Posted in Photography, Social Software on Aug 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Alltop is an aggregator and one of their topics is Photography. Most of the major photo sites are included in the collection and it’s a great way to scan headlines without actually visiting all the sites, very much like a newsreader except they do the aggregation for you. Very useful, I’ll be scanning it often. [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Tech Stuff on Aug 30th, 2008 No Comments »
IBM Tests 4-Terabyte Solid-State Drive This is great, just the direction I’m hoping things go. I want my next MacBook Pro to have a solid state drive. [via Digg]
Posted in Ideas, Opinion, People, Politics, Social Software, Video on Aug 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Barack Obama’s Speech at the Democratic National Convention This is an excellent web presentation with three columns: video, transcript, and section jumps. Clicking on a section jump moves the transcript and the video to that place. Beautifully done. All important speeches need this treatment and they’ve given it to what I consider an even more [...]
Posted in Aerial Photography, Photo Sites, Places on Aug 29th, 2008 No Comments »
the Big Picture: London from above, at night. Wow, fantastic low aerial photography. A bit noisy* in places but so what, it works. *I’m overly sensitized to this by the current discussion of the Canon 5D and its upcoming replacement and Canon and Nikon’s war for high ISO, low noise sensors.
Posted in People, Photographers, Politics on Aug 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
Photographer’s Journal: Following Obama A slide show of photographs of Obama on the campaign trail taken by New York Times photographer Damon Winter and narrated by him. Excellent photography and useful narrative. [via Jon Moss]
Posted in Events, Places, Politics on Aug 29th, 2008 2 Comments »
QuickTime Panorama from the DNC in Denver It looks to me like Obama’s idea of having a rally in a big stadium instead of a convention center paid off. The place was packed and the energy was high. This photograph captures a bit of it. Note that it was done with a Canon XSi and [...]
Posted in Architecture, Opinion, Photographers, Places, Politics on Aug 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Women Are Heroes is a photographic project by a French photographer, “JR” that depicts women in Kenya, South Sudan, Sierra-Leone, Liberia, Brazil, and soon India, Cambodia, and Laos with large scale architectural installations of photographs. The Big Picture has captured some of this work in Brazil: Scenes from Rio de Janeiro. The first, third, and [...]
Posted in Opinion, Photo Gear on Aug 28th, 2008 10 Comments »
New Nikon Holds a Secret But don’t knock Live View. It, after all, is the key to the breakthrough feature of the D90, the secret that turns it into a completely new kind of recording instrument. Ready? The D90 is the first S.L.R. in the world that can record video. High-definition video, at that. Stunning, [...]
Posted in Ideas, Photo Gear, Photographers on Aug 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
TED: Prototype: Scope, a camera for kids. Inspired by James Nachtwey’s TED Prize wish, designer Bas Groenendaal shares this prototype camera with TED. I want one of these. Fantastic.
Posted in Photo Gear on Aug 26th, 2008 18 Comments »
Canon announced a new DSLR: Canon EOS 50D. Those of us waiting for a new 5D can probably read the fine print of what’s new in the 50D for a hint on what might be coming in the new 5D. Some of it looks great, some of it looks scary to me, specifically packing too [...]
Posted in Copyright, Events, Photo Sites, Photographers, Places on Aug 25th, 2008 12 Comments »
The Big Picture has a great collection of images of the 2008 Olympics in China: Beijing 2008 – It’s a wrap. Notice that unlike many of the collections circulating around the web these days, these pictures are copyrighted and the photographers who took them are cited. Tip for people passing collections of great images around [...]
Posted in Humor, Social Software, Video on Aug 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Believe it or not, this tongue in cheek animation is well done and funny and right on the money.
Posted in Landscape, People, Places on Aug 24th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My friend Bill Lauf and I got up early and hit the pond (more like a swamp) before most people were done with their coffee. Our mission: blueberry picking. He’d picked from the shore but said there were a ton only accessible by kayak. I had the kayaks but didn’t know where the [...]
Posted in Macintosh, Photo Editing Software on Aug 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Speed up Lightroom 2.0 on Intel Macs and other modern computers. Pretty simple solution. Not sure it’s a solution just yet but it can’t hurt.
Posted in Photographers on Aug 22nd, 2008 5 Comments »
Michael Kenna has a wonderful collection of monochromatic images: Silent World. Wow. I love this type of elegant minimalism. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Photo Resources, Photo Sites on Aug 21st, 2008 2 Comments »
flickr has a new embedable slideshow feature and works quite well. Here’s a quick slide show I made on the of my flat marco set from my images up there. For more on it see flickr’s post: Our new slideshow: pass the popcorn!.
Posted in Photo Editing Software on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
4 Quick Ways to Boost Lightroom 2 Performance Oh boy, I need this bad. LR 2 is a bit sluggish between modes at the moment. [via Gary Sharp]
Posted in People, Places, Video on Aug 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Jason Kottke has assembled a wonderful collection of Great Olympic moments on YouTube. I had forgotten how amazing Olga Korbut’s uneven parallel bar performance was at the time. It still looks amazing today even though there are harder routines done. Kerri Strug’s gold medal vault on a sprained ankle is another amazing (and tear jerking) [...]
Posted in Ideas, Places on Aug 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
The NPR map Fantastic. Now all we need is low enough gas prices to drive. This looks like a useful tool for sure. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in Art and Design, Photo Resources, Photo Sites on Aug 20th, 2008 No Comments »
The Santa Fe photography gallery Photo-Eye has a wonderful collection of prints, books, and other photographic resources. Check out their collection of Magnum Photos by some of the world’s most famous photographers. Wow, these are historic and special images. [via Gary Sharp]
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