Posted in Art and Design, Objects, People, Photographers on Feb 2nd, 2010 2 Comments »
Click the image above to start a slide show of the various image in this set. The slide show application has various tools including a button at bottom right to zoom to full screen. Let go of your mouse or trackpad and the slideshow will run automatically to the end or until you stop it.
Tim [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers, iPad on Jan 29th, 2010 3 Comments »
With the Push of the iPad, a Photograph Goes Global
Pyramid Lake (at Night), a 2004 photo by Richard Misrach is one of the included desktop photos on the iPad and it was used during the iPad introduction event. It’s a spectacular image and no doubt Apple went through many to get to this one. Congratulations [...]
Posted in Photographers, Tech Stuff, Video on Jan 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Nick Veasey talks about his process for making X-ray photographs at TED.
Posted in Photographers on Jan 20th, 2010 No Comments »
Audio slideshow: Photography by blind people
How can you use a camera if you can’t see? Over 30 blind and visually impaired adults from the UK, Mexico and China have been trained in sensory photography techniques to create and experience photos.
Fascinating. I love the term “sensory photography.” I think many sighted photographers would do well to [...]
Posted in Photographers, Places, Video on Jan 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Egypt / Lebanon Montage from Khalid Mohtaseb on Vimeo.
Beautiful video shot with Canon 5D MK II by Khalid Mohtaseb. I recommend zooming out to full screen, the quality is spectacular.
Posted in Photo Gear, Photographers, Video on Jan 17th, 2010 No Comments »
The tale of Lucasfilm, Skywalker Ranch, Red Tails, Star Wars and Canon DSLRs on a 40 foot screen!
Philip Bloom on shooting a very fine short documentary on George Lucas’ Skywalker Ranch with Canon DSLR cameras, a variety of Canon lenses and some interesting gear for making it all work together.
More and more we’re seeing experienced [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Stories on Jan 6th, 2010 1 Comment »
Life before your eyes
A Pictory feature on growing up and growing old. Pictory is combining images and captions (picture – story) to give more context to both images and words. It looks like a successful site, worth following.
Posted in Photographers, Video on Jan 5th, 2010 No Comments »
Hamburger Eyes from Nick Fogarty on Vimeo.
This brings me back to the days of mail art and “zines.” Very nicely produced; both magazine and documentary.
Highly recommend you zoom the movie out full screen. It’s worth it.
[via Edward McKeown]
Posted in Photographers on Jan 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
Shoptalk: With Todd Heisler about his excellent One in 8 Million series for The New York Times.
I am using a Canon 5D set on monochromatic mode. The majority of the images are made with a 35-millimeter and a 50-millimeter lens.
Due to the prodding of one of my colleagues a couple of months ago, I began [...]
Posted in Creatures, Photographers on Dec 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Looking Fabulous in Fur
Absolutely stunning animal portraits by Rob MacInnis.
I take the conventions from the fashion world and apply them to the underclass barnyard animal,” Rob MacInnis said.
Rob’s site has more images: Rob MacInnis.
Posted in Photo Gear, Photographers, Video on Dec 23rd, 2009 3 Comments »
Prague: Canon 1DMKIV from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.
This is quite an amazing video no matter what camera made it but it happens to have been made by Philip Bloom on a Canon 1D Mark IV DSLR on a cold winter day in Prague. Fantastic.
Zoom it out to full screen for best viewing.
[via Edward McKeown]
Posted in Photographers, Photojournalism, Stories, Video on Dec 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Ryan Lobo has traveled the world, taking photographs that tell stories of unusual human lives. In this haunting talk, he reframes controversial subjects with empathy, so that we see the pain of a Liberian war criminal, the quiet strength of UN women peacekeepers and the perseverance of Delhi’s under appreciated firefighters.
This is a wonderful TED [...]
Posted in Landscape, Photographers on Dec 18th, 2009 2 Comments »
Camille Seaman: This Other World
Wonderful images of sky, ice, penguins and more. She’s a master of natural lighting and shoots both film and digital. Note: it’s a flash site that’s particularly tough to navigate but the images are well worth it. She talks about her equipment in the frequently asked questions section of the site [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Places on Dec 17th, 2009 11 Comments »
Winter Weather
The Frame, the Sacramento Bee’s photoblog has a spectacular collection of winter images. The first two alone make the collection.
Posted in People, Photographers, Social Software, iPhone on Dec 6th, 2009 7 Comments »
Bill Atkinson’s PhotoCard at the iTunes store.
PhotoCard is an iPhone application that allows you to send stock or your own images to friends as email postcards. Looks quite good and Atkinson is an excellent designer and developer (having been one of the original developers of the Macintosh). You can also use it to send physical [...]
Posted in Adventure, Hiking, Landscape, Photographers on Dec 4th, 2009 9 Comments »
Kent, Connecticut. My hiking buddies are each away and I needed to get out of the house so I hiked up on the Appalachian Trail north of Kent and this image is taken just above St. John’s Ledges where I did some rock climbing 20 years ago. The Housatonic River is in the valley behind [...]
Posted in Adventure, Birds, Creatures, Landscape, Photographers on Dec 4th, 2009 No Comments »
100 days in Glacier National Park
This summer, Glacier Park Magazine editor Chris Peterson undertook a photographic project to take photos of Montana’s Glacier National Park over 100 consecutive days, starting on May 1, 2009, for a traveling photo show in 2010 to commemorate Glacier’s Centennial. He used a mix of film and digital cameras, including [...]
Posted in Photo Sites, Photographers, Social Software on Dec 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
Pictory is a photo sharing site for photos with stories and more context than just visual imagery. Looks interesting, like my kind of thing, might have to submit.
Posted in Photographers, Places, Time Lapse on Dec 1st, 2009 4 Comments »
Timelapse movie: The Alps — part II (night) from Michael Rissi on Vimeo.
Zoom this out full screen. Enjoy. Wow.
[via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]
Posted in People, Photographers, Politics on Nov 30th, 2009 5 Comments »
Portraits of Power
A nice New Yorker collection of 50 portraits of world leaders with audio commentary by New Yorker photographer Platon.
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