May 2010 Archives
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RARE: Portraits of America's Endangered Species by Joel Sartore
There's a lot we can do to help save endangered animals - you know, reduce, reuse, recycle - but for many of us who have trouble engaging in the theoretical debates of biodiversity, carbon footprint, and so on, reading Joel's book can be that first step to help save species from being lost forever: caring about these animals.
Neatorama
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Also go to The Geotaggers' World Atlas.
Jim
Eric Fischer - The Geotaggers' World Atlas
The maps are ordered by the number of pictures taken in the central cluster of each one.
This is a little unfair to aggressively polycentric cities like Tokyo and Los Angeles, which probably get lower placement than they really deserve because there are gaps where no one took any pictures.
Eric Fischer
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Philippe Halsman - The Joys of Jumpology by Roberta Smith
When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, "Jump," no one asked how high.
People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed.
In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter.
He called his method jumpology.
Roberta Smith
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Your daily dose of stunning
National Geographic Daily
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The documentation of australian contempories in stereoscopic
Stereo Portrait Project
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Lighting Modifiers Cheat Sheet Card by udijw
The card is divided into four sections, each dealing with a different type of modifiers.
While there are lots more modifiers out there, I tried to include the more common ones.
udijw
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Portrait Lighting Cheat Sheet Card by udijw
The cheat sheet shows three possible angles for setting the flash: Angling the flash down 45 degrees toward the subject; having the light on the same level as the subject and angling the flash 45 degrees up to light the subject from below.
Each height position is placed on a different line.
udijw
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Photoshop Fundamentals: Adding Texture and Aging to a Photo by Scott Kelby
This technique caught my eye when a photo by photographer Laura Boston Thek was chosen as the Image of the Week on the member's portfolio website for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP, for short).
She had taken a vacation photo from her trip to Venice, Italy, and then applied a paper texture to the image, which gave it this historical, archival look, and I heard from a number of folks who wanted to know how this was done.
Well, here's how it's done:
Scott Kelby
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Take the easy way out for a change by Chris Tarantino (PDF)
How many people think photo editing needs to be the hardest thing in the world to do?
Probably not very many - at least those I know.
Chris Tarantino
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First, Get a Million Dollars... by Kenneth Jarecke
That's why, whenever (and this happens two or three times a year), a parent of a would-be photography student comes to me asking for advice, I always use the NBA analogy.
It kind of puts the whole thing in perspective.
Kenneth Jarecke
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10 Key Traits of Winning Photojournalists by Alex Garcia
The way I'm defining success would be a person who is repeatedly honored at a very high level by their peers through contests, grants, and national exposure.They are the elite few, who seem to be regularly anointed in their way of career achievement.
Even though I've won a number of awards and work at a high-profile newspaper, I don't include myself in this very elite group - think upper .25%.
Alex Garcia
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digital pinhole photography by Stephanie Zettl
Use the sewing needle to make a hole in the thin sheet of metal.
Twist the needle back and forth to gently puncture the metal without bending it.
The smaller the hole the better.
The size of the hole should be about 0.25mm
Stephanie Zettl
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Wing Young Huie - Six-Mile Photographic Inquiry
. . . a Six-Mile Photographic Inquiry, will transform a major urban thoroughfare in Saint Paul, Minnesota, into a six-mile public gallery of over 400 photographs.Wing's images reveal the dizzying socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic realities of the citizens who work, live, and go to school along this corridor that is jammed with storefronts, taverns, big-box retailers, blue-collar neighborhoods and condominium communities.
Wing Young Huie
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Carlo Van De Roer - The Portrait Machine Project
These portraits are made with a Polaroid aura camera developed in the 1970s by an American scientist in an attempt to record what a psychic might see.
This project explores the idea that a portrait photograph can reveal an otherwise unseen and accurate insight into the subject's character.
Carlo Van De Roer
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The Hipstamatic for iPhone is an application that brings back the look, feel, unpredictable beauty, and fun of plastic toy cameras from the past.
Hipstamatic
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The Myth of DPI by Ken W. Watson
Many people seem to get hung up on DPI (dots per inch) as a measure of quality of their digital photos.
To set the record straight, DPI has NOTHING to do with digital image quality!.
Ken W. Watson
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Digital-Image Color Spaces by Jeffrey Friedl
There are multiple ways to interpret a number as a speed: "65" in miles/hour is highway cruising speed, but "65" in knots on the highway is a speeding ticket, while "65" in kilometers/hour is only half that speed.
"65" in meters/second is a category-4 hurricane, and "65' in Mach is faster than a meteor.
Jeffrey Friedl
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Beautiful Visualization: How Do We Achieve Beauty? by Julie Steele & Noah Iliinsky
Given the abundance of less-than-beautiful visualizations, it's clear that the path to beauty is not obvious.
However, I believe there are ways to get to beauty that are dependable, if not entirely deterministic.
