Impressive! Made me dizzy after a while though… but definitely worth a try. TiltViewer allows you to browse Flickr’s most interesting images in a 3D space. Images are pulled from Flickr’s Interestingness list. By Airtight Interactive, the same people that brought the Autoviewer.

Three photos by Noele Lusano, a young American photographer living and working in Berlin. Her work is a “diaristic amalgamation of documentary, landscape, and portrait photography”: “lately I’ve been interested in exploring how several topics might relate to one another visually and conceptually — scents and their effects on memory, space and culture; the notion of space and architecture deconstructed and reinterpreted to form an ‘ideal city’; the concept of the dérive — a Situationist term used to describe a ‘drift’ throughout public space influenced by the city’s rhythm and ambiance.”

Digital Photography School has 11 tips for improving your landscape photography. I will definitely try #1 (setting a small aperture to improve depth of field) and I definitely agree with #9:

9. Work the Golden Hours
I chatted with one photographer recently who told me that he never shoots during the day - his only shooting times are around dawn and dusk - because that’s when the light is best and he find that landscapes come alive.

These ‘golden’ hours are great for landscapes for a number of reasons - none the least of which is the ‘golden’ light that it often presents us with. The other reason that I love these times is the angle of the light and how it can impact a scene - creating interesting patterns, dimensions and textures.

Jörg Colberg of Conscientious has a nice interview with photographer Todd Hido (see an earlier post about him). Hido talks about his preference for film instead of digital and how he shoots his night series and portraits.

Great collection of pictures of vintage electronic stuff. (via Apartment Therapy)

Today I browsed through the pages of a new edition of “American Prospects” by photographer Joel Sternfeld and was really impressed by the stunning color quality of the pictures. Originally published in 1987, the book has been redesigned, and reprinted at a larger and brighter scale. Finally, as the back cover says, “photography and offset printing techniques have caught up with Sternfeld’s eye, and this new edition of American Prospects succeeds in presenting Sternfeld’s most seminal work as it has always meant to be shown.” The series of pictures in American Prospects are the result of several trips throughout America in the late seventies and eighties: “For around eight years, from 1978 to 1987, he made extensive trips in a Volkswagen camper bus, taking his wooden Wista 8×10 camera with standard and slightly wide-angle lenses across the country armed with Kodak Vericolor. Working largely on the interface between town and country, he photographed ordinary scenes and people, discovering the extraordinary within them, making a study of the American character and condition.” (photography.about.com).

For her project “Teenage Stories”, photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten placed girls in a model village environment, thereby dwarfing their surroundings. Her project aims to capture their change from relative innocence to a heightened awareness of adult life. To me the familiar settings, yet unusual because of the disproportions, seem to evoke a sort of urban fairytale.

The other projects on her website are worth exploring as well. Julia Fullerton-Batten uses studio lighting to supplement daylight, which gives this kind of weird sensation in all of her pictures.

“Jeff Wall: In His Own Words” is a mini-website accompanying the 2007 retrospective exhibition of the MoMA and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on the work of Canadian photographer Jeff Wall. The website (made by the Belgian internet company Group94 by the way!) contains a series of photographs along with excerpts of interviews and essays.

A colourful portfolio by Italian photographer Lorenzo Moscia. Mostly pictures from Latin-America, but also from other parts around the world:

What an amazing portrait serie on Flickr.

I really enjoyed these “homes at night” photos of American photographer Todd Hido. The mysterious, dark settings in which the homes are pictured somehow remind me of David Lynch movies.

The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into a cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size. You can either upload a file from your computer or use any file that is publicly available in the Internet. After you have cropped the image and selected a desired size, the rasterbated image will be sent to you as an easily printable pdf file.

Adobe Gamma comes with Photoshop and is tool to calibrate your monitor. By calibrating your monitor, Adobe Gamma enables you to eliminate unwanted color casts from your monitor and to obtain the best display possible for your work environment. Check out the Adobe online tutorial on how to use Adobe Gamma (for pc; check out this one for mac).

The website is in Japanese, but it more or less speaks for itself: upload an image and you get a polaroid design-alike in return:

Intrigueing, mysterious and at times erotic or even sleazy: like no other type of photo, Polaroids definitely have a destinctive look. To quote Murakami: the sum of their imperfections make them perfect. Polanoid is a Polish Austrian (thanks Grant!) Polaroid community “building the biggest Polaroid-picture-collection of the planet to celebrate the magic of instant photography.” They currently have 50.620 77.811 uploaded polaroids.