See what it feels like to be at the Beijing Olympic Stadium
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photography Links
Photographers readying to shoot the men's 100m final at Beijing National Stadium on Saturday (Photo by Kari Kuukka)
A new frontier within photography is dawning. Powerful software is allowing photographers to do amazing things, from HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography, which allows photographers to capture a substantially larger range of tones by combining a number of different exposures, to rich multimedia slideshows and interactive presentations which are allowing photojournalists to tell their stories through the best means possible by combining sound, video and still photographs.
Another of these technologies is becoming more and more popular. 360 degree interactive panoramic photography, as seen in Google earth’s ’streetview’ has an incredible ability, even beyond the power of the motion picture and video, to recreate atmosphere and tangible sense of place.
One of the best examples I’ve seen of this is a 360 degree high resolution panorama, shot by sports shooter Kari Kuukka from a photographer’s corral about 30 minutes before the start of the men’s 100m final at Beijing National Stadium last Saturday. For me, this single image recreates what it would be like to be in the Olympic Stadium better than anything else I have ever seen.
To view the Flash panorama in its own window, click here. The Shift key will zoom in, the Command (Mac) / Control (Windows) key will zoom out. Click and hold down the mouse button inside the photo to navigate around.
Tags: link, Multimedia, panorama
The cloud is falling: The future of professional photography
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photography Links
If you’ve ever given any thought to becoming a professional photographer, give this article at Sportshooter.com a read. It is a fascinating insight from one of the world’s best photographers, Vincent Laforet, into the future of professional photography.
Tags: link, professional, professional photography
Keeping track of your images on the web: Tineye
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photography Links
Thankfully, I haven’t had any major issues with copyright infringement on the web – yet.
However, it remains a serious issue, especially for users of such Photo sharing sites as Flickr, whose images can be searched for and copied by everyone from highschool bloggers to major corporations. Luckily, in the case of commercial usage, art directors and designers are usually savvy enough to make a formal request from the photographer before publishing an image of theirs without their consent – they’ve learnt from the lawsuits.
Tracking down such offenders has always been very difficult, as it is often only through luck that a photographer might stumble upon his or her image being used. However, this is all about to change.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words – so how many words is a moving picture which speaks worth?
One does have to apply to use Tineye in its Beta form in order to use the service – Don’t fret, applications are generally accepted within a day or so.
Tags: copyright, internet, link, tineye
Growing Creatives!
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Advertising, Thoughts and Theory
If only it were that easy!
Tags: Advertising, creativity, link, video, youtube
