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The keynote won’t be streaming until later this afternoon
Category: Legacy
I spent the afternoon working on panoramas in w/ Panorama Tools and Photoshop (Canon’s PhotoStich software didn’t give me enough (well, any) control in fixing problem areas and color balance of a beach party I went to yesterday (much fun).
All this photostiching reminded me of some stuff I’d seen a while back:
- NYCMosaics – J. Brian Caldwell took some stupendous NYC images post-9/11 (tutorial)
- Max Lyons Digital Image Gallery – probably the most well known guy who’s been doing this kind of high-res photostiching (tutorial)
Hmm, next up, taking some of my leftover images and trying out some blended exposures
I got a last minute request from a friend to shoot some photos at the premiere and after-party of Charlotte Sometimes, an absorbing psycho-drama. Double kudos considering its shoe-string budget—$20,000. (definitely a labor of love for all involved) The writer-director, Eric Byler, spoke a bit in the QA that besides making it possible to shoot on that budget, shooting DV also affected the way the actor-character-scene interaction played out as you weren’t changing reels every 10 minutes. A good case of how changing the medium very dramatically influences the content and process.
As far as shooting the after-party event, that was pretty hectic. I don’t usually do that kind of stuff, so I was glad to get some usable shots at the end of the day. Still, rather uncomfortable dealing with lack of equipment (wrong lens, no speed-lite, difusser), and the whole ‘say cheese’ thing, especially when your camera isn’t cooperating.
The water photos I got today make me want to go back to the beach and try every exposure permutation possible.
Hue and cry
on ‘whiteness studies’ classes:
Naomi Cairns was among the leaders in the privilege walk, and she wasn.t happy about it. The exercise, which recently involved Cairns and her classmates in a course at the University of Massachusetts, had two simple rules: When the moderator read a statement that applied to you, you stepped forward; if it didn.t, you stepped back. After the moderator asked if you were certain you could get a bank loan whenever you wanted, Cairns thought, “Oh my God, here we go again,” and took yet another step forward.
This is great: Matrix Reloaded re-enactments in Japan
Hmm, it sucks when you’re procrastinating and then you get in your head to try to find the one song that describes exactly how you’re feeling right now, and it’s just taking forever and you just can’t find it.
