On March 12th 2012, 36 recent prints by photographer William Eggleston sold for $5,903,250 at a Christie’s auction. That’s equivalent to one roll of film!
This was the first time Eggleston created digital pigment prints, as opposed to his usual dye-transfer process that he’s used since the 1970s. The highest selling print , “Untitled, 1970″, which depicts a child’s tricycle brought in $578,500. [more]
The Digital Bolex is a cinema quality digital camera. Which is to say it shoots RAW images or digital negatives, instead of compressed video. And the kicker is, the Bolex is not just designed with pros in mind but consumers as well, by making it inexpensive (relatively speaking), compact, and easy to use. Like a lot of great ideas that come to market these days, this project is being launch via Kickstarter. The Digital Bolex shoots it’s footage at a native resolution of 2048 x 1152 in Super 16mm mode. If you don’t get why all of this is so cool, then be sure to watch the promo video. [more]
Haristobald’s photostream has some interesting shots in it but what is more interesting is how he produced them. Using an old school, overhead projector, A4 sized transparencies, a strobe and a bit of mechanical know how, Haristobald can now transform his environment and his models. See behind the scenes of his latest Superman shoot and jump into the full post to see a video on how he modified an archaic device into a useful photography tool.
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Benjamin Von Wong just hit me up, from his facebook account, to let me know his latest BTSV is out. His 9th, here on Fstoppers, if I counted correctly. And this time no one had to be set on fire but they did have to bend over backwards.
Enter contorsion artist, Myriam Deraiche.
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See what happens when professional photographer, Mark Chung, hands his camera over to professional model, Callie Roberts. Given just a couple hours to instruct one another, each are then asked to do one another’s job.
A heads up for all our model readers: this video does seem to focus more on the photographer’s role and less on the model’s. Which, despite the inference, I know to be quite difficult.
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While drinking my morning coffee, happstr (a curious little site that helps you find your happy place) asked me, “What makes you happy?” My wonderfully supportive and beautiful wife? A photo career that nurtures my soul? Having the freedom to live anywhere and do anything I want? And then it hit me. It’s the 9th and exactly one week from today, Apple’s “the new iPad” will be on the shelves. You know you’re a gadget fanatic when… [more]
Ok, admittedly this video has more to do with the Mercedes than the 5D Mark II but what they have done with the two is far too cool not to show you. Using mats of LEDs and mounting Canon’s 5D Mark II on the opposite side, the promoters of Mercedes new F-Cell concept vehicle, were able to render the vehicle virtually invisible. To see the set up and the resulting video jump into the full post. [more]
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Paris based photographer Malo “Monday Monday” shot a baby series that is absolutely adorable. Ya that’s right I said adorable. What of it? But as I began looking into his work to get some background I found an older series that I liked too. Not being able to choose which to post I said f#@k it and decided to post both. [more]
In an earlier post, Prime vs Prime and Other Lessons in Stop Motion Animation I tried to show you where homegrown stop motion animation is in it’s evolution and offered a couple links to get you motivated. But compared to this video, for Gotye’s “Easy Way out”, directed by Darcy Prendergast, those other videos with their hours and hours of painstaking meticulous work will seem down right simple. [more]
What is, “The Lively Morgue“? I have 1000′s upon 1000′s of photos in my archive, stemming back as far as the 80′s. I never get rid of old photos. Now imagine how many photos I would have it I were an institution, say like, The New York Times. How many photos would you think I would be archiving then? Try: 5 million to 6 million prints and contact sheets (each sheet representing many individual images and 300,000 sacks of negatives (35mm to 5×7′s) estimated at about 10 million frames. Now add to that 13,500 DVDs, each storing about 4.7 gigabytes worth of imagery and you have one hell of a big photo archive or “The Morgue” as the paper likes to call it. [more]
In this post you will see two awesome examples of homegrown stop motion animation by Patrick Boivin. Patrick has done some amazing work such as, “AT-AT Day Afternoon“, which we featured awhile back. For the first video, you get to shape the outcome of a battle between the first generation Optimus Prime and the latest generation Optimus. I hold this up as a fun example of what patients and creativity can yield with todays, easily accessible technology. [more]
I’m not sure if I’m over reacting but this kind of thing get’s my blood boiling. What kind of thing? Picture being on an over pass, late one night, shooting a time lapse video (maybe to win the next big Fstoppers contest) when you are approached by a police officer. The officer questions what you are doing and why and then demands your ID. You know that you are observing all the laws and regulation, have commited no crime and are not obligated to justify yourself. What happens next? Well,Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania-based photographer Jason Macchioni can tell you. Better yet, he can show with this video. [more]
The music video for Josh Ritter’s “Love Is Making Its Way Back Home” was created with over 12,000 pieces of laser cut, construction paper. Directed by Erez Horovitz and conceptualized by Sam Cohen and Erez Horovitz, this video didn’t utilized any effects in post production. Everything you see in the final video is purely a physical set of frame by frame photographs, of the paper cut outs, with no effects added. [more]
Adobe has finally let iPad 2 users in on Photoshop Touch (Android tablet users have had this for some time now). Having impulse buy issues I just dropped the $9.99 that it costs for the app but being so excited to share the news, I’ve yet to review it. Some of the highlights Adobe is boasting are: being able to work with core Photoshop tools designed for tablets, using your tablet camera to fill area on layers, select parts of an image to extract by scribbling, and being able to sync files to Adobe Creative Cloud and open in Photoshop. [more]
