Jeremy’s Bing photo features in TV ad

This TV ad for Bing implies vampires are fans Amnesiafish Jeremy’s photo contest winning lightning shot.

Nice one, Jeremy! You’re a big hit with the undead.

@iclazie

Check out Bing today

Jeremy’s winning photo is the face of Bing today. Congratulations, Mr Somers!

Check it out today only: www.bing.com

Read more about how it got here: http://amnesiablog.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/vote-for-jeremys-photo-in-the-bing-summer-travel-photo-contest/

@iclazie

Vote for Jeremy’s photo in the Bing Summer Travel Photo Contest

UPDATE: He won!!! Watch for his photo on Bing on August 3rd. Nice one…

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Man of many talents, jack of all trades, our very own Captain Creative, Jeremy is in the running to win a Bing home page photo contest.

Help him get there by voting and see this amazing lightning shot grace the front of Bing.

http://apps.facebook.com/bing_photo_contest/top_photos?_fb_q=1

Do it now!!! :-)

@iclazie

Bodysurf.com.au – niche photo exhibition

These photos submitted by visitors to bodysurf.com.au capture the excitement, beauty and simple pleasure of going for a bash in the waves.

Love it. @iclazie

That tourist snap you don’t need to take

Have you ever stood in the exact spot that millions have stood before taking the exact photo of the exact view that millions have taken before I wondered “why am I doing this?”

I have taken this shot of the Sydney Harbour Bridge…

…and this shot of the Taj Mahal…

…but last year I specifically did not take this shot of Hong Kong from the Peak because I realised I could just Google it later.

Does this make me lazy or just practical? :-)

The images above were grabbed from Flickr searches and overlaid in Photoshop using overlay and screen blend modes.

Great view of Sydney Harbour from Mosman

Shot this panorama on the weekend from the Gunner’s Barracks in Mosman. Looks south east across to Rose Bay. Downtown Sydney can be seen on the right. A very enjoyable part of the world to sail in, I must say. :-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22187126@N02/3603429714/sizes/l/

Taken from here:

http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=&ie=UTF8&ll=-33.843901,151.266632&spn=0.049188,0.076904&z=14

30 Stunning Sailing Photos from Around the World

The most visually appealing sport in the world? Thanks to this great post from The Big Picture now you can be the judge…

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/sailing_around_the_world.html

Interesting photography technique – mini planets

Here’s a collection of cool pics…

…and a bunch more here on Flickr…

…along with this explanation of how they’re done:

vega – no secret, as jung said, it is a re-projection of an full 360° equirectangular pano, i use a photoshop plugin called flexify to do the trick, although there are many other ways, helmut dersch’s pano-tools, etc -

this original composite pano was stitched from 8 10.5mm FF fisheye shots, but a non fisheye could have been used as well…

and a simple tutorial here – www.dirkpaessler.com/blog/index.php/photographers-tools/2… although this does not give quite the same results as starting with a full equirectangular image…

sam

Thanks to Ryan at Amnesia for putting me on to this.