thinking out loud

Stocking.... is the new planking...

2011-12-17T00:17:00.000+11:00

One Day on Earth

2011-10-31T23:58:00.000+11:00

Philipp Klinger

2011-10-31T23:55:00.000+11:00

Philipp Klinger explores symmetry, architecture and nature. And makes me really really really want to go to Paris.

http://www.klinger-photography.com/portfolio-architecture-1.html

Stand Your Ground

2011-10-12T22:09:00.001+11:00

An excellent short doco on public photography, security guards and police in the UK.

Photojournalism behind the scenes

2011-10-08T00:15:00.004+11:00

Photojournalism Behind the Scenes [ITA-ENG subs] from Ruben Salvadori on Vimeo.

http://laughingsquid.com/photojournalism-behind-the-scenes-a-critique-of-conflict-photography/

2011-10-04T21:36:00.002+11:00

I should stop procrastinating and finish off this stupid epic accounting assignment that I haven't understood half of.

A taste of America

2011-09-30T23:36:00.003+10:00

Move

2011-08-19T22:30:00.004+10:00

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Long Exposures on Japan’s Rail by Appuru Pai

2011-08-18T18:23:00.002+10:00

bluuuuuue, a photo by AppuruPai on Flickr.

Love love LOVE these. Check out the whole set. http://www.flickr.com/photos/appurupai/sets/72157624376463256/

GULP

2011-08-04T15:11:00.000+10:00

insta.meet melbourne

2011-07-26T21:12:00.000+10:00

I haven't been taking a lot of photos lately at all, due to some circumstances over the past month and a half. I haven't been inspired to pick up a camera of any kind, hadn't wanted to do anything really.
Over the weekend, though I got up off my butt and forced myself to meet a bunch of strangers and take photos with them. The instagr.am app on the iPhone has got a real community going on and a Melbourne group of people have started getting together once a month to take photos and be social. I'm not a big fan of meeting complete strangers by myself that I've only really had a small bit of contact with over the internet, but I thought this time, hey why not.
Meet a great bunch of people, and got out of the non-photo funk I was in, if only for a day. We'll see how I go on that front, but I think I had a good day. My favourites from the day have already gone up to the app and flickr, but I thought I'd put them in here too because I haven't put up much of my work for a while at all.

You Are What You Eat

2011-07-21T10:18:00.000+10:00

You Are What You Eat is a series of portraits made by examining the interiors of refrigerators in homes across the United States by Mark Menjivar.

2011-07-16T22:14:00.002+10:00

hello university.

2D Photography Rube Goldberg

2011-07-14T21:24:00.002+10:00

People Staring at Computers

2011-07-08T10:00:00.001+10:00

Artist Kyle McDonald installed a program on computers in two New York Apple Store locations that automatically takes a photo every minute. Now his personal computers have been confiscated by the U.S. Secret Service. McDonald's project was to capture people's expressions as they stare at computers....

http://mashable.com/2011/07/07/secret-service-apple-store-art-2/

http://peoplestaringatcomputers.tumblr.com/

'Fireworks'

2011-07-05T13:23:00.001+10:00

TED - Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity

2011-07-04T12:22:00.000+10:00

Top 15 Photographers on Instagram

2011-07-01T10:42:00.002+10:00

Meet the Top 15 Photographers on Instagram

(from the link...)
Instagram’s top users, as seen in in a photo gallery that highlights their art, are a unique bunch who collectively love to edit their iPhone photos and share them with other photo aficionados. Some have a predilection for the Earlybird filter, most appreciate a smattering of camera effects applications and a few are Instagram-only mobile photographers.

http://mikekus.com/

(via mashable)

iPhoneography, take two.

2011-06-24T14:39:00.000+10:00

Further to one of my earlier posts - http://photographingstuff.blogspot.com/2011/04/iphoneography.html, this topic is still of great interest to me.
Two posts I found from earlier in the year explain this so much more eloquently than I can.
http://www.burnaway.org/2011/06/camera-phone-anxiety-reflecting-on-amateurism-in-photography/
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/through-my-eye-not-hipstamatics/

Drop Explosion

2011-05-23T23:00:00.002+10:00

Explosion, a photo by Maianer on Flickr.

Wow. Just wow.

Pendulum Waves

2011-05-14T11:13:00.003+10:00

A bit 'dry', but definitely mesmerising!

