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Augmenting photos - with OpenStreetMap!
This is pretty awesome: Pass in a landscape photo you took, and Marmota generates a simulated panorama 360 degree wraparound of what the landscape looks like from height field data. It then matches your photo’s pitch, yaw and roll and lens angle against this virtual panorama to figure out exactly where you were pointing it. Once it’s done that you can overlay OpenStreetMap data (rods, rivers, etc, etc.) right on your photo. Badass.
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JPG Magazine: JPG is back!
Congrats to Laura and everyone else at JPG! So glad it could survive!
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London from above, at night
Some stunning photos of what is still the greatest city I’ve been to. Love London, man. Love.
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Julius Shulman Film
Wonderful-looking documentary on Julius Shulman, an architectural photographer who captured many of the iconic images of modernism. Via dotsara.
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Space Miner
My good friend Laura Miner (who happens to be the wife of another good friend, Wilson Miner, now has a blog. It’s pretty and full of interesting content already. Until its recently-announced departure, Laura has been the Editor In Chief of JPG Magazine, so you might expect her blog to feature a lot of great photography — and you’d be right.
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Jason Santa Maria: Oh, Snap
Jason talks briefly about the Polariod SX-70 which so many of my friends have these days. Every time I see one one of these cameras, it makes me happy. The industrial design of these things is just so perfect. And, Jason’s blog post does it justice with a great design of its own.
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Matt Brown on “Digital Film”
Matt talks about a few ways the digital photography process if different from shooting film, and why those difference may be keeping you from getting the best possible photos. He offers some great tips on how to “reel yourself in” from the digital world and get back to some of the film methods that work so well.
While I generally think these are great tips and would definitely encourage anyone to try them, I also think some of the things Matt suggests avoiding (taking too many photos, using the LCD too much, etc.) can be great exercises in and of themselves. I guess what I’m saying is: while one can definitely learn a lot by shutting off the LCD and limiting the number of shots, I think one can also learn a lot by taking a million photos, rushing home, and seeing what they got. The thing is, most folks already do that every day, so Matt’s suggestions are a great change of pace for those who have never shot film, or haven’t shot film in a long time.
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Retro Gaming on real backgrounds
Awesome.
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Adam Polselli redesign
Adam has redesigned his personal site, and it’s gorgeous. Well done!
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Boston.com: The Big Picture
A great a simple idea: show awesome photos from great photojournalists really freaking big. It works great. The only thing I wish it has was a more readily available link to the related story (as far as I can tell, you have to click through and scroll down to the bottom to find the story link). Good stuff.
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Tom Ford: Spring/Summer 2008
Tom Ford’s latest campaign is decidedly NSFW, but also includes some beautifully provocative photography. Overall, I really like these images. But what the hell is up with that last one? Seriously, that’s not a good photo at all in my judgement. It’s compositionally all over the place, and the lighting is downright awful. The shadows the people are casting are painful to look at. It just feels really, really out of place in an otherwise great collection of photography. Via Rex
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Photos: Space Needle gets its first ever bath
Seattle’s iconic tower is getting its first deep cleaning since the thing opened in 1962, and KOMO has some pretty awesome pictures of it going down. I wonder how noticeable the different will be? The needle does look dirty — and I’m not talking its phallic shape.
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Eye-Fi Adds Geotagging Support
Eye-Fi, the already-cool line of WiFi enabled SD cards, just added a new trick to its bag: geocoding. The cards use WiFi triangulation (the same technology used in Apple’s iPhone) to determine your location and embed the data in each photo’s EXIF data. Unfortunately, this is never 100% accurate, like GPS technology would be (which probably is a dealbreaker for me). Still, at $130, this a is clever and affordable solution to quickly geotagging your photos.
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sara has a blog! eep.
My good friend Sara Flemming (dotsara on flickr) now has a blog, and she’s kicked it off with a great post about renting camera lenses, something she’s done several times and is quite fond of. Sara is one of the awesomest photographers I know, a solid front-end web developer, a good writer, and an all-around cool chick — so you can be sure this’ll be a blog worth subscribing too (especially if you’re into photography or CSS nerdery).
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NYTimes: A Really Big Show
Really nice narrated slideshow of tilt-shift photography used in the context of sports. Good stuff. Via Sean.
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Nikon 10.5mm f/2.8G ED AF DX Fisheye Nikkor Lens
Want.
