| How Film Was Made ★ | devour.com |
I am also talking about the documentary, … they don’t make it like that anymore.
See Part 2 on YouTube.
27 February 2011
| Raw Faces ★ | rawfaces.tumblr.com |
© Courtesy of Raw Faces
Exoticism, collected.
Forget the camera, forget the lens, forget all of that. With any four-dollar camera, you can capture the best picture.
Alberto Korda ★
Greatness Inspires Greatness
© Courtesy of Apple, Inc.
It’s a simple truth that we often overlook, and it paints the picture clearly on the question ‘why everyone needs a role model?’. If I can paraphrase Marco Arment — who nails that excellent phrase — it’s not about big things at all, but details, details and details.
I was hesitant of linking to something slightly out of context, but what I’m about to share has a broader perspective than just a simple comment about a conference. Marco isn’t just a Webstock speaker who felt obliged to write something nice about the organizers because he was treated like a king, it’s also not about how great he — at the best possible command of written english — pays a tribute to his experience in New Zealand, and how they take coffee really seriously, but what I would like to bring your attention to is how simple people like you and me can make such an incredible impression on someone, that he/she is inspired to write about it and share it with the rest of us.
You don’t need to be a Webstock speaker to realize what it is all about. You don’t need to be a Gandhi, or an Einstein, or a Steve Jobs to inspire someone, you can just be yourself, so long as you pay that extra attention to everything you do. “Fill it with love and your fullest passion.” someone once said to me, and “Everything’s gonna be taken care of.”
Bigger things are made of small things. I can say this out loud, cause I myself have experienced it. I have witnessed a group of small people putting such formula to practice that in the end, they made the impossible happen, just with their own bare hands,
Put excellence to each and every bit of its DNA and you’ll find yourself being in the place that many have dreamt of going but only a few have arrived.
21 February 2011
| Unscripted by BMW ★ | j.mp |
Great photography, great editing, great story about people and their vehicles, brought to you by the fine folks of Bavarian Motor Works.
| Anatomy of a Corporate Conference Photo Shoot ★ | visualsciencelab.blogspot.com |
A fascinating 3700-word piece by Kirk Tuck on shooting high-tech events for high-profiled clients.:
…you need to be able to move fast, not draw attention to yourself and get the shots you need without disturbing the subjects. They are engaged in high stakes business. Your job is infinitely secondary, in the grand scheme of things, to what they are trying to accomplish. And they are scheduled tighter than a space launch.
When we shoot corporate shows it’s customary to wear black when you will be moving around the “main tent”. That way, if you need to walk thru the audience or near the stage to get an important angle you blend in with the darkened house. If you wear bright colors you stick out like sore thumb and hundreds of eyes will follow you as you move. […]
Another sound advice:
The real secret to good coverage is to blend in with everyone else. […] Here are two very important photo tips: 1. I never carried a camera bag around with me. In most instances (outside the main tent) I walked around with one camera in my hands and an extra lens in one pocket. I tried as much as possible to look like just another attendee who happened to bring along his camera. Not like “The Camera Guy!”…
Read and learn.
19 February 2011
| World Press Photo 2011 High-Res Slideshow ★ | lensculture.com |
The World Press Photo website is poorly designed (pop-ups, illogical navigation, small & difficult layout) and the photographs are shamefully watermarked I didn’t even bother looking in the first place.
Lens Culture, on the other hand has pull the strings and post a selection of the 2011 winning images in high-res glory.
While you enjoy the show, make sure you also read the gallery note.
Special note to the World Press web team: Fix your damned website.
17 February 2011
| Then & Now ★ | irinawerning.com |
© Irina Werning
“I’m a bit obsessive”, said Irina about her ongoing and brilliant project: Back to the Furure.
Everything’s the same down to the pose, props, location, lighting, tone & expression, but time.
(via DF).
| Dear Mr. Eisenstaedt ★ | lettersofnote.com |
© Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE
Now that I’m 60 – it’s fun to admit that I’m the nurse in your famous shot “of the amorous sailor celebrating V.E. Day by kissing a nurse on New York’s Broadway.
A lesser known story to once a very-famous-and-still-iconic image of our time.
15 February 2011
| ImageGlitch for Mac ★ | fuelcollective.com |
Ever noticed a broken image with missing colors and displaced pixels? Yupe, this app will do exactly that by opening your precious JPEGs & TIFFs in binary mode, unmask the pixel glory, reveal its true colors by presenting them in binary mode and allows you to play with them.
The great news is, you can see the changes live, so whatever destruction you do onto your image — with some luck and binary skills[1. I’m not, by all means, responsible for any damages caused.] — you can also undo the damages of your broken photos[2. Satisfaction not guaranteed.], which, a normal text editor like TextEdit or Notepad would do just fine, albeit less gloriously.