| God Blessed Lady Liberty ★ | photoblog.msnbc.msn.com |
© Jonathan Woods
Photographed in Sept 22, 2010, around 8:45PM, after closely watching weather reports:
Can you imagine waiting more than 40 years to get a photo just right? […] It was pure luck really, a once in a lifetime opportunity.
No sir, it’s not luck. It’s called persistence.
| Incase Ari ★ | goincase.com |
If the product shot doesn’t interest you, the intro movie will.
| The Last Iceberg ★ | camilleseaman.com |
© Camille Seaman
Clear, and present threat to our climate:
Never before in human history have polar regions been – with such minimum effort and discomfort – so accessible. “Ships carry tens of thousands of visitors to Antarctica each year as tourists. The price to get there, though high for some, is now affordable,” says Seaman.
Two active independent projects for both the Mac and Windows were unearthed this morning. Knobroom & Paddy seek to improve your workflow by allowing us to use MIDI-controllers to manipulate image settings.
Knobroom: Direct manipulation add-on for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
Main motivation for developing Knobroom is improving ergonomics, which in the end will improve your creative workflow. Sliders are quickly accessible and easily adjustable without causing mouse-related injuries or stress on your wrist.
Paddy: A free Windows-only workflow improvement program for Lightroom.
With full support for Lighroom 3’s scripting engine, Paddy radically improves the workflow by allowing you assign any adjustment setting — including moving the sliders and applying a preset — to essentially any key, your number keypad, external keypads, and MIDI controller knobs and sliders.
This strikes me in awe as I have been projecting the same need personally — whenever I’m on LR. A different kind of longing surface whenever I use Aperture — responsiveness & screen real estate.
Aperture’s UI makes me feel at home, its controllers are brilliantly designed and rendered on-screen beautifully, but its reaction to my input are often delayed — not by inaccurate input — but by the lack of speed from the machine I’m running it on.
Perhaps it’s time for me to get those Mac Pros, or get more RAMs.
(via John Nack, Vincent Verdet)
| Mongolian Racer ★ | dslrnewsshooter.com |
Fascinating short by Dan Chung along with a great writeup on how he put it all together.
© Dan Chung
Even more fascinating is the fact that he did it on a limited time, budget & crew; I dare not say that he’s shooting with a limited equipment, but 20kg of luggage limitation means little for a filmmaking-shooter. Here’s his take about the wide shot on mark 00:54 —
One shot I was keen to get was of the boy and trainer walking off from a high angle. Sadly I didn’t have a Kessler Crane to hand so I had to make do. I held up in the air my 5DmkII with the 12-24mm on top of a Manfrotto video monopod, wedging the mono pod’s little feet against my body. I started with it at head height next to the trainer and as they walked off I slowly raised the camera to fake a jib effect. It’s far from perfect but I think it was worth a try. When I came to edit it I applied Final Cut Pro’s Smooth cam filter to iron out any minor bumps.
The rest of the site offers a wealth of tidbits on DSLR Filmmaking.
| Homemade is Best ★ | carlkleiner.com |
Gourmet food photography commissioned by IKEA to photographer Carl Kleiner and stylist Evelina Bratell. See the ingredients, imagine the food, buy the cookbook.
© Carl Kleiner, Styling Evelina Bratell/Vaniljhorn.
(also checkout his wordless diary)
© R&C Design Library
R&C Gallery is running a photo exhibition in their newly opened R&C Design Library.
Exhibiting the work of the city’s as well as the region’s promising photographers, Our Life: People · Environment · Objects opened last Saturday Sept 18, 2010 and will run till the end of October 2010.
“We are thrilled to have this new space for the creative community here” said Corey, the proprietor of R&C Design Library. Like the name suggested, this exciting new venue is a creative living space that doubles as the design studio office that he also runs. “We hope that our playground can become other’s creative inspiration too” followed Zen, the designer/manager-in-charge of the gallery and the exhibition.
Out of curiosity, I decided to drop in on my walk back to my flat one fine evening last August. Situated at the moderately quiet & green neighborhood, the place was an instant love to the curious-minded like me. Sporting a neo-classique & industrial interior; vintage couches, arm chairs and countless desk lamps of different eras were scattered around the 100 m2 to add a touch of old-school sentiment to the youthful idea-inspiring work-pad. The visit that night lead me to a spectacle of high spirited conversation, friendship & coffee.
5-min tram ride from the busy Causeway Bay & Quarry Bay districts, R&C is a breath of fresh air to the stereotypically fast-paced souls of this heavily commercialized society. If you are visiting, R&C is a great hang-out after a day’s shopping trip; if you live in HK, they open 4–8pm daily for freshly brewed coffee or even just a peak into their growing collection of books, magazines & goodies.
R&C Design Library
Flat A, 1/F, Sun Ying Mansion, 43–49 King’s Rd.
Tin Hau, HK.
| Fuji’s “Rangefinder”: Finepix X100 ★ | fujifilm.com |
“A camera that will reignite your love of photography.”
Pros:
All-glass Hybrid Viewfinder, 9-blade aperture, aspherical lens 35mm ƒ/2, built-in ND filter, 12.3 megapixel APS-C CMOS Sensor (up to ISO 6400) & all-new EXR Processor.
An ideal contender to the $2000 Leica X1, which I’m pretty sure the X100’s styling was no-coincidence. With built-in GPS and a presumed lower price point, this camera will be on a lot of shooter’s wish list.
Cons:
Coming in 2011.
| ‘Connected’ ★ | thejakartapost.com |
Originally penned as ‘The Web of Trust’, is my piece inspired by the social digital magazine Flipboard for The Jakarta Post
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