Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
- TinEye – the debunker of fake photos!
Well TinEye is a myth debunker! He is a fake photo buster. A couple of days ago the UK Telegraph reported that there was perhaps a giant snake lurking in the Borneo river but Mark Frauenfelder from BoingBoing smelled a doctored photograph:
Via BoingBoing: My unexpert analysis concludes that these photos of a 100-foot long river snake from Borneo are as phony as a politician’s smile.
Well yes, they are. Fromage who is a TinEye user pointed out that the photograph was a fake and that one of the original photograph could be found here. Here is a link to the entire TinEye result set.
- Department of Defense and Photoshop
Somebody please tell the Department of Defense about TinEye. I mean if you are going to retouch photographs and release them as handouts, would you not first want to make sure that nobody can actually find the originals? And what’s the best way to do that (besides Bob Owen’s eagle eyes!)? TinEye it is.
- Esperance — the French word for hope.
I am a big photography fan – that probably has a lot to do with my work – so reading this AP story reminds me of how much of an impact a photograph can have on a viewer.
- First takedown notice for Life Magazine Image Archive
Via A Photo Editor: Life Magazine Photo archive issues its first (is it really the first?) take down notice. This won’t be the last one!
- Life Photo Archive on Google Image Search
Google’s efforts to bring offline images online and make them universally accessible strike again, this time by bringing online the 10 million Life archive photo collection. Only 20% of the archive is currently online and available for viewing here, but Google is planning on adding the entire LIFE archive over the coming months. I have to say that it is awesome to see some of the LIFE photographs I have not seen in a long time. I am a big boxing fan (surprise!) and I just spent 36 hours in Louisville last weekend so the LIFE Muhammad Ali photographs were a great find.
- Happiness in colors
A few months ago I had a great conversation with Daniela who is a Brazilian journalist at the Folha De Sao Paulo. Daniela was writing about our Multicolr lab – this is one of the Idée labs where you can search 10 million creative commons images using multi colours. You can select up to 10 colors for your search (go play, if you have never tried it, and please don’t blame me for the amount of time you will be spending there today!). Anyhoo…I remembered the conversation last night because of Garrett‘s comment below:
It is easy to forget how important color is in our world – this may seem strange coming out of the mouth of someone who has been wearing black (exclusively) for the past 2 decades but… color unifies us. My conversation with Daniela was not so much about how color searching works but more about how color breaks down all language barriers, we all have favorite colors, we all see and look at color differently and one thing is for sure: words are very poor color descriptors!
- Best Magazine Cover for 2008
The American Society of Magazine Editors selects New York’s Eliot Spitzer cover as best of the year.The last 40 years of winning covers can be viewed here.
- XDR-TB
Working to create awareness of extremely drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB)
Photographers go to the extreme edges of human experience to show people what’s going on. They believe your opinions and your influence matter. They aim their pictures at your best instincts: generosity, a sense of right and wrong, the ability and the willingness to identify with others, the refusal to accept the unacceptable – James Nachtwey
- Wife photo price tag: $2,000
From Forbes this morning on amateur stock photography:
Most
people would say that their favorite picture of their spouse is
invaluable. Jason Stitt can put a precise dollar figure on it: $2,000.
That’s how much he’s earned by turning a single snapshot of his wife
into stock photography.
Digital cameras have transformed consumers into an army of amateur
photographers, most of whom upload, tag and share photos online. But
are they selling? Stitt is.
- Cars of Africa
As some of you know: Africa is close to my heart; I am planning a trip from Paris to CapeTown reminiscent of the Paris-Dakar. Probably by car or motorcycle. So when I saw Jeroen van Bergeijk trip I could not help smile at the African cars. You see I grew up in Morocco and no, he is not lying, the state of car disrepair that you see on the roads, highways and towns is amazing. Just amazing. But as we say in French: du moment que ça roule!
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