Last post on Anon, but I found their logo and it's shockingly close to this piece I made about a month ago.
Here is the logo:
Here is my piece I posted on 1-18, which means I most likely did it a month prior because I am slow like that with posting... lol!
Interesting.....
It sure has been rainy here in LA as of late.
Took this in the morning, quite nice. Froze my feet waiting for the clouds to break like that. At some point soon I am going to have to post all the hollywood sign pics I have as a series. Soon is probably mid summer..... lol!
"n appeal court in Paris has ruled that a photograph used in a high profile advertising campaign for the French National Tourist Office Federation (FNOTSI) was a deliberate copy of a Getty Images stock photograph." "The photograph used in the FNOTSI campaign had been commissioned specifically by advertising agency Prisme, and was taken by Laurence Frappa. Unlike Sanderson’s image, the blurred background was taken separately and digitally added in later.
“In court, Getty’s lawyers went over the [Frappa] picture bit by bit” Sanderson told EPUK. “That it was made from two separate images indicated that it was obviously constructed to match something. They said it was shot to match a drawing, which they produced in court, which turned out to be identical to my photograph.”
"Getty Images had originally sought €40,000 in damages – five times the cost of the appropriate licence. The final award of damages and costs is believed to be below that amount, but still substantially in excess of what it would have cost the design agency to use Sanderson’s original photograph.
The Getty Images price calculator states that a license to use Ian Sanderson’s image for a two year campaign across print, web and billboards would have cost around €8,000. But according to one source, Frappa charged Prisme just €1750 for the photography, expenses, and licensing."
Hmm... interesting.
Just posted a new piece today Tea Time Has Gone Horribly Wrong on Pixelrust. Really happy with how it came out. Took a whole bunch of different shots and tricks to make it all happen. Looks really strong as a print as well. Makes me want a large format printer even more. Hopefully the tax man will be good to me and not rape me up the ass this year so I could afford one.54 layers. Not too bad.
The fire was the most fun. Think more images are inbound that have fire. I was thinking the water would be a lot more fun. But since it does not throw off any light, it was not as fun as I hoped. Still need to explore some more water based pics though. Ice maybe?
Oh my, Ffffound is like thee best place ever on the net.
If you have not heard, Getty Images is going up for sale. Pretty serious stuff and it effects my biz in a funny way. But the best break down of it I have found so far is the following:
"But, it is not because a company is for sale that one, it will find buyers, two, it will disappear. This is not the end of Getty images, so those that rejoice, or those that predict the apocalypse of this industry should tone down and listen. At $850 million a year, Getty Image has proven that this industry has a huge potential. And for a company that started with $30 million, $1,5 Billion is not that bad. In other words, I fail to see where is the failure."
Interesting take.
Made this in about 3 days. My house still has a lingering smell of cigar smoke. It's going to be used as a new promo mailer for the retouching biz.
Alberto Seveso has really come a long way with his style. His new work is stunning. Wish I could link to it better. Here is his home page for those who want to know more.
The designer side of me want to get a hold of his collections of vectors!
Interesting... Kinda of like the Starn Twins, but digital. I like this one the most I think. It's a hard line to ride with digital compositions between cheesy and art. Good ideas here though.
Yeah, here is another one I like Kim Keever.
I really dig the people who set up these make believe worlds but don't use any photoshop trickery. I think the back story is that this Photog sets upa 500 gallon fish tank, builds these landscapes with plaster and stuff. Then squirts in different inks and liquids to create the clouds. All 4x5. I THINK!
Don't hold me to that. I can't remember or find where I found that info. And my memory is shite.
Stumbled upon this guy the other day on a web site that scrapes content. Direct links too.
"How very rude!"
Yes, yes, I thought the same.
Had the guy had a damn water mark I would not have spent 20 minutes staring at blogger code to figure out which direct link was his. That was the only thing that allowed me to track him down.
How many other people would do that? Not many.
WATERMARK your shitz please!
Anyways, his name is Jeff Bark and he is fucking amazing.
This series is amazing.
I love his tones. Very dutch painter.
This is a call out in favor of watermarking. I know all you purists get your panties in a bunch when people do it. But god dammint, people put their images on the web to be seen right? The internet is the world biggest library right herein my hermit cave / studio. And. I can run ape shit crazy with sissors.
When I go looking for inspiration and to see what others are doing, I copy that shit to the desktop. Oh, you flash guys? i just screen shot. Get over worrying about people stealing your shit.
But back on topic, when I go back to these folders and say, "Wow, that one is still cool.... who the fuck was it?" I would god damn well know if it was watermarked.
That's all.
"If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon, and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It's a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you, the Mystery. The one that can never be solved. To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul.These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese. Data in our psychic program is often nonlinear, nonhierarchical, archaic, alive, and teeming with paradox. Simply booting up is a challenge, if not for no other reason than that most of us find acknowledging the unknowable and monitoring its intrusions upon the familiar and mundane more than a little embarrassing. But say you've inflated your soul to the size of a beach ball and it's soaking into the Mystery like wine into a mattress. What have you accomplished? Well, long term, you may have prepared yourself for a successful metamorphosis, an almost inconceivable transformation to be precipitated by your death or by some great worldwide eschatological whoopjamboreehoo. You may have. No one can say for sure. More immediately, by waxing soulful you will have granted yourself the possibility of ecstatic participation in what the ancients considered a divinely animated universe. And on a day to day basis, folks, it doesn't get any better than that."