Caleb Charland

2011-05-12T23:00:00.000+10:00

Check him out : http://calebcharland.com/

Statigr.am

2011-05-10T14:47:00.000+10:00

Statigr.am is a site that gives you all kinds of fun stats on your very own Instagram account.

Find out what your top photos are, what your most used filters are, and who you interact with the most.

Time Lapse

2011-05-07T20:19:00.003+10:00

Time for some more Time Lapse!

Timelapse - The City Limits from Dominic on Vimeo.

Yummm!

2011-05-04T21:55:00.000+10:00

PS - happy star wars day... may the fourth be with you

Solid or Liquid?

2011-05-02T18:45:00.001+10:00

mesmerising.

Abelardo Morell - Camera Obscura

2011-04-30T16:06:00.001+10:00

Camera Obscura: Manhattan View Looking South in Large Room, 1996 (Abelardo Morell)

Interesting Flickr Stats

2011-04-12T16:07:00.000+10:00

I always find it interesting glancing at Flickr stats and what cameras are used, and the trends as they go along.
It really suprised me at this look that the Canon 450D was so popular... and moreso than the 5DMarkII. Price would be a major factor in this, but taking into account the rest of the Canon range, this just really bewildered me a bit!

iPhoneography

2011-04-12T15:47:00.005+10:00

An interesting article on the rise of a new trend - iPhoneography.

http://ht.ly/4xp3g

Though I don't agree with the opinion that Hipstamatic and similar apps are necessarily 'wrong' to use at all.

It all depends on the intention of the photo being taken, the composition or the timing of the image.

A poor image is a poor image no matter if it's taken on the best consumer camera in the market, or the lowest quality VGA camera phone in the market -no matter if it has been enhanced via an app, or via Photoshop (or going back further, an analogue photo that was produced and 'edited' in the darkroom).

A photo taken on a Canon 5DMkII, then processed for a certain effect is not necessarily better (or worse) than a photo taken with an iPhone through the Hipstamatic app or a photo that has had an apps' effects or templates applied - bar the print quality/resolution of the image being higher, which may not even be relevant depending on the intended use of the finished product.

A lot of professional photographers will apply a similar effect to their own photos in Photoshop, a 'template' if you will, to create a certain aesthetic quality that they are after. In this respect, there is no difference to someone using an iPhone app to edit their photo. There are many 'templates' out there for Photoshop users to download and use, without the photographer needing to create them, just like there are iPhone apps.

As a last thought, if using an iPhone and app to take a photo is 'wrong', a similar argument could be made that digital (as a whole) is 'wrong', when compared to analogue photography...

Ball of Light

2011-03-26T22:04:00.004+11:00

Ball Of Light from Sam Collins on Vimeo.

Aurora Borealis

2011-03-25T21:01:00.003+11:00

The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

Le Flâneur

2011-03-21T20:56:00.002+11:00

Le Flâneur (music by The XX) from Luke Shepard on Vimeo.

Plus the background of the project -
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2011/03/paris-in-2000-images.html

Windows

2011-03-16T22:27:00.001+11:00

Considering it's in another language, I don't really know much behind these photos, other than they are pretty amazing!

Window Portraits by Julio Bittencourt

CCP Kodak Salon / BSG Picture This

2011-03-16T22:14:00.001+11:00

http://www.ccp.org.au/
http://www.ccp.org.au/kodak_salon.php
http://www.ccp.org.au/salon/

http://www.bsgart.com.au
http://www.bsgart.com.au/pt11details.html
http://www.bsgart.com.au/pt11form.html

2011-03-10T23:08:00.000+11:00

finally! proper internets again!

Photo Opportunities

2011-02-21T20:37:00.000+11:00

Himeji Castle, Japan

Corinne Vionnet's 'Photo Opportunities' are painstakingly created. She takes hundreds of tourist photos of on location, and combines them into one. Each finished image will be made up of 200 to 300 images.
Dim shadows, silhouettes, tourist icons floating in a haze with a dream like quality.
One point of the attraction is chosen, and all photos lined up to that one point. Different focal lengths, settings, positions and inspiration make up the rest.

http://www.corinnevionnet.com/index.php?/photo-opportunities/
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/hundreds-of-tourist-photos

Back to the Future

2011-02-16T21:20:00.000+11:00

I posted a similar concept/blog/project a while back to this (Ze Frank), but this time it's a different photographer, and the photos are pretty eerie in their similarities!

