- Check out the beautiful B&W photography of Chuck Kimmerle. [Via]
- Neat “Laptopograms”: Making photos with a laptop screen.
- Heh: “Stages of a photographer.” (Beware HDR.) [Via]
- Fun, cryptic photo: “Sad Vader.”
- Here’s a terrific panorama taken inside the Sistine Chapel. [Via]
- Apparently Content-Aware Fill will not blow ladies’ clothes off.
- Here’s some deep nerdery on DNG spec updates, for those who like such things.
On the Vader image, there’s an interesting IP discussion (if a bit dusty) on one of the tangent links:
http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/?p=5472
One of the reasons I love when people post oddities is the plethora of additional links to scour.
The Sistine Chapel pano is molto coolo! The high resolution lets you zoom right in on the music desk in the minuscule singers’ balcony and read “Cantate Domino” carved there (it’s in the liturgical south wall, west of center).
Helpful tips: use the arrow keys to scroll vertically or rotate the image.
@panorama of Sistine Chapel.
This is one reason there are computers! Thank you J. for sharing this. I had dreamed this, its real.
I had long believed the restored colors would finally show a fantastic immersive moment of encounter. The art and textbooks fail to get anywhere close to what Michelangelo was setting out to do. Michelangelo (and others who helped), thank you for the pain and effort to do this.
Love the Sistine Chapel one. Little story
The guy with the snake biting his **** on the lower right of the far wall was an arch Bishop who was against Michelangelo. On complaining to the pope the AB was told “Even I can’t get you out of hell.”
I’m amazed they let them shoot in there because they have a very strict non photography rule in the Popes chapel.
Ha! That non-photography rule is honored largely in the breach; the one time I was there, I was deafened by the hundreds of tourists snapping photos simultaneously.
Similarly, the Sistine Chapel is famous for preserving the ancient prohibition against instrumental music in church; yet in one corner I was astonished to find a pipe organ, which had been donated by the builder during the reign of John Paul II.
Actually, it’s because Gizmodo’s parent company won’t turn off parental controls.