This is a time-lapsed video of our hibiscus, taken with the Nikon d300 set on interval timer. One shot was taken every 15 minutes during 18 hours time span. The Hibiscus is a popular flower, often seen on Hawaiian prints for shorts, shirts or surf boards etc.
Here at CES in Las Vegas, we were lucky enough to be awarded with a few hours of playtime with the Lytro camera at the Wynn Garden Lobby. For those of you unfamiliar with this peculiar weapon of the digital imaging persuasion, the Lytro camera’s specialty is that it can capture images without the need to focus. Instead, images can be focused after the shot is taken. This is a breakthrough in digital imaging technology, and certainly a format that competitors like Canon and Nikon will have to contend with when the Lytro ships in late February. tchno.be Get more CES coverage at youtube.com or revision3.com For more tech goodness, check us out at: www.technobuffalo.com Follow Us on Twitter www.twitter.com Like Us on Facebook: www.facebook.com Check Us Out on Google + tchno.be
Buy Mark’s Studio Lighting DVD: www.studiolightingessentials.com In this video Mark gives some tips on working with models. This video is focused on what to do before, during, and after the shoot. Mark also gives tips on where to find models. Don’t miss the bloopers at the end. It’s a dance off!
[ By Steph in Architecture & Houses & Residential. ]
Houses that look like little more than concrete or steel boxes from the outside offer exceptionally creative, efficient and welcoming interiors conceived by Japan’s Suppose Design Office. The architecture firm has mastered the art of turning tight lots into spacious multi-level homes, and bringing the outdoors in with day-lit courtyards and gardens flourishing under transparent roofs and skylights.
A series of disconnected structures are enclosed within a glass shell in this beautiful Buzen home, creating the feel of a private neighborhood where children can safely play. Each individual room feels like its own house, with the day-lit hallways as streets.
This ultramodern home in Otake is built to capture the optimal amount of sunlight each day for natural light, natural ventilation and temperature control. This passive solar design works with nature to cut heating, cooling and lighting costs.
Located in Obama City, this house looks from the outside as if it might be dark and industrial inside; the geometric white shape doesn’t have a single exterior window. Yet, step inside and you’ll find a bright and open space lined with warm wood. The interior of the home is divided with internal courtyards, many of which are illuminated with large skylights.
Copious amounts of wood, living trees and stones give the House in Seya the feel of an indoor garden. A pebbled interior courtyard leads to the living areas of the home, which is enveloped in a towering wooden frame that makes it feel much larger than it actually is.
Located in a residential area of Tokyo, this home features a garden that is cordoned off from the street by a large tent-like addition. The tent functions as a roof, wall and fence, making this outdoor area more private. Large sliding glass doors give the garden the feel of an indoor/outdoor extension of the house.
Making homes on small lots feel more spacious is Suppose Design Office’s specialty. This home outside Hiroshima is a great example. The interior of the main white volume of the home is filled with plywood ‘boxes’ that cordon off various rooms, creating three levels. The rooms have windows that open to the main ‘atrium’ living area.
Situated on a long, narrow plot in Koamicho, this two-story concrete home is built around interior courtyards that are glassed-in on each side for maximum daylighting. “In a long, narrow space, we constructed walls, and by laying out a space in which we experience many rooms, we turn ‘narrowness’ into ‘openness’,” say the architects. “Further, taking rooms and gardens as equivalent, we created spaces that are like exteriors, calling them ‘garden rooms.’”
Dark and dramatic, this structure looks more like a monument than a private residence. The triangular-shaped dwelling sits atop a first floor that has been covered in earth on all sides for privacy and temperature control. As modern as it may look, the home was inspired by traditional ‘pit houses’ of Japan, which have been in use for nearly 2,000 years.
A nod to more conventional home shapes can be seen in the windows of this large, rectilinear house on the beach. Suppose Design gave the home a fluid, changeable layout inside that’s free of the constraints of most residences, using floating wood platforms and mobile wood-and-glass partitions.
It looks as if some giant came along, lifted the corner of this house and slid a concrete wall beneath it. It’s an extremely unconventional and creative solution to letting daylight into a home while maintaining optimal privacy for its inhabitants. This raised corner also creates a private courtyard – one of three offering bright and airy spaces shielded from the street.
A three-story house in Ekoda, Tokyo, has been renovated to create six apartments – and, most notably, to include an incredible bathroom in the rooftop conservatory. The ceilings inside were removed to expose the bare steel frame of the building, and new rooms were created from pale wood.
Every single room in this Matsuyama home has a view of the sureounding scenery thanks to large glass walls. “By spacing out structurally necessary walls we’ve created a design where a good view can be had from anywhere, but that still possess earthquake resistant elements. This also allows for larger openings, which were difficult with wood fram ehouses.”
