Sadly, it was had on Youtube.
Cartier-Bresson has been in my pantheon forever. I saw the whole film some time ago in college. This excerpt by itself tosses off two or three stunning observations in under a minute.
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The most profound 90 seconds of my week
By September 3rd, 2009, underWatch This Space
By June 25th, 2009, underI’m currently shopping for a new web presence. I haven’t really touched my website since I created it in iWeb three years ago and an update is way past due. In the course of my quest I’ve investigated the services of Squarespace, Photobiz, Creative Motion Design and Livebooks.
I’ll be sharing what I’ve learned and the services I’ve investigated in this blog in the coming weeks.
Charleston Pierce
Additionally, I’ve been working on a series of portraits and I have some thoughts to share on the process. That should be up before long as well.
Frank
Photoshop CS4 Bug: Info Pallet Problems
By June 4th, 2009, under
Photoshop’s Info Pallet provides useful… info… about the values in specific areas of your image. Using the Eyedropper tool you can run the cursor over the image to see how the RGB ( or CMYK or Black) values fall. More powerfully, using the Color Sampler tool (the Eye Dropper with cross-hairs) you can lay down points in the image and see how the values change as you apply corrections. This is especially useful, for instance, to insure that highlights don’t blow out and shadows don’t block up as you make edits.
Unfortunately there is a bug in CS4 that causes the info Color Sampler points to read out different values depending upon what layer you’ve targeted. When a pixel-bearing layer is highlighted (targeted) in the Layers Panel you’ll get one value. Target a Levels Adjustment layer to make a change and the value will be different.
Note that an Image Layer is targeted in the Layers Pallet and the RGB values listed for Sample Point #1.
The only change here is that an Adjustment layer was selected (targeted) in the Layers Panel. No changes were made to that adjustment layer. Note the values for Sample Point #1.
So it appears that we are unable to both measure the value and alter it at the same time. Tricky.
And it’s worse than this.
I’ve opened the same image in CS3 and found different values for the Color Samplers than CS4 indicates. (Thanks to Ray Prevost for discovering the discrepancy between versions)
So, will your highlights hold a dot when the images gets to press? Who knows.
Pretec releases advanced CF card, ushers in end-times
By March 8th, 2009, under
From DP Review:
Pretec has unveiled the world’s first 666x Compact Flash cards with a read/write speed of 100MB/s.
News: Apple Upgrades Entire Desktop Line
By March 3rd, 2009, underAll at once. Both feet. iMacs and Mac Pros and Mini’s, Oh My. At first glance, the improvements to all three desktop models appear to be substantial. In fact the only bad news about this is… snif… no flashy, entertaining, informative Quicktime presentation. I guess hardware is boring.
MacWorld links below:
iMac.
Photographers
By February 27th, 2009, underI’m not sure what other people imagine when they think of us, photographers, as a group.
Before the personal computer, the word “geek” would bring to mind an image of someone holding a slide-rule or a test-tube or a camera. The craft is gear-heavy and highly technical. It employs obscure terminology, intricate rituals and relies on a unique system of measurement. The craft is a common refuge for the sort of bright, quiet adolescent who feels a bit threatened by the social demands of the Chess Club.
It’s an image of myself that I’ve never quite shaken: an ungainly kid with tape holding his glasses together, for whom a camera is both a ticket to parts of the world he’d never get to see otherwise and a shield to keep the people he finds there from getting too close. I think that’s true for many of us. But there are other things photographers have in common with one another and with other artists. I wonder if the rest of the world sees beyond the camera.
Maybe this description fits you better: You’re afflicted by some of the same infirmities shared by so many other artists in so many other disciplines. Besides a preoccupation with the visual (of course) you are hypnotized by beauty, fixated on detail. Obsessed with nuance (the falling of a note, the declination of a line, the rounding of a curve into shadow and then to black). It’s just stupid how easily you can find yourself lost in subtle details that others seem not to notice.
It’s a sickness. It’s the sour fruit that we have transformed into fuel for our lemonade stand.
We were geeks before it was cool.
But the digital revolution has produced a powerful mash-up: the geekiness of the photographic arts with the colossal nerditude of computer science. Hours in a darkroom bathed in noxious chemicals have been replaced by hours in front of a calibrated display. Our finger nails are no longer blackened by Dektol. We have carpal tunnel syndrome instead. Progress.
News: Jobo’s new portable storage device announced
By February 26th, 2009, under
An entry in the whimsically named product category, Jobo’s new Giga Vu Sonic.
Among the touted features:
- USB 2.0 connectivity
- Capacities of 80 to 250 GB
- Incremental backup from memory cards
- Battery life for “up to 120 GB of data transfer”
- Supports Linux, three flavors of Windows and Mac OS 9 and 10
News: Photo Mechanic 4.6 available
By February 26th, 2009, underCamera Bits has released it’s production version of Photo Mechanic and has a 20 day demo available on their site.