- Tom Robbins VIA the always amazing Whiskey River.
So I have not been posting lately because my comment spam software went haywire and was blocking my own IP for some odd reason. So not wanting to tinker around I let the site go into dry rot for awhile. But work permitting I'll be back on more often.
Also, I have a showing tonight for my new series, "Tip Well You Bastards" (Yeah, I changed the name). Gonna go out in the rare L.A. rain and get good and drunk at my own show! I like to think it's raining just for me as I am the only person here who enjoys the rain. L.A. is kinda like Portland rain, more misty then anything else. Having grown up in the midwest where rain means thunderstorms and torrents of rain it is actually quite pleasant to walk around in.
Don't drive in it though. Good god man, it will boggle your mind to see how people drive out here when it rains. You can see the series if you are patient and can use the gallery function Pixelrust or you can just go to my Photosite, danielkopton.com
Uh, about the photosite, it's buggy still and not all there.... but hey, it's a start.
Hmm... interesting read about some new ink jet papers that are based on the old ways of making B&W photo paper. Luminous Landscape has the write up on it here. "Prints made on Harman Gloss, when viewed in most types of light, display the best characteristics of gelatin silver prints. At a workshop, students and instructors inspected dozens of gelatin silver prints as a baseline for comparison– including ones by Ansel Adams and Imogen Cunningham. We then viewed prints made on Harman gloss –– looking at image tone, surface, reflectance and black values. Everyone who observed the Harman’s gloss prints agreed that this paper has a truly outstanding surface. It’s gloss and sheen are very similar to traditional prints. Other gloss papers, like Innova F-Type FibaPrint Gloss Ultra Smooth, look like poor imitations of traditional prints. Photographers have been asking for a surface similar to traditional gelatin silver prints, and Harman has delivered. One digital photographer remarked, “This looks like the best silver print I have ever seen.”
It's called Harman Gloss FB AL and is about 210 bucks for 50 sheets. I was printing on the Epson Luster paper for a bit, but then I switched to Moab Entrada Rag Natural 300 becuase even though it is a matt paper, everything looks amazing printed on it. Really smooth tones and poppy whites. I may have to try out some of this Harman paper though. If it looks and feels like a classic Black and White paper, that could really be something there.
ust did a fashion shoot for a company called Fuze Apparel. Check out the pics on the site!
If you have not heard Canon just announced the 1ds Mark III with a new 21 MP sensor and, but of course, I have a few rambling thoughts about it. First off here are the basic new stats to get that out of the way:
• A maximum shooting rate of 5 fps, for a Canon-specified 56 Large Fine JPEG frames, or 12 RAW CR2.
• An ISO range of 100-1600 in 1/3 step increments, plus L (ISO 50) and H (ISO 3200).
• Promised much faster CompactFlash write speed, owing to the EOS-1Ds Mark III's support of the UDMA protocol utilized by newer CompactFlash cards such as Lexar's 300X and SanDisk's Extreme IV and Ducati Edition lines.
• The ability to configure a Speedlite wireless flash setup via menus in the camera (when the attached flash is a 580EX II).
• Most everything that's found in the EOS-1D Mark III, including dual DIGIC III image processors, 14-bit A/D conversion, JPEG, RAW and sRAW file format options, 45-point autofocus system, 63-area ambient metering, E-TTL II flash metering, 300,000-cycle shutter, 3-inch (diagonal), 230,000-dot rear LCD, Live View, Highlight Tone Priority, High ISO Noise Reduction and more.
• The Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III professional digital single lens reflex camera is scheduled to begin shipping in November and will have an estimated selling price of $7,999
So what gets me all hot and bothered is this tid bit:
"The ability to configure a Speedlite wireless flash setup via menus in the camera (when the attached flash is a 580EX II)."
In my dirty little brain I hope this means you can finally sync the damn thing to strobes faster then 250 of a sec. This slow sync is the reason why all my sport shooters have to go medium format so they can sync up to 800 ad really freeze the action. If this solves this it could be a very big win for people.
Now what makes me cringe is that the pixels have almost doubled. Why o why would that make me cringe? Another reason people go with a medium format solution is that it's just sharper. No debates. Medium format is just sharper. More glass makes for a better image. Even the 1ds Mark II was out resolving the lenses and producing softer images. Now we are gonna use the same lenses with a chip that has almost twice as much detail? Hmm... Me thinks there will be some very soft images coming around soon.
Still pretty sweet though and if I fell in a pile of money I'd buy one. Anyone wanna rack a big old pile of that stuff up for me?
Where Professional Photographers discuss their craft. Such as:
"Our featured image was shot for a Levis campaign. We are inside a mine, and before us is a beautiful model who has just swung a giant pick-axe. In the background a man is straining to push an almost-overflowing mine cart. The composition is tight and triangular, with de-saturated colors and delicate lighting. And with a closer glance we find that this duo is mining not for silver or gold, but distressed denim: the mine cart is filled with designer jeans and above the man’s head more are embedded in the rock."
Did something a bit different the other day and did a photo shoot for a fashion company called Fuze Organics. You can see a pic or two under the Fashionisitas! tag in my galleries. I'll add more when I get more time. When will I get more time you ask?
Everyone had a good time and hopefully I'll be doing more fashion projects in the future. It was interesting to just relax have fun and make people look good.
