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Photo of the Day – Baby Fingers
by RgDesign (rgrauphics) on May.07, 2010, under Photos
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Photo of the Day – Thailand Flower
by RgDesign (rgrauphics) on May.04, 2010, under Photos
Just got done uploading a bunch of new photos to the photography site. This time we concentrated on a few destination photos. Thailand photos were provided by our good friend who took a trip there a year ago. Come by and check out some of these AMAZING photos. Here is just one to peak your interest.
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Photo of Day – Trees
by RgDesign (rgrauphics) on Apr.30, 2010, under Photos, RG Design Talk
Been so busy around here almost forgot to do our postings. Been working with the photography site off and on for the last couple of days making sure everything is still working. Had some issues but got them worked out. We have added quite a few NEW pictures under the water fall section and now we have moved onto our photos of Trees.
I know I know how exciting, but I think we have some great shots of Autumn in Rocky Mountians, a fresh snow fall on a Pine Tree, Sunsets through trees and more. Here are a few of the Trees we have on the photo site.
Horsing Around – Photo of the Day
by RgDesign (rgrauphics) on Apr.19, 2010, under Photos
Baby Feet! Photo of the Day
by RgDesign (rgrauphics) on Apr.06, 2010, under Photos
LOLImage Search Engines They are Coming.
by RgDesign (rgrauphics) on Aug.03, 2009, under Photos, Tech News
Interesting article about image searching from Click Z. We did some testing on the image search engine Tineye, I have to say it did a pretty good job finding random photos that I got off Google Image search. But when it came down to searching one of our own photos it couldn’t find anything similar to our photo. I say give it some time and I this searching could be useful. The technology behind it sounds super interesting, being able to read the pixels within an image.
Original Article written by Julie Batten @ ClickZ. Read the artcle here.
These days, major search engines offer advanced image search options, enabling users to filter searches by size, colorization, and file type. Yet limitations still exist.
Until recently, most search engines had focused on alt tags and context surrounding images to categorize and index those images. A user would type in a text query, and the search engine would rank the images based almost exclusively on their relevancy to the keywords contained in the image’s alt text, surrounding body copy, and page metadata. This has made image search the target of spammers undertaking keyword stuffing or similar black-hat SEO (define) techniques.
New technologies are emerging that will take image search a step further, however. Instead of looking at the text associated with an image, these technologies can effectively scan and “see” what the image is to provide the user with information about it.
The applications of such technology are far reaching, including copyright protection, content moderation, censorship, and forensics investigations. Today, I’ll focus on its application to search specifically. Terms used to describe these advances include “visual search technologies,” “visual cataloguing,” “image recognition,” “image identification,” and “visual content analysis.” No matter what you call them, though, these technologies essentially attempt to do the same thing: decipher the content in an image so that queries can be performed.
Why should you care about all this? I’m sure you’ve experienced one of the following scenarios:
- When you go through your photos from the previous night, you find a picture with a random person in it. You want to find out who that person is.
- You take a picture of something and later notice something cool in the background (a painting, car, gadget, etc.) and want to know where to buy it.
- You vacation abroad and snap a photo of a historic landmark. Later, you can’t remember what the landmark is called.
- You find an image that you want to publish online or in print, but the resolution is too grainy.
The new visual search technology is the solution to all these conundrums. Instead of using text to querying for an image, you can upload a particular image and run a query based on the image’s contents. This is referred to as query by image, rather than query by keyword.
For example, according LTU Technologies, a leader in visual search technologies, you can upload an image from your computer or the Web and ask its visual cataloging product to show you:
- Images identical to your image
- Variations of the image
- Images similar to the image
- A high-resolution version of the image
The search results will include the images the engine deems to be the most closely matched to your query. If you asked for images identical to your image, the top results would be those that most closely resemble your image’s visual content, which would be followed by images that are very similar but perhaps not exact replicas of the queried image.
In addition, depending on the visual search technology, it is possible to weight queries to emphasize a specific color, shape, or both. Existing engines leveraging such technology include the progressive visual search engine TinEye and the mobile visual search engine SnapTell.
All these technologies will no doubt help searchers more easily retrieve information about existing images or find new images that meet their needs. Image searches will return more relevant results, improving the user experience and satisfaction with this technology.
Let’s consider the implications for marketers for a moment.
Moving forward, we may no longer need to emphasize keyword tagging or contextual placement of images since image analysis can interpret and understand the image without textual content. Any advertiser whose products rely on images to do the selling (e.g., fashion retailers and car manufacturers) stand to benefit from increased visibility, literally, in search engines. You may see more traffic coming to your Web site as a result of the images your site has indexed in these new image search engines.
It is unclear just how much impact these new technologies will have on individuals and businesses, but it is an important trend to be aware of for all those who use and leverage search engines.
Photo of the Day – July 11th 2009
by RgDesign (rgrauphics) on Jul.11, 2009, under Photos
Photo of the Day – July 8th 2009
by RgDesign (rgrauphics) on Jul.08, 2009, under Photos
Well it has been a few days since we have last posted. Been busy enjoying the outdoors and weather. On a trip down south to Pueblo Colorado we encountered this storm and thought is was perfect opportunity to try to take our first shots of lightning. Talk about difficult, reason why we say difficult is because when photographing in low light like this the lens stays open and captures everything for a certain amount of time. And if you are holding the camera and you shake so does the picture. Â I really enjoyed trying to get this image, I like the challenge of try to capture the lightning.
- First Strike – RgDesign Photography
Photo of the Day – July 1st 2009
by RgDesign (rgrauphics) on Jul.01, 2009, under Photos
The flower featured in this photo is a lily. Using the the macro on one of the lenses to get in really close to the center of this flower. Amazing the detail that got picked up by the camera! You can actually see the fibers coming off of the flowers center. I couldn’t believe the detail until I got onto the computer. WOW!
Had to get this picture nice and large so everyone can see the detail.
Here is another shot of the same lily zoomed in but not using the macro on the lens.
COMING SOON HDR photos, just learned about this last night and did our first test. Tough process to learn but fun. Read about it here.
Photo of the Day – June 29th 2009
by RgDesign (rgrauphics) on Jun.29, 2009, under Photos
This photo was taken on Saturday June 27th, 2009 just south east of Pueblo Colorado. There were two of these birds and they were protecting their nest. It was so much fun to watch these two birds just hover over an area and dive bomb just about anything that came near the tree with their nest in it. There are about 8-10 pictures of these two birds in flight and another 10 or so pictures of them sitting in the trees. What fun it was to watch them in the morning while we sipped our coffee. Does anyone know what kind of bird these are?
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Bird in Flight – The Dive Bombers