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1000 SHARDS
Random shards of awesome from all over.
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On the Boardwalk
Dusk falls upon St Kilda Beach.
Around the World in 80 Seconds
Le Tour du Monde en 80 Secondes is a modern-day take on Jules Vernes' Around the World in 80 Days. Completed in just three weeks, Directors Romain Pergeaux and Alex Profit laced together hundreds of sequential photographs on a journey through the streets of London, Cairo, Mumbay, Hong Kong, Tokyo, San Francisco, New York and London again. The end result is quite captivating.
Background information, including a 'making of' video, pictures and interview, can be found on the project's website: tourdumonde80.fr.
A tilt-shifted Day in the Life of New York City
Here's another one of those dream-like tilt-shifting videos where everything looks miniature. The technique entered popular consciousness (or mine, at least) via Australian photographer Keith Loutit's wonderful tilt-shifting videos of Sydney harbour and surrounds.
I'm still not entirely sure how this effect is produced (a combination of camera movement, selective focus and a specialised tilt-shift lens), but it's certainly eye-catching. And what better way to show off the technique than by applying it to A Day in the Life of New York City, as Sam O'Hare has done.
Chillin' makes Editor's Pick on HDRSpotting.com
Pretty chuffed to discover this morning that the Editors at HDRSpotting.com saw fit to feature Chillin', my shot of pigeons huddled before the Eiffel Tower.
From what I can tell the Ed's Pick standard is pretty high, so I'm pleasantly surprised as this is actually my second Ed's Pick feature (they featured Tuscan Twilight a couple of weeks ago).
It makes me want to take more photos, though I should note that it's easier to kick photographic goals when you're wandering around Europe (even when your new bride is grumbling about all the hold-ups) than when you're working long hours back at home.If you're interested in the HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography technique, I urge you to read this great explanation and tutorial from the HDR master, Trey Ratcliff. The basic principle is that the human eye takes in far more light than even the best camera lens, so if you take three or five photos in a row of the same scene, then put them together using special software, the result has the potential to look a lot more like what the eye sees. Of course, it can go horribly wrong, which has given HDR a bad name in some photographic circles.Check out HDRSpotting.com, which was launched in late 2009 by Ratcliff (apparently he's not an editor). There are some great photos being posted there daily. And if you want to check out the best of the best, head over to Ratcliff's site, Stuck in Customs, or his flickr stream. -
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