| iMedia Browser 2 ★ | itunes.apple.com |
This handy app from Karelia is one of those things we often oversight and becomes indispensable overtime.
It’s almost identical to the iApps media inspector, but this one’s a stand alone, so you can browse all your photo libraries (Aperture, iPhoto, Lightroom, Folders) from one interface and do things with them like the built-in media browser without launching their respective home apps.
| Shut up and Shoot ★ | visualsciencelab.blogspot.com |
Speaking about magic, Kirk Tuck gets it:
The only way to gain magic is to give up control. And giving up control is hard. And fraught with uncertainty. And not everything will work out just right. But in the times that you let chance guide your hand instead of the tight brace of technical “mastery” you might occasionally stop thinking long enough to allow your spirit to create.
| So Long, Liz… ★ | life.com |
© Mark Kauffman
May her legacy inspires, her soul sparks anew.
(Make sure to check out photographs from her weddings too.)
| RED’s HDRx & The Impossible Shot ★ | prolost.com |
Stu Maschwitz:
This is not what HDRx was designed to do. It was designed to make highlights nicer. To take one last “curse” off digital cinema acquisition. This is “stunt HDRx.”
In short, it’s HDR with a new kind of processing algorithm for motion picture.
| X100: “So far, so good” ★ | photographyblog.com |
Not the kind penmanship I’m looking for in the league of such craftsmanship, but not many are published so far.
The writer seems to have forgotten about how the camera really operates, especially its software’s UI & UX, or how tedious its electronic shutter beeps are by default and whether it can be killed and what kind customization we can hope from this camera.
There’s also no specific mention or sample images from the camera’s unique built-in ND filter[1. Like this guy has.], its auto-focus capability and behaviour, and its 4-type bracketing features.
In other word, I need to get my hands on this thing.
Oh, one more thing… the main rivals part has no mention of the M9 (but an M8.2), and a whole bunch of four-thirds cameras.
Feel free to jump, but I wouldn’t waste my time on it.
| M9 Diary ★ | overgaard.dk |
©Thorsten Overgaard
If you have just gotten the Leica M9 you may find page 12 useful as it contains my most recent settings based on 60,000+ photos taken witht he Leica M9.
I do not have the M9, but I’m fascinated by his on-the-fly, diary-style show & tell.
| emphas.is ★ | emphas.is |
A kickstarter for photographers:
The interest in high quality photojournalism is at an all time high. Photojournalism depends on the willingness of newspapers and magazines to publish and finance it. In the digital age, many media have decided that photojournalism is no longer a priority. We think this is a mistake.
| Fly by Saturn ★ | vimeo.com |
© Courtesy of NASA/JPL & Stephen van Vuuren
Another flying-related awesomeness, this one is from the space:
(It’s a 5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from these photographs) — only a little brightness and contrast has been made to balance the moons with saturn’s body. Do note that several thousand layers of many Cassini photographs were animated to make the fly-through work without any 3D CGI. The saturation is off due to lack of Flash Player ICM support.
| Up! for Real ★ | dailymail.co.uk |
By the team behind National Geographic’s upcoming series How Hard Can It Be?:
We found that it is actually close to impossible to fly a real house.” […] “But what we can do is kind of fly a light-weight house and fly it safely with people on board.
Now they made it fly alright, but how do this thing land?
| A new blog by TIME’s photo department ★ | lightbox.time.com |
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