Monday, February 28, 2011

Night photography with a twist

Studying up on night photography now following my more or less first session outside a couple of months ago. Found this gem that is actually really neat but perhaps a bit nerdy:



Might there be some other "immaterials" that could be illustrated in the same way? Sleep patterns? Feng-shui whatever? Hmm...

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Spotify music blogs

Finally found what seems like a decent Spotify music blog - Pansentinent. Having some fun with their playlists now, the stand-up comedy versions. Need to find some more good sources for music on spotify, shelling out a lot of money for it with a very limited discovery engine...

Black and white

Found some more on the theme of turning color images into black and white. I think I'll try using the "virtual copy" function in Lightroom to test this out. In the shots linked below many use a long exposure to soften up the sky, seems really effective...



45 more B&W architecture photos here

There is also an application named "silver e-fex" or something similar that many recommend... Need to check that out

Friday, February 25, 2011

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Savage Skulls & Douster feat Robyn - Bad Gal



Two things in this I want to try - (1) That vintage look that seems to be near everywhere now, (must be some simple color correction) and (2) the video editing once I get around to it. The "car jerkiness" thingy would be nice to know how to do

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

DSLR video workflow

Something to try out for fun once I get serious about testing out shooting videos.



Seems to be a straightforward workflow support to maximize retention of as much raw data as possible. Now I just need to find an open-sourced video editor that enables all that composing and color correcting goodness. There is an awful lot of instruction videos over at Vimeo - apparently I need a z-finder, a focus ring, most probably one of those track-thingies and a model. Sheesh... I'll stick to photos for now.

Finally got the "GIMP 2.6 for photographers" and the "Scribus 1.3.5 Beginners Guide" books today. Yay workflow development. Now I just need to find some time. Crap.

Car mount

This guy even has the same camera as me! I wish I had this when we took that roadtrip down to Amsterdam and France.



For ~90$ this thing has some serious value...
http://www.filmtools.com/gripper-3025-suction-cup-camera-mount.html

Agnes Obel

Would be nice as background music for a video...



Listen to the album on Spotify here

Nightscene in New York


Nightscene in New York
Originally uploaded by guiba6
I want to try this out... Capturing a city in a new way. Maybe black&white is the way to go? How would it look if it was raining?

Sunday, February 20, 2011

50 mm F1.4



Originally uploaded by Rick宗
Gah! The perfect image to show why I need a new prime lens...

Timelapse

Stumbled on an amazing timelapse video:



Reminded me of this old gem:

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don't go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.


weeird

The Art of FLIGHT - snowboarding film trailer w/Travis Rice


Awesome vision in this - everything working to one end

Danny MacAskill - "Way Back Home"


Fantastic. Awesome stunts, camera work and music. The feeling stays with you a long time....