Built into a hillside beneath a road, House in Fukuyama is almost entirely open to views of the city on one side, with the rest of the home shielded from the eyes of neighbors. The roof of the home is level with the street, requiring visitors to descend into its interior via cantilevered stairs.
A striking wedge-shaped home in Japan is covered in gravel and set back from the road, making it look like a massive sculptural object for the garden.
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While some of these glass houses seem impractical for everyday living, others serve a very real purpose – to capture and convert the power of the sun.
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The New Year’s almost here! You know what that means: resolutions.
Time to tackle all of those photo troubles you had this past year.
Instead, try these three time-travelling projects! The Film Negative Time Capsule, Recreate a Photo, and the Reverse 365 will help you look back on years past and look forward on the year ahead!
Photo Projects for the New Year!
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Time to recover from that eggnog hangover (which we’re sure is what it’s from) with these photo projects that will catapult you right into 2013.
One of the best parts of photography is looking back on where you’ve been and seeing how you’ve improved. These ideas will give you a helping hand with just that.
Film Negative Time Capsule: It’s like a mini time machine, and you won’t even have to worry about those pesky time travel paradoxes. Just slip your negatives inside and let them hang out with their friends for a year or however long you want. Once that’s up, crack it open and see what you’ve been missing!
Recreate a Photo: We swear we aren’t up to no good with all of this time travel business. Take that photo that your mom loves to embarrass you with in front of your girlfriend/boyfriend and recreate it now that you’re older! Or, plan to go back to the same spot with friends years later and snap the same photo.
Reverse 365 Project: The 365 Project is a slick way to improve your photography while documenting a year in your life. It can get a little bit daunting, though. This spin on the classic lets you pull photos from your archive that you aren’t currently using and incorporate them into your new 365!
The Film Negative Time Capsule is a spin on the traditional time capsule. Instead of finding things to stow away for a few thousand years, this time capsule is one you add to as you go along.
It’s simple, each time you develop a roll of film, snip of a few frames from the negatives before scanning/enlarging and stow them away in the time capsule box. A year later, or as long as your willpower lasts, open the box and look at all of the memories!
It’s like a mini time machine, all without witnessing your dad’s 70′s moustache in person.
Short and sweet:
Take your scissors and cut a slit in the top of the box where you can slide in the negatives.
Add some sweet decorations to your time capsule. Make sure you warn others (and yourself) to keep out!
That’s it! The longer you wait and the more negatives you add, the sweeter the reward!
But I don’t Shoot Film!
Don’t worry! Here are some other ideas you can use to create a time capsule-esque effect.
There’s nothing better than a good reminiscing sesh with a photo album, but what if you were able to actually relive that moment? We found some cool photo projects that involve revisiting the same place to recreate a photo or reliving it!
Dear Photograph:“A picture of a picture, from the past, in the present.” Sounds confusing, looks like awesomeness. The idea behind Dear Photograph is to incorporate an old photo with the same setting years later. Hold the photo at arms length so that the scene matches, and snap the picture!
“BACK TO THE FUTURE 2 2011″ If you were to recreate that childhood photo that your mom loves to embarrass you with in front of all of your friends, this is what it would look like. Irina Werning’s photo project recreates old photos with results that are stunning faithful to the original.
The 365 Project is a great way to improve your photography and to document each day for the next year, but it’s also very daunting and can be difficult to complete. But what if you did a 365 with pictures you’ve already taken?
Pete Labrozzi created a new way to complete the 365 Project. Instead of taking a picture every day for the next year, Pete is using photos he’s taken from previous years.
In the smartphone age, our pictures barely last a hot minute. With this project, you can pull them out of the darkness and incorporate them into your future 365.
Some benefits according to Pete:
We <3 these projects. Inspired by the passage of time, they're great 2013 Inspirations!
Photo for Recreate a Photo from Dear Photograph
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A few nice visual art images I found:
Berlin Street Art 008 PSP
Image by watz
This annoys me: Sony has a PSP street art campaign going in Mitte. I’ve seen at least 6 different motifs, only a few of which have an actual Sony-related URL.
Now, I understand all about viral advertising, and I’m hardly an anti-capitalist purist. But I wish Nike, Sony etc. would be happy with their already near-total domination of urban visual space through advertising, and not try to co-opt one of the only outlets for alternative expression.
See where this picture was taken. [?]
Graffiti – Art or Vandalism? (3 of 3)
Image by Dublin City Public Libraries
Using a variety of drama and visual arts programmes, young people from many areas of Dublin City worked with professional artists and writers to explore the question ‘Graffiti – Art or Vandalism?’. This programme of activities, presented by Dublin City Public Libraries, was aimed at educating children, whilst encouraging them to comment creatively on the social conditions in which they find themselves.
View a video about this project.
Freunde der Fotografie, liebe Leser. Das Jahr 2012 neigt sich dem Ende zu und ich möchte mich – auch im Namen der gesamten Redaktion – bei Euch bedanken. Und das ist keine dahergeredete Floskel, sondern ernst gemeint. Ohne Euch Leser wäre das Magazin in dieser Form weder denkbar, noch möglich.
