Here’s a selection of photoblogs and sites grabbed and gathered during the last few weeks :
Uprooted ©Yang Yi
Cathode Ray Tube ©Sophie Gerrard
After the annoucement made by Fuji that they would discontinue the pro 800z film in September, it turns out that they will keep it in production after all.
Left to right : dark flash image, colour hi-ISO capture, final composition.
A “non-visible light emitting flashgun” developed by a student at N.Y University has been unveiled today on The Photography Blog. It’s obviously in the early stage of its development, but sounds already promising.
Found on Strobist : interview and video of street photographer Clay Enos, seen in action and commenting on street photography practices.
You can see more of Clay Enos work on his website, and read more interesting stuff about photography on his blog.
Festival Goer ©Clay Enos
See also LA based photographer Mike Piscitelli’s blog, and UK photographer Gregory Crewdson’s website.
Another batch of Friday links :
- 26 must-have fonts link on DesignYouTrust.
- Graphic design useful link again : 20 free stained paper textures on Design Shard.
- 18 useful tutorials that will let you achieve awesome Photoshop text effects, found on Design Shard again.
- Beautiful paintings by artist Shannon Crawford.
- Very inspiring samples of African patterns on Colour Lovers.
- Alt culture blog Coilhouse.
- Viral ad videos on Changethethought, produced for James Palumbo’s new book titled Tomas. I particularly like the dark atmosphere, and the designs and animation which remind me of Roland Topor and Rene Laloux’s Planete Sauvage.
- Picture of Buzz Aldrin taken by Neil Armstrong (NASA)
Very cool photo collection on The Big Picture celebrating the upcoming 40th anniversary of first human travel to the moon, with NASA mission Apollo XI.
As a note, astronauts used Hasselblad 500 ELs cameras specially prepared, with custom-made film backs holding a special 70 mm Kodak film. 160 colour or 200 black/white images could be shot without having to change films.
More technical information and images on Apollo mission’s Hasselblads on this page.
Adobe recently launched online a new blog named Phosphors, dedicated to Photoshop and Lightroom, and where users can find lots of very useful information such as help on specific topics, tutorials, tons of useful links and even contribute to improving Adobe’s products by participating in tests, workflow observations and interviews.
They have recently published, among other things, a help topic on backing up catalogs and sharing files online with Lightroom 2.0.
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Recent shots taken with the Mamiya AFD 645 and Kodak Portra 400 VC film. Other pictures on the flickr gallery here.
Great fun, and a high dose of Japanese Anime and video games.
1 – Stuffed Totoro 2/3 – Japanese women in traditional outfits
4 – Tokyo Decandence chicks, if I got it right …
5 – Traditional music players 6 – Captain Harlock’s ship made in cardboard
7 – Gundam model kit speed contest 8/9 – Cos play
10/11 – More Cos play action
A few useful links about the Japan Expo :
- The official website.
- Le Parc des Expositions de Paris Nord (Villepinte) on Google maps.
- The Comic Con (alternate convention, same organizers).
