Photo-realistic 3D animation is the most awesome technology. It makes 3D movies seem to ridiculously miss the point. Of course, there is still the challenge of integrating real people, but the potential is amazing.
This is a compositing breakdown of the astonishing Third & Seventh. It’s a great breakdown because I can’t seem to stop believing I’m looking at photographs. I love the fascination with depth of field lens effects. We will always tend to exaggerate what we are simulating.
“Photographically, for me, this translates away from traditional, more “perfect” images and toward the more real moments. It’s the off moments, or rather the “un-moments” that make stronger, more emotionally charged images. Those images feel more like my life—far more imperfect and far more relevant.” — Chase Jarvis
(Source: blog.chasejarvis.com)
iPhone 4 most popular camera on Flickr. How Mobile Photography Helped Kill Kodak
Photojournalist Ruben Salvadori talks about his work documenting photo journalists and the theatre involved in constructing commercial news imagery.
(Source: vimeo.com)
Help stop the elimination of affordable LED lighting for film, video and photo.
“Litepanels has filed a 337 complaint to block the import of LED lights in the United States used for film, video or photo. This would give them a monopoly and eliminate all other affordable options for filmmakers.”
It seems absurd we waste our time debating the merits of idiotic legal claims like this.
(Source: youtu.be)
Creating the elaborate photography-themed Rube Goldberg machine in the video below.
More than 6 months work, creating 131 mechanical elements that need to work properly 99.5% of the time.
(Source: youtube.com)
Elaborate Rube Goldberg machine using photography equipment. It includes shooting photos, developing photos, and printing them.
Watch the behind the scenes video above too. It explains why you probably want to think twice when someone exclaims, “I know! Let’s make a Rube Goldberg machine!”
(Source: youtube.com)
I can’t comment with any credibility on the legal issues involved in Andy Baio’s problems with the Kind of Bloop album cover, but I must address one assumption I’m seeing in comments on the story:
That cover is NOT the original photo, downsampled. It’s a hand-crafted, precisely drawn interpretation of the source. Anyone who’s ever seriously put pixels to screen will tell you that this is an actual artistic method, one with its own challenges, tricks, and yes, an aesthetic.
To illustrate, here’s an object from The Incident. (No, I don’t know how Daimler-Benz feels about the inclusion of their iconic SMART car in our game.) I didn’t scale down the photo to start - that wouldn’t have even been helpful. I looked and I drew from scratch. That’s pixel art.
Last year, I was threatened with a lawsuit over the pixel art album cover for Kind of Bloop. Despite my firm belief that I was legally in the right, I settled out of court to cut my losses. This ordeal was very nerve-wracking for me and my family, and I’ve had trouble writing about it publicly until now.
Still want the full story? Read on —Andy Baio
Amazing light field camera creates images with infinite focus. User selectable depth of field.
The light field camera does not have a focus control, it seems. Everything is both in focus and out of focus at the same time. (I bet the images are rather big.)
This screen grab of a light field photo is called, Glamour girls at the Egyptian Museum. It’s one of the best in the Lytro Picture Gallery.
In the picture above, for example, the viewer can move the focal point to any of the four models. That is, when viewing it with a proper viewer. The image above is a screen grab from a Flash gallery. In the gallery, the user can change the focal point. I set the focus on the woman in blue and screen grabbed it.
I chose it because it had four obvious focal points. Many of the others effectively have 2 focal points.
I wonder what the film implications are. Doesn’t it make 3D as it is currently be marketed look funny and sad?
I bet the follow focus makers are shaking in their boots ;-)
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON | The Decisive Moment
Modern master photographer, Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) showing and talking about his work for 18 minutes.
(Source: vimeo.com)
Iceland. Timelapse. Beauty. Northern Lights.
Raw Lightscapes by Enrique Pacheco
by Eugenio Recuenco
Reference for colour contrast, skin tone… the skies, the palette…
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