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!
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!
