Tag: Photography

Earth and Moon, Photo of

The moon passed between Nasa’s Deep Space Climate Observatory and the Earth allowing this rare pic showing the dark side of the moon
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It looks a bit weird because the Sun is almost directly behind the camera, so there are no shadows on the crater walls. This makes the Moon look very flat. Also, the far side of the Moon doesn’t have the large dark maria (“seas”) to break up its appearance.

Dynamic range is also a challenge in a picture like this as the Moon is far less reflective than the Earth. Presenting the Earth well results in a limited range of brightness for the Moon, so it has low contrast.

DSCOVR has a monochrome camera and takes a rapid succession of images through different coloured filters (red, green, blue, perhaps some other wavelengths such as UV and IR). These are combined into a colour balanced image. (Consumer cameras also have monochrome sensors but with colour filters directly grafted to them, called a Bayer filter. Neighbouring pixels see different colours.)

This is fine for DSCOVR’s day job, observing the Earth. But here the Moon is orbiting the Earth and moving across the field of view. As a result the green channel is slightly misaligned, if you look closely there is a green fringe around the Moon.

The Detritus is the Good Stuff – Art School in the 90’s – Philosophy of Random Pics

Even so, RISD students were grounded in the visual arts, and trained to develop an eye for subject matter, color and composition, which carried over into their personal photography, said Whitney Bedford, 45, a painter in Los Angeles who graduated in 1998 who has submitted to the feed. “It was an art school, so more than our cohorts at Brown, we were the ones with the cameras,” she said. “But there wasn’t the self-awareness of today. It was about capturing the rhythm of life, not the pose.”

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“And don’t forget,” Mr. Atkatz said, “you didn’t even know what the damned picture was going to look like for like two weeks. You would snap 24 pictures and then you hope some of them were good. And then you’d get it back and there would be one or two good photos, and a bunch of junk.”

This explains why so many of the shots on the feed are either underexposed, overexposed or framed as if the photographer were blindfolded. But that is the spirit of the enterprise, as well as the era. “That detritus,” Mr. Atkatz said, “is the good stuff.”

Art School Looked Like a Lot of Fun In the ’90s
A homage to a predigital era has popped up, as a crowdsourced art project that lives, paradoxically, on Instagram.

See also – Auggie’s Photo Album – Smoke

Teenage Couple on Hudson Street, Diane Arbus, 1963

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Diane Arbus (/diːˈæn ˈɑːrbəs/; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971[2]) was an American photographer. Arbus worked to normalize marginalized groups and highlight the importance of proper representation of all people. She worked with a wide range of subjects including members of the LGBTQ+ community, strippers, carnival performers, nudists, dwarves, children, mothers, couples, elderly people, and middle-class families. She photographed her subjects in familiar settings: their homes, on the street, in the workplace, in the park. “She is noted for expanding notions of acceptable subject matter and violates canons of the appropriate distance between photographer and subject. By befriending, not objectifying her subjects, she was able to capture in her work a rare psychological intensity”. In his 2003 New York Times Magazine article, “Arbus Reconsidered,” Arthur Lubow states, “She was fascinated by people who were visibly creating their own identities—cross-dressers, nudists, sideshow performers, tattooed men, the nouveau riche, the movie-star fans—and by those who were trapped in a uniform that no longer provided any security or comfort.” Michael Kimmelman writes in his review of the exhibition Diane Arbus Revelations, “Her memorable work, which she did, on the whole, not for hire but for herself, was all about heart—a ferocious, audacious heart. It transformed the art of photography (Arbus is everywhere, for better and worse, in the work of artists today who make photographs), and it lent a fresh dignity to the forgotten and neglected people in whom she invested so much of herself.”

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