resistance to persistence

Make your images into polaroids

Poladroid makes your images look like desaturated polaroids. If you’ve got some fond memories of the now defunct polaroid cameras, download poladroid for your mac and turn digital pics into something that feels old and familiar.

There’s a photo exhibit going on at Toronto’s Steam Whistle Art Gallery (near Rogers Centre). Claiming some of the best action sports photography, I think it would be worthwhile to check it out. The website is pretty empty on details, but hopefully the show has some good work. It’s only on until July 30th, so get there before it’s gone.

http://www.actionsportsart.com/about.html

i’ve been checking out a lot of inspring photographers lately since i haven’t had much time to actually do any shooting. jill greenberg (manipulator.com) has a very specific look and i really like it. i’m going to try to shoot some work like this. lighting isn’t cheap, so i might have to be very creative instead. check out some of jill’s great work. you’ve likely seen some of her commercial work already.

jason lee, shot by jill greenberg.

A cool way to view your Flickr photos

I came across an interesting Flickr viewer today. Airtight Interactive has created a Flickr TiltViewer. You can spin the plane of photos around, click an image to zoom and view it, move them around. It’s brings a 3D dimension to a 2D world of photography.

Try it out… view my Flickr portfolio in the Tilt Viewer

Control with the Mouse:
* Click images to zoom-in, click again to zoom-out.
* Click the background to zoom-out.
* Click the ‘reload’ button (below the image grid) to load a new set of images.
* Click the ‘flip’ button (bottom-right of a zoomed-in image) to see image details.

Hack the URL to view your own images if you want to try it out.

I went to Photojunkie’s exhibit opening at Solferino’s this evening. This exhibit is 24 1′x1′ photographs printed on canvas. The canvas creates a very nice painted appearance to some of the photos. All the photos are for sale, so definitely drop in for a look if you want to own a piece of the Photojunkie before he gets even more popular than he already is. The show is on until the end of July.

Additional photos from the opening are here.

Adobe’s Video Workshop

I stumbled upon a priceless tutorial resource last week. Adobe has a video training site for all of their products with flash video tutorials. I watched a couple Photoshop videos and they look very well done. There are tutorials for the Creative Suite of products {Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, etc} .

Also, another spot I’ve watched some great Photoshop tutorials from is Radiant Vista. I’ve learned a great deal from watching tutorials at this site. They also have podcasts and critiques.

I found the Adobe site when I was researching about Lightroom features. I also found Chris Orwig’s Lightroom In Focus site which has a few videos of Lightroom features and shows some great tools for photographe

contact 2007 - toronto subway

My photos made it in as part of the Contact Photography Festival. As part of the Contact Photography Festival, they show the photos from one Toronto photographer each day. The photos were shown on the Toronto subway on Thursday, May 31. I took a ride for one stop on the subway so I could get these photos as proof.

See all the photos here…

eyes open on the train

I’m really excited today. My photos made it in as part of the Contact Photography Festival. ONESTOP Toronto controls the LCD information display screens on the Toronto subway platforms. As part of the Contact Photography Festival, they show the photos from one Toronto photographer each day.

If you’re riding the Toronto subway on Thursday, May 31 look up at the screens on the platform…you might catch my photos. And if you’ve got a camera or a cameraphone, take a photo of them please and send it to me.

Here’s a glimpse at the photos you might see…