Nikon confirms 36.3 megapixel D800, we go hands-on
Yes, yes. More megapixels doesn’t necessarily mean better quality, blah blah blah. But c’mon… it’s still a DSLR with 36 freakin’ megapixels!
Trailer for the documentary Bill Cunningham New York by Richard Press.
From Protein:
Cunningham’s candid photos have been documenting the New York fashion scene over the last 50 odd years for the Times Style section, and has no doubt influenced street-style snappers the world over. It took 10 of those years to make the film - 8 for Press to convince Cunningham to do it in the first place, and 2 to film and edit.
Source: vimeo.com
Chris Kotsiopoulos is the author of this striking photo. This is like a real life version of Super Mario Galaxy.
In Chris’ words:
After wondering for some time whether it was possible to image the sky from one morning to the next where I live in Athens Greece, I decided to give it a try. After hours of planning and preparation, and a full day of shooting, the image above is the result of this labor of love. It took me about 12 hours to pull together and process a single image that included over 500 star trails, 35 shots of the Sun and 25 landscape pictures.
Twenty Four Hour View of the Sky - Earth Science Picture of the Day
Via kottke
Source: epod.usra.edu
Photo: Maddam Butterfly by Jon Stevens
Jon Stevens is a 1960’s photographer and male model with a predilection for silver paint. His work is a lovely cocktail of B-grade SciFi films, Goldfinger and erotica.
Source: silverpeoplestudio.com
Polaroid Memories
Photo: RRRDIAZ
Polaroid is dead, long live Polanoid. This site aims to build nothing less than the largest collection of Polaroid photos in the world.
Touch a Stranger
Cheikh, Alioun, Gracy, Terry and Pape by Richard Renaldi
Photographer Richard Renaldi shows us what happens when total strangers touch each other and pose for a picture.
Just a Simple Portrait?
Nice photo isn’t it? Yeah, except that it’s a detail from a painting.
The idea of this painting by artist Dru Blair was born out of a portrait workshop he taught in 2005. In that workshop, he presented his students with a photo he had taken of a local model. Their goal was to paint this photo and reproduce it as best as they could. After the class had ended, he decided to test the limits of his own painting skills and took it upon himself to recreate the photo, with pretty startling results.
The level of detail is simply stunning. For example, to reproduce the skin a combination of about 20 colors were used and even subtle visual elements in the original photo such as the halo effect on the earrings have been preserved in the painting. According the artist, 99% of the painting was done using airbrush, while other techniques involving colored pencil, x-acto knife and eraser were also used, especially to add realism to fine textures of the skin and hair.
Visit Dru Blair’s site here
Alternative Costume Party Ideas
More wonderfully strange photography by Geoffrey
Cottenceau and Romain Rousset here.
