So I was looking around at some photos in flickr and I came across this master little gem. I love it! It’s my current desktop wallpaper. The photo of the Mandarin Duck was taken by Elliot | erglantz. Go check out his photostream he has many great captures like the one above. I think the best way to view his photos are by slideshow. So here is the slideshow of his trip to the Philly Zoo.
I’m a fan of Annie Leibovitz photographs. I’ve been debating if I should write about this topic. I realized that this is something important to the Photography Community as a whole and I should speak out on this.
The subject is the recent photograph by Annie Leibovitz for the June issue of Vanity Fair. The photo in question is that of Miley Cyrus daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus. She mostly know for the Hannah Montana Disney TV series. This story peaked my interest with a New York Times article. Quote from the New York Times:
Disney Channel spokesperson says: “Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines.”
Hogwash! I’ve seen the behind the scenes video and candid photos from the shoot. All of which show at no time any trickery or manipulation of Miley. (more…)
I’ve been experimenting with the iPhone’s 2 megapixel camera. My results are definitely not as good as my old SLR. However, I take that with a grain of salt since I could never make a phone call with my SLR.
The iPhone’s Camera App. was designed for simplicity and ease of use. Simplicity they achieved, ease of use well almost. The main gripe to all iPhone owners is the difficulty of pulling off a good self portrait. The reason for this is the small touch screen shutter button which snaps on release. Combine that with the thinness of the device. It’s almost always results in some sort of blurriness. Well, unless James Cameron has a 15,000 watt light pointed at you. Even then if you don’t have a steady hand results still might very.
After you’ve managed to take a decent picture. You have a few options on how to share your newly created photographic masterpiece. However not one of those is to share it with another phone or even another iPhone. The easiest way to share them with your friends is by emailing them directly or to Flickr where it’s uploaded to your account. Once it’s uploaded and your near a computer I like to do a little photo editing with Flickr’s partner Picnik.
Picnik is an online photo editor. The reason I like this so much is that I don’t have to open Photoshop and it’s connected with Flickr so I don’t have to send files around to another site then back to Flickr. (more…)
I’ve been addicted to searching for the “Greatest Mac Setups”.
I found out that lot of people had Dell displays hooked up to their Macs, which was almost equal to the amount of people having Apple cinema displays. I’m not going to lie - I bought a 23″ Apple display along with my Dual G5 a few years back.
With out any real upgrades to the Apple displays, I’ve been looking into getting two Dell displays to replace my Apple display later this year. The main reason why I’m looking into Dell is because they are cheaper, and are better on paper than the current Apple displays. I personally think Apple needs to step their game up before I’m ready to buy a new display from them.
I currently have a black MacBook which is becoming more and more my main computer over my aging G5. Since being away from it for almost two months I realized I don’t really miss the power of a desktop computer. I figure once I move out to SF, I’ll end up getting a new MacBook Pro and a few Dell displays.
So here are some of the Mac Setups I marked as favorites on Flickr.
This is a photograph of my friend Rachel that she took for her 111 day of her 365 day project. I personally love this photograph. The colors are rich but not over saturated. The blown out light coming from the window is perfect and gives a nice edge light on her face.
The whole photo has a coming of age about it. The room is a teenagers room but everything about her in this photograph from her shoes to her expression to the glass in her hand screams woman to me.
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