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High School in China Installs Facial Recognition Cameras To Monitor Students' Attentiveness
A high school in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province located on the eastern coast of China, has employed facial recognition technology to monitor students' attentiveness in class, local media reports. From the report: At Hangzhou Number 11 High School, three cameras at the front of the classroom scan s...
How to Thwart Facial Recognition
Give the camera someone else’s face — or obscure your own. Strive for asymmetry. Make your head unheadlike.
What Do Facial Recognition Technologies Mean for Our Privacy?
These photographers pushed the technological limits of photography to explore what makes a face distinct, and how that might affect the way powerful figures see people.
What Caricatures Can Teach Us About Facial Recognition
Check this awesome article in WIRED Magazine about facial recognition and how caricature artists have it all figured out, written by Ben Austen. You can also download it as a PDF.
Unknown Civil War Faces are Being Identified Through Facial Recognition App
Civil War Photo Sleuth (CWPS) is a perfect mixture between passion for our history and advanced technology. Using new facial recognition software
10 Photo-Editing Apps To Fix Facial Imperfections Easily
Love taking selfies but wish you don't have to fall back on Photoshop so much? Let's face it, we all want to look good on our profile pictures but a...
The real reason why poor kids perform worse in school
10 building blocks of early childhood education
A new brief highlights 10 important elements of high-quality early childhood education programs, pulled from a body of research, which can help young students have an equitable start with a strong …
Do you know what the most useful button on your camera is?
Today I would like to talk about one of the most useful buttons on a digital camera. In fact, it may be the single most useful feature next to the shutter button itself. This all-important button activates a setting known as exposure compensation. As the name implies, this setting allows you to compensate for an improper exposure. Essentially you can force the camera to make an image lighter or darker if your quick review of the screen shows that the exposure is off…
Learn to Read Your Camera Lens
Pretty Presets and Mom & Camera have put together another simple tip sheet about understanding camera lenses so you can get the most out of them.
Some Mistakes That I Recommend You Make Behind the Camera
I can’t help but notice all those articles proclaiming mistakes we should try to avoid in order to become a better photographer. Admittedly, I have issues
Is There a Wrong Way to Hold a Camera?
I am a pretty observant guy...I notice certain things about people and how they do things. I guess it is just the curiosity in me that is fascinated by how differently people do certain things. Something that I always get a kick out of is how different people hold their camera. Some professional photographers may argue that there is a proper way or proper technique when holding your camera. I say that how you hold ...
5 Tips For Better Photography With Any Camera
Blaming your camera gear for mistakes is a real no no in photography. In reality, a skilled photographer will be able to take great photos with any camera at their disposal and a little planning. So what can you do to get great shots with sub-standard gear? You can use the same elements in photography as you would be when shooting with a DSLR. Composition No matter what camera you are using, if your composition is bad, there won’t be a good picture…
What makes camera phone pictures look good, and what doesn't
Not all camera phones are created equal - some of them can take pictures of quality close to that of dedicated point-and-shoot cameras, while others don't even come close. But what are the factors that the quality of a camera phone's images really depends on? Read along...
Why it’s Important to Know Photography (It’s Not Enough to Know Your Camera)
Ever since digital cameras came into the market, many people interested in photography have been concentrating only on learning more and more about how their camera works, and how they can use it so they can get photos the way they want. In my classes, many of my students do the same. They are fascinated [...]
How to Choose Facial Hair Based on Face Shape
Subscribe to Alpha M. on YouTube<br>VIDEO: Grooming for the Job You Have and the Job You Want<br>ARTICLE: Facial Hair and Face Shapes<br>The starting point for determining what facial hair you're going to wear is the job you have or the job you want to have. The good news is that society is getting more comfortable with men's facial hair. Aaron Marino of alpha m. discusses considerations for determining f
How Does A Camera Work?
Imagine you are standing in the middle of a room with no windows, doors or lights. What do you see? Well, nothing because there’s no light. Now imagine you pull out a flashlight and turn it on. The light from the flashlight moves in a straight line. When that beam of light hits an object, the light bounces off that item and into your eyes, allowing you to see whatever is inside the room<br>All light behaves just like that flashlight — it…
YouTube Is Helping Parents Monitor What Their Child Is Watching
This new tool will let parents have control over what their kids watch through a supervised Google account.
Proper Camera Holding Techniques
#sportsphotography #camera #photographer #phototips Proper camera holding techniques can be the difference between a blurry, crooked photo and a sharp, strai...
How to Set Up an Email for Your Child You Can Monitor
If you want your child to have email but worry about what might turn up in that inbox, set up a Gmail account to forward copies of everything to you.
How The Shining's Camera Creates Constant Unease
The Shining is a brilliant film, and it’s a scary film, and those two things are for the same reason.
