As the title suggests, James Maher took apart his Fuji X100 after it got soaked by seawater. An incredible, if sad, story. But he made the most of it. The photos of the dead camera are cool.
Andy Ihnatko wrote a great piece on iPhoto for iPad at the Chicago Sun Times. If you're interested in it, this is definitely an article to read before you buy.
Via: [DF](http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/05/09/andy-ihnatko-iphone-ipad)Interesting article about the pros and cons of the Nikon D800E by Kent Weakley.
The purpose of an app like Instagram is to celebrate the increasingly mobile culture. There’s no right way or wrong way to use the service but sharing dSLR photos on Instagram seems almost like violating the spirit of the app.
He's responding to an article by Nate Benson on the same topic. I absolutely agree with them. Every time I see a photograph in Instagram that was obviously not taken and edited with Instagram, I feel like I'm been deceived.
It's like a kid getting their parents to build their project for school and presenting it as their own.
I'm not sure why, but a while ago I stopped using Instagram. I never was a big user, but I did post now and then, and I enjoyed seeing friends photos. But for some reason I've lost interest. The Facebook acquisition just makes me want to use it even more because I don't like the idea of companies tracking me and knowing everything about me. I'm paranoid.
If you are too, you can use Instarchive to get your photos off Instagram for free.
This video by Sølve Sundsbø is amazing. Be sure to watch it in full screen. Click here to watch on Vimeo if you can't see it below.
From the description in the Vimeo page):
Created by Norwegian photographer Sølve Sundsbø and creative consultant Jerry Stafford, the video work was inspired by the form of Surrealist art experiment known as "exquisite corpse" (from the original French term cadavre exquis) is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled.
Absolutely beautiful.
The Getty Center in Los Angeles has a major exhibition of photographer Herb Ritts from now until 26 August 2012. If you're in LA while it's on, don't miss it.
Rob Boyer on his suggestions for the next version of Apple Aperture:
Forget a bunch of social media, happy, smiley-face, cute little cloud icon crap. Forget it. Here is what a lot of people would die for in Aperture 4, even if they don’t know it yet.
And he goes on to describe 10 things he wants. I agree with all of them. And I especially agree with the statement above. Leave those in iPhoto please!
Instarchive works as advertised:
There’s been a lot of talk about Instagram lately. We’re pretty sure the sky isn’t falling, but you should always have a backup, so we built this little tool for you.
It’s called Instarchive, sign into your Instagram account and we’ll send your photos down to your computer in a convenient zip file. It's quick and easy, we hope you like it.
I just did it. It was quick and it worked flawlessly.
The guys at ApertureExpert.com are publishing a series titled Top Ten Tips to Cleaning Up Your Aperture Library. They're in the fourth tip now, and I've already learned a couple of new things and have picked up a few good tips. Head over there to check them out and subscribe (if you haven't already) to get the next 6 tips.
If you have a new iPad, check out these Retina iPad Wallpapers by John Carey at Fiftyfootshadows.net. Beautiful work.
There's something about contact prints that's magical. If you like film photography and are, as me, fascinated by other photographer's contact prints, have a look at the essay The contact print: a window into the mind of the photographer by Wayne Ford.
Interesting, tongue-in-cheek, article at Wired titled 10 Photographers You Should Ignore. While I don't think anyone should ignore these photographers, I do agree that trying to copy their style is not the way to go.
I just found out Apple removed the trial version of Aperture. It seems to be available only on the Mac App Store and you have to purchase it. There is no longer a try before you buy.
This is unfortunate I think. Although I'm a huge fan of Aperture and I would recommend it to almost anyone, the reality is that Lightroom is also a very good option and the differences are more in workflow than anything else. Some people get the Lightroom way, some people the Aperture. The best way to decide, and what I recommended, was to download both trials and spend a good month with each. I'm not sure why Apple would have removed the trial version.
Roger Cicala at LensRentals.com:
With the recent camera releases (or maybe Spring fever) I’ve been rather amazed watching various photography forums have major melt downs during the last few weeks. I said something about cameras and lenses just being tools, not life and death, and got immediately annihilated. They aren’t just tools, I was told, they are the means to make a living for some people, and the passionate hobby of others. That got me thinking, though: I have friends who make their living as carpenters, and others for whom woodworking is a passionate hobby. I got to thinking how silly their forums would seem if they acted like we do:
And then he writes an extremely funny thread. Worth a read.
Macworld has an article about the differences between iPhoto vs. Photoshop Touch on the new iPad for those wondering about this. They say:
Although both apps give you lots of tools for working with your photos, they are very different in terms of what they actually allow you to do. Photoshop Touch is geared more toward heavy editing and the creation of new images, whereas iPhoto is more for organizing, optimizing, and then presenting the images you already have.
Photoshop Touch has layers, but a maximum image size of 1600 x 1600 pixels. iPhoto doesn't have layers and only allows one effect at a time, but you can edit images up to 19 megapixels.
Share Article