Und damit erst gar nicht das Gefühl von Kitsch aufkommt: Ich meine damit durchaus auch die reflektierten Kritiker. Die Leute, die sich Gedanken gemacht, uns widersprochen oder auf (Denk-)Fehler hingewiesen haben. Auch wir sind nicht perfekt und das müssen wir auch nicht sein.
Natürlich freuen wir uns auch über diejenigen, die einfach mal „Danke“ sagen, ohne großartig mit Worten herumzuwerfen. Nicht jeder Kommentar muss ausgefeilt formuliert sein, um rüberzubringen, was jemand denkt. Und dazu kommen noch die E-Mails, die uns streckenweise täglich erreichen.
Danke. <3
Desweiteren wünschen wir Euch eine gute Zeit über Weihnachten. Lasst es Euch gutgehen im Kreis Eurer Liebsten. Auch eine kreative Pause ist wichtig, von daher vergesst ruhig einmal das Fotografieren.
Und zum Abschluss sei Euch gesagt, dass wir nach dem Dezember-Marathon mit drei Beiträgen pro Tag eine kurze Pause bis zum 28. Dezember machen werden. Auch wir müssen ab und zu einfach mal durchschnaufen, ohne an dieses Magazin zu denken. Danach geht’s dann wie gewohnt weiter und zwar in erster Linie mit Bildern, die zum Träumen anregen.
Wer uns in der Zwischenzeit vermisst, ist herzlich eingeladen, die kürzlich mit viiielen aktuellen, zum Teil nur noch wenige Tage laufenden Ausstellungen gefüllte Liste aufzusuchen oder sich die Empfehlungen unserer Fotografen-Filme-Umfrage vom Samstag zu Gemüte zu führen.
Bis zum 28. Dezember!
PS: Zu diesem Zeitpunkt kommt das Beste natürlich noch, nämlich die Öffnung des 24. Türchens unseres Adventskalenders in wenigen Stunden. Spannend bis zum Schluss.
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Ich freue mich ganz besonders, Euch das heutige Türchen präsentieren zu dürfen. Von Tamron haben wir einen richtigen Kracher zum Verlosen bekommen: Das brandneue Objektiv SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di VC USD. Es gehört zu Tamrons Super-Performance-Klasse und ist damit besonders für die Verwendung an Vollformat-DSLRs geeignet.
Ich hatte schon Ende August das Vergnügen, mit einer Vorversion dieses Objektivs auf Motivjagd zu gehen und es ist mir schwer gefallen, es nach drei Wochen wieder zurückzuschicken. Was mich damals vor allem beeindruckt hat, waren Schärfe und Vibration Control. Als Stativfotograf habe ich nicht das ruhigste Händchen, aber bei eingeschalteter VC habe sogar ich mich getraut, bei 200mm und 1/50 – 1/100 Sekunde zu fotografieren.
Ebenfalls überzeugt hat mich die Verarbeitung. Das Objektiv macht einen stabilen Eindruck und ist gegen das Eindringen von Spritzwasser geschützt. Da ich damals öfter im Regen stand, war das ein wichtiges Feature. Eine Verbesserung zum Vorgängermodel bietet außerdem der USD-Motor, der schnelles und präzises Fokussieren ermöglicht und zudem sehr leise arbeitet.
172mm, f/11, 1/125s, ISO 400, freihand
Hier seht Ihr zwei Beispielfotos, die ich damals mit dem Objektiv aufgenommen habe. Ob mit Stativ oder freihändig, das Objektiv liefert in jeder Situation scharfe Ergebnisse. Am besten seht Ihr Euch die Fotos mit einem Klick etwas größer in der Lightbox an, denn die verkleinerte Darstellung verschluckt leider viele Details.
117mm, f/11, 21s, ISO 100, auf Stativ
Das Objektiv Tamron SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di VC USD, das wir heute verlosen, ist so neu, dass es bisher nur für Canon-DSLRs zu haben ist. Wer es für seine Nikon oder Sony gewinnen möchte, darf gern trotzdem mitmachen und erhält es, sobald diese Modelle verfügbar sind.
Es lässt sich sowohl an Vollformat-DSLRs als auch an Kameras mit APSC-Sensor verwenden. Die unverbindliche Preisempfehlung liegt bei 1.999 €. Alle weitere Informationen und Spezifikationen findet Ihr hier.
Um das Tamron SP 70-200mm F/2.8 Di VC USD zu gewinnen, schreibe einen Kommentar unter bürgerlichem Namen und gültiger E-Mail-Adresse bis heute um 24 Uhr. Danach verlosen wir es per Zufallsgenerator unter allen Kommentatoren. Die genauen Gewinnspielregeln findest Du hier. Viel Glück!
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