Posts Tagged ‘ images ’

As I noted when I Bought My First iPhone App, there is no built-in way to totate images on the iPhone. Apple probably never thought of it because rotating images on the iPhone makes them quite small. It is both better and simpler just to swivel the iPhone itself depending on whether the image...
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Spotted on A Photo Editor, The American Craftsmen Project. This personal project shot by Tadd Myers seems pitch perfect for the economy right now. Photographs of people who make things one at a time by hand (visit here). There are some wonderful images here. A Photo Editor is right about how apropos this collection...
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The Victoria and Albert Museum offers via Photographs Described for Blind and Partially Sighted Visitors. Currently this online collections has four historical images with descriptions for perusal. This section of the website looks at four very different historic photographs from the V&A’s collection. Each photograph is reproduced in colour and is accompanied by an...
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It is photos like these that I would take if I could. From Scenes from the recession – The Big Picture – Boston.com: The state of our global economy: foreclosures, evictions, bankruptcies, layoffs, abandoned projects, and the people and industries caught in the middle. It can be difficult to capture financial pressures in photographs,...
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A three-image spread on the front page of the Sports section! Center hosts grand (re)opening Saturday RANDY YOUNG – Recreation:Renovations and expansion at Triangle SportsPlex highlight new features for fitness Published: Mar. 18, 2009 12:30 AM | Full story The assignment was to get a spread of a local sports center with its pools,...
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Here are some of my personal favorites among my own photos. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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For every assignment that I shoot for the newspaper, I submit a series of pictures so the editors can choose what fits their needs the best. I always submit to many. For my recent assignment shoot the basketball game, I submitted seven though they only asked for five. I have a difficult time deciding...
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I still have not figured out which of my two lenses is best for shooting basketball games. I have now shot two b-ball assignments, a game last November and one this past week. I have used both of my lense, changing them hurriedly every fifteen minutes or so. I have the two most basic...
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As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I shot a local high school women’s basketball game last night. The assignment, for the Chapel Hill News, was to shoot the East Chapel Hill Women Wildcats’ basketball game at Jordan High on 2/6/09. ECH won easily, taking them one step closer to the league championship....
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On the same snow day that we took the dogs for their romp in the snow, we also took them for a short walk around the nearby geese-filled pond. I had much better luck with the camera here. The images were much sharper. Using Lightroom’s auto white balance and tone features gave the images...
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Perusing the NYTimes recently, I ran across an article, Tag That Image, on visual bookmarking services. From the Times: “Vi.sualize.us features more variety than the other sites: anything from T-shirt designs to artsy studio shots and illustrations are likely to pop up. Since the site began in September 2007, the community has expanded to...
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