Month: July 2021

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Famed Photographer Matthew Rolston Explores a SoCal Tradition

Back in the ’80s and ’90s, a triumvirate of L.A. celeb photographers snagged most of the covers of American glossies. This celebrated trio shot key celebs, album covers, and key tour pictures: Greg Gorman, Herb Ritts, and Matthew Rolston. But after years of taking pictures Madonna, Janet Jackson, and the rest of the common suspects a number of moments, L.A. indigenous Rolston made a decision to diversify his portfolio, so to discuss. With a restless mind and unlimited thirst for lifestyle, Rolston jumped to directing, capturing music videos for Bryan Adams and Christina Aguilera, carrying out online video promos for Intercourse and the Town, and functioning on a plethora of commercials (the Gap’s popular “Khakis Swing,” Revlon, Visa, Guess, to name a few). Reinvention became a organic component of his process. Rolston’s upcoming shift was to morph into a resourceful director who took on a variety of main lodge

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Meet up with People, Make Good friends, Build Communities with Meetup

Are you often wanting for exciting points to do in Houston with individuals who share your pursuits? Introducing, Meetup, the great web-site for online and in-individual gatherings.

Why Generate a Meetup Group?

Soon after much more than a 12 months in isolation, we’re craving human conversation now additional than at any time. Meetup is a system that will allow consumers to organize get-togethers with many others in their place who delight in the exact same routines. Not only that, but Meetup teams can satisfy regionally in-individual, or on the internet. 

In Houston, there are tons of groups, like the 23,000 members of the “Houston Spot Trails & More” mountaineering group, or the 2,545 customers of “Newly One in Houston” that provide prospects to meet up with new folks in the place and study about the town. 

If you’re new to a metropolis, or just wanting to start off a team

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Monday, August 2: Property

Monday, August 2: Yard Artwork

Nicole Estaphan is on a highway excursion and the spot is inspiration: she satisfies a Salem guy getting the attractiveness in discarded scrap steel discovers Big Bling in North Adams, and fancy fences in Berkshire County.



mm. Mhm. On the pier in the park and framing the splendid ocean views of the Charlestown Navy property wind sculptures, The Eye Turning Attractiveness brought below by associates of the Navy Garden Back garden Affiliation. We started out as a group of neighbors and volunteers right here in the Navy Yard seeking to just increase our community. And we started with the objective of plantings and general public art. You may well try to remember these oversized four legged buddies that frequented the harbor walked for about 3 months last yr, the group’s very first screen these

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A Photographer’s Introduction to Gentle

What is mild? This potentially could be the most straightforward dilemma with the most elaborate answer in pictures. Gentle enables us to see, produce, and most importantly express meaning by way of our artwork. Gentle also provides us the oxygen we breathe (by means of plant photosynthesis).

I believe each photographer really should to some diploma be fascinated with light, which feels like equally science and magic.

The Physics of Gentle

Mild is electrical power. Easy adequate, ideal? But let’s dive deeper.

The precise physics definition of light-weight exists in a lot of types and about the previous century, Nobel prizes were awarded for several additions to what we simply just connect with mild. The style of power mild is is named electromagnetic radiation. Modern physics agrees that light-weight exists as photons, compact particles of light that are pure electrical power.

Whilst faculty physics might be a tiny rusty in

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Silver Goes Up. Is Film Photography Safe from This Latest Reddit Stunt?

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Film photography is cool and all, but do you even know what’s in it? Do you know it’s not vegan? How many of you know there’s gelatin in there? And did you know there’s a layer in some film that caused Fujifilm to discontinue a film in America? Well, apparently, yet another ingredient is under fire: silver. This precious metal is an integral part of film. As a result, the price of silver can affect the price of film and development. Those of us who shoot film are often pretty loyal to specific labs. But we also tend to go shopping around when the price gets too high. And while companies tell us that their pricing is stable, I’m still a bit concerned.

What’s Going On Exactly?

The subreddit r/Wallstreetsilver has been trying to find a way to increase

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Light-Field Photography Revolutionizes Imaging – IEEE Spectrum

Photos: Eric Cheng/Lytro

Single Snapshot: With light-field photography, an image can be focused
after it is taken, as shown here with one of Lytro’s “living pictures.” Just click on a part of the image you want to bring into focus.

Leonardo da Vinci sketched out tanks, helicopters, and mechanical calculators centuries before the first examples were built. Now another of his flights of imagination has finally been realized—an imaging device capable of capturing every optical aspect of the scene before it.


Lytro, a Silicon Valley start‑up, has just launched the world’s first consumer light-field camera, which shoots pictures that can be focused long after they’re captured, either on the camera itself or online. Lytro promises no more blurry subjects, and no shutter lag waiting for the camera’s lens to focus. A software update to the camera, coming soon, will even let you produce 3-D images.


Light-field technology heralds one

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