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Pour mes amis designers & architectes: des espaces de vie trop léchés font des gens trop tristes. Hence Unhappy Hipsters. Faîtes plutôt comme mon ami Charles-Antoine et mettez des pin-ups qui dansent dans vos rendus architecturaux. C’est toujours plus plaisant. (via le @jeanhambourg) •
Photographer Josef Hoflehner makes the richest blacks and white ever, making Dubai’s Sheikh Zayed Road look like Lang’s Metropolis. You kind of want a couple white lofts to hang some of these, printed oversize, but you’ll have to settle for a coffee table book or two. •
Chicks & Lentille fixe: J’ai ffffoundé pas mal toutes les photos de la photographe ukrainienne Valeria Lazareva. •
Big Picture: Interactive before/one-year-after Hurricane Ike photographs. The before and after click-to-fade-in setup is great way to tell the story, though I wish all world problems—including our kitchen floor—could be solved this easily. Click, done! Click, done! Click, done! Who’s next? Irak? Step on up! •
J’ai presque oublié de mentionner que le World Press Photo 2009 est de retour en ville, l’exposition internationale de photojournalisme, comme un recap de l’année bien avant ceux des médias en décembre. T’as jusqu’au 4 octobre, comme d’hab au Musée Juste pour rire. Si tu te lasses des sorties, tu peux consulter le tout dans le confort de ton cubicule drette icitte. •
Fashion and beauty photographer Astrid Salomon. She has a few cute “making of” clips of fashion shoots in studio and on site. Questions to photographers out there: what’s that camera she’s using?! Or is it simply a hack on the usual reflex? •
Projet Le Tour: Brett Humphreys’s clinical photography of the Tour de France and its fandom. I’m guessing he’s none of the less using a few assistants with reflectors because the lighting is simply far too balanced overall. Or it’s just a flash? Photographers out there, what’s your take on it? •
Blanpied Rubini agency à Paris: a great collection of fashion and editorial photographers and a greater exemple of fine no-bull web user interface. If you double-click the image link, it adds it at personal selection cart which you can then print, download, ffffound. Love it. •
Young photographer Richard Mosses discusses with BLDGBLG his recent visit and photographs of Saddam Hussein’s palaces in Iraq where American soldiers have established living quarters amongst the rubble and marble. Gorgeous pictures.
“Vast, self-indulgent halls of columned marble and extravagant chandeliers, surrounded by pools, walls, moats, and, beyond that, empty desert, suddenly look more like college dormitories. Weight sets, flags, partition walls, sofas, basketball hoops, and even posters of bikini’d women have been imported to fill Saddam’s spatial residuum. The effect is oddly decorative, as if someone has simply moved in for a long weekend, unpacking an assortment of mundane possessions.”
•Les photographes Winkler & Noah le voient à l’inverse: transformer nos enfants en poupées, les rendre sages commes des images, en non pas comme ce qu’ils sont: des enfants. Pour moi, les poupées, avec un regard vide et figé, n’ont rien de rassurant, ça ne s’améliore surtout pas quand leur physionomie et apparence deviennent carrément humaines. •
Nouveau site web de la photographe montréalaise Dominique Lafond. Belle collection de séries de photos, l’oeil documentaire de Lafond est honnête.
Malgré la critique — non pas de la qualité graphique et interactive des interfaces épurés, mais bel et bien seulement des technologies utilisées —: il existe malgré tout, encore et toujours, chez les photographes, cette attirance implacable pour les sites portfolio en flash. Comme un village gaulois qui résiste encore et toujours à l’envahisseur. Sauf que là, on demande simplement de quitter le village, pas d’y entrer.
