Kickstarter - THREE HIGHWAYS TO DENALI
Pledged $25 to back this project by a very talented photographer (and Tumblr{er}). Hopefully some of you consider doing the same.
Kickstarter - THREE HIGHWAYS TO DENALI
4 months ago
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Dan Winters, from his new book Periodical Photographs (the making of which is chronicled / of which the making is chronicled here).
+ a guide to grammar and style, of which / which of / whom / it / wtf I seem to desperately need
Dan Winters is painfully good.
football practice (via Peter Martin Photo)
I’ve been doing some experimenting with a softening process based on composition (mixing very different light levels in the frame), hardware (lens: shallow depth of field), and software (decreasing clarity, or localized contrast, in lightroom). Working on the RAW files lets me turn out a much better end result than Photoshopping a jpg (which just looks like crappy blur anyhow). I like the ethereal, creamy quality the unfocused bit takes on. Feels like a dream.
julie work
Good example of the benefits of shooting digital, of shooting RAW format, and of Lightroom’s post-production workflow. RAW lets me adjust white balance after the fact, push the exposure by about a stop, and work a photo until it approaches what I’m looking for.
j a v a (via @jessewright)
The coffee craving this just brought on was truly intense. Adios, internet.
“Perya” - a Canon 7D Short (via Vimeo)
Canon’s 5D MkII was certainly drool-worthy enough, what with its full-frame sensor and 1080p video…but at least I knew that it was comfortably out of my price range at around $3k. The recently-announced 7D, however, will be coming in around $1700 (body only) and is shooting 1080p at 24p on an image sensor bigger than comparable video cameras. Oh yeah, and there’s no “DOF-adapter” necessary, since I could use my existing Canon EF lenses. This is an incredible leap forward.
Only downside, and this is more from the still photo side, is that the 7D utilizes an APS-C sized sensor, same as my 40D and prior 350D. Thus, all of my Canon EF lenses have a crop factor of 1.6 that effectively zooms them in…which would set me back a bit more in my quest to expand on the wide-angle end. The financial tradeoff is worth it, though (most of the difference between the $1700 and $3000 price points is in sensor construction).
WANT.
If we had actually started in close to a six-foot man and then pulled the camera back until he was a speck, we would have had to track back about two thousand feet - obviously impractical…instead we photographed him on 65mm film simply tumbling about in full frame. The we front-projected a six-inch image of this scene onto a glossy white card suspended against black velvet and, using our worm-gear arrangement, tracked the camera away from the miniature screen until the astronaut became so small in the frame that he virtually disappeared. Since we were re-photographing an extremely small image there was no grain problem and he remained sharp and clear all the way to infinity.
— Stanley Kubrick, Kubrick Archives, referring to the scene in 2001 where the dead astronaut spins off into space. (in case anybody’s paying attention, my obsession with this book could go on for a while…)
To make a film entirely by yourself, which initially I did, you may not have to know very much about anything else, but you must know about photography.
— Stanley Kubrick, the Kubrick Archives.
Hat tip to Dave Winer
Back in early 2007, I was itching for a way to automatically tweet links to my photos on Flickr.
A few months later, Dave Winer wrote a web service called Flickr-to-Twitter. Dave was nice enough to give me access back then and I wrote about it at the time. And for the past two years, that’s how I’ve been posting flickr links to Twitter for the most part.
Since then a number of 3rd party apps have emerged to post photo links on Twitter. Many of them are fantastic. Simple & fast.
Earlier this week, Flickr announced that they had officially integrated with Twitter. It provides much of the same functionality as Dave’s original application with some additional bells & whistles.
It’s terrific that Yahoo built this into Flickr. It will help many users tie together two great products in a simple way.
But right now I’d like to say thanks to Dave for building his app. I appreciated it then and I appreciate it now.
Excellent, I had missed this (tangentially, seems like I don’t spend ANY time on Flickr anymore, which is sad). I noticed they had added the flic.kr shortening into their source code a few months back, and I’ve used this helpful bookmarklet since then in an effort to avoid TwitPic.
kapi:
This is one of the most beautifully shot scenes ever.
Stanley Kubrick was a master of natural light.
Kubrick was actually the master of creating light. He rarely used natural light, he hated shooting on location and preferred to own all of his own camera’s, lights, etc. Most of the scenes which most people think are natural light are Kubrick’s genius at work: it’s all fake.
For probably more Kubrick than you’d ever want to know, check out The Kubrick Site. I basically spent college on that website. Also, watching his movies over and over again, and checking out his early photographic work for LOOK and various other magazines you start to learn that this kid was born with an amazing and keen understanding of human emotion, light and creating drama. Kubrick was, and is, a photographic genius.
Wow, great link. My favorite Kubrickism is his whole theory that film separates itself from other art forms via the editing/cutting process. Screenwriting is born from literature, cinematography from photography, acting from the theater, scoring from music, etc…but great film is devoted to the perfectionist ideal of collecting hundreds of hours of material and painstakingly editing it into a cohesive vision.
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