Xray

This is an xray of my elbow.  I broke it in 2000 playing lacrosse, but it's pretty much good as new.  I just think it's a cool picture.

Woodstock poster artist

Last Thursday I went to the International Poster Gallery, on Newbury Street in Boston.  It's such a cool place for anyone into graphic design.  It's filled with posters and vintage graphics from Art Deco, to Soviet, to Travel.

They invited the artist who designed the iconic Woodstock poster to talk a bit about it's creation.  He also designed a 40th anniversary tribute poster that was for sale.  One detail I found interesting: because the venue and band list wasn't set until close to the event, they organizers printed the poster without the black plate (text) first.  They added it later once the information set.

Old Google

...And other past versions of sites. Although the website is hard to navigate, Archive.org catalogs all the incarnations of websites. The "WayBack Machine" lets you plug in a URL and returns results with dates of older versions.  So much for the ephemeral state of the Internet!

1998 Google

Mail Project

After moving twice since I acquired this "junk," I finally found time to take some photographs.

I worked at the New England Journal of Medicine, and sorted some mail while I was there - tons of crazy places of origins all over the world.  The patterns of stamps and rips and ink I thought looked neat.  The pieces of mail seemed to tell their journey through their roughed up packaging.

Let me know what you think.

Open publication - Free publishing - More photography

DNA art

I saw a little ad at the back of WiredMagazine (June 2009) for this art.  Pretty cool idea to take something unique and display it in a high end way.  The idea comes from two guys - a designer and a biotech guy.

dna11.com

More Tilt Shift

The Canon 24mm  TS-E is awesome.  It's a bit different from using a view camera; takes a little getting used to the knobs and controlling the axes (took some brainpower to realize I needed to use the tripod head as a rear standard, not the lens).

Part of the the fun / trouble, is choosing between getting the lines vertical, or using the low depth of field (f/3.5) and miniaturizing things.  For the image with the statue, I took the image "out-of-whack," then corrected the lines in photoshop to try and achieve both effects.

Another cool use is to merge photos.  The image below of the door is actually three separate exposures - I simply shifted the lens, left, center, right.  In photoshop, I chose File > Automate > Photomerge - then followed the dialog box.  There's an article on this in the July/August Picture Magazine

New Website

Finished my website update last Friday. Trying to keep it simple and clean is so tough.  I used the Apple website, and a few other photographers websites as guides.  Let me know any feedback about appearance or ergonomics - codygantz.com