- Spooky: Dust storm in Australia on the Big Picture. (Cue up The Fixx…) Make sure to check out the interesting crossfades (e.g. image 4) that juxtapose dust-occluded & normal views of their subjects. [Via]
- Great plane-from-above photo (from a blimp over LaGuardia). More images are in the rest of the post.
- Lovely recycled camera lens wrist cuffs. [Via]
- New Strata tool lets you make 3D models using just a camera. Includes Photoshop plug-in for further tweaks.
- President Roboto: Remix of 130 State Department Flickr photos showing the unvarying Obama smile. [Via]
- Focalware, a cool iPhone app to assist in outdoor photography, has been updated to v2.0.
“President Roboto: Remix of 130 State Department Flickr photos showing the unvarying Obama smile. [Via]”
Photo alignment at its very best! This is an example of technology being used to demonstrate dramatically a fact that would otherwise be difficult for most people to perceive.
I assume the cross fades were done using Flash and a timed transparency mask. Nice. I’d like to know how to do that with a slider that one could drag across the image — one one side the top image and on the other slide the bottom image.