National Geographic's Photography Contest 2010 National Geographic is once again holding their annual Photo Contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30th. For the past eight weeks, they have been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to rate them as well. National Geographic was again kind enough to let me choose some of their entries from 2010 for display here on The Big Picture. Collected below are 47 images from the three categories of People, Places and Nature. Captions were written by the individual photographers. (47 photos total) Kanana Camp, Botswana.
Improve your photography with classical art. Adjusting your photographs to get the color 'just right' can be a chore. Think about this: The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction? When Photoshop entered the CS series it included a new tool called 'Match Color.' This tools was made so that you could match a series of photos to one another. But there is another thing you can do with 'Match Color' that is much cooler: You can match the colors in your photos to those in famous paintings. I keep a directory of about 30 of my favorite paintings and anytime I need to do color correction, I just scan through them to find the one that gives the photo I'm working on the best look. This technique can be used in other ways. Stumble It!
London World Record Panoramic Photo: See Big Ben, London Eye, Tower Bridge, and more than you can imagine. About this photo This is an 80-gigapixel panoramic photo, made from 7886 individual images. This panorama was shot from the top of the Centre Point building in central London, in the summer of 2010. To control this image, use the controls on the screen or click and hold your mouse button on the photo, and move your mouse around. Your City is Next! If you would like us to create a large gigapixel panorama like you see here, please contact 360Cities. Press Download our press release and media package here. Download press release Download media package How big is this image, really? Why did we make it? How did we make it? I can read license plates and see faces! Will you print this image? Read about these and other questions and answers in the London Gigapixel complete FAQ on our blog. Commission a gigapixel like this one We will shoot and deliver a specially commissioned spherical gigapixel photo for you to use in connection with your marketing campaign, tourism promotion, etc.
typografie.de The End of Print - diese These begleitet uns, seit BSF 1986 in die elterliche Universitätsdruckerei eintrat und dabei zwei Träume hatte: Erstens wollte er diese Druckerei zu einer der besten im Bundesgebiet machen und zweitens wollte er leidenschaftlich gern schöne Bücher machen. Damals prophezeite David Carson das Ende des Gedruckten. Und doch fingen wir an, zunächst als Leistungsbeweis der Druckerei die Latte für das gedruckte Buch hoch und höher zu legen. Als wir unsere damals wenigen Titel zu Typografie und Grafikdesign dann 1992 erstmals auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse zeigten, war auch wieder Krise angesagt. Nicht nur fürs Buch, gleich für die gesamte Wirtschaft. Seitdem haben wir viele Unken kommen, rufen und gehen gesehen, der Buchmarkt wuchs, veränderte sich, schrumpfte, verändert sich radikal. Am 31.12.2013 mussten wir nach 28 großenteils erfolgreichen Jahren die Universitätsdruckerei schließen. Der Verlag lebt weiter.
Reuters Photos of the Year L’agence et les photographes de Reuters produisent plus d’un demi-million d’images chaque année. Voici comme tous les ans, une série de photographies retraçant les événements les plus marquants de l’année 2010. Une rétrospective à découvrir dans la suite de l’article. 35 Surreal Examples of Multiplicity Photography May 27 2010 Multiplicity is a photography technique in which the same person is photographed from different angles and directions and then the bunch of photographs are digitally re-mastered in Photoshop showing clones of the person doing different things all in one photo. Today we present 35 Surreal Examples of Multiplicity Photography to inspire you. Photography and Photoshop go hand in hand. Multiplicity Photography is the real test of your patience as you may have to work for hours to get the right shots mainly because of different angles, props and clothes used in pre-production. And finally when you have the images, you have to work on different techniques (blending, layering, curving etc) in Photoshop to paste all the images in one single photo. Surreal Examples of Multiplicity Photography what you don’t know can indeed hurt you Wet Willy Multiplicity Multiplicity, falling Creepy Multiplicity uh.. thats MY glass, silly.. Multiplicity – Guest Room Macbook B-Boy multiplicity The Unconscious
World’s famous photos New Handpicked Apps for the Week of Oct 25th - Find & Share iPhone Apps with Yappler.com À quand la photographie inratable? Lytro compte sortir d'ici fin 2011 un appareil photo qui ne fera plus le point, l'idée étant que l'appareil capturera toute l'information possible, et rendra une photo numérique qu'on pourra ajuster. Plus simplement dit en image (cliquez sur n'importe quelle partie de la photo pour faire le point): publicité Nous republions ci-dessous un article écrit en janvier 2011 sur la sophistication des appareils photos numériques actuels et à venir, qui laissent envisager, un jour, la photographie impossible à rater. N’importe quel tour dans les albums photos de vos amis sur Facebook vous prouvera qu’on rate encore ses photos. Mais alors que les appareils photos numériques s’améliorent constamment et continuent de sortir des options qui automatisent de plus en plus la prise de vue, s’approche-t-on de la photo impossible à rater, avec un appareil qui ferait tout le boulot et un bouton sur lequel appuyer pour avoir une bonne photo? Qu’est-ce qu’une photo ratée et une photo réussie? Priorité au sourire
Fake Painting Photographs by Alexa Meade What you are about to see, are not paintings on canvas! Alexa Meade paints with acrylics directly on human flesh creating the illusion of painterly portraits. “Alexa Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her background in the world of political communications has fueled her intellectual interest in the tensions between perception and reality. Alexa Meade’s innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships.” Website: alexameade.com | Flickr: flickr.com/photos/alexameade/ Jamie Portrait of Alexa Meade Bernie Egg On Egg Living Still Life Natura Morta Sara Timmy Will Ann All Images ©alexameade.com
Dismal World | Must-See: Unforgettable Photos 1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States. Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.Photo credit: Douglas Martin, USA January 12, 1960. 1963. 1962. 1965. 1966. February 1, 1968. 1972. 1973. 1975. 1980. Photo credit: Michael Wells, U.K. February 23, 1981. 1982. 1987. 1989. 1992. 1994. 1996. 2001. 2002. 2003.
Why Most CEOs Are Bad at Strategy - The Conversation by Roger Martin | 5:00 PM January 6, 2010 There is a lot of strategy in the world, produced by all types of CEOs, corporate heads of strategy, and strategy consultants. Yet very little of this strategy is any good. There are undoubtedly many possible explanations for why this is the case, but here is my own pet theory, which I offer up to elicit your reactions and surface alternatives: A good strategy is the product of the creative combination of two disparate logics — rather than a single linear analytical logic flow — but CEOs and “strategists” are seldom conditioned to become skilled at the requisite creative combination. The two most fundamental strategic choices are deciding where to play and how to win. The trouble is, CEOs don’t usually get to the top by integrating different logics in that way. As a consequence, many of them come to think of strategy as either where-to-play or how-to-win. That, I submit, is why CEOs and “strategists” so seldom produce good strategies.