Give me a break, people get a clue!

Give me a break, this is a fine image not really a digital manipulation... people think that photography is reality (it has never being). The cleanup in the image below could have been made in a darkroom 60 years ago (will take more work but not a technical challenge). I personally do not like "photographers" that need to do this extreme cropping to get an interesting image (the original image is at best a bad snapshot).

Disqualified World Press Photo before and after: Photographer defends 'retouching' (update Thursday.

www.amateurphotographer.co.uk

A photographer has today defended his digital manipulation of an image that led to his disqualification from the World Press Photo competition.Picture credit: Stepan Rudik

Some Tear Sheets

Browsing the Allure Magazine saw some cool images

Cool Play the Weir

The Weir

January 23 - February 21, 2010

written by Conor McPherson
directed by Artistic Director Rick Lombardo

Last Night I went to the pre-view of the new play at the San Jose Rep, The Weir. The tempo of the play goes up and down and it may be one story too long but the actors do make you fill like you where inside a Irish Pub listening to some locals shoot the breeze. Very entertaining.

Here is a description of the plot:
Valerie has moved from the city of Dublin to rural Ireland. Her real estate agent, Finbar, brings her into a pub where a group of lonely souls seek refuge from the bluster of the outside world. By telling stories, they create a haunting and poetic sense of family to break the silence of their isolation. When they discover Valerie has moved into a house considered “haunted,” the tales of the supernatural begin. Small mysteries evolve into eerie astonishments as the ghostly storytelling soars into liberating confessions of love, loss and loneliness. Half-hidden wounds are revealed throughout an evening of drink and ego-driven rivalry for Valerie’s attention, bringing these drinking buddies together in unexpected and deeply felt ways.

Test Post – using Windows Live Writer

Today I am planning the next photo trip to Barcelona, Bilbao, and Madrid.  It should be a great opportunity for picture taking.

Color Magazine Finaly has a Website

A very good 6 issue old Color Photography magazine finaly has a website, http://www.color-mag.com/. The website is minimalistic but it have some articles and a list of all the issues. I will use it to find out when the new issue is out. This week I purchase issue 6 and it is very nice.

Coffee Overdose

Today I am hanging out at the Philz Coffee in Downtown San Jose. I came here for the first time last week and their specialty "drip coffee" (Very similar to Puertorican cafe colao) and found the coffee with cream to be to high in caffeine. Today I try there decaf and it is a lot better (I think it has similar caffeine as regular coffee on a normal coffee shop). Took this picture today and it definitely tells the story... caffeine overdose!

cool photoproject

project by nyc photographer

Playing with Mix Media

I continue the play with mix media. Added the use of natural found materials (in this case pollen) and hot glue with the previously use oil, ink on canvas. Here is the first work using this technique.

Great old stereo image in a gif animation

This are very cool animated images made from stereo photographs from 1900 Japan

San Jose Glass Artist

Working with glass and making this kind of art is supper hard. I like his work with the mexican figures. Check out the video.

http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=9188