The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera

The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera by Jonas Pfeil looks amazing. It's a ball that holds "36 fixed-focus 2 megapixel mobile phone camera modules", it's padded with foam, and has an accelerometer to help it determine the highest point. The explain it as:

The camera is thrown into the air and captures an image at the highest point of flight - when it is hardly moving. The camera takes full spherical panoramas, requires no preparation and images are taken instantaneously. It can capture scenes with many moving objects without producing ghosting artifacts and creates unique images.

Check out the site and watch the video, it shows the ball camera and has a few examples. I'd like to get my hands on one of these.

via: John Nack

Technology was supposed to do all the work

I posted this on my other website a few days ago. But since it's photography related, and pretty entertaining, I thought I'd post it here as well. The whole interview is interesting, but this quote from photographer Jake Chessum on APhotoEditor is brilliant:

I remember very clearly as a kid how everyone said that in the future technology was going to do all the work for us. How we were going to be down to a 3 day work week and have loads of leisure time. Turned out to be complete bullshit…

The Photographer's Eye for iPad on sale this weekend

The Photographer's Eye for iPad is on sale for Father's Day at 80% off in the iTunes Store. I just bought it for $4.99 and it's downloading now. It's almost 350MB. I'll write a review once I've spent some time with it, but just wanted to let you all know about the offer as it's a substantial discount and it seems it'll only be for this weekend. There's a good review at The Photoletariat.

All photographs from my Project 365 are now CC

Out for a stroll, originally uploaded by gabrielponzanelli.

I just updated the license for all my photographs in the Project 365 set in Flickr to an Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) Creative Commons license. That means, anyone is free to use them for any non-commercial activity as long as they don't change them in any way and they link back.

Let's see what happens.

Bigger versions are in project365.gabrielponzanelli.com, a Posterous blog I created just for this project.

Oivind from Norway, shot for People of the Globe

Oivind. From Norway., originally uploaded by gabrielponzanelli.

This is just a quick post to test posting directly from my Flickr account. I've neglected Flickr lately and I want to get all my online stuff (Website, Blog, Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Model Mayhem, Posterous, etc.) to start working together. Probably the main reason why I haven't done it is because I haven't found a good way to manage everything without spending a ton of time. I have a bunch of images everywhere and I don't really know where I've posted what, so I'm trying posting everything I intend to be in Flickr into Flickr first and then blog and embed from there.

I'm also playing with the new Labels in Aperture 3 to help me organise this mess. Right now I'm thinking I'll assign labels depending on what I've done with the photograph. For example, if posted to Flickr I'll give it a grey label. Not too sure if that's going to work, but we'll see.

Speaking of Aperture 3 and Flickr, I just posted a bunch of photos directly from Aperture and I have to say I'm not too impressed with the in-built Aperture to Flickr export. It's the first time I've used it, so I may be wrong, but it seems it doesn't read what's already there on Flickr so you can't post photographs into an existing Flickr set. The old plugin seems much better, but I'll reserve my final judgement until I've played with it thoroughly.

Shooting in black-and-white mode

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Too much editing to do

Monique; Sydney, Australia; 2009 ©Gabriel PonzanelliI'm so far behind on my editing that I'm feeling a bit anxious. I just never seem to find the time to sit down at the computer for a significant amount of time in one single session and just plough through stuff. Today I sort of did that, but I've also been thinking about this whole editing thing. I think I just don't enjoy it as much as I did. What I really enjoy is the planning a shoot and being out there shooting, then coming back and importing my files. I like seeing them in the big screen for the first time and I actually like sorting through them and rating them. But when it comes to actual Photoshop time, it's so time consuming sometimes that it's a pain. I'm pretty happy working on the first 2 or 3 photographs from a shoot, but once I open the 4th my brain gets bored and I with they were all done. I think a lesson from this is to shoot less. I don't mean go out less, I mean shoot less photographs in each shoot. All I really want is 2 or 3 great shots from each, so why get trigger happy? Anyway, just a thought.

Photographer showcase: Jason Langer

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New website and blog finally done!

Jessica; Sydney, Australia; 2008 ©Gabriel PonzanelliJust a quick note to get an image out there and let everyone know that I finally finished messing with the new site and blog. They're now both under a single site/installation so it'll hopefully be much easier to manage from now on and I'll be able to update more often instead of spending hours trying to perfect the site.

Anyway, now for the really difficult part... adding content. I did a quick upload of a few images I had ready for the People of the Globe and the In Motion projects. And I threw in a few random shots into a section called Fashion, but I'm not too sure about that one. We'll see how it evolves.

For now, I have a ton of editing to do. Four shoots to be exact that I'm half way through and I'm shooting again this week a couple of times. I need a good solid 3 days of nothing but sorting, rating, and post processing to catch up but just haven't found the time. Life seems to never slow down. Which is probably a good thing, but it just feels overwhelming sometimes.

Model: Phoebe from New Zealand

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