•The Society of Publication Designers honors the best in magazine design with a handful of awards for best photography and best design. Hot stuff, de très bons coups. Et malgré les frontières web/print qui semblent s’effacer, et l’attention qu’on porte aux nouveaux médias, l’imprimé, libre de contraintes typographiques et de mise en page, semble maintienir toujours une avance sur le web côté forme et composition. C’est pas la même chose, dites-vous, je le sais, mais je suis simplement heureux de voir que ça bûche encore fort, et qu’on le reconnait. •
Flickr: myvintagevogue is an huge collection of vintage fashion photographs from the 1920s to the late 60s, with sub-classifying by photographer, magazine, model and even accessory (phones!). Lots of inspiring material. A certain authenticity rings from these photographs, a truth in the display of prettiness. Maybe its the simple fact that the models look healthy and are not fourteen years old? Maybe I’m just projecting ideas too. •
This has been published awhile ago, is now slightly irrelevant topic, but I hadn’t got to it till now (viva la instapaper) and just might interest you too: As Bush was exiting the white house, Errol Morris discusses with 3 photo editors for the top news agencies about photographing the president over the past 8 years. Quite interesting considering the varying views of the agencies and photographers. Plus many examples of how the same context under a different angle sheds a much different light on the subject. •
In The Whale Hunt, Jonathan Harris retraces the whale hunt on the Alaskan arctic sea through the data of 9 straight days of photography (+3200 pics total). The project explores the possibilities of a computer framed storytelling format, how an interface can communicate and relive a high emotion human experience.
The interface is innovative and definitely suggesting more than a usual flickr photoset. Taking advantage of the ginormous amounts of pictures, he also gave us the possibility to break it down to many other substories—“cast”, “concepts” and “contexts” he calls them—which you can view by themselves: a food storyline, a whale storyline, an airport storyline, etc… all with a heartbeat (an excitation indicator) suggesting more or less the current level of excitement (or boredom) depending on the amount of pictures snapped in a given time frame.
Do take the time to explore this fully for there is a lot to see, digest and understand. Seeing twenty some people hauling a whale onto the frozen shore is quite an impressive sight.
And is it me, or do whale steaks look bloody blubber delicious?
•Earth hour 2009 @ The Big Picture: Laurence était réjouie de dire qu‘«on peut éteindre le monde!» En effet, il y a quelque chose de très satisfaisant d‘éteindre les lumières de quartiers entiers au click d’une souris. •
Hey mes coquelicots, ça fait combien de temps que je ne vous ai pas recommandé le portolio d’un photographe? Suffit le niaisage, on rattrape le temps perdu, on remet les moutons à l’heure, on retourne à nos pendules, voici votre fix: go Hannah Whitaker, go Diana Scherer, go Paul Graves! Ah pis Naomi Leibowitz’s several photobooths interiors. •
I would have called this Commercial Camo instead of Urban Camouflage, but the objective clearly has great potential: put on costumes made out of cheap products to blend oneself in a commercial environment. Coming out of the swedish yellow plastic swamp, the Ikea bag ghoul is my favorite. •
As we were discussing Nikons around the table on Saturday, here’s the follow up a few questions we had: CCD vs CMOS sensors and their video (in)capabilities with example footage. Plus, I had no idea of the exitence of this new mean machine: the Nikon D3x, a new professional 24.4 MP camera, bigger, better, bla bla bla. Good thing hard drives are cheap cause “the camera produces 50MB 14-bit NEF (Raw) files”. Get yours for eight thousand smacker$. •
Big picture’s best of 2008 round up: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. Seeing these is like a species report: what do human do on earth? Lots of shit,good and bad. Human drama, disagreements and disasters are inevitable. But amidst it all, it nevertheless seems that justice, beauty and goodness can transcend. •
An on-going series of his: Levi Van Veluw likes to takes pictures of himself with stuff on his face, may it be materials, paint or miniatures. •
Photographer Lars Botten brings the photography back in “fashion photography”, with a fantastic editing job in each series. •
I was impatiently waiting for this one: The Big Picture hosts a gorgeous collection of photographs of the new president-elect spanning over the last few months, mostly out and about the campaigning. He does look fairly slick with his ray-ban sunglasses. •
