From maximorgana
King of the Jungle Gym. For more in a great series on legs and feet, check out maximorgana’s archive this month. Gorgeous work.
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Bokeh: “a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field.” Bokeh was derived, probably within the past decade, from the Japanese term boke (ぼけ), meaning “blurred” or “fuzzy”. With a telephoto lens or a good f/2.0 or 2.8 prime lens you can achieve a great shallow depth of field. But the quality of the resulting bokeh depends on a couple of other factors: the available light, your composition and choice of colors, and most of all, the “spherical abberation” of your lens and the shape—polygonal or closer to circular—of your aperture. Not that enormous octagonal blots are necessarily ugly—it’s all in the eye of the beholder. I’m partial to entirely abstract pics like esko’s above, where shooting directly into lights produces big geometric, multicolored bokeh. Especially in the holiday season.
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Whether at work or play, Fotolog members and their subjects seem to enjoy a good climb.
It was kind of spooky: right in the middle of researching what great new photography books would be at the top of my list for this holiday season, I stumbled across the above post, on cbonney’s page. Christopher, a longtime Fotolog member and excellent photographer, had just self-published his own book of 65 photos from Martha’s Vineyard, the storied island getaway off the Massachusetts coast. Chris created Vineyard Impressions on the very cool site blurb.com, and you can see from this book preview that his volume looks really fantastic.
So that got me thinking: how many other Fotolog members are closet photo-book authors too? A quick search produced a quick answer: a good handful, probably more! Turns out at least 7 other members have recently put together their own photo books on Blurb, showing off their work to great effect, and hopefully selling a few copies to the photo-loving public. Here’s a brief rundown of the books I found mentioned on Fotolog. Let me know if you find any more. Great work everyone!
Jorb’s first book, titled Momenten, chronicles his time spent on sojourns in South America in 2003-04.
Roll Out the Red Carpet LONDON, by red_carpet, aka independent press photographer Caroline Bonarde Ucci, brings you right up to the edge of some of the flashiest celebrity events. “The pictures were taken from the crowd,” Caroline writes, “therefore there is a different depth than those pictures done by paparazzi and press photographers.” More Books Read More »
Pesterfran’s photo today of a couple of donkeys (?) seemingly devoted to each other jump-started the memory banks and got me searching for all the other great shots of kids or kittens or just plain cute pairs who look like they might be Best Friends Forever. Happy to report, there’s no shortage of them on Fotolog.
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So much digital photomanipulation out there can be garish, heavyhanded, or just plain boring. Which makes it even more exciting when you come across someone creative and discerning like nou, who has recently been experimenting with filters and textures to wonderful effect. Her faux-vintage and distressed portraits and landscapes are finely realized, pleasingly restrained, and gorgeously poetic.
Well, the people have chosen. Last night at 11pm EST, as polls closed in the West, American news organizations announced that Barack Hussein Obama had been elected the 44th President of the United States. Pandemonium erupted across the country, and across the globe, from Chicago to San Francisco to St. Louis to Miami to Washington, D.C. to London, Berlin, Sydney, Rio, New Delhi, and Kogelo, Kenya. Today, Fotolog members are posting pictures of the incredible headlines of their hometown newspapers that are recording this historic moment. Here are a handful. You can post your own at the Fotolog page uselection2008. And you can see hundreds of front page scans at Newseum.org.
Ghouls & goblins & witches & warlocks & princesses & firemen & black cats & devils & foxes & cowboys & smiles & candy & smiles. Happy Halloween from Fotologland!
Bubble gum, almost accidentally invented by a young accountant named Walter E. Diemer at the Fleer Company, in Philadelphia, turns 80 years old this December. The small pink chunks of goo became an instant hit, and Fleer sold over a million and a half dollars worth of bubble gum in the first year. That was at less than 1¢ a piece! Sadly, Diemer never patented his invention. As you can see, Fotolog lovers love their bubble gum too. Happy early birthday Dubble Bubble!
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The Empire Strikes Box? Sorry, sometimes the cheesiest choice is best. That’s one fantastic Darth Vader lair, Ishmael, and one great photo linearclassifier!
One of the most delightful, and important, things Fotolog lets us do is share our local cultures with the world. For several years now, acravo98 has been documenting the lives and work of the fishermen and women in his native vila of Torreira, Portugal. From launching the moliceiro Maria de Fatima in choppy surf, to hauling in the day’s nets full of sardines or mackerel, to waiting onshore endless hours for the barco’s return, acravo keenly captures the arduous, sun-baked reality of this slowly dwindling but still vibrant merchant class. Outside of the occasional book or magazine profile on a subject like this, there aren’t many other places where you can enjoy such unfiltered, lyrical photo-reporting. And thanks to the three Fotolog pages acravo has maintained over the years—acravo98, xavega, and poemas_xavega—we can follow the seasonal eddies of these spartan, seafaring lives in near daily detail. A short poem that acravo has posted a few times perfectly illuminates the mixed emotions his full body of work conveys:
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And speaking of Canada, here’s some spectacular backyard trompe-l’oeil perspectivey goodness from a couple of Autumns ago by Greater Toronto’s own spinlab.
October 12 is Thanksgiving Day in Canada, although it’s always celebrated on the second Monday in October (tomorrow). Many Canucks consider the whole weekend one long feast. Happy Thanksgiving Canada!
Please join me in welcoming Bruno Belcastro—you know him better as argen—as a contributor to The Daily F’log! Bruno is a longtime member from the Recoleta barrio of Buenos Aires, and well-versed in all things Fotolog. We’re delighted to have him on board. —along Por favor, únanse a mí, para darle la bienvenida a Bruno Belcastro—probablemente lo conozcan mejor como argen—como colaborador del Daily F’log! Bruno es un antiguo miembro del barrio de Recoleta, Buenos Aires, y experto en todo lo relacionado a Fotolog. Estamos encantados de tenerlo a bordo. —along Si todavía no lo has notado día a día, Fotolog es enorme en Argentina: con cerca de 4,5 millones de miembros, es la red social número dos en el país (luego de Blogger). No es una sorpresa que muchos de estos miembros se identifiquen con Fotolog y con amigos que han hecho en el sitio. Jóvenes Argentinos Fotologgers, particularmente adolescentes, desarrollaron una especie de estilo –usando ropa colorida y hasta peinados coloridos- se han convertido en un fenómeno subcultural: ellos son “Los Floggers”. Algunas personas, tanto jóvenes como adultos, critican la forma en que ellos se visten (especialmente los hombres jóvenes), pero muchos otros solo piensan que está bien.
A comienzos de este año, el miembro cumbio organizó un encuentro de Floggers en el shopping Abasto, en Buenos Aires. El Abasto es ahora su lugar no oficial de reunión. Más Bailemos Read More »
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