| Instagramming 평양 ★ | instagram.com |
Commuter, Pyongyang © David Guttenfelder
AP chief photographer for Asia, David Guttenfelder, shows us the look that inspires instagram, with instagram.
| Mikhael Subotzky’s Point of View ★ | youtube.com |
> At TEDxStellenbosch 2012, Subotzky shows the pictures he has made, using the words of other poets in an attempt to reveal the truths of capturing life through a lens. Having stopped talking about his work some years ago, he shares incredibly personal moments that have forced him to see the world differently.
| Embrace Every Color You Can ★ | hurlbutvisuals.com |
Shane Hurlbut, ASC:
> We tested different types of film stocks and lenses and came up with a ridiculous cocktail. We used a tungsten based film stock for all day exteriors and interiors. It was rated at 320 ISO and I exposed it at 32 ISO. The over exposure delivered the look that John and I wanted. It was difficult at first to get my head around this stock being stretched the way we did. But after the first week, I really understood its power and how its look was just so unique.
What still photographers can, and should learn from cinematographers: The power of color temp.
| Thirty Five ★ | dxomark.com |
DxO Labs rounded up a couple of 35mm primers, including third party options.
| @portfolio on app.net ★ | alpha.app.net |
App.net launched with flying colours last year.
It has seen a steady growth, and has since introduced a monthly plan, reduced its subscription price — it was $50/year at launch, and [debuted a free tier yesterday](http://blog.app.net/2013/02/25/introducing-a-free-tier/).
Thanks to [@davids](https://alpha.app.net/davids) for the invite. And you can follow me as[ @portfolio](https://alpha.app.net/portfolio) and join the lively community there.
| Inside the EOS 6D ★ | cpn.canon-europe.com |
> The biggest development in the AF system of the EOS 6D, is the increased sensitivity for low light focusing. The Canon EOS-1D X and EOS 5D Mark III full-frame DSLRs are able to focus in EV -2, which is the equivalent of shooting by the light of a full moon. However, by using the central cross-type AF point, the EOS 6D is able to focus in EV -3; that is 1-stop less light than is projected by a full moon.
That’s new to me. If you don’t shoot a lot of movies (that’s also me), this camera offers much more than the $2000 price tag carries.
| The First Desktop Wallpaper ★ | folklore.org |
[Andy Hertzfeld](https://plus.google.com/+AndyHertzfeld), one of the original engineer of the Macintosh:
> The most controversial part of the Control Panel was the desktop pattern editor, which I had rescued from its earlier stand-alone incarnation. Users could select from a couple dozen prefabricated desktop patterns or edit their own in fat bits. It was this latter capability that caused problems, as it was pretty easy to create ugly, abominable patterns.
> Bill Atkinson complained to me that it was a mistake to allow users to specify their own desktop patterns, because it was harder to make a nice one than it looked, and led directly to ugly desktops. But I thought that users should be free to do as they pleased, since it was their desktop, and it was easy to revert to one of the built-in patterns. Bill cared mo st about MacPaint, and didn’t want a potentially ugly desktop pattern marring his creation. So he made MacPaint allocate a window that was the size of the screen when it started up, and filled it with the standard 50% gray pattern, making his own desktop covering up the real one, thus protecting the poor users from their rash esthetic blunders, at least within the friendly confines of MacPaint.
Many of today’s computing tradition began with personal obsessions such as this one.
| Thomas Hawk, We Wish You Luck ★ | blog.flickr.net |
When you start counting numbers, quantity becomes the content, and quality is no longer the priority.
Usually, that’s when art becomes commodity.
| A Good Detective ★ | elementarystan.tumblr.com |
> A good [detective] knows that every task, every interaction, no matter how seemingly banal, has the potential to contain multitudes.
Put yourself behind a viewfinder and suddenly you become a detective of some sort.
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