Take a look at this post about 10 Light Graffiti Artists. These guys paint with light using long exposures in images or video. I have seen some before in the Sprint commercial a while back, but these guys are really talented.
It seems like something that would be fun to try, but take a lot of trial and error to get right.
Photograview has a interview with one of the biggest photographers on Flickr, Thomas Hawk. He has over 14,000 images on Flickr and is trying to publish over a million. It is a interesting interview. He talks about some of his equipment.
Currently I own two digital camera bodies, a Canon EOS 5D and a Canon EOS 10D. I also own 5 Canon L Series lenses, the 135 f/2 (my favorite lens), the 24 f/1.4, the 14 f/2.8, the 50 f/1.2 and the 70-200 f/4. In addition to these lenses I own the Canon EF100 macro. I also own various accessories to go with this Canon setup, Speedlite, batteries, CF cards, card readers, tripods, etc.
Max Simbron from pshizzy.com has a post about how to setup a camera to be triggered remotely. He is using a couple Pocket Wizards and a pre-trigger cable to fire the remote camera when he fires the main. He also uses liveview to setup the shot and focus location before he gets started. It seems like a neat idea. Here is the video of the setup.
Here are some images I shot at the fireworks display tonight in Swainsboro Ga.
I shot these with the 40D on a tripod. I put the camera in manual and set the it from f8 to f16. I had the shutter speed set in bulb mode. I was using a shutter release and mirror up mode. I would just hold the release down for a couple of explosions and then let go. I had to watch to make sure I did not get too many bursts that they would overlap too bad. I think they turned out fairly well for a first time.
The manager of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, Jason Sobel gave a lecture at Stanford about how Facebook stores all there images. They have around 6.5 billion images, in 4 or 5 sizes each, totaling ~30 billion files, and a total of 540 TB and serving 475,000 images per second at peak.
Matt Kloskowski is the guest blogger over at Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider today. He has a post about what he would change with some of the photoshop dialogs and pallettes.Most of his ideas are great and really need to be adopted.
This one is simple in nature but very likely extremely difficult in implementation. Doesn’t mean I can’t dream though. See, if I work on a raw photo, I’d like to not go back out to another dialog to adjust something in the raw settings. I’d love to have a little palette or dialog right there in Photoshop that I can adjust and have my image update. I realize this is totally crazy and defies the laws of everything raw but you never know what those Adobe engineers can pull off. They’re some of the best in the world and if anyone can do it I bet they can. Think about this… 5 years ago, did you ever think you’d be able to do non-destructive retouching and selective edits on a raw file? Probably not, but if you take a look at Lightroom 2 beta you’ll see it’s happening today.
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