Category: photography
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A Visual Technique Library for Film Shots
From the common to the lesser-seen cinematographic techniques, Eyecandy is a “visual technique library” for film shots. A database of over 5,000 GIFs, organised into around 100 different techniques, you select the technique and you get a short description and a wall of example clips. While I love movies, I’m certainly a cinematography neophyte, so…
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Commons Picture of the Year
Every year, the Wikimedia Foundation — the parent organisation of many well-loved projects, such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Wikiversity — runs the Commons Picture of the Year competition. The aim of the competition is to identify “the best freely-licensed images from those that during the year have been awarded Featured picture status”; an accolade awarded by…
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Objective Photo Ratings Compared Across EXIF Data Categories
Nikon D90 users who take photographs outside of the F2.8 to F5.6 aperture range and with a fast shutter speed are the best photographers on Flickr. If they also post-process their images with anything but the manufacturer-supplied software, and license their images with Creative Commons licenses, then they’re even better again. Using a variation of…
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Sydney Dust Storm
After travelling to Sydney, I somehow managed to miss the spectacle that was the biggest dust storm to hit the city in over 70 years by going somewhere else for a week. While I was in Melbourne preparing for a road trip down the Great Ocean Road (and generally avoiding the earthquake and the collapse…
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The Tao of War Photography
Laying dormant at the bottom of my bookmarks was this article Jason pointed out over four months ago: photographer Bruce Haley‘s Tao of War Photography. 1. To begin with, practice this sentence: “If I get out of here alive, I’ll never do this again.” You’ll say this to yourself every single time an already dangerous…
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Cardiff Characters
I have recently become enamoured with two photo projects showing two very different sides to my home city, Cardiff. Cardiff at Night: a set by Maciej Dakowicz showing the debauchery that is quite typical of the city on weekend nights (I’ve posted on this previously). Cardiff Characters: the people who make Cardiff the city it…
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The Art of Sand
I initially passed over this Discover gallery but decided to take a look once @mocost linked to it. Who would have thought that sand had such diversity and beauty? Evidently Gary Greenberg did when he compiled these microscopic photographs of sand for his book, A Grain of Sand. Composed of the remnants of volcanic explosions, eroded mountains, dead…
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Mind and Digital Photography Projects
Mind Bites is a wonderful photography project from Will Lion combining fantastic CC-licenced Flickr images with quotes from peer-reviewed cognitive science research. (For the masochists among you, there’s an interactive Flash gallery too.) via Mind Hacks Equally appealing is Lion’s Digital Bites; a similar project encompasing “internet, entertainment, media and brands”.
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21 Digital Camera Settings, Techniques and Rules
A compilation of photography tutorials aimed at beginners from Darren Rowse’s Digital Photography School. Some of these tutorials are fairly basic and may not be of great interest to anyone other than newcomers to digital photography. However, all of these tutorials are well-written and worth having a quick browse over, even if you are a…
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Search Flickr by Lens, Aperture, Focal Length, More
Pixel-Peeper lets you search Flickr photos taken with a specific camera or lens (and optionally, a specific ISO, aperture, focal length and/or exposure time). An excellent resource for when you want to check the diversity of—and see some sample images from—that new lens you’re considering. via FlickBits (a huge list of Flickr applications)