Now In Progress: Polaroid Week 2008
Posted Monday, April 21, 2008
Over on Flickr, 'Roid Week 2008 has begun. It's a five-day celebration of Polaroid instant photography -- and, for those of us who have become addicted, a sad mourning for the format's apparent demise. (Polaroid has announced that it will stop making instant films over the next next year.)
Becoming smitten by low-fidelity "instant" photography in a digital age is a weird thing: you buy a $4 Polaroid Spectra at a local thrift shop, and find an expired pack of film on eBay (expired film often produces odd and unpredictable color shifts, as shown here).
Then you scan the result with a $500 scanner, touch up the dust specks with Adobe Photoshop CS3, and post the result using a $3000 computer.
Hey -- no one ever said photography had to make financial sense.
Happy 'Roid Week!
Labels: photography
Flickr Does Video (and iLife '08 Helps)
Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Originally uploaded by jimheid
What I'll add here is the iLife angle: after shooting this clip (with an aged Canon S50 point-and-shoot digital camera), I imported it into iPhoto.
Next, I switched to iMovie '08 and started a new project. I used the Event browser in iMovie '08 to add this movie to the project. Next, I used iMovie's Audio Adjustments panel to normalize the audio, boosting its volume.
Finally, I added a couple of titles. I exported the movie (Share > Export Movie), then uploaded it to Flickr.
Memo to Apple: I'm ready for an iMovie '08 update that allows for direct uploading to Flickr.
Speaking of Flickr and iLife: I'll be talking about both in San Francisco this Friday in a talk at the main Apple Store on Stockton Street. The fun starts at 6 pm -- come and join!
