Photography: Iron Man HUDs

"Heads Up." by Stephen Criscolo

"An Iron Man-inspired photo series where I experimented in combining glamour portraiture with Sci-Fi conceptualism in order to create a Heads-Up-Display for each color of the rainbow. The virtual interfaces were not constructed randomly. Each suit display was designed uniquely to fit that suit’s specific function."

1.  Monarch (Red) - Interstellar Flight 
2.  Paladin (Orange) - Heavy Weapons 
3.  Vulcan (Yellow) - HazMat 
4.  Jackal (Green) - Ground Combat 
5.  Mark 9 (Blue) - Air Combat
6.  Genie (Violet) - Stealth 
7.  Gemini (Pink) - Neural Link Prototype 

Photography: Ghosts in the Machine

"Ghosts in the Machine" by Mark Crummett

A photo series featuring miniature figures inside electronics.

"The 'ghosts' in these machines are just folks, dwarfed by the technology that pervades their lives. Engaged in enigmatic activities in an out-of-scale, high tech landscape, workers toil on industrial-scale electronic components or move through an out-sized industrial/technical environment."

Photography: Airports

Aerial Airports by New York-based photographer Jeffrey Milstein

Tutorial: Bullet Time Effects

"EPIC Matrix effect w/ a ceiling fan & 1 GoPro" by Mark Rober

NASA engineer Mark Rober has created this tutorial video demonstrating how to create the famed slow motion bullet time effects from The Matrix films using only a cheap ceiling fan and a GoPro camera. You can now get high end movie effects on a shoe string budget... so long as the action can be contained within the diameter of a ceiling fan's blades.  I'm holding out hope that someone will respond to the video with a set-up involving a slightly more powerful motor capable of rotating a camera arm large enough to encompass a full human body.

Photography: Tilt-Shift

"Tilt Shift" by New York City photographer Richard Silver

Richard Silver is a passionate traveler, and his latest project is photographing some of the world’s most famous locations and turning them into miniature scenes. Rather than shoot traditional photos, he uses techniques such as tilt shift, HDR, panorama, and time-slice in order to capture the world in eye-catching ways. Last year, he released a series of time-slice photos of New York skyscrappers, which showed day turning into night in single photos.

“People always ask me, How do I make people look so small or why do I make people look so small? Simple, we are!” Thus, his goal with the project is to “give the viewer a new way of seeing themselves and their place in the world.”

Photography: George Christakis

The Slightly Surreal Photography of George Christakis

Greek photographer George Christakis captures and creates conceptual photos with a surreal quality to them.  Looking at them, I think they'd make wonderful writing prompts for a writer's group.

"I create images using digital techniques. Some are a bit surreal, some conceptual, some just landscapes with a bit of craziness. Music is a great source of inspiration to me."

Photography: Dark Lens

"Dark Lens" by French photographer Cédric Delsaux

Delsaux seamlessly integrates Star Wars characters and vehicles into real world photographs of urban and industrial landscapes.

Photography: Solar Corona

Solar Corona photographed by Miloslav Druckmüller during a total solar eclipse.

Photography: Things Come Apart

Bicycle, 1980s; Raleigh; Component count: 893.

"Things Come Apart" 50 Disassembled Objects by Todd McLellan

Photography: Dark Places

"A Series of Dark Places" by Aaron Groen

Photography: Cosmic Love

"Cosmic Love" by Phillip Schumacher

Photography: Zero Gravity

"Zero Gravity" by Nikolay Tikhomirov

  

Lecture: How to Use a Light Meter

"A Tale of Two Meters" by Mark Vargo

Cinematographer Mark Vargo demonstrates the differences between Incident Metering and Reflected Metering and explains how using a light meter outdoors will take your photography to the next level.   Probably not germaine to the audience of this blog, but interesting, nonetheless.

Photography: The Unseen Seen

"The Unseen Seen" by Austrian photographer Reiner Riedler

The Unseen Seen is a series of macro photos of the original rolls of film from the The Deutsche Kinemathek archive, which is home over thirteen thousand film titles.

"The concept is to confront the viewer with the image of an object (filmrolls) and in doing so recall images from the spectator’s memory. By reading the movie title, I want to generate emotions and images from our memory.

Through the act of collecting and selecting the film rolls I noticed analogies between the colour and the shape of the rolls, and the content of the movies.

Besides the nostalgic connotation concerning the movie itself, there is the nostalgia concerned with the loss of a tradition. This project also deals with this loss - „the dying of film."

Kickstarter: Videre Pinhole Kit

The Videre by Kelly Angood

This Kickstarter project promises to produce a do-it-yourself cardboard medium format cameras.  The final assembled sets are fairly attractive, and the results aren't too shaby.  In an age of high-definition cellphone cameras in everyone's pockets, The Videre's goal is to return a sense of a craftsmanship to low budget photography.

"The Videre works without a lens, instead using a simple pinhole to take photographs onto medium format film. I have translated my original design into a beautiful and hardwearing do-it-yourself kit so that everyone can make their own Videre camera and learn about pinhole photography in style. 

The kit will be printed and die-cut onto thick recycled card and supplied with easy to follow instructions and a spare medium format spool. I also plan to produce a short instructional video, which will be viewable online alongside a virtual gallery space where pinhole photographs that have been taken with the camera can be submitted."

Photography: Day to Night

"Day to Night" by Stephen Wilkes
Exhibited Sept 8 - Oct 29, 2012 at ClampArt Gallery in New York

Wilkes took hundreds of photographs over the span of a day (some shots took up to 15 hours), carefully adjusting the shutter to allow for proper exposure as the sun set. To create these images, Wilkes blends about 50 images into one incredible large-format panoramic. “Day to Night embodies a combination of my favorite things to photograph; people on the street melded with epic cityscapes, and the fleeting moments throughout the day and night,” says Wilkes.

Photography: Sightseeing Tunnel

"Sightseeing Tunnel" by German photographer Jakob Wagner

Jakob Wagner takes us on a colorful journey through the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel in Shanghai, China. In the popular tourist attraction, which involves a 5-minute tunnel ride in an automated car, visitors encounter surreal and otherworldly visual and audio effects. When describing the experience, Sales Director Zhang Bin says, “The story is about going from space into the core of the Earth and out again.”

Photography: PRIMARY

"PRIMARY - Experimento" by Singapore artist Alfonso Bonilla

"This is my first series of abstract photo experimentation and digital art, just feel free to get your own interpretation."

Photography: Astronomy

"Astronomy" by New Jersey photographer Taylor Allen

"An ongoing personal project exploring the human form and the organic nature of deep space formations."

Photography: Roofer’s Point of View

"Roofer's Point of View"

Batshit crazy or just have a death wish? Then, boy, do I have a hobby for you! A new generation of young Russian photographers have a different and unexpected way of looking at a city. In ‘Roofer’s Point of View’ we follow Vadim Mahorov and Vitaliy Yakhnenko on their exciting journey to terrifying heights, capturing photos of the city from places people normally avoid.