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Talking About Still Photography?
Does Facebook’s purchase of Instagram weigh up? Not according to the head of photography at the Guardian, these final comments though are interesting.
The $1bn is buying Facebook another chunk of the world’s visual memory. Facebook is making sure all those images don’t end up on Flickr or in some other storage cloud.
But why the boom in making still images? Why are people still taking pictures and not shooting video?
Well have you tried video? It looks easy enough until you try editing it. If it’s bad it’s not just a bit of a joke it’s a boring joke. With a still photograph processed through a toning app one can produce a finished and pleasing piece of work. And don’t underestimate the growth of photography as a note-taking medium, not just for documenting family life, but as a useful tool for all sorts of professionals from doctors to plumbers to record and communicate. All those 1,000 words taken care of by the click of a shutter.
Why do you take pictures?
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Flickr is still pretty wonderful. But it’s lovely in the same way a box of old photos you’ve stashed under the bed is. It’s an archive of nostalgia that you love dearly, on the rare occasion you stumble across it. You pull them out, and hold them up to the light, and remember a time when you were younger, and the Web was a more optimistic place, and it really was almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.
And then you close the box.
And you click over to Facebook, to see what’s new.
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God Bless America
Some fantastic photography here from a group on flickr, who specialise in the zeitgeist of the U.S, of A.
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New Feature on Flickr?
Check out this new feature own flickr? WTF?
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Flickr has begun rolling out its new features, here is one for your contacts page. Great for panoramic photographs!
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Self Promotion Sunday
Yes folks it’s the last Sunday of the Month, so here we go.
In no particular order.
- Static online photo-gallery [updated sporadically]
- flickr [updated sporadically]
- lo-res daily [updated daily]
- mlkshk, very P.O.M.O*., for those images I like but don’t know what to do with?
- facing north a long term project [updated sporadically]
- mixel I have a mixed account and am sharing the results on tumblr as well
coming soon,diptych delight** 2 k worth of words, a new idea that I will tinker with on and off- my official work presence on tumblr, s2z-pic.tumblr.com
*P.O.M.O.= Post-modern, google it.
** A working title, this may change some time in the near future?
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ZOMG!! Flickr is down.
For the first time in an eternity!
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