Callie Shell, photojournaliste, suit et photographie Barack Obama depuis quelques années. Elle affiche et commente une série de photos prises au cours des différentes campagnes du politicien, traçant tranquillement son ascension vers la maison blanche. Tant de très grands moments publics que des moments au repos, plus intimes, avec ses proches. •
In chinese, the word mingong is used to describe the entire floating population of workers who are coming into cites, leaving the poverty of the countryside for hopes of a better life. « Bearing their heavy packs, groups of men from the same village wander from town to town looking for work on a building site or a place to sleep. They are the mingong, the modern slaves who are building tomorrow’s China and whose numbers are estimated at two hundred million. » Patrick Zachmann presents a photographic series on the topic. •
Most interesting, exactly my kind of link. Five in focus: photographers. They share and comment five films that have influenced them most. The Five in focus series covers all sorts of topics and personalities. My must-see list suddenly got quite long. •
Après Nikon D90, c’est au tour de Canon de nous présenter de la vidéo sur SLR avec la EOS 5D Mark II. Still out of my budget. •
Une petite mine d’or: National Geography Photography Galleries Galore. Sujets variés, plusieurs nouveaux albums chaque mois, pas de fil RSS. •
Photographer Erik Boker dissected a handful of toothpast tubes and photographed them. Love that there is no distinctive color palate to toothpaste, anything goes, even gradients. Though there is no brown or grey. •
Même si les Olympiques sont terminés, cela ne veut pas dire qu’il faut cesser de parler de la Chine. Avec la surpopulation qui y règne, il n’est pas surprenant d’apprendre le nombre de sans logis (ce qui est différent des itinérants, puisqu’ils sont tout de même des citoyens actifs et travailleurs). Le photographe Bernd Hagemann prend des photos de ces Chinois(es) qui n’ont pas d’autre choix que de dormir sur la place public ou qui sont tout simplement trop fatigué pour retourner chez eux. •
Bon Nikon n’arrête pas, la D90 est annoncée et à voir les specs, ça va bûcher. La plus grosse innovation? La possibilité de faire de la vidéo avec un SLR. Rien de moins que 1280 × 720p @ 24f/sec, comme au cinéma. Cra-zy. Ce qui veut dire que, telle une caméra vidéo, tu peux changer la lentille, jouer avec la profondeur de champ, ajuster le grain, l’aperture… le tout pour 999$. C’est ce que je voulais entendre pour faire le saut et commencer à faire des films (pis parce que je ne peux pas encore me payer une Red). •
À regarder nos olympiennes plonger du 10m, si vous vous demandiez de quoi avait l’air la vue du haut de la tour de plongeon dans le Water Cube, la voici en 360˚ avec la naration du plongeur américain de Thomas Finchum. C’est eau. Ha. •
Flickr: En tant que designer, photographe et fervant amateur d’objets quotidiens, ces compositions de dissection de petits appareils electriques me sont fascinantes. •
Bien avant que la crew de RadioCan et de RDS débarque à Beijing, le photographe Dan Eckstein a été se promener en Chine, parcourant 10 000 km en 8 semaines, photographiant le pays et pour ensuite partager les clichés sur le web. C’est catégorisé par thèmes (Religion, Pollution, Pauvreté Urbaine…) Picture China. •
Et oui, les vacances de la construction sont déjà terminées. Pour ceux qui ont été contraint de prendre leur congé durant cette période d’achalandage ont surement eu quelque frustrations en raison des lignes d’attentes interminables ou du peu de quiétude sur les plages surpeuplées. Toutefois, dites-vous que ça peut toujours être pire, car il reste toujours de la place pour une personne de plus dans la piscine. (Regarder la dernière photo) •
Behind the scenes look at the photography of Gregory Crewson. Des projets de photo utilisant autant de ressources que des films, assez impressionnant. J’avais eu la chance de voir quelques de ses photos pendant l’exposition de Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, devant l’attention au détails de narration photographique, la qualité picturale de la lumière, sculptant l’ambiance. •
Big Picture: anti-terrorism exercices in China in preparation to the upcoming summer olympics. The beauty lies in the number of trained policemen. Oh, and 2 words: Segway gunmen. •
Pour te saouler d’imagerie léché: l’agence suédoise LundLund regroupe des photographes et des stylistes de toutes sortes. Trop. De. Beau. Y’a de quoi s’inspirer. (merci Francis) •
Allez jetez un coup d’oeil au travail du photographe montréalais Simon Duhamel, Il a aussi réalisé la série de photo portraits pour le dernier Urbania. Ah, et comme tout bon créatif en 2008, Il blogue aussi. •
