POSITION INFORMATION-  Positions allocable to this class perform specialized photographic work for the District Attorney's Bureau of Investigation.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS -Takes photographs in various formats (e.g., still, digital, and black and white)
utilizing video and/or photographic equipment in order to assist deputy district attorneys with specific case needs.
Develops and prints photographs using the Noritsu photographic and film processing system for use as evidence in criminal prosecution.

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A pair of researchers from Dartmouth University have devised a metric for quantifying how much a digital photograph has been altered by digital photo-editing techniques.

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Continuing the Fall barrage of camera announcements, Nikon announced its newest DSLR on Tuesday, the D7000. This camera will sit just above the popular D90 and below the D300S in the company's DSLR line-up. The D7000 has a 16.2 megapixel CMOS sensor, dual memory card slots, and a 39-point autofocus system.

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Just back from vacation and read Jennifer Apple's post on this tool.  I keep this one with me on a thumb drive when I'm out and about.  If you're not familiar with it check out Jennifer's post at photoshopsupport.com.

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onOne Software today announced availability of Perfect Photo Suite 5.5 for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Apple Aperture. Tackling specific problems within a photographer's preferred workflow, the Perfect Photo Suite 5.5 offers simple yet powerful solutions for color correction, image resizing, masking and professional photographic effects in one affordable package. With support for Photoshop CS5, CS4 and CS3, the Perfect Photo Suite 5.5 includes FocalPoint 2, PhotoTune 3, PhotoFrame 4.6, PhotoTools 2.6, MaskPro 4.1 and Perfect Resize 7 (the next generation of Genuine Fractals). The Perfect Photo Suite 5.5 will also include the recently announced Perfect Layers, which will be available in early 2011.

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If you're using Picasa you don't need to read any further, as I'm sure you already know this.  If you're not using Picasa for any reason, let me tell you one of the main reasons I do.   As you probably know Picasa is a pretty handy little free program for editing, managing and sharing your photos, but I rarely use it for any of those things.  What I love most about Picasa is the included Picasa Photo Viewer application.

December 29, 2010
For Immediate Release Press Release:

Atlantic Light Works and Reindeer Graphics announce the release of FreeHDR™ a free Photoshop add-on that performs High Dynamic Range (HDR) alignment and blending on digital photographs. Compatible with both Windows and Mac platforms in 32- and 64-bit processing, it operates in Photoshop CS4 and CS5 (Photoshop Extended required for 32-bits/channel images). FreeHDR™ works with both B&W and Color images in 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit modes. 

Canon grabs the headlines yet again with the EOS-1D C DSLR which will feature 4K high-resolution video capture capability, making it more than ready to usher in the next generation of digital cameras.

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The World Series can be quite a spectacle at times, and a single photo often can’t do justice to everything that’s going in the game. So will 360 hi-res photos compiled into a mammoth panorama do? Yes, please.

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Ex-Stanford student Ren Ng is just about to launch a new kind of camera that will blow you away. Don’t believe me? Try clicking around on this photo of a Scuba diver standing in front of distant mountains.

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