Pinboard: bookmarks for TomC tagged 'photography'

BBC News - In praise of bokeh: the dilemmas of TV filming

"So, taking stock, what's happening is that the potential sources of "news" footage are now four different technologies:

- the legacy cameras from the tape era which will always beat an SLR for long-range clarity but not rich colour, or bokeh

- iPhone footage with its unchallengeable "truth"

- SLR-shot footage, with or without a slower frame rate to make it look filmic

- live, static versions of the old TV cameras, with lighting etc in a studio or live satellite position.

- You could add, for increasingly cash strapped programmes that can't afford satellite feeds, Skype interviews.

- And while I think about it, there is also the GoPro, an ultra-wide, ultra-sharp mini camera people use to film themselves, ski-ing, surfing and taking their dog in their kayak etc.

There's suddenly a high diversity of image quality in news footage. I think the modern viewer is OK with this (I can remember picture editors "rejecting" early mobile footage on the grounds that it did not conform to broadcast standards)."

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18 days ago by TomC

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2010 - the year in review | World news | guardian.co.uk

Nice (Flash) grid of 2010 news images/stories with pretty Guardian colour scheme. Full screen mode is good. Intro help is nicely done. Slow animations are slow.

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december 2010 by TomC

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extracts of local distance

Mining architectural photos for vanishing points and using custom software to create new compositions with artificial vanishing points. Lovely! (via shashashasha)

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december 2010 by TomC

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notes.husk.org. From synecdoche on Flickr, an art project in Houston

"Using 13 billboards along the city´s downtown freeways, Olivier will replace the usual advertisements with images of the urban landscape that would be visible if the billboard did not exist"

art houston photography advertising flickr
november 2009 by TomC

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Desktop Deja Vu | Serial Consign

"After Microsoft (2006-07) by Goldin + Senneby revisits the site of the famous Bliss photograph by Charles O'Rear a decade later."

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march 2009 by TomC

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The Map Room: Growth in Las Vegas

This is one of the things we were trying to illustrate using Trulia's data in Trulia Hindsight. Nice to see it for real - want it to be this clear for everywhere when using Google Earth's new features, but it's not quite there yet.

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march 2009 by TomC

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Super Colossal » Terrainspotting

"the terrain spotters (yes! awesome pun) — armed with GPS enabled cameras and wifi memory cards adding to the pool of data as they snap previously untagged walls and openings." (via cityofsound)

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september 2008 by TomC

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HistoricAerials.com - From the Past to the Present

explore historical aerial imagery from the USA, though sadly the interface has some IE-only features (via mikel_maron)

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april 2008 by TomC

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mystery tech :: Canon SD400 LCD Repair

Nice to know these things are user-servicable, I forget that sometimes you can track the parts down if you want to. Neat trick with the post-it.

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january 2008 by TomC

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The Whale Hunt / A storytelling experiment / by Jonathan Harris

Try to see through the 'art' angle and the gratuitous interface flourishes and have a look at the pictures. There are some stunning shots in here, looks like an awesome trip.

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december 2007 by TomC

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Motion Portrait

This drives the Recyou videos. Awesome tech, certainly, but also The Uncanny Valley carefully distilled into an interactive flash app.

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october 2007 by TomC

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REC YOU.

Crazy site which takes your headshot and makes it sing scary opera or indiepop synchronized with other headshots. (On the side of caravans in the Japanese countryside?!)

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october 2007 by TomC

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PartIV » Blog Archive » São Paulo go No Logo

Questioning whether Sao Paulo's urban advertising ban is a good idea. Looks awesome to me. I would love to see other cities try it.

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october 2007 by TomC

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Hotmapping.co.uk - London and Norwich infra-red thermal heat loss surveys

"Hotmapping.co.uk have complete aerial heat-loss data sets of most of London and all of Norwich. Other locations may follow, and specific areas can always be commissioned."

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may 2007 by TomC

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