Tu t’absentes quelques jours et Nikon s’arrange pour te sortir une autre full frame à t’en faire baver: meet la D700. Rajouter un 0 à ma D70 nécessiterais d’en enlever 3 à mon compte en banque. Soupir. •
2 photographic series worth checking out: Ultra graphic, almost absract Branislav Kropilak’sBillboards (tu te souviendras peut-être de ses garages); Floating people in a department store in Denis Darzacq’s Hyper. •
Photographical remix, weirdest of them all: Man Babies. Ça ferait des belles cartes de fête des pères. •
Big is beautiful: Big Picture est la nouvelle section de photo-journalisme du boston.com mettant en vedette les superbes clichés de nouvelles internationales en grand format. Effectivement, si la mojorité des internautes est capable de télécharger des vidéos de plusieurs MB en quelques secondes et possède maintenant une résolution d‘écran relativement large, pourquoi s’entêter encore conserver l’esprit de réduction et d‘épargne de bande passante? Hippopocampe a fait le move en janvier dernier. •
Non, non, ce n’est pas moi, dit-il innocemment. Full series here. •
Andreas Wolkerstorfer owns quite a few cameras. Genre, a whole bunch of ‘em: 35mm, Holga, medium format, pinhole, digital… What’s the difference? Check it out for yerself. •
Fraser Speirs gives a couple good tips using keywording feature on Aperture (and flickr). •
Photographer Louis Porter‘s slogan should be “Colorful. And full of it.” •
Sorry I missed your party: Flickr pictures of other people’s parties. •
Worth checking out (and subscribing to): photoblog Positive Negative. Avec la plus belle page d’archives à thumbnail ever. •
Si t’as un petit appareil photo point n’ shoot, tu te dois de faire des fauxtographs de tes amis de temps en temps. •
Swedish photographer Rasmus Norlander‘s work focuses on engineering art and architecture, faire résonner graphiquement des concepts tridimentionnels. On dirait qu’il y a toujours quelque chose de naturaliste de l’utilisation d’appareils grand format, on pose le trépied, on cadre et on prend la photo. Burtynsky résonne semblablement, seulement en moins léché. •
This article is titled 21 ways to shoot better photographs. Yeah, well, it would be more appropriate and correct to simply say 21 ways to have funand be creative with a digital camera: try all of them out, have fun, doesn’t cost a dime. •
Photographer Sarah Kane should get herself a nicer looking website, cause her photographs deserve better than that. •
Singaporian photographer Jing’s super hyper real world “is full of people infused with visceral, unsentimental, in-your-face attitudes!” C’est le moindre qu’on puisse dire. Unique et frais, toujours réconfortant de se faire rappeler que tout n’as pas déjà été fait. (merci Francis) •
Photographer Claudia Janke works and focuses on “portrait and social documentary photography”, embedding herself with ease and treating the subjects with perceptiveness and a sense of sympathetic understanding: Sustainable Design South Africa, Female demining team Cambodia, Blindness in India… to name a few. Makes you want to pack your camera and leave. •
Natures mortes revival: Photographer John Short is the man. J’adore ses séries de paysages, tissées de liens conceptuels (parfois très) fragiles. •
Photographe Micheal Mueller. Um, M. Mueller, laisse en pour les autres s’il te plait. Y’a t’il quelqu’un qui n’est pas dans la liste? Ciboire. •
Comme disait Oliver: More? Could I have more? There is so much space and so little people in Jeff Brouws series of landscapes photographs of America. Franchised, of strip malls, of lost highways in the mid-west, forgotten abandoned buildings: we have spread out so thin, what is holding it together? •
Votre dose de photographes du vendredi: le travail d‘éditoriaux et de mode de Grégoire Alexandre est moy muy beautiful (je questionne seulement la présence récurante d‘équipement et d’outils de studio dans les compositions… ou est-ce des shots de making of?) & Joyce Kim, perfect for the summer with polaroids, film stills, 35mm… •
Last one of this photographer blitz: Ryan Shude and his carfully crafted tableaux. He approaches portaits the same way, fully distant, rigid and scenic-like. Good things always come in pairs: he also has a flickr feed. •
La photographe Sarah Hillenberger réalise de superbes éditoriaux photographiques avec textures, couleurs et matières diverses. Des natures mortes beaucoup moins mortes. A new favorite of mine. •
Des sujets plus léger que l’Irak: le photographe Thierry Bouet et sa série de portaits de lits excentriques + propriétaires de ceux-ci et Marc Lagrange qui patauge dans la lingerie et une quantité ridicule de nus questionnables. •
