© Dubois & Barral

Two french­men got together and did some­thing wonderful:

One day, Mr D (Laurent Dubois) con­tact Mr B (Fabien Barral) and told him “I like what you do, I can do nice print on fab­ric, we should work together”… They found an amaz­ing play­ground, the Excelsior Latin Hôtel in Paris who need to be dec­o­rated. Mr B cre­ates a serie of images that Mr D prints in large size… And then they share good din­ners and talk about doing cush­ions, wall prints…

Great imagery over at Fabien’s flickrstream where pho­tog­ra­phy meets graphic art, fab­ric meets print, mod­ern meets vin­tage art, but most impor­tantly, per­fect har­mony of two artistry that brings such part­ner­ships to a new level. (via graphic-exchange)

This handy app from Karelia is one of those things we often over­sight and becomes indis­pens­able overtime.

It’s almost iden­ti­cal to the iApps media inspec­tor, but this one’s a stand alone, so you can browse all your photo libraries (Aperture, iPhoto, Lightroom, Folders) from one inter­face and do things with them like the built-in media browser with­out launch­ing their respec­tive home apps.

Speaking about magic, Kirk Tuck gets it:

The only way to gain magic is to give up con­trol. And giv­ing up con­trol is hard. And fraught with uncer­tainty. And not every­thing will work out just right. But in the times that you let chance guide your hand instead of the tight brace of tech­ni­cal “mas­tery” you might occa­sion­ally stop think­ing long enough to allow your spirit to create.

© Mark Kauffman

May her legacy inspires, her soul sparks anew.

(Make sure to check out pho­tographs from her wed­dings too.)

Stu Maschwitz:

This is not what HDRx was designed to do. It was designed to make high­lights nicer. To take one last “curse” off dig­i­tal cin­ema acqui­si­tion. This is “stunt HDRx.”

In short, it’s HDR with a new kind of pro­cess­ing algo­rithm for motion picture.

Not the kind pen­man­ship I’m look­ing for in the league of such crafts­man­ship, but not many are pub­lished so far.

The writer seems to have for­got­ten about how the cam­era really oper­ates, espe­cially its software’s UI & UX, or how tedious its elec­tronic shut­ter beeps are by default and whether it can be killed and what kind cus­tomiza­tion we can hope from this camera.

There’s also no spe­cific men­tion or sam­ple images from the camera’s unique built-in ND fil­ter¹, its auto-focus capa­bil­ity and behav­iour, and its 4-type brack­et­ing features.

In other word, I need to get my hands on this thing.

Oh, one more thing… the main rivals part has no men­tion of the M9 (but an M8.2), and a whole bunch of four-thirds cameras.

Feel free to jump, but I wouldn’t waste my time on it.

©Thorsten Overgaard

If you have just got­ten the Leica M9 you may find page 12 use­ful as it con­tains my most recent set­tings based on 60,000+ pho­tos taken witht he Leica M9.

I do not have the M9, but I’m fas­ci­nated by his on-the-fly, diary-style show & tell.

A kick­starter for pho­tog­ra­phers:

The inter­est in high qual­ity pho­to­jour­nal­ism is at an all time high. Photojournalism depends on the will­ing­ness of news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines to pub­lish and finance it. In the dig­i­tal age, many media have decided that pho­to­jour­nal­ism is no longer a pri­or­ity. We think this is a mistake.