Here, but Not Here: Photographs of Families Held Together by Love, Skype - Rebecca J. Rosen. We live in a world in which some of the people we are closest to are often not near us at all.
When we document our day-to-day existence in photographs and Instagrams, these people are absent. Their presence in our lives is missing from our digital memories. Photographer John Clang's series Being Together seeks to correct this. Using Skype and projectors, he captures families visually as they are virtually. "In these images," Clang told me over email, "I am marking the time for these families, enabling them to remember these strange moments of togetherness with the technology presently available. Tye family, Paris and Singapore. The project grew out of personal experience. Lim family, Westport and Singapore. He visits his parents once or twice a year, but he sought to document their time "together" over communications technology in a portrait.
Leong family, Hong Kong and Singapore. Krishnan family,Yokohama and Singapore. Goh family, Bellevue and Singapore. Ang family, New York and Singapore. Video - Breathtaking Projection-Mapped Video Graffiti Transforms European Cities. The Mesmerizing Beauty of Nature's Fractals - Megan Garber. Nature mingles with math, to breathtaking results.
Google Earth/Spain Google Earth: source of information, source of wonder, source of art. In 2010, Paul Bourke, a research associate professor at the University of Western Australia, began using the service to capture images for his ongoing Google Earth Fractals series. Since then, he's amassed an amazing collection of space-based photographs that are equal parts science and beauty: Each intoxicating image on the project's website is accompanied by a KMZ file that lets users pinpoint the photos' locations on their own Google Earth viewers, putting them in geographic as well as aesthetic context. As the blog My Modern Met put it, Glimpses of the 1906 Earthquake Seen in Modern-Day Photos of San Francisco. Two years ago, San Francisco-based photographer Shawn Clover began to create an amazing series of images, titled 1906 + 2010: The Earthquake Blend, featuring photographs captured during the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake blended into views of what the city currently looks like.
He writes, To put these photos together, I first create a catalog of historical photos that look like they have potential to be blended. Unfortunately most of these photos end up on the digital cutting room floor because there’s simply no way to get the same photo today because either a building or a tree is in the way. Once I get a good location, I get everything lined up just right. My goal is to stand in the exact spot where the original photographer stood. You can check out his original set of photos here, and a more recently published set here. 19 Resources to Improve Your Photo and Video Skills. Everyone's a photographer these days.
Technology is leveling the playing field; no longer does one need to lug around a point-and-shoot or a DSLR camera to take great photos. In fact, most of us have a solid photo-taking and photo-editing tool right in our pockets. But as you take more photos and shoot more videos, you might want to know how to do more with the tools you have. If that's the case, you've come to the right place. Below, we've rounded up some of our recent coverage about photography apps, editing apps, video apps, camera accessories and photo blogs. Photo Taking Which DSLR Camera Is Right for You? If you're serious about photography, all paths lead toward a digital SLR (single-lens reflex) model. How to Choose the Best Instagram Filter for Your Photo Hefe. Who Needs Photographers When You Have Robots! : The Picture Show.
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Scientists create 281-gigapixel embryo image comprised of more than 26,000 photos. Humanæ. 1.
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Panasonic and NHK unveil 34-million pixel, IMAX-worthy 145-inch TV. Lotte ages 12 years in Frans Hofmeester's time lapse video. Dickens's London: in pictures. Dickens's Victorian London is a collection of 19th-century photographs which has been published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth.
This picture shows Custom House, one of London's best surviving examples of 19th-century architecture, viewed from the river circa 1875. Part of Billingsgate market can be seen on the left; the crane is probably being used to demolish the old building, and help construct the new market. Viral video: Couple’s 90-second time-lapse video captures pregnancy. Kaarina Kaikkonen hangs laundry to create art. Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen creates installation of second hand clothing.
The artist hanging clothes on a rope, like the laundry room. Colour photographs of Shackleton’s Antarctica, 1915. The 'Endurance' frozen in 76-35 South, 1915 The rigging of the 'Endurance' encrusted with RIME crystals, 1915 Dog teams scouting a way to the land, 1915.
Striking multiple-exposure photo of air traffic by. Where Children Sleep: James Mollison's Poignant Photographs. By Maria Popova What the Amazon rainforest has to do with the Kaisut Desert and Fifth Avenue luxury.