Reuters’ Bearing Witness: five years of the Iraq war. Includes a timeline of events since 2003 illustrated by photography and films and quite interesting interviews with local journalists and photographers whose workplace is probably the most dangerous un the world. •
L’équipe de MethodIzaz vous offre, si vous demeurez à New York, de vivre l’expérience d’être suivi par des Paparazzi. Pendant plusieurs jours, vous serez suivi par des photographes à votre insu dans votre simple quotidien. L’expérience dit-on, aide à changer la perception que nous avons de soi. Ça nous ramène les deux pieds sur terre, quoi. •
Blank, suburban, soulless, caucasian women with straight hair and a tad excessive with the make-up is the theme today: photographer Yvonne Todd likes them with bad teeth and irish Kylie Minogue-like ex-Moloko singer Róisín Murphy plays dress-up in her new solo video You Know Me Better. •
The photographic art of Sebastian Lemm. This is the kind of photography that I’ll never get sick of seeing. Contained in a frame yet bursting with energy and ideas. •
Hitchcock’s portfolio: this month, Vanity Fair tackles scenes from Hitchcock classics with current hollywood stars. Johanson, Foster, Bardem, Affleck, Theron, Zellweger… •
Holger Pooten photography: ça flotte, ça meurt, ça court, ça pisse. Tu voudras toutes les voir, sans exceptions. •
If you like Last Night’s Party, you’ll like Ambrel and its daily photoblog Home of the Vain. (merci Francis) •
Les photos d’ Andrew Crighton. La section wee – small models est totalement hallucinante, où il réussi à créer un look de mini-maquette. À voir aussi, Åkes bilskrot, un dépotoir de plus de 150 voitures en plein forêt suèdoise. •
Je vous invite à consulter le portfolio de Douglas Fisher, mais plus particulièrement la section Behind the scene. Vous remarquerez que parfois, un ajustement mineur ou une retouche, peu parfois faire toute la différence. •
Daniel Sannwald photography. Merveilleusement créatif, des excellents clichés n&b. La photo de mode n’a pas besoin d‘être aussi endormante que ce qu’on voit dans le Elle Québec. •
Another year, another World Press Photo winners gallery. Un excellent portrait de notre monde en 2008. •
3 photographers worth checking out: Harm van den Dorpel’s photographic animations (don’t give up on hime to quickly, take the time to really look at the images); Jess Bonham’s Seiko, Malvina and Emily series (graphically quite interesting); and finally Nicolas Coulomb’s Desperate Houses, Autels and Hide&Seek series (I always love to see new ways of looking at architecture). •
Bon, qu’est ce qu’il y avait sur le web aujourd’hui? Des discussions la fabrication de grosses lentilles telephoto, entre autre. Il est tellement beau qu‘à 1200mm (ça cadre 2º de ton champ de vision) toutes les lignes de perspective verticale sont parallèles comme dans la vraie vie. •
Bruno Dayan: fashion photographer. Kate Moss and the likes. (Merci Francis) •
Flickr: The Fitting Room Project. Alex Guelff has been taking self-portraits in numerous high street clothing stores. •
Tim Simmons’ night photographs. I’m guessing he’s light painting: keeping the shutter open in total darkness and with a manipulable light source (flashlight, flash, spot light) reveals the surrounding area to the camera. (merci Francis) •
Lilly McElroy likes to sleep around town and throw herself on men. Literally. She has a few good video performances as well. •
Mais, dans les pubs de chars, comment ils font pour prendre des si belles photos des voitures en allant à 100 milles à l’heure? Un partie de la réponse et l’autre moitié ici. •
Photographer Jason Lazarus found and photographed Spencer Elden, the naked baby swimming on Nirvana’s Nevermind album cover. He is now 17 and lives in LA. •
Ma classification de photos se faisait un peu de tort et de travers dans Aperture jusqu‘à temps que je lise les quelques entrées du blog Fraser Speirs qui porte sur l’utilisation du logiciel (triage, archivage). •
Bill Henson à la Roslyn Oxley9 gallery. Les couleurs et les tons sont tellement beaux. Des fois je me dis que je devrais réessayer de photographier avec du film. Je pense que je suis bientôt prêt. •
I heart photography. Et pendant que y’a comme une panne de ça ici, allez voir ailleurs: Nicholas Lorden ; Tonk (Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs) toutes les séries sont ma-la-des; Steven Hirsch’s Love Thy Neighbor, une série de photos de “Homes of New York State Registered Sex Offenders”. •
Diaporama retrospectif du New York Times: 2007 en photos. Le NYT sait bien présenter les choses. •
Reuters best of photography 2007. Love that burning bike, George Bush’s tear, the Chinese conductor and the wounded Canadian soldier. •
Jan Von Holleben’s Dreams of Flying. Le meilleur c’est certainement la section de photographies prises par des enfants, inspiré de l’oeuvre de Von Holleben. (merci Hugo) •
