Tilt Shift Photography

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Tilt Shift Photography is a technique for capturing extreme depth of field (among other important effects) in the real world. Notice how everything in the video seems like a miniature model. Why?

Average Faces

In class, we talked about how you can emphasize the uniqueness of a face by accentuating it's deviation from some canonical average face. Face Research has a nice demo that allows you to create your own average, for example: The average male/female, white/black etc. Also note that there is an explanation of the process that they use to create the average faces linked to the page, it's worth a read. Think about why these average faces are pleasing or interesting...

High Dynamic Range Images (HDRI)

High Dynamic Range Images allow us to capture a virtually unlimited range of light intensities (from very dark to very bright) in a single image. This requires more than 8 bits of precision for each color channel, typically 16-32 bits per channel. We can create HDR images of real life by taking multiple images with different exposures and combining them. This can be done in Photoshop using File-Automate-Merge to HDR. Give it a try! Since we can't actually display HDR images on a computer monitor, we have to "tone map" it so that the aspects of the image that we are interested in are visible. HDR images are essential for realistic computer generated images mixed with live action. In the near future, HDR photography will be common place.

Color Theory

Color Theory check it out! You should know this.

Audiofile

Thru You is a very interesting project that produces original break-beat songs using entirely user-generated content from You Tube. Check out I M New as a start.

Consider the complexity, organization, and musical talent required to compose music this way. How do you think it was done? What tools were used. Do you think the song could have been composed in video editing software directly? Seems like they may have used Ableton Live or even an old school sp12, with the video produced after the fact...

via Boing Boing Gadgets