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Amazing 360º photo: Frozen Green Lake
A wonderful pano of Green Lake (in north Seattle), taken today by Tabb Firchau — who was, apparently, hovering in midair when he snapped the shot. It’s a slightly snowy day in Seattle (about as snowy as it ever gets here, from what I understand), and the ice on Green Lake coupled with the dramatic clouds really makes for a beautiful shot.
I wish I knew more about how it was done.
Update: It seems they have some sort of helicam that does these. Awesome. Here’s the index of them — Seattleites, see also Gas Works, Seattle Center, and Quest Field. Thanks for the help, Sara. :)
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Mike Davidson: A Rookie Guide to Digital SLR Cameras
This really nice post by Mike on getting into dSLR cameras also has a great comment thread with a lot of useful tips. I’ve often thought about taking the dSLR plunge, but I’m not yet convinced I would actually use one, if I bought it. Anyway, if you’re thinking about buying one and don’t know all the basics, red this thread.
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Twelve Essential Photographic Rules
“From Sunny 16 to Moony 11, 8, and 5.6, these facts, formulas, and photographic rules can get you out of a jam and help you get good shots when nothing else will.” Good stuff.
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Flickr Places
Sweet! Compare, for fun:
Flickr: Seattle JeffCroft.com Seattle
It shouldn’t be a surprise that I really like this idea!
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Google Maps: Seattle Photo Locations
Flickr member David Hogan (Cap’n Surly) put together a nice Google map of some of his favorite locations for shooting in Seattle. I’ve already been to many of them, but there are definitely a few new ones to me on here that I need to hit up.
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Adam Polselli / iPhone Wallpapers
I’ve admired Adam’s photography for years, and his collection of 40 iPhone wallpapers lives up to his name, for sure.
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Photoshop Tutorial: Airbrush A Person
Not that I think you should go around airbrushing all your photos of people, but if you ever need to, this is a great little tutorial.
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Learn better photography with Kris Krug
Video of a session by Kris Krug on taking better photos. Kris has long been one of my favorite photographers on Flickr. I watched the first few minutes of this and it was great — can’t wait to see the rest.
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Faux Lomo and Holga Photoshop scripts
I’m no expert on Lomo and Holga photography, but these seems to approximate the effects pretty darn well to me. Fun. Thanks, .sara!
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Picnik: Edit your flickr photos online
Wow, this is one of the most impressive web apps I’ve ever seen. It lets you do iPhoto-like editing of your photos in the browser (works with Flickr and other photo sharing sites, as well as with images from your computer). Fix exposure, red eye, and so forth quickly and easily. If you’re not yet convinced that there is a place for “heavy” browser-based apps, think again.
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HDR Photography in Photoshop CS2
Another HDR tutorial that looks pretty good (I’ve not actually read the whole thing yet).
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Planet Panoramas
Well, the new G7 has Stitch Assist and this looks like fun — gotta try it sometime. Thanks, SJF.
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Stuck In Customs: HDR 2.0
I just ordered a new camera, and HDR is definitely something I want to try. This newer take on the technique from flickr’s Stuck In Customs looks pretty badass.
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Cross Processing in Photoshop
A nice tutorial on how to achieve a C-41 as E-6 cross-processing effect pretty simply in Photoshop. Chemicals are so 1980s. Thanks, .sara.
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Mac Chick of the Month
I think Michelle should pose for this series, now that she has a MacBook.
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Crestock launches cre:source blog
Crestock’s new blog looks like it’ll be a good place for regular design and photography writing. It’s off to a good start!
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Monsterpod
A very slick looking mini-tripod that sticks to “just about anything.” Looks pretty awesome.
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13 Photographs That Changed the World
The title pretty much says it all.
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Flickr: Camera Finder
Flickr’s new camera finder app is freaking sweet. Great example of data mining user-generated content to create a really useful tool.
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Top 10 Flickr Cameras
It really surprises me that eight of the top ten cameras used on Flickr are digital SLRs. O f the remaining two, one is a “prosumer” model and one is an ultracompact. I’m surprised there aren’t more point-and-shoots on the list.
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Sumaato Labs: Flickr Geotagging Bookmarklet
A very quick and easy way to add geotags to your Flickr photos via a bookmarklet.
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Five minute photo exposure correction in Photoshop
Recover the detail in your photos in just a few minutes using these simple steps to fix exposure problems caused by extreme lighting situations.
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How To Make Digital Photos Look Like Lomo Photography
G’damn that looks good. Must try.
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Hot Wheels are back
Oh man, this is a great ad campaign. What a beautiful display of constraint. Love it.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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