Shark Angels conservation video
Eric Cheng just posted a new video from the Shark Angels, a shark protection activist group. The video shows with impressiv footage the threats that sharks face today.
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James Nachtwey on XDRTB:
Reknowed photojournalist James Nachtwey did a journey to document a rather unknown disease and returned with a documentary that is alarming. He has been working on the project on the thanks of a TED grant. Watch the trailer:
"XDRTB.org is an extraordinary effort to tell the story of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and TB through powerful photographs taken by James Nachtwey. XDR-TB, or extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis, is a new and deadly mutation of tuberculosis. Similar in creation to multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) but more extreme in its manifestation, it arises when common tuberculosis goes untreated or standard TB drugs are misused. James’ photographs represent these varying strains. Learn more about TB, MDR-TB and XDR-TB, and learn how you can take action to stop this deadly disease."
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Foresighting Color Photography
In an remarkable effort the russian photographer Prokudin-Gorskii build a camera that was able to capture three black and white images on glass plate negatives, using red, green and blue filters. He then presented these images in color in slide lectures using a light-projection system [right] involving the same three filters.
The images are now being digitalized by the library of congress for the exhibition "The empire that was Russia". For the digital process, the original tri-part glass negative is scanned with an overhead digital camera in grayscale mode. Image-editing software converts the scan of the entire plate from negative to positive form. The entire plate is then reduced to 8-bit grayscale mode. Under magnification, the quality of each image on the plate is reviewed for contrast, degree of color separation, extent of damage to the emulsion, and any other details that might affect the final color composite.
The resulting images look amazing...
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Adobe Photoshop Express released
Adobe announced a new version of Photoshop, but this time as a web application. Photoshop Express is a Flash - Flex application that allows basic editing options. It is not intended for professional users, but for the easy manipulation of images for mainstream consumers. It can directly access images on Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa and upload and manipulate images on these services, which makes the beta very appealing for users of these platforms. You can now easily upload images to facebook and edit them online without ever needing any other software. It's only 17 features, which are mainly filters intended for tuning and effects, but I think they are suitable for quick and dirty manipulations. Additionally to upload the images to other services Photoshop Express itself offers 2 GB online storage, where images can be uploaded and shared with others as albums and slideshows. An interesting side note is, that the platform is intended as a show case for Adobe's Flash/Flex framework, which Adobe is heavily trying to push out.
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Fascinating images from Gregory Colbert
Last week a friend showed me some photographes of Gregory Colbert. Since then I'm absorbing every single bit of information about his work and watching his photographs and videos for hours. The movie above is a talk of Gregory Colbert at TED conference with a 10 minute scene of his "Ashes and Snow" movie and an announcment of the Animal Copyright Foundation - aiming to collect royalties from use of wildlife in media, much as would be collected for human performers, writers, composers, etc. was in particular interested in the underwater scenes of the movie.
Just do a quick google search to find some of his outstanding images..
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