‘ Photography ’ Category

Make your own planet

2 Comments // Written on May 17, 2009 // Photography

Island wallpaper

It’s always nice to come across a tutorial that actually works, I lost track of how many times I followed a tut and the jump from penultimate to final stage was huge and unexplained.
This one however turns out just fine.

Mac photo apps

2 Comments // Written on Apr 29, 2009 // Apple, Photography

Here’s a question for the Mac users out there.
I’m taking an average of about 4-500 photos a week and now I’m leaving the last remainder of Windows behind and switching over to the Mac for my last computer I’m on the lookout for a good way to organize my photos and for any good applications to edit them. So iPhoto, Aperture, Gimp, Photoshop, what do you use?

Tilt-shift maker

No Comment // Written on Apr 15, 2009 // Photography

Tilt-shift example
Tilt-shifting is a nice little ‘technique’ that makes an ordinary photo look like it was a photo taken of a miniature.
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LIFE photo archive

No Comment // Written on Nov 19, 2008 // Photography, Web

Thanks to Google 10 million photos of the LIFE photo archive are now viewable online. It’s easily searchable and the pics date back to the 1750s.
Too bad about the watermark on the full size versions.

Paris Exposition of 1900

3 Comments // Written on Nov 03, 2008 // Photography


Hundreds of pictures taken by the Brooklyn Museum’s first curator of fine arts on his trip to Paris in 1900. Great treasure trove.

Japanese highway interchange

5 Comments // Written on Aug 07, 2008 // Photography, Random


Here is a gorgeous set of photos by Ken Ohyama of lots of Japanese highway interchanges. Bizarre architecture, fabulous lighting, I love it. Be sure to check out the links under the pics, they link to the respective google map location in satellite mode.

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