RIT - Photographic Technology

09/23/2025

Photographer Ted Kinsman shares how to build a relatively simple focus stacking system using Arduino and custom code.

09/23/2025

Professor Kinsman was published in PetaPixel!

Photographer Ted Kinsman shares how to build a relatively simple focus stacking system using Arduino and custom code.

09/03/2025

Hey-ey-ey-ey! RIT Tigers are headed to Bills country – let’s go Buffalo!! RIT The Big Shot is illuminating the Buffalo Bills Highmark Stadium, documenting the iconic location with a uniquely RIT tradition before the stadium closes forever. Community members of all ages are encouraged to help the RIT College of Art and Design faculty and students capture this once-in-a-lifetime photograph painted with light.

We BILLieve it will be an amazing commemorative moment you won’t want to miss! https://brnw.ch/21wVeYh

08/18/2025

07/25/2025

Worth the read and the download.

One of the enduring benefits of the smartphone revolution is that it has put a camera in everyone's pocket - one that can reliably take good photos at the press of a button, combined with the convenience of using the same device for editing and sharing of these photos. In fact, despite the small siz...

07/09/2025

When you don't have the Phantom camera with you, the iPhone steps in to get some slow motion of the helicopter blades this morning when the new air conditioning units were lifted onto the roof atop Gannet Hall.

04/17/2025

Check out our senior capstone team participating in the poster session at the SPIE conference in Orlando this week. Their system was created to validate surface temperature readings from the Landsat 9 satellite for climate change research.

Last night’s poster session at was an excellent opportunity to learn about the latest work in sensing for food quality and safety, unmanned systems technology, signal processing, image sensing technologies, and more. Meet a few of the presenters! M. Telah B., first-year PhD student in foo...

03/22/2025

Great article about supplemental lens!

Getting up close and personal without a macro lens.

12/05/2024

Pantone Color of the Year for 2025

For 2025, the Pantone Color Institute selects PANTONE 17-1230 Mocha Mousse, a warming, brown hue imbued with richness. It nurtures us with its suggestion of the delectable qualities of chocolate and coffee, answering our desire for comfort.

11/06/2024

When Petapixel does an article that supports a lab you have been doing with students for years!

Knowing a camera’s ISO limit isn’t just a technical curiosity. It’s the difference between capturing a good or a bad image.

09/15/2024

To all my local alums. We are looking for some help in teaching labs with Photographic Technology in the Spring Semester. If you are interested in exploring the role of adjunct, please send me a note.