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PUBLIC MARKS with tag photography

July 2014

Gary Hershorn’s Off-field World Cup Album | Narratively | Human stories, boldly told.

by sbrothier
A photojournalist explores the cities of Brazil with only a smartphone in hand, and discovers the country’s most mesmerizing moments happen when no one is watching.

Google’s Street View cameras are touring museums and taking weird selfies by accident - Quartz

by sbrothier
The curtain slips a bit in the Camera in the Mirror, a new Tumblr project by the Spanish artist Mario Santamaría that collects accidental self-portraits of Google’s hulking cameras while they go about their work. It turns out that museums have a lot of mirrors, and the cameras often photograph themselves in front of them. +

June 2014

Winners of the 2014 iPhone Photography Awards | Colossal

by sbrothier
It’s amazing to see the stories we’re now capable of telling with a device that fits in our pocket containing a camera about the size of a dime

Meet AirDog, An Action Sports Drone For Your GoPro Camera | TechCrunch

by sbrothier
The problem Latvian startup Helico Aerospace Industries has set out to solve is most homemade action sports videos rely on a camera, such as the GoPro, being strapped on your person or action sports equipment, providing mostly a POV shot only. But, with drone technology, it could be possible to democratise the kind of aerial videos previously the domain of expensive, professional shoots only.

Le blog de l’équipe

by sbrothier
Permettez-moi de vous présenter Ousseynou Cissé, auteur du magnifique blog Incartable, musicien et passionné de photographie. Il a gentiment accepté de répondre à mes questions, et de partager avec nous son univers créatif et ses inspirations.

Photographing the Majesty of the Common

by sbrothier
Abelardo Morell went from a small Cuban beach town to New York City in 1962. The streets and its people were chaotic, unfamiliar and overwhelming to a 14-year-old exile who barely spoke English. “Suddenly, I’m in the biggest city in the world and it’s crazy,” he recalled. “I remember feeling this is more than I can ever comprehend.”

Bring In a View Like You’ve Never Imagined

by sbrothier
for more ways to bring the outdoors into your home? Artists Darius Kuzmickas and Abelardo Morell have you covered. They specialize in camera obscura, a centuries-old technique that takes the idea of a pinhole camera and applies it to an entire room.

May 2014

Are Colorized Photos Rewriting History?

by sbrothier
There's been an explosion in the number of colorized photos lately. People find old black-and-white photos online, and meticulously add color to give us a new perspective on history. But recently one colorized image caught my eye after it was tweeted by the notoriously inaccurate HistoryInPics. It's a stunningly colorful view of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1940. But the photo is a lie.P

Meet OTTO - The Hackable GIF Camera by Next Thing Co. — Kickstarter

by sbrothier
A customizable camera powered by Raspberry Pi. Make and share camera modes that shoot photos with your unique style.

gabriele galimberti | photographer

by sbrothier
Gabriele’s job consists mainly of telling the stories, through portraits and short stories, of people around the world, recounting their peculiarities and differences, the things they are proud of and the belongings with which they surround themselves; social media, in all its forms, is a fundamental part of the research needed to get in touch, discover and produce those stories.

Do you know about Kaodashi-Signboards?

by sbrothier
The person and the animal who represents the place are pictured in signboard. As for the signboard, the part of those faces is cut out. You can stick your face trough signboard and take photos.

V Magazine: In honor of Mothers around the world (pt 1 of 2) ...

by sbrothier
In honor of Mothers around the world (pt 1 of 2) 'Delicatessen With Love', took photographer Gabriele Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature. view complete gallery on his website

MIT Visualizing Cultures

by sbrothier
These photos of men and women from different walks of life catered to foreign curiosity about the "exotic" Japanese. Most were taken in Beato's studio in Yokohama. Album courtesy of the Smith College Museum of Art.

Fantastic Fungi: The Startling Visual Diversity of Mushrooms Photographed by Steve Axford | Colossal

by sbrothier
To think any one of these lifeforms exists in our galaxy, let alone on our planet, simply boggles the mind. Photographer Steve Axford lives and works in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales in Australia where he spends his time documenting the living world around him, often traveling to remote locations to seek out rare animals, plants, and even people. But it’s his work tracking down some of the world’s strangest and brilliantly diverse mushrooms and other fungi that has resulted in an audience of online followers who stalk his work on Flickr and SmugMug to see what he’s captured next.

April 2014

Researchers Develop Method for Getting High-Quality Photos from Crappy Lenses

by sbrothier
There are many reason high-quality lenses cost as much as they do (and in some cases that is quite a lot), and one of them is that high-end lenses use many specially-designed elements that are perfectly-positioned to counteract aberrations and distortions.

Lytro changed photography. Now can it get anyone to care? | The Verge

by sbrothier
Lytro's ultimate, simplest goal is to turn the physical parts of the camera — the lens, the aperture, the shutter — into software. If it can do that, the camera hardware itself becomes secondary; it would take nothing more than a cheap lens and a sensor to build a light-field camera.