Curated Video
Ensuring Authenticity: The Role of Holographic Watermarks in Digital Photography
This video discusses the impact of digital imaging technology on photo manipulation and the development of a unique hologram watermarking technique by Italian researchers to verify the authenticity of digital photos. By adding a special...
Curated Video
Title: "Innovative Technology to Detect Digital Photo Manipulation
This video discusses the development of a new technique by researchers at the Italian University of Roma, Tre, to detect digital photo alterations using encrypted watermarks. By adding a special hologram to digital photographs, editors...
The Telegraph
The science behind how a digital camera works
While technology plays an integral part in our daily lives, many of us have little understanding of how the devices we use every day actually work. In the video above we reveal how a digital camera works, creating an image by allowing...
Curated Video
How Digital Cameras Use Numbers to Create Images
This video explains how digital cameras work and how they are different from film cameras. It describes how electronic technology is used to capture and store images as strings of numbers, allowing for instant sharing and manipulation of...
The Art Assignment
Use video for an expanded moment. | The Art Assignment | Jan Tichy
This week we meet Jan Tichy, a Chicago-based artist who gives us the assignment to create an Expanded Moment using video. We also discuss how this assignment is a play on THE DECISIVE MOMENT by photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who...
SciShow
The Science of a Selfie
Taking photos used to require technical knowledge and time in a lab, but now we have electronic devices in our pockets that do all of the work for us. How do these miracle devices do it? Hosted by: Olivia Gordon
The Guardian
The black art: wet plate collodion photography
Photographer Adrian Cook uses one of the oldest photographic processes to make unique images on aluminium plates. Guardian Australia's picture editor, Jonny Weeks, joins him in his portable darkroom for a shoot on Sydney Harbour. Cook...
Curated Video
The Intense Quality Control at an Italian Pasta Factory 🍝 Inside The Factory | Smithsonian Channel
One of the most remarkable machines in the Barilla pasta factory in Parma, Italy is its optical sorting machine. It uses a digital camera to scan 34,000 kernels of wheat each second, sorting out the sub-standard ones. From: Inside The...
SciShow
The Science of a Selfie
Taking photos used to require technical knowledge and time in a lab, but now we have electronic devices in our pockets that do all of the work for us. How do these miracle devices do it?
SciShow
The Science of a Selfie
Taking photos used to require technical knowledge and time in a lab, but now we have electronic devices in our pockets that do all of the work for us. How do these miracle devices do it?
Curated Video
How Does a Polaroid Camera Work?
Polaroid pictures work by using a light-sensitive film that is exposed to the incoming light of the scene you wish to capture. The film is then developed in a matter of seconds, producing a negative image. To create the final, positive...
TED Talks
TED: How your pictures can help reclaim lost history | Chance Coughenour
Digital archaeologist Chance Coughenour is using pictures -- your pictures -- to reclaim antiquities that have been lost to conflict and disaster. After crowdsourcing photographs of destroyed monuments, museums and artifacts, Coughenour...
National Geographic
New Digital Series: Ingredients With George Zaidan (Trailer) | National Geographic
Coming September 15 - Join MIT-trained chemist and science educator George Zaidan as he tries to recreate everyday household products like toothpaste, lipstick, or shaving cream using only natural ingredients… and no recipe! He’ll have...
Curated Video
Factpack: Colour Mixing
Learn how colours are made using additive and subtractive colour mixing. Physics - Waves - Learning Points. A Twig FactPack Film. Open a discussion on what has been already learnt in a topic, or use to grab attention at the start of a...
NASA
Explore the Universe with Hubble Messier Catalog
The Messier catalog includes some of the most fascinating astronomical objects that can be observed from Earth's Northern Hemisphere. Among them are deep-sky objects that can be viewed in stunning detail using larger telescopes but are...
Curated Video
The Surprisingly Long History of the Selfie
Selfies originated in self-portraits made by artists using mirrors and have evolved into the widespread phenomenon seen today on social media platforms. This video highlights advancements in camera technology, from daguerreotype cameras...
Mediacorp
Local Fire Brigade Battles Forest Fires in Central Kalimantan
This video showcases the challenges faced by a local fire brigade in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, as they battle forest fires in a highly flammable jungle bed made of organic matter. Follow the local firemen on a drill and learn what...
Curated Video
Are you "Black" or "African American?" | Say It Loud | PBS Digital Studios
Throughout American history people of the African Diaspora have been called so many things...all the things...but what does it truly mean, and how does it impact or affect the way we see ourselves. Evelyn from The Internets and Azie...
Seeker
How High-Speed Photography Unlocked the Mechanics of Motion
One man opened up a hidden world of motion, from every day objects to the unique physics happening inside a nuclear bomb Special thanks to MIT’s J. Kim Vandiver, Jim Bales, Camilla Brinkman, and Rachael Robinson....
The Art Assignment
5. Quietest Place - Jace Clayton | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
In which Jace Clayton, aka DJ /Rupture, challenges you to take a walk from where you live and find the quietest place. Once you're there, take it in for a moment and then make a short video or take some photos there. EPISODE 05...
The Art Assignment
Expanded Moment - Jan Tichy | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios
This week we meet Jan Tichy, a Chicago-based artist who gives us the assignment to create an Expanded Moment. See the fantastic responses to this assignment by the ChiArts students & subscribe here:...
TED Talks
TED: How PhotoSynth can connect the world's images | Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them.
Be Smart
Why No One Can See the Stars Anymore
It never gets dark anymore. Not REALLY dark, anyway. Not like it used to. Light pollution is not only making it more difficult to see the night sky, but it's also affecting our health. For the past century and a half, since the dawn of...
Big Think
The best photos of Earth taken from space | Chris Hadfield
Flying three missions to space, the now-retired astronaut Chris Hadfield took around 45,000 photos. He shares how difficult it is to take pictures in space when your day is highly structured. But the times you can do it - there's a...