Information Contraband » Photography http://informationcontraband.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:09:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Retouching is the Right Thing to Do http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/retouching-is-the-right-thing-to-do http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/retouching-is-the-right-thing-to-do#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:32:43 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=421 Interesting take on the ethics of retouching.

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]]> http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/retouching-is-the-right-thing-to-do/feed 0 Got me a photo blog. http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/402 http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/402#comments Sat, 23 May 2009 17:18:53 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=402 Started a new photo blog as a place to display things I’ve shot. Let me know what you think of  the design (and the pictures).

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]]> http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/402/feed 0 Grand Theft Lego, Part 1 Behind the Scenes http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/grand-theft-lego-part-1-behind-the-scenes http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/grand-theft-lego-part-1-behind-the-scenes#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:17:55 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=310 HDR is all too often over-the-top, sort of illustrated looking. I’ve done it myself—there’s a strange pull to see how Three-Dee you can get those clouds to look. But it can also be more subtle, and that’s what we are shooting for in the Grand Theft Lego series. (Yes, there are more to come)

Partner in crime David Pahl shot twelve exposures of each element, and I merged three to five of each together so that I had complete control over the amount of light falling on every part of the shot.

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A little dodging, a lot of burning, some serious pounding on the color, and we got this:

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(click images for bigger versions)

Thanks to Jay Roth, James Pelz and Tom Pounders for all the help and ideas.

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]]> http://informationcontraband.com/miscellaneous/grand-theft-lego-part-1-behind-the-scenes/feed 3 Bill Durgin Figure Studies http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/bill-durgin-figure-studies http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/bill-durgin-figure-studies#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:54:10 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=230 Headless figures are surprisingly non-erotic. Very interesting, though.

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Also look at his other stuff, especially “addresses“. Strong stuff. He’s very good at forcing you to imagine the rest of the story. Spend some time with this stuff, it’s well worth it. Note: A more comprehensive post about Durgin’s art is in the works. Watch this space.

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]]> http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/bill-durgin-figure-studies/feed 0 Interesting Color Work http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/interesting-color-work http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/interesting-color-work#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:38:14 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=195

Dina Goldstein. Looks like she has a thing for 1965. It’s a good thing!

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]]> http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/interesting-color-work/feed 0 It’s the Coolest Thing Ever!* http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/its-the-coolest-thing-ever http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/its-the-coolest-thing-ever#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:38:30 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=181
See the HD version at Vimeo

* According to my pal Jeff Curry

The Matchbox® toy look of these trucks and the simplified colors had me gawping and I kept wondering how they managed to get so much detail into the tiny set, even as I fully understood that this was a fake miniature.

If my Canon 5d MkII ever arrives (I ordered it three months ago), I’m going to have to try shooting some tilt-shift footage, perhaps at an SCCA race, perhaps at a horse show…

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]]> http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/its-the-coolest-thing-ever/feed 2 Skate Rats http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/skate-rats http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/skate-rats#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:30:17 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=173

“Less than 500 people live in the town of Rutland, OH, but hundreds more migrate in and out of its borders every year to visit one 88-acre farm called Skatopia. Aside from being one of the most well known backyard skate parks in the world, Skatopia is a somewhat warped version of J.M. Barrie’s Neverland, with people of all ages coming to “experience” the fringe culture that has developed there, fueled by binge drinking, light drug use, casual sex, and rampant destruction of cars or property of any kind. Although “88 acres of anarchy” is the skate park slogan, it functions more like a cooperative dictatorship, according to farm owner, Brewce Martin. The gates are open all of the time as people generally filter in and out at their own will. Some camp out for a weekend, others build cabins from scraps and stay for a year; just about everyone raises hell.”

Excellent documentary photography by Travis Dove.

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]]> http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/firefox-3-is-color-manged-finally/feed 0 Giant Photo Stitching Project from NASA http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/giant-photo-stitching-project-from-nasa http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/giant-photo-stitching-project-from-nasa#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:37:07 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=97 More than 800,000 frames from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope were stitched together to create this infrared portrait of dust and stars radiating in the inner Milky Way. Individual full-res frames are available on the website. 800,000 frames were stitched together. Oy.


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]]> http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/giant-photo-stitching-project-from-nasa/feed 2 Killer Clouds http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/killer-clouds http://informationcontraband.com/art/photography/killer-clouds#comments Thu, 08 May 2008 16:27:33 +0000 Andrew http://informationcontraband.com/?p=84

The sky over our house was quite dramatic yesterday.
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