24 June 2008

Submission to Threadless.com

My first submission to threadless.com. :D
~closer

Rule #5, 'Approach the objects of your desire as close as possible' was mostly used for this design. Taking snapshots of friends and is common among lomographers and this design tries to portray the 'mischievous' fun. :)

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18 June 2008

meeting up with pammy & alexander (lomomanila)

10 June 2008

The Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold

1. Andreas Gursky: " 99 Cent II Diptychon" , 2001
£1,700,000 ($3,346,456)
Sotheby's London , February 2007
The sale of this colorful work was a milestone in the Art market, as it was not only the most expensive photography ever sold, but also almost triplicated the auction record for a contemporary photography

Gustave Le Gray: " Tree" 1855
$513,500
Sotheby's New York , October 1999
Second work by Le Gray in this list. The French photographer created a group of Works studying the effects of the light on a tree, and this work is one of the most accomplished.

Diane Arbus: " Identical twins, Roselle , New Jersey", 1967
$478,400
Sotheby's New York, April 2004
A strange and almost disturbing photo depicting two young twin sister in almost identical pose, said to inspire the terrible "ghost twins" in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining"


Edward Steichen: " The pond - moonlight", 1904
$2,928,000
Sotheby's New York , February 2006
The 41- 50.8 cm . photograph, which remembers me of Ralph Albert Blakelock's nightscapes, was previously in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, owner of another of the three copies of the work


Joseph Philibert Girault de Prangey: " 113 Athènes, Temple de Júpiter ", 1842
£500,000 ($922,488)
Christie's London , May 20th 2003
Girault de Prangey was a French draughtsman and photographer whose works are extremely valuable as they are the earliest surviving visual documents of archaeological places such as Syria or the Acropolis


Richard Prince: " Untitled (Cowboy)", 1989
$1,248,000
Christie’s New York, November 2005
Richard Prince’s Untitled (Cowboy) was previously the most expensive photograph in the world. The photograph can be seen as destroying the American cowboy myth. The cowboy is a stand-in for the artist himself, endlessly running off into the sunset. This most expensive photograph in the world creates a desire to experience rather than worry about material value of things.

Gustave Le Gray: " The Great Wave, Sete", 1857
$838,000
Sotheby's London , October 1999
Le Gray is arguably the most important French photographer of the 19th Century. This beautiful work was previously in the Jammes Collection until it was auctioned by Sotheby's


04 June 2008

Sunny 16 Rule

ok.. so i've been searching, reading about the sunny 16 rule. many webs with all the information... ALOT of information... too much!!! just too much to read.. lol.

trying to compile a shorter, 'simplier', (but probably not as much information/details) for the Sunny 16 Rule.

Aperture

An aperture is a hole or an opening through which light is admitted.

Simply, smaller the number, bigger the ‘hole’.

The usual set of numbers used in photography. (in full-stop)
1, 1.4, 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, 22, 32, 45, 64, 90, 128, etc.

In photography, the lens aperture is usually specified as an f-number. Eg. F/2.8, f/8 etc.

Shutter Speeds

Shutter speed
is the length of time a shutter is open.

The Standards values (in seconds) :
1/1000 s , 1/500 s , 1/250 s , 1/125 s , 1/60 s , 1/30 s , 1/15 s , 1/8 s , 1/4 s ,1/2 s , 1 s
Values are normally doubled.

Sunny 16 Rule

The sunny 16 rule (or, less often, the "sunny f/16 rule") is a method to estimate correct daylight exposures without using a light meter.

How to use :-

The shutter speed is set to the nearest ISO speed of the film.

Eg. Film ISO 100 = shutter speed 1/125s
Film ISO 200 = shutter speed 1/250s

Aperture used should be as below.

Sunny - f/16
Slight Overcast - f/11
Overcast - f/8
Heavy Overcast - f/5.6


So for example :-
Sunny day, film 400 :-
Should be using ~ aperture f/16 + shutter spd 1/500s.


ps. damnit.. like also alot to read ... /faint