Interesting article about claimed vs. actual ISO of digital cameras, brought to my attention by Christina Z Anderson. I’ve noticed this with my D200, but never really gave it any thought beyond adding 1/3-1/2 stop in the camera’s exposure compensation.
As you’ve probably noticed, my blog looks a little different. I took the plunge and migrated my blog from Blogger to WordPress. I won’t go into the details as to why I made the switch, or claim that one is better than the other (feel free to debate it to your hearts’ content in the comments if you feels so inclined).
Those of you who would like to leave comments on this blog will no longer need to sign in, so hopefully this will encourage more discussion from folks that don’t want to create a Google account.
I still have some work to do as far as the overall page layout goes, but I’m fairly happy with it so far. I’ll be adding and rearranging features to the sidebar over the next few days, so stay tuned for that.
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Some photos of the crowd at Obama’s innauguration, via boston.com, brought to my attention by Horses Think. I especially enjoyed the satellite photo (top).
Some great portraits on NY Times, via Chris Toalson’s blog (image also swiped from his blog because I’m feeling lazy).
This lecture by comic book artist Scott McCloud provides an interesting look at the relationship between media and art, and it really got me thinking about how I present my work online. What really struck me was a comment he made stating that showing comics on a computer screen in their original form is a mistake of “appropriating the shape of the previous technology as the content of the new technology”.
I also enjoyed McCloud’s four basic principles, which I have made my personal mantra:
“Learn from everyone.
Follow no one.
Watch for patterns.
Work like Hell.”
© Camden Hardy
Here’s a sneak preview of Suburban Studies: Lihue, HI. I finally started scanning the negatives yesterday (2 months later), and now I’m hoping to hunker down and get a body of work assembled.
© Brian Ulrich
This image caught my attention, and I just had to pass it along. Phenomenal.
I discovered the work of Harm van den Dorpel today via i heart photograph. I wasn’t terribly impressed with a lot of it, and most of it seems more like the start to a project rather than a finished product, but there are some very interesting ideas presented in the work. Here are a few examples that I found particularly fascinating:
Forest / Lines (start clicking, you’ll figure it out)
The Daily Polaroid has officially launched, only 3 months after I decided to give the project its own website!
I’m still fine-tuning the design a bit, but I felt that it was good enough to go public.