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Written on 19th April 2009
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Anne Helmond, hard bloggin' scientist
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Photography by Anne Helmond for the Next Web.
More pictures in the The Next Web 2009 (Set) and even more by DailyM and Marjolijn. Feel free to add your own pictures tagged with ‘tnw’ to the Next Web Flickr group.
Written on 3rd April 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
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Written on 1st March 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Photography Blog Photocritic took the time to dig through Flickr for the best iPhone photos they could find, no easy task considering the iPhone is the number one camera on Flickr.
The results however are pretty darn impressive and it is without shame that I eat my words (if only a little) and say the iPhone camera isn’t really all that bad. That’s not to say I am not losing sleep over a better one in the next iPhone release however.
Here are a selection of my favorites but you really need to visit Photocritic to view the 100.
- via Photocritic.org on Flickrvia bananjode on Flickr
Written on 23rd January 2009
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Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
Photographer David Bergman was fortunate enough to have been given a photographer’s press pass for the inauguration of President Obama.Â
With a Gigapan Imager and his Canon G10 in hand, Bergman shot 220 images and spent more than six hours using the Gigapan software putting them altogether on his Macbook Pro.
The picture is above however the beauty of this comes from playing with the flash piece on Berman’s website, ideally in full-screen mode.
Written on 5th November 2008
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
Getty Images, one of world’s largest stock photo suppliers, has launched a brainstorm tool called
Moodstream. By showing you photos and movies from their seemingly endless archive, the stock giant wants you to get inspired. Music (with or without vocals) takes care of the final touch.
But don’t expect this to be some random slideshow-like tool, since Getty Images has created a lot of parameters that only have one purpose: suiting your mood. So right now I’m tired from watching last night’s elections (stayed up to 6am), happy that Obama won, and a bit stressed since I’ve got a lot of work to do. That translates into the following streams:
Moodstream looks beautiful and is a rather sophisticated tool. You can even save streams for later. There’s just one thing that bothers me. For a brainstorm, some pictures are a bit too dull. I miss photos which are on the edge, the ones that get you really out there. Other than that, great find.
Written on 9th July 2008
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
Holiday is on its way, at least, I hope it is for you. Everybody deserves a week or two of absolute relaxation. Next to zipping cocktails and playing ball games, human beings also have the weird tendency to make a picture for every step they take on unknown soil. When home, tradition requires it that you show the pictures to your friends and relatives. A modern Web 2.0 devotee like you has the pictures uploaded to Flickr, yet this service is somewhat too clean to relive the old-fashioned cosy way of showing photographs on the couch. Well, that’s where French service Picsviewr comes to the rescue. Next to the most corny Web 2.0 name so far, they also offer seven templates that enrich the whole viewing experience.
What about some Polaroids for example? First you make a selection – based on tags, sets, most recent etc. Then your friends can just drag ‘n drop the photos, opening their favorites – and ignore the picture postcard-like boring ones.
Although the idea is nice, and Picsviewr would certainly fit the Flickr tools hall of fame, some important features are missing. Where’s the embed option? There’s not even a direct link function. The guys behind this tool still have some work to do.
Anyway, for now, Picsviewr is the way to go when you got your family gathered around the screen – eagerly waiting for those holiday pics.
Written on 10th April 2008
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
Although everybody seems to be raving about video on Flickr, I just like to bring something totally different – yet photo-related – subject under your attention. It’s a really interesting photo project by Jonathan Harris called The Whale Hunt. For some of you, this might be old news as it’s published six months ago, but I don’t want to risk that other people miss this incredible photo series. Moreover, I think that some media art doesn’t hurt this blog. After all, our main purpose is to inspire you.
Eleven months ago, Harris traveled to the Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, to see how they hunt on whales. Before you ask, his project is not a political statement whatsoever, he just wanted to cover a ritual that has been going on for ages.
His photos series of the whale hunt is quite special, since it’s a new way of human storytelling:
The photographs are presented in a framework that tells the moment-to-moment story of the whale hunt. The full sequence of images is represented as a medical heartbeat graph along the bottom edge of the screen, its magnitude at each point indicating the photographic frequency (and thus the level of excitement) at that moment in time. A series of filters can be used to restrict this heartbeat timeline, isolating the many sub stories occurring within the larger narrative (the story of blood, the story of the captain, the story of the arctic ocean, etc.).
He collected the photos by making one pic every five minutes, even when he was asleep. The result looks something like this:
I think Harris discovered a new interesting way of telling a story. Imagine how this would look like when you cover a soccer match. You can tell by the heartbeat when the match turns interesting. Or a political debate. I hope to see some examples of that. Or do you know one already?
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