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This Is Where We Live from 4th Estate on Vimeo

3D_Illuminated_Kobe_2007 from Inoue_k3D on Vimeo.

Sometimes you've just gotta get the blues. This was taken right after the sun had gone down on a completely clear day. The blues were being reflected everywhere from the rich colors in the sky. I metered against the light to bring out it's highlights, letting the shadows fall where they may, causing the wall to disappear into complete blackness, but allowing the sky's colors to show through.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.
John Lee Hooker

“The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad”
Leon Redbone

Urban Xbox 360 Gaming from UrbanXbox on Vimeo.

Extremely interesting view of a slice of cultural traffic, using some very exciting new technologies.

This could change the way we allow our cities to grow. A must watch.

The show that the video is taken from will air on August 10 on the BBC One at 9pm and BBC Two at 10pm, if you're lucky enough to get these stations.

Would you like to see Abu Dhabi in 2030? You could wait, then get a plane ticket, or you can watch a video of their master plan here.

Plan Abu Dhabi 2030 from squintopera on Vimeo

OK, I know, this is a photo blog, but you gotta see this video. Follow the story closely and if you don't end up crying with joy, your heart must have frozen over. This is humanity at it's best. Maybe this could only have happened in the 60's, when people knew how to be people and loved animals without restrictions, and didn't mind showing others how they felt. You might end up saddened that, after 1974, they never saw Christian again, but then that was because he had returned to the wild, completely and had his own course to follow. But I'm sure he'll remember, to his last days, the time he had with these two humans.

This video is really something to see. Incredible use of 3D modeling and airborn 3D scanning. Rather than watch it in low res here on my site, you can move your mouse over the video and then click on the HD icon on the right-hand side to view it on Vimeo in High Definition, with a better explanation of what you're seeing.

Enjoy!

A Virtual Stonehenge Landscape from Wessex Archaeology on Vimeo

I noticed this seed pod about to explode, while on a walk through Balboa Park recently, but the lighting was poor. So I added a bit of off camera flash (1 meter away with the lowest power setting), and it was just enough to bring out the richness in the colors and light pattern. You wouldn't want to flood the scene with light, but just add a touch to highlight the explosion ;)

Geography in Second Life: Neogeography from digitalurban on Vimeo

An HDR image created from 3 separate images, taken 2-stops apart (one with the correct exposure, one 2 stops under and one 2 stops over), and then tonemapped in Photomatrix.

These columns are typical of the architecture used in Balboa Park. The colors and shapes are a great source for photographs.

My friend Wazari mentioned in a post below that I don't take photographs of people often enough, so here's another. Shot last night, and when I say that this is a 'Character' portrait, I mean it. I happened to find him in front of the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park, so as we were talking he was weaving a tale of intrigue about his earlier days as a Admiral in the Japanese Navy. I was pretty sure, if we'd been standing in front of the Malaysian Museum, he'd have told me of his youth spend as the son of the President of Malaysia. Good thing we weren't standing in front of Victoria's Secret, because I can't picture him in pantie hose ;)

He was a character for sure, but he did say something that really struck me. He said cameras were only capable of capturing light. Which is something I always think about. But after he said that, he told me that I could photograph him if I'd only take his light, and not his soul.

I used a strobe about 3 meters behind him at shoulder lever, with a +1 setting, and another 1 meter in front of him about knee high aiming up, at a -2 setting.

Getting the most out of natural light is something even strobe purist should strive for. Even with my 3 off-camera flash units at the ready, when this opportunity came up, I had to quickly grab it. It only lasted a few seconds.


Pure unadulterated, natural light coming through the trees is obviously some of the best lighting you can have. The problem is bending it to fit your needs, or at the least, catching it at the only second that it's perfect. Strobe purist might want to control things a bit more than this, and of course they can, but the color of natural light cannot be duplicated with flash.

Sometimes it's nice to catch a moment in time without the usual smiles that photographers want to force on their subjects. Deeper, darker moods are much harder to choreograph and capture, and willing subjects, with this capibility, harder to find. But with the right person, place and proper mood, these photos can say a lot more.

Of course, along with a moodier subject comes the necessity to create a moodier atmosphere. But with the proper lighting, setting etc, it can be done. The arches of Balboa Park and the colors of the walls and railings help to get a somber mood going. Hopefully it comes through.

Fallingwater, also known as the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence, is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, and is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The house was built partly over a waterfall in Bear Run at Rural Route 1 in the Mill Run section of Stewart Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in the Laurel Highlands of the Allegheny Mountains.

Hailed by TIME magazine shortly after its completion as Wright's "most beautiful job," the home inspired Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead, and is listed among Smithsonian magazine's Life List of 28 places "to visit before ...it's too late." Fallingwater was featured in Bob Vila's A&E Network production, Guide to Historic Homes of America.
The above gratefully taken from Wikipedia

But then Cristóbal Vila has created this incredible computer animation of the house. Trust me on this, you'll love it. State of the art animation work.

Fallingwater from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo

You can find out more about Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater here.

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