Back to the Future

Days with My Father - Phillip Toledano

2011-02-13T15:58:00.000+11:00

Days with My Father

I can't even express how moving and well written this is. Just amazing and wonderful and sad.

Moa Karlberg

2011-02-10T21:16:00.000+11:00

Watching you watch me.

Moa Karlbery has an interesting series of photos with Watching You Watch Me. She takes the portraits through a two-way mirror. While she can see them, they cannot see her and are unaware. What she captures is what they think they are seeing also.

Zoo

2011-02-06T23:23:00.002+11:00

From the Zoo....

24 Hour Sky

2011-01-29T13:05:00.000+11:00

Photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos created this picture out of many photographs taken over the course of a day in Athens, Greece.

Full information on this, where, how etc, via this link
(via Neatorama)

Lost Film

2011-01-22T17:37:00.001+11:00

Street Art Photobooth

2011-01-04T09:05:00.002+11:00

http://studio-mw.fr/index.php?/project/perffusion-2010evenement/ (via Photojojo)

It's in French, but you get the gist of what Fabien David doing from the photos - an out-door photobooth & display.

.....and Happy New Year

2011-01-04T09:00:00.002+11:00

For better New Years related photos than this (I didn't see any fireworks), go to http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/a_new_year_rolls_in.html

A belated Merry Christmas....

2011-01-04T08:55:00.007+11:00

best photos of 2010

2010-12-23T20:29:00.001+11:00

fantastic -

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/2010_in_photos_part_1_of_3.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/2010_in_photos_part_2_of_3.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/12/2010_in_photos_part_3_of_3.html

(2009, 2008)

Christmas Shopping?

2010-12-23T20:16:00.001+11:00

Or lack thereof really.....

Nowhere Near Here

2010-12-04T13:14:00.003+11:00

Nowhere Near Here from Pahnl on Vimeo.

2010-12-02T20:21:00.001+11:00

Diploma in PhotoImaging? Check.

short artist statement

2010-11-18T10:20:00.002+11:00

This folio is the culmination of my last two years of studying. When I started this course, I knew next to nothing about photography, but knew I had fun doing it. Over the last two years I've learnt a lot about it, and probably still had the same amount of fun, but included a lot of frustration too. This is the work I am most proud of from the two years. It's the work that I think shows what I have learnt along the way.

melbourne

2010-11-17T22:34:00.002+11:00

2010-11-16T22:25:00.001+11:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob_birze/sets/72157594152043528/

instagr.am

2010-11-14T23:11:00.002+11:00

Philosoraptor

2010-11-10T19:37:00.003+11:00

End of Year Exhibition

2010-10-29T13:30:00.002+11:00

October? Already?

2010-10-02T17:13:00.001+10:00

Apparently it's already October. Who knew? It was still July last I was aware!

Never say no to Panda!

2010-09-29T12:31:00.002+10:00

three

2010-09-25T12:38:00.002+10:00

the way home from work

2010-09-23T21:50:00.002+10:00

looks like fun...

2010-09-17T10:45:00.002+10:00

http://www.shootmycity.com

Timelapse test thingies

2010-09-15T19:39:00.004+10:00

They're a little shaky because I was doing it by hand - my laptop broke and if it hadn't, I would have tethered the camera to it and controlled from the laptop to avoid the shakes.
The exposure is a bit off too, but all to learn from. Just have to wait for another nice day and not get stuck in traffic while the sun goes down!

sunset(ish) from kerrny on Vimeo.

cloudy from kerrny on Vimeo.

Melbs

2010-09-12T23:36:00.008+10:00

Playing around with my phone and panorama-ness from a friends balcony up on Spencer St. Pretty rough (noisy and a bit distorted), but you get the idea. I'll go back with my proper camera at some stage I think!

(click to view bigger)

FIRE (and ikea)

2010-09-08T16:46:00.002+10:00

FLAMMA from Helmut on Vimeo.

Pinhole Awesomeness.

2010-09-06T18:27:00.004+10:00

a pinhole camera... on a record player... that is playing. awesome.

image credit:
ShanghaiSoundBites

Maxime

2010-09-03T23:09:00.002+10:00

Another shoot at PIC... Maxime was soooo much fun!

The Wilderness Downtown.