James Day photography. Je commence à prendre goût des natures mortes. Ironiquement, c’est donner vie à l’immobile. •
Romanians know how to work those photoshop layers: Carioca studio. Je suggère de regarder les produits finis et ensuite faire un tour dans la section “making of”. Assez impressionant travail de compositions numériques. •
On travaille sur un projet qui nous a obligé à parcourir des dizaines et dizaines de sites web de photographes (oh, quel fardeau). En voici quelques uns de mes préférés: Twin Room (check the wonderfully exhaustive AlpTransit series), Uli Heckmann does cars and portraits, Sanna Kannisto curiously does plants and insects & Dan Tobin does gorgrous studio work and nature morte ‘accidents’. •
Photographe Guy Bourdin. Comme Nan Goldin mais en plus sculptural. •
A photographic report of a photographer’s recent tour to Antartica. Et ils ont trainé pas mal de stock, dont des caméra/scan à 400 mégapixels. Malgré le fait que je maugré l’hiver qui est à nos portes, l’idée de prendre des photos par froid glacial m’excite. Et ces tons de glace et d’eau froide! Road trip to Hudson Bay, anybody? •
Pour toé mon Hugo: Lichtfaktor @ BehanceNetwork: If you take enough light-drawings photographs, you might as well animate it all to make a movie. Well done, music and soundeffects help a lot in the comprehension, because if often gets somewhat gorgeously complex. (merci Francis) •
Young’s Online Gallery hosts art photography galore. Lots of very classic stuff (nudes, b/w, portraits) as well as um, Richard Gere? Qu’est-ce tu fais là? Depuis quand t’es photographe? •
International Photography Awards 2007 Photographer of the Year Competition Winners. Yeah, long title, but quite a long list of nice pics though. With subjects like brides, buildings and historic (!). •
Metz & Racine: duo photgraphique féminin avec le composition-o-mètre à 11. Natures mortes de toutes sortes. Et j’vous garoche aussi Fjord, la version web du livre qui recueille des jeunes photographes contemporains. En plus de leurs photos, les liens directes aux sites web des artistes y sont aussi. Des heures à vous lécher les yeux. •
Iconic Moments of the 20th Century : tel que recréé avec l‘âge d’or de Glasgow. •
More Nikon D3 example images. Incredible detail at high ISO settings is such great news for sports photographers. •
Et qu’est ce qu’on fait de mieux les mercredi midi? On se rend au Hooters sur le blvd. Tachereau avec son appareil photo pour un autre article collabo avec P45! Yé! En passant, on garde toujours le plusse meilleur pour la fin (de l’article). •
Ridin’ Dirty Face by The Polaroid Kidd. Gorgeous, georgous photography, right up my alley. Truly personal, emotionally strong. When you can picture the photos with their odd composition and colors as beautiful large paintings, you know its good. Details everywhere, brushy worlds almost too good. This is one of my favorites. Oh, and these too. •
Flickr: Entoptic Phenomena. Me love ghosts a lot. (merci rickgee & francis) •
Photographer Andrew Zuckerman has quite the touch. Moving slowly from photography to film. The creatures series is being published this fall. •
Asako Narahashi’s photo series Half awake and half asleep in the water. Gorgeously simple. •
Photographer Will Pearson has a great little collection of panoramic landscapes and a neat series of Quicktime VR, including a fashion photo shoot in Yungfuktoi, Japan. (Merci Francis) •
Vanou got a good shot of me dancing the macarena on my knees taking those Oratoire St-Joseph pics the other night. •
It’s kind of funny cause I was just talking about last night with a friend, wondering when Nikon would catch up with Canon and come out with a full frame digital camera. For the non-photography instruits, the term full frame means that the camera sensor is a large as traditionnal 35mm film. Currently, digital camera sensors are significantly smaller and only the center portion of the image is recorded, thus resulting in cropped off edges. A 18mm lense on a digital camera is now more like a 24mm lense, a 50mm is more like a 70mm, etc.). Well, say hello to the new Nikon D3. 9 fps with AF tracking (11 without), ISO through the roof, dual compact flash storage plus wireless capabilities: “In a wireless environment, networks of up to five D3 and D300 cameras can be established. At a sports event, for example, photo editors could browse all thumbnails on each camera simultaneously, selecting (‘pulling’) the images they need, while the photographers continue shooting.” More on full frame cameras here. UPDATE: A good in-depth review of the D3 (with screenshots too). •