Julie Steele & Noah Iliinsky
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One of my favorite compositional elements is the use of the vanishing point.
It's also something many shooters don't consider when composing their images.
Let's discuss the different ways you can position your subject with respect to the vanishing point (this is super-cool. I get goose bumps even thinking about it).
David Ziser
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Hideo Takiura — From Tokyo Bodies
His photo book Tokyo Bodies, from which the above photo is taken, collects work shot by Takiura on the streets of Tokyo from 2000-2007 with his trusty 6x6cm medium format camera.
japan exposures
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Timothy Briner - Boonville, USA by Rosecrans Baldwin
Photographer Timothy Briner spent seven years on "Boonville," which takes place in six towns in the U.S.—six different towns named Boonville where Briner lived for periods of time and shot portraits of private lives, overpasses, and wrestling squads.
In Briner's pictures, all Boonvilles are the same and none of them are.
It's a unique road trip across contemporary America.
Rosecrans Baldwin
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The Everyday Camera by Darren Huski
What I kept finding was there were times I did not have a camera, but I had found a potential image.
I wanted to have a camera with me all the time, but there were so many times that taking a DSLR was not convenient or it was difficult to do so and it caused me to miss images.
Darren Huski
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Rethinking Talent by Alain Briot
Because underlying this question is the assumption that talent is something innate, something that you either have or do not have.
Behind this question is the assumption that some people can create art while others cannot, the assumption that those who have talent can create art while those who do not have talent cannot.
Alain Briot
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Jennifer Karady - War Zone Traumas Restaged at Home by Jesse Mckinley
Karady, who interviewed dozens of veterans and asked them to talk about their most traumatic war moments.
She then overlaid those memories onto their present-day lives, in the suburbs, back at school and, in one case, on the streets.
Jesse Mckinley
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My name is Rachel Sussman, and I am working on a project called "The Oldest Living Things in the World."
I'm researching, working with biologists, and traveling all over the world to find and photograph continuously living organisms that are 2,000 years old and older.
Rachel Sussman
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Also go to Ben Heineis.
Jim
Ben Heineis - Pencil Vs Camera!
But the real idea came while I was watching television and writing a letter at the same time a few weeks ago.Reading my letter before putting it in the envelope, I saw in transparency the television behind the paper.
I then realize it would be great to make something similar in a single image showing 2 different actions.
Ben Heineis
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Thank you so much for all the help on the color survey.
Over five million colors were named across 222,500 user sessions.
If you never got around to taking it, it's too late to contribute any data, but if you want you can see how it worked and take it for fun here.
xkcd
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This image was made by exposing the paper to 8 seconds of the rollercoaster scene from Gun Crazy.
Monitor brightness at its lowest.
Adam Remsen
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The Personal Photographs of Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, Television Pioneer by Steve Restelli
The screen images below are time exposure photographs of the picture on the kinescope in the monitoring rack in the main control room.
Some were taken with stationary frames of moving picture film projected upon the iconoscope by a standard moving picture machine.
Others are actually the pictures transmitted with the iconoscope camera in the studio and outdoors.
Steve Restelli
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Kinetic Photography: Techniques and Stunning Examples by Josh Johnson
Today we're going to take a brief look at a particular moving type of photography that attempts to channel chaos into beauty: kinetic photography.
As you can see in the image below, the results vary incredibly and are often quite stunning.
Josh Johnson
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A Comprehensive Introduction to Focus Stacking by Simon Plant
In this video we will show you a simple camera technique that will help you produce a deep depth of field, even when shooting with mid to wide lens apertures.
Called "focus stacking", it's a technique that every photographer should be aware of.
Simon Plant
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How I Met Your Mother Through Photoshop [JPEG Compression] by Dr. Neal Krawetz
The Q tables are what lead to continual data loss every time you resave an image. However, not everyone understands how the data loss from Q tables impacts the image.
Dr. Neal Krawetz
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They're Selling Us Crap Paper by Ctein
We're paying premium prices; we're getting substandard goods.
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Eadweard Muybridge - A Man Who Stopped Time to Set It in Motion Again by Karen Rosenberg
His impact on the 20th is difficult to overstate.
The writer Rebecca Solnit, in her 2003 biography, called Muybridge "the man who split the second," aligning him with the inventor of the atom bomb.
Cultural signposts as diverse as Francis Bacon's paintings and the performance-capture technology of "Avatar" can be traced back to the trotting horse that Muybridge photographed on a racetrack in Palo Alto, Calif.
Karen Rosenberg
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Paula McCartney - Bird Watching by Rosecrans Baldwin
Paula McCartney's portraits of fake birds in real landscapes are not digitally enhanced, but they do trick the eye.
Bird Watching (Princeton Architectural Press), is a guidebook to birds as they might be ideally seen: perfectly colored and posed, and not migrating anytime soon.
Which is probably both a fantasy scenario and a repulsive one for dedicated twitchers—maybe the first example of bird-watching pornography?
Rosecrans Baldwin
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