2010-09-02T18:16:00.001+10:00

Wow wow wow.

http://thewildernessdowntown.com/

(don't close any windows).

Anton Tang

2010-08-29T23:37:00.006+10:00

Anton Tang has a great (and growing) series of photos of Danbo('s?) (plastic figurines that have movable joints, light up eyes and stands around 5" tall).

So cool!

Ze Frank

2010-08-29T22:37:00.001+10:00

Like Mom, Like Dad

Young Me, Now Me

Travelling...

2010-08-22T23:11:00.002+10:00

... and playing with the Hipstamatic app on my iPhone...

Wagga

2010-08-22T12:54:00.002+10:00

A cold and foggy night in Wagga.

Floating Point

2010-08-18T16:46:00.002+10:00

An amazing time-lapse of different parts of Tokyo.

floating point from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.

CameraBag

2010-08-13T00:38:00.001+10:00

I recently got the new iPhone4 when it came out. I've been playing around with a few of the apps on it, especially the camera ones, trying to work out what I like and what I'll use. The obvious one that everyone suggests is Hipstamatic, and I'm working on going through all the different combinations for it to see what it can do, but for the moment I've tried out all the CameraBag effects. It's one of the apps that is done post, so you can see all the effects it offers before adding it to the photo (click to see a larger version):

Paul Octavious

2010-08-12T13:01:00.000+10:00

Paul Octavious - check his projects out. Now.

Warbow

2010-08-11T13:08:00.007+10:00

Following on from some work I did for an archery club (Black Griffins), I was asked to take another bunch of pics for a warbow website that is in development.

A warbow is just basically a traditional bow on steroids... a lot bigger, faster and heavier to pull back.

Hipstamatic

2010-08-06T19:44:00.005+10:00

Just got myself an iPhone, and have been playing with the Hipstamatic app thing. I've been mucking around not really know what looks will turn out, but will be going through all of them at some stage.

i can takes fashion photos? hahaha, ashy being a poser.

I like the colours

abbotsford convent

just a little blown out

so green!

New York from above

2010-08-01T19:29:00.003+10:00

From the Denver Post website, some pretty awesome aerial views of New York.

eg:

(photograher: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

want.

2010-07-31T00:08:00.003+10:00

Camera Lens Mug!!

Snapped - Melbourne

2010-07-27T21:44:00.003+10:00

http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/MelbourneLibraryService/Pages/Snapped.aspx#info

Snapped: Melbourne past and present
Capture our city's changes in the Snapped: Melbourne past and present photography competition.

Indulge your passion for photography and history and you could win $1000, courtesy of the Melbourne Library Service’s Snapped competition.

Find an old Melbourne photograph – it could be from your family album or a Melbourne Library Service image from the Picture Victoria website. Take a new photograph of the same place and reveal the changes – or similarities – of Melbourne past and present.

Prizes will be awarded in two categories:

under 18 years
18 years and over
Shortlisted photographs will be exhibited at the Gallery @ City Library in November and will also be added to the Melbourne Library Service's photograph collection on www.picturevictoria.vic.gov.au

[From Snapped: Melbourne past and present]

Completely Unrelated

2010-07-26T23:23:00.002+10:00

You're doing it wrong

Shattering Dreams.

2010-07-22T23:15:00.003+10:00

This was a haha! awwww moment for sures.

Light Stencils

2010-07-20T19:21:00.003+10:00

Via Neatorama: some pretty cool light stencils.... should be fun to give it a go!

Butterflies. Photo: TigTab [Flickr]

Tangled Web. Photo: TigTab [Flickr]

Kodama Party. Photo: TigTab [Flickr]

Links: TigTab Light Stencil Photostream at Flickr | Tutorial on how to make your own by tdub303 – via Super Punch

Arrrrr!

2010-07-19T13:31:00.010+10:00

One of my friends, Pam, found this photo on flickr (also on my blog, see here). As she said, "... all i could see was this. i could not unsee it, and i needed to show the world what a fantastic pirate he would make hehe XD" I think it is FANTASTIC and highly amusing because more than one person said he would make a good pirate!

Mid-Year Folio

2010-07-15T11:09:00.001+10:00

Mid-Year Folio review time, ARGH! After a lot of looking despondently at my work so far this year, I've finally managed to pull my mid-year folio together. I'm not 100% happy with it, but it'll have to do. This first half of the year has been insanely busy with not living at home for 3 months, looking for a new place, moving into and getting settled into the new place, work and being sick and it hasn't left much time for me to stop and take photos (or breathe!). There has been a bit of laziness in there too to be honest, but it feels like I've barely stopped.