Series of pictures with Romanian “Nouveau Riche” fat topless sun-bathing men by photographer Cosmin Gradinaru. “Reach, socially respected, driving a luxury car escorted by breath taking ladies, these low culture (but with an image of maecenas, patron of arts) individuals, became a model for most young Romanian. I’m interested in presenting them as they are and revealing a social paradox.” •
Kameraflageis context-sensitive display technology that enables the ability to add a second camera-specific layer of information to scenes. Works with the fact that “digital cameras see a broader spectrum of light (colors) than human eyes. By rendering content in these invisible colors we are able to create displays that are invisible to the naked eye, yet can be seen when imaged with a digital camera.” •
Works of the Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko: des foules full flous. J’aime des comparaisons intellectuelles inter-mediums: “Imbued with a down-trodden moodiness reminiscent of the stories of Dostoyevsky”. MP3 interview with the artist available as well. •
Beautiful black and white photographic coverage of a Daft Punk show. Ça me fait chier encore plus de voir ça et de ne pas avoir de billets pour leur show en Août ici à Montréal. (merci Francis) •
Type The Sky: you can make typography out of anything, even empty space between buildings. •
Flickr: Long exposure + glowsticks, flashlights and LEDs = fantastic urban light drawings. You just can’t make this stuff up on the computer. What’s fun about it is the continuous experimentation and adjusting it requires because it’s so hard to predict the results before hand. Who want to go night shooting in Montreal with me? (merci francis) •
Jefferey Milestein likes to take pictures of big commercial jets’ bellies. I’m wondering if these are meticulously made collages of a large number of shots of the plane’s underside or he simply laid down in the grass beside an airport, took very perpendicular pictures of the planes leaving or arriving and photoshoped the sky and clouds out. Any guesses? More similar work here. •
Nice photoediting job: If fire was water. I hate linking to sites that put up other people’s images without giving credit where it’s due. •
German industrial landscape photographer Bernd Becher has passed away. •
Parfois, je conserve un onglet de mon fureteur internet ouvert toute la journée en affichant une simple photo, l’oubliant et y revenant de temps à autres pour la contempler d’un oiel frais. Hier c‘était une photo des nouvelles salles de lectures du Pontifical Lateran University à Rome. Pimp ma grande bibliothèque, svp. •
Of Words, Paper, and Shapes is a series of soaked, sculpted then photographed books by photographer Cara Barer. •
By the way, Montreal is now part of the photobloggers.org blog network: montreal. photobloggers.org. Am I the only one who missed this or was this launched last month without much of a holler? •
Georgeous destruction/action stills (and great portfolio site design too) over at Martin Klimas photography. Qu’est ce que t’aime faire dans la vie? Prendre des photos de choses qui cassent. •
I’m kinda bored with the Internet these days. Haven’t checked my RSS feeds in a while, kinda dreading the discovery of 400+ 649 articles to gaze over/read. Anyways, stumbled upon 2 good links over on Kottke: Random Pizza generator (good for those pizza parties) and photographer Frans Lanting ‘s Journey through time is (attention) “a lyrical interpretation of life on Earth from its earliest beginnings to its present diversity.” Photos are nice, music is kind of over the top. Probably more interesting to watch as a performance than alone at your desk. •
Modern Castles : urbanisme militaire en Irelande du Nord. •
Flickr: Grass typography in Berlin and the DRM is like… picture pool. •
Où j‘étais la semaine passé: Core77’s NY Design Week/ICFF 2007 Round up. C’est toute là. •
Smithsonian magazine’s 4th Annual Photo Contest results. This year’s grand prize photograph is from an 18 yo New-Zealander and would make a fantastic painting. •
Denis Darzacq – La Chute : architecture aliénante + gens suspendus dans les airs. •
Photo tour with Guy Kawasaki in the Threadless playground offices. For those of you who aren’t aware Threadless is a multi-million internet tshirt company run by 20 year olds. Yeah, that’s right. •
Yann Mingard photography. Check out the Twilight and the East of a New Eden series. •
Je vous demande de stopper immédiatement tout ce que vous faites pour visiter A Huma : possiblement le meilleur blogue sur la culture visuelle contemporaine (merci à Pierre Crube pour le lien). •
File magazine’s collection of unexpected photography. Over a thousand of them. And they aren’t your usual “beautiful” kitch calendar pictures. These are true: you can feel that initial amazement, the fresh gaze of wonder that brought the photographer to try to freeze it. These are photographs that you would want over-sized and hanging on your living room wall. Plus, they got an RSS feed. •
