Between 1907 and 1915 a guy named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokundin-Gorski (the royal photographer for Tsar Nicholas II) took the following photographs - in color. He came up with a concept of taking three photos - he took three consecutive photographs of his subjects with three separate filters: red, green, and blue. He then combined them into full-color projections. Read more on wikipedia.
This might be the first set of videos of me that exist on the Internet... I recently drove through Montana with my father. We stopped at the Old Works Golf Course to hit some golf balls and play a few practice holes. Dad brought his new Casio EX-F1 camera. Although it was primarily designed to take still photographs, it also takes high frame-rate slow motion video. Here are a couple [...]
Director/Producer Eric Bricker has been screening his new documentary about Julius Shulman over the last several months. I came across the trailer and website earlier this morning and instantly became a fan (although I haven't seen the film yet). Here's a little information about Julius Shulman and the trailer for Eric Bricker's new documentary Visual Acoustics. About Julius Shulman (from Wikipedia) Julius Shulman's images of Californian architecture have burned themselves [...]
This guy's photography is out-of-control... Please visit his site: http://www.richardpowers.co.uk
I took a few fall photos at Microsoft the other day.
I know two quotes relating to photography (which I had to look up): "When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in black & white, you photograph their souls." Ted Grant "When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." Ansel Adams These two quotes hit on two interesting aspects of photography. First, [...]
New York update part 2. Here are some photos from my recent trip to NY.
Here's the last set of photos from my trip to Prague last month.
Here's the fourth set of photos from my trip to Prague earlier this month:
The third set of photos are below.