On the heels of this morning’s homage to where children read and learn comes a curious look at where they sleep. That’s exactly what Kenyan-born, English-raised, Venice-based documentary photographer James Mollison explores in Where Children Sleep — a remarkable series capturing the diversity of and, often, disparity between children’s lives around the world through portraits of their bedrooms. The project began on a brief to engage with children’s rights and morphed into a thoughtful meditation on poverty and privilege, its 56 images spanning from the stone quarries of Nepal to the farming provinces of China to the silver spoons of Fifth Avenue. From the start, I didn’t want it just to be about ‘needy children’ in the developing world, but rather something more inclusive, about children from all types of situations.
5 Myths On LED Lighting. New camera technology helps remove photobombers from your pictures. Photobombers. Can’t avoid ‘em, can’t live without ‘em. Sure, they make for hilarious afterthoughts when you spot them, but it sure is painful when all you wanted was a perfect picture of your girlfriend by a pretty water fountain and what you get is a bunch of drunk college kids peering out behind her, armed with Four Lokos. Or maybe you’re on a trip with a bunch of friends and you get in a fight with one guy in the group and want to pretend the jerk never existed. Using Lasers To Take Insane 3D Macro Photographs Of Flying Insects. If taking high end macro shots of insects strikes you as hard, how about upping the level by taking the pictures while insects are in buzzing around mid-flight. Too easy you say. Let do this 3D. Photographer and designer Frans Fotoopa (photo grandpa) built a monster futuristic camera rig that does just that. Nikon 1 sensor 'capable of 4K,' faster lenses on the way.
We weren't all that impressed with the Nikon J1, finding its mix of small sensor and unconventional interface to stack up poorly next to competing Micro Four Thirds or NEX cameras. Nikon doesn't just create a new lens mount and ecosystem every year, though, and the company clearly has big plans for the 1 line — some of which have been explored in a DP Review interview with Tetsuya Yamamoto, General Manager of Nikon's Development Headquarters.
One of the major flaws we noted in our J1 review was the lack of fast, bright lenses, an issue compounded by the small sensor, and this makes taking good low light pictures very difficult on the 1 cameras. Yamamoto says the company is working to develop lenses with larger apertures while keeping the overall size down. Photoshop CS6 teaser demonstrates darkened UI. It's hard to tell when darkened UI elements and black or dark gray backgrounds became associated with "professional. " While Apple's Aperture and Adobe's Lightroom are the best known proponents of the concept in image editing, they're certainly not the first pieces of software to bear the subdued look. Darkened graphics programs always seemed especially popular on "exotic" platforms like SGI and Amiga, and NeoChrome had a dark UI on Atari in the late 80s.
These days most of Apple's "serious" applications are dark, or getting darker, and Adobe is close beside them. Adobe just showed off a "sneak peak" of Photoshop CS6 on YouTube, which includes a darkened UI for "a more immersive experience. " You can actually choose between four shades, with the lightest being the old look, and the darkest making everything nearly black. Stunning “Around the World” time-lapse video created with over 6,000 photos. Floggia: Photo-Sharing Made Easy. Floggia, a photo-sharing site which has just launched, is a one-man-show, developed by the 19-year-old Venezuelan student, Miguel Kudry.
The name Floggia comes from the Spanish word fotoblog, which is often abbreviated to just ‘Flog’. Playing on that concept, Miguel chose the name for the photo-sharing site. He’s actually had the domain for a couple of years now, but only just decided what he was going to do with it. We caught up with Miguel to find out a little bit more about him, and about what inspired him to launch Floggia.
Currently completing his Bachelors Degree in Business Administration in Canada, Miguel has been doing web development since he was 13. Study: More Americans shunning point-and-shoots in favor of smartphone cameras. Adobe touts the end of blurred photos with new Photoshop feature. 11 October '11, 04:00am Follow Adobe is developing an upcoming feature for Photoshop that could end the problem of blurred photos forever.
"Living Photo" Magic With Lytro: The Full AsiaD Demo - Kara Swisher - AsiaD. Photo credit: Eric Cheng / Lytro.