Ryan McGinley is to receive the Young Photographer of the Year award at the International Center of Photography’s Infinity Awards. Read the NYT article. •
Grant Ernhart photography. Super serene still life in well done almost square compositions (which are usually much harder to do). Y’a plein de bonne hippoporizontalités. •
Improve your photography with classical art. Use the color palette of classical paintings to color correct your dopey pictures. Clever. (via the Kottke) •
Portfolio du photographe Suisse Olivier Pasqual. Mes séries préférées: Vide et 1ère fois. •
Photographer David LaChapelle’s work exhibited at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery. I love his pieces. Real thought-out and set-up compositions, nothing improvised. •
On this grey but somewhat pleasant morning, may I suggest you rinse your eyes with photographic beauty with the portfolio’s of Sirs Tim Flach and Giles Revell. Quite elegant and visually stunning work indeed. •
Erwin Olaf’s photography Quite stunning. He seems to reach the pictural quality of paintings with photography. Makes me wanna take pictures all day. •
Ridgemont Typologies: is about our desire for a mythic lifestyle, one industry’s attempt to fulfill that desire, and what the results look like to a passerby. “If there is some kind of big sellout occuring, what are we getting in the deal?” •
Flickr: Lastest pictures of Daniel Libeskind’s Crystal structure addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. UPDATE: Jf, voici comment ça fait pour tenir debout: Steel Project Case Study Gallery: Renovation to ROM. •
Justine Cooper photography Saved By Science : “backstage” photos of the Natural History Museum. •
PingMag: Interview with Manufactured Landscapes canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky. He was also awarded a TED prize in 2005 for his work and you can see his presentation online. •
I just super-heart these Japanese light drawings films: PIKA PIKA: PIKA PIKA 2007 release! •
Vive le web! Une baleine bleue vraie grandeur sur votre écran. Comme un collègue de bureau vient de dire: c’est google-earth pour baleine! •
On My Desk : Creative folks share pictures of their work environments. •
Timothy Saccenti photography. Lady Sovereign, LCD Soundsystem, TV On The Radio, Fischerspooner et j’en passe. (Merci Francis) •
Naughty James on tour with The Klaxons. I heart party pics. More Mister Naughty here. •
Abelardo Morell Camera Obscura photography series. Upside down city scapes photos projected on bedroom walls. •
A collection of Hiroshima and Nagasaki pictures after the bombings. What is most interesting is the discussion in the comments triggered by these photos. •
Astronomy pic of the day: Comet between fireworks and lightning on sandy beach in Perth, Australia. •
Onitsuka Tiger: Made of Japan Sneeker Scultpture. All japanese collectibles, no 3D. A collaboration between LA-based artist Gary Baseman and Dutch photographer Marcel Christ. •
Rosmarie Fiore long exposition photographs of 80’s videogame screens. Another neat project of hers are the Amusement park Scrambler drawings. •
Hel Looks: Street Fashion from Helsinki. The swedes are hipsters. All of them. I like what this guy is wearing. •
Click sur Dior Homme, click sur “Store Design” et ensuite capote sur la géométrie brute et contrastée des photos de l’aménagement. •
Achidose visited 30 places/buildings in 30 days in NY and made a report for each and one of them. I was enjoying this this past month as he was publishing one daily. •
Getty lists its best new 2007 photographers. “Gathered by a curatorial team of creatives from around the world, it’s a list of the individuals we believe will change advertising imagery in 2007 and for years to come.” •
Bill Sullivan’s More Turns photo series pictures people passing subway turnstiles in NY. I really like his elevator series as well. •
The Real Story of Super-Heroes. “SUPERMAN: Noe Reyes from the State of Puebla Works as fast-food delivery boy in Brooklyn. Sends home $500 per week.” •
Sarah A. Martin artist portfolio. The Virgin Series are quite interesting (make sure you read the artist statement). •
Chema Madoz photography. “Not everything is what it seems to be, And Chema Madoz ensures it’s evidence.” •
Expedition 10 Earth Observation Photos. “Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao, who lived aboard the International Space Station from October 2004 to April 2005, took more than 24,000 Earth observation photos from his high vantage point in orbit. These are his 10 favorite photos from space.” •