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 Rickå®—
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....