Being Creative In Digital Still Image, Video and Animation
I currently use an iPad 1 and my daughter has my old iPhone 3Gs. Both suffer from SHBS – Sticky Home Button Syndrome. SHBS happens to older iThings and manifests as a slowness in responding to a press of the home button. Thankfully the fix is easy. I’m indebted to Roberto Garza over on SnapGuide …
Here’s what caught my attention on photography on the Internet this week: A Broken Polaroid Camera Spits Out Amazing Abstract Art | Co.Design: business + innovation + design http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669619/a-broken-polaroid-camera-spits-out-amazing-abstract-art 10 Unmissable Apps for Ipad and Iphone Photographers http://www.lightstalking.com/10-unmissable-apps-for-ipad-and-iphone-photographers Acorn, a great Mac image editor, built for humans. http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/ Exposure is a VERY Personal Thing! | …
David Saffir has written a great little article about calibrating an iPad using the Dalacolor Spyder 3 and some software for both the computer and the iPad. David says it better than I can, so read it here.
Here’s what caught my eye on the net this past week: iPad 3: Retina Display review for photographers http://www.richardpeters.co.uk/blog/2012/03/16/ipad-3-retina-display-review-for-photographers/ Photographs Captured Over Years with an Open Camera Shutter http://www.petapixel.com/2012/03/16/photographs-captured-over-years-with-an-open-camera-shutter/ 10 of Art History’s Most Controversial Photographers [NSFW] http://flavorwire.com/268992/controversial-photographers?all=1 Answers about the new iPad and Color http://cdtobie.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/answers-about-the-new-ipad-and-color/ Segment 9, Photo Review Series: Line, Light, and Color with …
David Hockney, who has always widely experimented with different mediums for making art is exhibiting his latest work. The exhibition is at London’s Royal Academy of Art and runs till April 9th, 2012. Here’s the link to the Huffington Post piece on the exhibition.
Blurb has today announced that they will be providing a publishing option to iPad. In the first iteration photographers who have used Blurb’s Bookify and BookSmart software will be able to publish in a way that maintains the formatting of the print version. Emails go out next month with the details and support for photographers …
HP is a company I have always loved, whose products are well engineered and who have some of the brightest minds in Silicon Valley. So just what has got into HP and all the other computer makers, except Apple? The recent news that HP has dropped the TouchPad a month after the US release and …
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I came across this great article on Smashing Magazine on using tablets as a design tool, for sketching ideas and working with clients. It includes a great review of the pens available to use with the iPad. It could be quite relevant to photographers as well. After all, we have ideas too sometimes, don’t we? …
2010 was a mixed back year for me. Personally there were a lot of distractions associated with caring for my mother-in-law who sadly died on New Year’s Eve at 11:05pm. Her cancer caused much pain and other issues that often made life difficult for everyone in the house, and since I work from home it …
The app is a collaboration between Little, Brown and Company, the publisher and the Ansel Adams Trust. It sells for US$13.99 in the US App Store and does not seem to be available in international App Stores, at least at present. The app brings together 40 images excerpted from Andrea Stillman’s Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs …