While attempting to create some “little planets” shots via this tutorial, having neglected to read this guide to actually taking the pictures and ending up with some horribly distorted pictures, I at least got a pretty good rooftop panorama out of it.
Photography
My photos
Mar 292011
One of my ongoing things is to learn to dare and take pictures of people, to discipline myself to take my camera along and try to photograph random things around the city, and to figure out the aesthetic “stuff” in buildings and objects I pass every day.
Mar 212011
Some pictures I took of the amazing full moon last night.
Feb 242011
A derelict, collapsed farmhouse in the forests of France
In 2003, we spent two weeks in Vanuatu, an island nation in the South Pacific. On Pentecost island, the locals practice a ritual consisting of jumping from tall bamboo platforms with vines attached to their ankles. Children begin to train at a young age by jumping from their fathers’ shoulders, while dad holds their ankles; [...]
Feb 132011
Finally got around to uploading the scanned photos from our Cambodia trip to numerous temple complexes around Angkor Wat and Angkor Tom. If I’d had a decent DSLR back then, Karin might not have given me such a hard time about going through igglety-poo thousand rolls of film. Technically, she was right; getting that exposed [...]
Tilt-shift is a technique that uses selective focus to simulate macro-photography of miniature scenes, either through use of a specialized lens such as the Lensbaby, or by “faking” it with Photoshop (here is a tutorial).
Feb 022011
Just a few days on the most beautiful archipelago I’ve ever seen.
Karin scored amazing tickets for this competition at Paris’ Cirque Phénix. The Cirque de Demain is a competition between young artists (no animals or gimmicks), judged by both the audience and a jury, and spread over a week. We managed to see both sets of acts (they’re spread across two days, each artist has to [...]
Several days of recuperation on a coral island off the Southwestern coast of Zanzibar. The ecolodge had no electricity aside from solar-powered batteries for reading, and was built around a turn-of-the-century lighthouse. The all-muslim staff still uses the tiny mosque (we were politely advised to please keep the fuck out), and despite it being Ramadan, kept up a pretty good pace.
Antony Baker Photography
Paper Shadows Photography
Peter Norby Photography
In Focus
The Big Picture