Dumb Client Requests

The people at Sharp Suits designed posters with some of the dumbest feedback their clients have given them over the years. These are fantastic.

Eve Arnold on Cameras

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

- Eve Arnold

Another Appearance on "Things Organized Neatly"

Two days ago, I posted 2 "cute" photos of fall colors. I submitted those photos to the popular tumblr site called Things Organized Neatly, and 1 was almost instantly published.

Here's how it looked on their site, along with all the likes, comments, and reblogs over the first 16 hours or so:

Thanks Things Organized Neatly!! Always fun to see my work up on your site!

CLICK HERE to see my submission on Things Organized Neatly. (And click here to see my first photo on Things Organized Neatly from last October.)

Fall Colors

My 16-month-old son and I were out playing in the yard this past weekend as it was misting. We had some fun with leaves while we were out there:

Serviceberry Leaves (click image to enlarge)


Japanese Barberry Leaves on Grandma Monica's Pumpkin (click image to enlarge)

If you like these, make sure to check out 2 posts from 2 years ago (HERE and HERE) where I had similar fun with Privet Leaves and Crab Apple Cherries.

The Girl With the Photoshop Tattoo

Have you seen this? Here's what designer Megan Orsi has to say about her tattoo:

When I was in high school, I spent every waking moment in Photoshop creating websites and collages for my favorite show, The X-Files (don’t laugh!). Thankfully, all of the time I spent paid off and now I’m able to use my Photoshop skills on a daily basis doing a job I love. Photoshop’s been a big part of my past, and now, it will always be a part of my future. Thanks, Adobe ;-)

Hope everyone enjoys the Photoshop Toolbar Tattoo =D

Here's the tattoo:

Color me jealous.

"Everything The Light Touches..."

I found this recently on the revolving door at the CVA Photo Lab:

Restoration of the First Color Film

The first moving picture captured in color 110 years ago has just been scanned and restored. It's an interesting process the photographer went through to create "color" images.

http://youtu.be/XekGVQM33ao

A bit about the video and the original process:

Lee and Turner's invention has always been regarded by film historians as a practical failure but it has now been 'unlocked' through digital technology, revealing the images produced by the process for the first time in over a hundred years.

Turner developed his complex three-colour process with support, first from Lee and then from the American film entrepreneur, Charles Urban. Using a camera and projector made by Brighton-based engineer Alfred Darling, Turner developed the process sufficiently to take various test films of colourful subjects such as a macaw, a goldfish in a bowl against a brightly striped background and his children playing with sunflowers, before his death in 1903 aged just 29. Urban went on to develop the process further with the pioneer film-maker George Albert Smith which resulted in the commercially successful Kinemacolor system, patented in 1906 and first exhibited to the public in 1909. Sadly, Turner's widow never received a penny from her husband's invention.

On discovering the film, Michael Harvey, Curator of Cinematography at the National Media Museum, worked with film archive experts Brian Pritchard and David Cleveland to reconstruct the moving footage in colour following the precise method laid out in Lee and Turner's 1899 patent. They turned to experts at the BFI National Archive who were able to undertake the delicate work of transforming the film material into digital files, and so the team were able to watch these vivid colour moving pictures for the first time, over one hundred years since they had been made.

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