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DxO Labs

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:02:26 +0100

A free resource dedicated to RAW-based camera image quality. Includes a useful comparison tool that ranks 50 current model digital cameras using metrics for colour depth, dynamic range and low-light ISO. (via Dan Benjamin)

junesix: Google just announced that the entire LIFE magazine...

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:19:48 +0100

junesix:

Google just announced that the entire LIFE magazine photo archive going back to the 1750s will be digitized and made available through Image Search, nearly 10 million images. Best part of it all, is you can purchase prints of any image in the archive.

What a wonderful year for photography lovers this year has been. Hard to believe they were few comprehensive digitized historical image collections available less than a year ago. Now the Library of Congress’ archives are available through The Commons with Flickr and then this partnership with LIFE.

Post your favorite images! Here’s mine:

2001: A Space Odyssey
A Tribute To Audrey Hepburn

European Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:58:02 +0100

Very nice photos to see there. And the most “interesting” one is the winner I have to say….

Here they are

Antarctica

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:37:40 +0100

Another fantastic series from The Big Picture.

Congratulations, Mr. Obama

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:09:09 +0100

I hope that the world will be a better place in the next 4 years.

Video

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:45:51 +0100

redaktusse: Gameboy+iphone=iGameboy (via spreeblick)

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:13:58 +0100

redaktusse:

Gameboy+iphone=iGameboy

(via spreeblick)

Wassup Obama

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:30:46 +0100

A remake of the famous Budweiser “Wassup” commercials from 1999-2002 is making the rounds at YouTube as a brilliant ad for Obama. It touches on unemployment, health care, the stock market, the war in Iraq and the environment, all in around two minutes. The original commercial is below:

4x5 Polaroid portraits from the Polaroid Project by Day 19, the...

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:55:30 +0200

4x5 Polaroid portraits from the Polaroid Project by Day 19, the husband and wife team of Jeremy and Claire Weiss.

Lomography Documentary

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:37:24 +0200

Lomography Documentary:

cubicle17:

Thanks in large part to CameraBag, I have found myself myself ever-so-slightly obsessed with the atmosphere produced by CameraBag’s fake lomo filter, “Lolo”. After a few “rolls” of these fake lomo photographs, I remembered seeing this documentary on YouTube on the history of lomography.

Due to YouTube’s length restrictions, the documentary has been broken into 7 parts, but I think it’s well worth the time and effort.

Parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

25 Best News Photographs

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:54:38 +0200

Found on the Vanity Fair website:

In honor of Vanity Fair’s 25th anniversary, the magazine’s editors flexed their list-making muscles to determine the 25 best of everything—from book covers and documentaries to parties and political one-liners. Herewith, the top 25 news photographs. Vote for your favorites on VF Daily.

This is the most chocking one to me. The photo was taken in 1993 and today, 15 years later, we still haven’t solved the problem !!!There are still millions of people around the world dealing with these kind of problems all around the world. And we don’t do anything … Why ???

That’s how compasionate the human race is…..

craytonc.tumblr.com

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:50:52 +0200

craytonc.tumblr.com

The Sun, via The Big Picture

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:06:35 +0200

The Sun, via The Big Picture

More Than Half Empty

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:06:08 +0200

radard: yimmyayo.tumblr.com

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:21:23 +0200

radard:

yimmyayo.tumblr.com

Spotify

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:01:16 +0200

According their site:

Spotify is a new way to enjoy music. Simply download and install, before you know it you’ll be singing along to the genre, artist or song of your choice. With Spotify you are never far away from the song you want.

There are no restrictions in terms of what you can listen to or when. Forget about the hassle of waiting for files to download and fill up your hard drive before you get round to organising them. Spotify is instant, fun and simple.

Because music is social, Spotify allows you to share songs and playlists with friends, and even work together on collaborative playlists, Friday afternoon in the office might never be the same again! We’re music lovers like everyone else.

We want to connect millions of people with their favorite songs by creating a product that people love to use. We respect creativity and believe in fairly compensating artists for their work. We’ve cleared the rights to use the music you’ll listen to in Spotify.

Basically a music player, but the best part is that there are no files on my machine. Everything is on their servers (or wherever). And you just stream the music.
There is the possibility to buy and download the music. But I don’t need this. I just want to listen to my favorite music at work without having to store gigabites on my workmachine.

And to my biggest surprise, they have loads of music on it. The streaming is perfect, sound is great, …. No complaints so far. Totally love it !!!

Go and check it out and find a beta-testing account: www.spotify.com

John Chiara The video takes 7 or so minutes and gives you an...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:49:16 +0200

John Chiara

The video takes 7 or so minutes and gives you an insight into the mind and process of a fairly unorthodox photographer using an extremely unorthodox camera. While it’s a film process and not digital I think there are some good things to take away from this photographer who made his own camera, who takes no more than one image per day and who spends considerable time and energy to get that single shot.

Nachtwey's Wish: Awareness of XDR-TB

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:54:27 +0200

Well-known and influential photojournalist James Nachtwey won the TED Prize last year, and as part of his award, he made a wish for help - help in bringing a story to light that he felt was important and underreported. The subject of this story is a new, dangerous type of tuberculosis called Extreme Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, or XDR-TB. Tubercolisis is both preventable and curable, but inadequate treatment has been driving the emergence of XDR-TB, especially in developing nations. Tuberculosis is not a disease of the past - in 2007 alone, 1.7 million people died from TB - it is the leading killer of people infected with HIV. Nachtwey’s wish was that he could break this story, and demonstrate proof of the power of news photography in the digital age. Below are only 14 of many photographs Nachtwey took around the world. For all of the photos, and much more information about XDR-TB, please visit:

xdrtb.org

Leonardo DiCaprio, will i. am, Tobey Maguire, and Forest...

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:31:00 +0200

Leonardo DiCaprio, will i. am, Tobey Maguire, and Forest Whitaker have created public service announcements to encourage American youth to register to vote. The non-partisan PSAs, produced by DiCaprios Appian Way, were created to engage and inspire young people to register and vote and participate in the upcoming election. Celebrities appearing in the PSAs include: Amy Adams, will.i.am, Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Bacon, Halle Berry, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Connolly, Courteney Cox, Ellen DeGeneres, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx, Jonah Hill, Dustin Hoffman, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher, Adam Levine, Laura Linney, Eva Longoria, Tobey Maguire, Demi Moore, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi, Ethan Suplee, Kyra Sedgwick, Michelle Trachtenberg, Usher, and Forest Whitaker.

cubicle17: Until today, I’d heard of tilt-shift photography...

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:23:05 +0200

cubicle17:

Until today, I’d heard of tilt-shift photography before, but never tilt-shift video.

None of the technique’s effectiveness is lost in translation, and I’m having a difficult time convincing myself that I’m not looking at miniatures… (via yewknee)

Another one….