http://www.macyphotography.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:44:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two great video interviews with photographer Gregory Crewdson. Incredible narratives and elaborate productions. http://www.macyphotography.com/blog/2008/07/gregory-crewdson-on-creating-his-images/ Very cool interior work. A lot of it Asian with a distinctly modern flair that is right in line with my tastes. http://www.richardpowers.co.uk/ via materialicio.us http://www.macyphotography.com/blog/2008/07/interiors-of-richard-powers/ Ah, the magic of photoshop – you can't believe everything you see. Sure, we expect stuff like Maxim and GQ to be heavily photoshopped, but you'd be surprised what else gets doctored. Here a very good run down of the history of 'retouching' that dates way back before the days ... http://www.macyphotography.com/blog/2008/07/dont-believe-everything-you-see/ After a very long creative drought I feel inspired again. A large brush fire 40 miles to the west has provided some impressive late days skies. A few quick, but successful snaps and I feel re-energized. Sometimes it just takes working through the dry spots, going through your routine. You ... http://www.macyphotography.com/blog/2008/06/simple-inspiration/ When I first say this picture of this (above) I was super excited. I miss the days of shooting twinlens stuff. What could be better, a twin lens digital camera from Rollei. Complete with popup waist level finder and real 'crank action'. Awesome, right? Well, then I started to read ... http://www.macyphotography.com/blog/2008/06/rolleiflex-minidigi/ Despite not adding any new images to my Alamy account in well over a year (maybe two, yikes), I have managed to get several sales over the last six month. Twice for the same image. But I've also realized that Alamy migrated to a new keyword / description system sometime ... http://www.macyphotography.com/blog/2008/06/alamy-keywords-descriptions-and-sales/