooting opportunities. In this study, through the interview to seven of Taiwan's middle-class women’s cam...

OBJECTIVE To determine the validity of digital photography as an evaluation method for shoulder balance (ShB) in patients with idiopathic scoliosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 80 patients were included (mean age 20.3 years; 85% women). We obtained a full x-ray of the vertebral column and front and back clinical photography for all patients. For antero-posterior x-rays we measured the pro...

The principles of photography have remained largely unchanged since its invention by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in the 1820s. A lens focuses light from the scene onto a photosensitive plate, which records this information directly to form a picture. Because this picture is a simple copy of the optical image reaching the plate, improvements in image quality have been achieved primarily by refi ning...