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"Hi Garry. You caught some nice poses here. Biggest problem is I can tell the horizon isn't straight. It doesn't look like a hill. Man at right needs to be cropped out. Sometimes I find if I shout right before I take the picture I can get people's attentions. If you had done so we would have been able to see more of their faces. George MacWilken."
Amazing photography. Amazing website.
Image from my old camera phone which today passed on to the cellular afterlife. Pitty, I loved it's digital Holgaesque qualities.
I found some of my early 3D work hidden away on my server. Before I took photography on as my main pass time and financial drain I spent most of my free time dabbling in 3DStudio. Admittedly, most of the images I produced were basic at best partly due to the limited technology I had available at the time (we're talking 1995 to 1999 here) but I did find some wheat amongst the chaff. Some of which I may have to share with you somewhere down the line.
Hi-res version. Linklater is God.
Several short films by Martin Scorsese are available on YouTube.
The unstoppable Bruce Gilden has a new interactive photo essay over at Magnum in Motion titled Fashion Magazine. Certainly worth a look if your a fan of Gildens work. Fashion Magazine is also available as a softcover book, and can be bought directly from Magnum or Amazon (US). All images in the series can be viewed (sans commentary) on the Magnum website.
For those who havn't tried Tabblo yet, it seems like a stripped down version of Flickr with more of a slant towards presenting images in groups (tabblos) rather than individualy. It's still in beta (no surprises there) but accounts are free and there are no bandwidth restrictions, for the time being anyway.
Up until recently I poo-poo'd the whole idea of monitor calibration mainly due to my ignorance on the subject. I didn't really undertstand the point of it all. I mean, if my images looked fine on my monitor then surely they must look OK on everyone elses, right? My whole arrogant viewpoint took a 180 when I recently had the displeasure of viewing PushingPrimitives.com on a properly calibrated LCD. All my images appeared way too bright resulting in washed out reds and blues, garrish greens and muddy blacks. I imediately vowed to resolve the situation by first calibrating my monitors at home using the built in configuration wizard in OSX for my Mac and the excellent freeware tool Monitor Calibration Wizard for Windows.
Now I was properly configured but still had the problem of my entire back catalogue of images being completely fucked up. So, I set about loading each image into Photoshop, adjusting the gamma using the levels tool, saving (obviously) then uploading to the server. Needless to say, this was a laborious process taking me the best part of a morning to complete but the results were worth it, in my eyes anyway.
I'm not going to preach and command you all to go forth and calibrate, after all I lived in blissful uncalibrated ignorance for over 12 years but I will say it is something thats worth investigating if you do a lot of imageing for the web.