Tag: photography

January 14, 2011

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  Photobooth, 1964

  Here we see a very young me (I’m pretty sure I’m four years old) with my sister Karin (who would have been 23).

  

  Don’t we look young and happy and (at least in my case) sun-stroked?

February 12, 2008

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  Dick & Syl Cut The Cake

  A while ago I started collecting up all the old photo albums and shoeboxes of pictures and slides that have been stored at the back of closets with the hope of starting a scanning project to share these with family and (to a lesser extent) the world.

  I did a test scan and post to Flickr of my in-laws wedding photo:

  

  I’m pretty happy with the scan given I was using an old scanner and didn’t pay that much attention to my settings. I did a bit of cropping and tweaked the contrast.
  And now that this photo is out there for the world to see, maybe someone can explain to me why they have a meadow full of flowers on top of their cake!

December 10, 2004

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  Thought

  “Psychicle” got to see the Mark Lombardi exhibit at the AGO but I didn’t, because it ended a few days ago. This makes me sad as I really wanted to see his work up close.

  Interestingly enough, without psychicle’s flickr photo, I wouldn’t have even know there was an exhibit in town.

September 11, 2003

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  Thought

  Japan Media Review: Camera phones changing the definition of picture-worthy:

  “Unlike the traditional camera, the camera phone is an intimate and ubiquitous presence that invites a new kind of personal awareness, a persistent alertness to the visually newsworthy that makes amateur photojournalists out of its users.”

  (via Smart Mobs)

July 9, 2003

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  “Mobile Snaps”

  The Economist’s “Mobile Snaps” article says:

  Sales of camera-phones are expected to grow from around 19m in 2002 to over 34m this year, according to IDC, a market-research firm. By 2005 they are likely to outsell film and digital cameras put together.

  The one issue I have with the comparison of film, digital and phone cams is that most people who buy phone-cams are really buying phones that happen to have cameras in them, not cameras with phones in them.

  Without real customer need and usable interface cameras in cell phones will have the same impact on digital photography that web browsers in phones had on Internet browsing — minimal.

  My guess is that the value of having a camera with you at all times will cause a real revolution in what people think is “camera worthy”.

  We’re seeing a long-term trend where we went from going somewhere to have your portrait taken, to film cameras there were when going on vacation and to birthday parties. Disposables get used as “fun”, and now digital cameras allow high volume snapping and post-picture editing (vs limiting what you snap in the first place to save on film). My guess is that phone-cameras will create a snap-crazy culture that doesn’t look at photos as precious, but rather as a simple way to capture anything visual that needs capturing.

March 12, 2003

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  Thought

  If you’re looking for wonderful, mindless distraction, go directly to panoramas.dk and try out some of the full-screen QTVR images. If you haven’t seen these 360 degree photographic images, you’re in for a treat. And if you have, you should still check out the full-screen gallery because they are very large, high quality images that go beyond much of what I’ve seen previously. (link via boing boing)