Tiltomo groups similar Flickr photos together by
Tiltomo groups similar Flickr photos together by theme, color, or texture.
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Zach Klein reports on Riya, a photo
Zach Klein reports on Riya, a photo service that does face recognition…you tag people’s faces and over time the system recognizes them without input. TechCrunch says that Riya can recognize text and other objects (like the Eiffel Tower) in photos as well. Cool.
This is a bit old (from March
This is a bit old (from March last year), but the most photographed city on Flickr at the time was London followed by New York, but when you take population into account, Vancouver, Amsterdam, and Las Vegas win for photos per capita.
If you’ve been following the lost camera
If you’ve been following the lost camera story, there’s a happy ending for you…Judith got her camera back from the mean Canadian family.
PictureCloud lets you easily create 360 degree images
PictureCloud lets you easily create 360 degree images from a series of digital camera photos…for free. (thx, paul)
Eliot Shepard has some advice for those
Eliot Shepard has some advice for those entering a photography competition…or really, on how you might go about taking a good photo.
Olympics wrap-up
I’ve got a few stories about the Winter Olympics open in tabs, so in the interest of getting rid of them:
- Photographer Vincent Laforet discusses his process in getting the photographs he wants.
- How the broadcast graphics were done for NBC’s coverage of the Olympics.
- The Nation on what went wrong with NBC’s coverage.
- Here’s the New Yorker’s take on the TV coverage.
Finally, Gelf Magazine compares Olympic predictions with the actual results. The media outlets surveyed all predicted higher medal counts for the US, but weren’t off by that much (aside from the ridiculous AP predicitons). Only NBC and Nike were surprised that Bode Miller sucked so royally.
A statement on art statements. “I have
A statement on art statements. “I have no way of actually proving this, but I am convinced that many photographers do not have all that stuff from their statements in their heads and then go out to shoot the photography. I have the suspicion that some of them, after having shot their photos, have a hard time writing something that can pass as a statement, because ‘I just wanted to take beautiful photos of rubble piles’ somehow doesn’t appear to be acceptable.”
Canon, Sony, and Nikon top the list
Canon, Sony, and Nikon top the list of the most-used camera on Flickr. Nokia is #11.
Were you up on the High Line
Were you up on the High Line on Feb 20? Did you lose your digital camera? It’s been found…claim it on Craigslist.
Edward Burtynsky and World Changing have collaborated
Edward Burtynsky and World Changing have collaborated on a video using his photographs to depict humanity’s impact on the planet. Burtynsky has pledged $50,000 from his 2005 TED Prize (as has the Sapling Foundation) to match donations to World Changing. More information on the TED blog.
Rob at Cockeyed is building a photographic
Rob at Cockeyed is building a photographic height/weight grid, effectively a catalog of people’s body types. Description and call for entries here.
My pal Judith lost her camera on
My pal Judith lost her camera on vacation in Hawaii and tried to make the best of the situation by starting a project using other people’s Flickr photos to reconstruct a trip journal. Now, a family has found her camera but won’t give it back to her because they don’t want to take it away from the 9 yo kid that found it. “We can’t tell him that he has to give it up. Also we had to spend a lot of money to get a charger and a memory card”. The dishonesty displayed here is maddening.
A 1904 photograph by Edward Steichen was recently
A 1904 photograph by Edward Steichen was recently sold at auction for more than $2.9 million, the most anyone’s ever paid for a photo at auction. (via consc)
The first two $25,000 “no strings attached” photography
The first two $25,000 “no strings attached” photography grants have been given out.
Gallery of the winners of the World
Gallery of the winners of the World Press Photos of the Year for 2005.
De-Touch lets you step through how photos
De-Touch lets you step through how photos of models are retouched for publication. Announcement here. Made with Processing, source code is available.
Interview with photographer Ryan McGinley about his work.
Interview with photographer Ryan McGinley about his work.
Alternative photography (pinhole cameras, daguerreotypes, gum bichromate
Alternative photography (pinhole cameras, daguerreotypes, gum bichromate prints) is making a small comeback in the midst of the digital photography revolution. Here’s some of Adam Lubroth’s work and an exhibition in Austin, TX of “historical photographic approaches in the digital age”.
This Flickr user really likes photos of
This Flickr user really likes photos of people at the dentist. This one’s my favorite. (via janelle)
Cool composite photo of playing in the
Cool composite photo of playing in the snow. Take a look at the large size for the full effect.
“Preliminary construction” will begin on the High
“Preliminary construction” will begin on the High Line Park in mid-February. Protective fences will be put up south of 20th Street, so it might be your last chance to see the High Line as it is and once was. Here are some photos I took of the High Line from a February 2004 excursion. (via gmist)
A big dog on the subway with
A big dog on the subway with a fur-coated owner and a brick in its mouth. And I believe it’s a “pit bull-type” dog.
Judith lost her camera (and most of
Judith lost her camera (and most of her pictures) on her trip to Hawaii, so she’s using other people’s photos from Flickr to produce a trip journal.
The Folk Typography Pool contains photos of
The Folk Typography Pool contains photos of type made by people who are not designers, typographers, or calligraphers. (thx, paul)
Photos of the Shipbreaking Yards in Bangladesh
Photos of the Bangladesh shipbreaking yards by Brendan Corr. Strict environmental laws in the Europe and the US make “recycling” these ships there difficult, so US and European companies outsource the salvage to Bangladesh, where laws are looser. Compare with Edward Burtynsky’s photos of the same. (thx, malatron)
Update: Article from The Atlantic about shipbreaking (thx, john) and a soon-to-be released book called Breaking Ships (thx, john #2).
Some interesting photomosaics. This one of Steve
Some interesting photomosaics. This one of Steve Jobs is made of OS X icons and this woman is a collage of Macs and other Apple products.
Recolored is a software program that helps
Recolored is a software program that helps colorize black & white photos. Just specify some borders and colors and it does the rest.
Olivo Barbieri’s tilt-shift aerial photography
Aerial photos of cities taken by Olivo Barbieri with a tilt-shift lens look like scale models. I’m familiar with the tilt-shift (Jake noodled around with one awhile back), but didn’t imagine you could use it to achieve such a convincing optical illusion. (via bldgblog via waxy)
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