I know what I'm wanting to do next year, getting commercial/advertising assisting work. My folio shows a bit of that, a bit of what I've been doing so far during the year personally and some poladroids. I felt at the work in progress review that the poladroids were a bit slack to be presenting, but the lot I've got, I've tweaked myself a bit and some of them have been taken to specifically be turned into poladroids, so I'm a lot more comfortable with it this time around.

For the rest of the year, I know I'll have some more shots for work to take which is great as it gives me some more commercial experience, but I plan on getting into the studio to do some faux product shoots to give that all a go too, while continuing with my personal work (which seems to work as urban landscapes for me).

iphone fashion shoot

2010-07-10T13:04:00.003+10:00

This is pretty interesting... if a little corny in some bits. There's a fair bit more info on the fstoppers website on it too, so have a look.

Slow Internets :(

2010-07-08T21:23:00.003+10:00

ARGH! Capped internet sucks. I have so many things I want to look at & stupid slow internet that doesn't let me do it! There's a bunch of drafts sitting here that I haven't been able to have a proper look at :(

/vent

50 Movies

2010-07-07T00:37:00.002+10:00

Photojojo have a list of 50 movies that photography fans should see. I've seen a few... but will eventually work my way through this list I reckon!

http://content.photojojo.com/guides/ultimate-photography-movie-roundup/

Locals and Tourists - Melbourne

2010-06-24T21:15:00.006+10:00

The below map was created by Eric Fischer on Flickr, showing the places in Melbourne that have been Geotagged and colour-coded into Locals and Tourists. Pretty cool!

Locals and Tourists #30 (GTWA #29): Melbourne
Originally uploaded by Eric Fischer

From his Flickr explanation:

Some people interpreted the Geotaggers' World Atlas maps to be maps of tourism. This set is an attempt to figure out if that is really true. Some cities (for example Las Vegas and Venice) do seem to be photographed almost entirely by tourists. Others seem to have many pictures taken in piaces that tourists don't visit.

Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more).

Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month).

Yellow points are pictures where it can't be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven't taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all.

The maps are ordered by the number of pictures taken by locals.

Pixar Star Wars

2010-06-24T14:47:00.002+10:00

http://www.sillof.com/Drawings.htm

V–J day in Times Square

2010-06-24T14:34:00.003+10:00

Edith Shane (the nurse in the below photo), passed away recently. The link below the photo has some varied and amusing tributes and versions of the below photo - well worth having a look!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rebeccae/a-tribute-to-the-vj-day-in-times-square-pho

Assignments Due

2010-06-19T17:20:00.003+10:00

Mick - Colour Theory/Studio/Folio
Artist Statement / ~~Visual Diary / Tech Journal~~
~~What is Light?~~
~~Red (up to 24 images)~~
~~50's Brief and Shoot~~
~~60's Brief and Shoot~~
~~70's Brief and Shoot~~
5 Images to Musical Pieces
5 Portraits to Song Lyrics
3 Lighting setups
~~Business Card & Letterhead~~
Gallery Report (how to apply, costs, organisation)

Marcus - Digi
Multiple Self Portrait
~~External Lab Print and Report~~
~~Retouching~~
Advanced Masking (famous fairy tale/story, using 5 or more sourced images)

70's Shoot

2010-06-19T17:00:00.002+10:00

60's Shoot

2010-06-19T16:55:00.003+10:00

50's Shoot

2010-06-19T14:39:00.004+10:00

SOLD!!!!!

2010-06-18T10:02:00.003+10:00

Sold this photo at the exhibition opening last night! First sold photo ever, so I'm pretty stoked about it, wooooooo!

2010-06-16T22:05:00.001+10:00

Exhibition opening tomorrow! Woooooo!

Story of a Girl

2010-06-12T23:57:00.001+10:00

Rick Smolan tells the story of a girl. Amazing. (via TED)

2010-06-12T22:53:00.000+10:00

new layout....

exhibition invite

2010-06-10T23:59:00.005+10:00

(excuse the poor quality, my scanner isn't that great)

omnomnom?

2010-06-10T23:02:00.002+10:00

Webb Bridge (#2)

2010-06-08T19:47:00.004+10:00