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Via Princeton: The Princeton University Art of Science Competition is a celebration of the aesthetics of research and the ways in which science and engineering inform art and vise versa. Now in its second year, the competition is open to all members of the Princeton University community.

This spring we solicited images, videos, and sounds produced in the course of research in the sciences, engineering and mathematics, as well as creative works from any department incorporating tools or concepts from science. Entries were judged based on aesthetic excellence as well as scientific or technical interest.

The practices of science and art both involve the single-minded pursuit of those moments of discovery when what one perceives suddenly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Each piece in this exhibition is, in its own way, a record of such a moment. They range from the image that validates years of research, to the epiphany of beauty in the trash after a long day at the lab, to a painter’s meditation on the meaning of biological life. READ

Via Layers Magazine: Possibly one of the most confusing aspects of dealing with digital imagery is resolution-specifically, what it really is and how changing it affects an image. You’d be shocked at the number of brilliant designers who don’t know how to change an image from 72 dpi to 300 dpi-without turning it into a pile of pixel mush. That is, until now.

Today we’re going to talk about the relationship between resolution and pixels, and what it means to you. We’ll discuss the difference between upsampling-a rather evil practice of increasing the resolution (and thereby the number of pixels) in order to make the image larger than it originally was-and changing the resolution of an image without changing pixel data. First, let’s chat briefly about resolution in general.READ

Via Blurbomat: I’ve often been asked about my process for tweaking photos. I thought I’d use one of my favorite photos and show how I took it from initial capture to final public display. I had forgotten how far I had taken this image from its initial capture. READ

Via Backing Winds: If you visit here regularly, you’ve probably noticed that I post a lot of High Dyanamic Range, or HDR, stuff these days. Even if you don’t, you’ve likely seen HDR photos all around the net as photographers both pro and amateur experiment with this emerging artistic format. Personally, I was pointed to it earlier this year by a fellow photographer & friend, Darren, and I’ve been having a ton of fun with it since. MORE