Category: image tools
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Free Muybridgizer app from Tate and iTunes
Tate Britain, partnered with iTunes, is offering a free app that allows the user to create images inspired by Eadweard Muybridge. The app, which was launched in conjunction with the Tate exhibition Muybridge at Tate Britain (8 September 2010–16 January 2011), “Muybridge-izes” photos by placing a succession of images into grids and sepia tones. [Note:…
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Uffizi masterpieces in high resolution
An Italian company, Haltadefinizione, has created what they call “real high resolution” reproductions of six famous paintings from the Florentine museum. If you’re wondering just how high resolution these are, the company photographed the six paintings at 3 to 20 billion pixels (yes, billion). However, while their tagline reads “If you can’t come to them,…
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Explaining and exploring photographic processes
If students are having a hard time distinguishing their autochrome from their photogram, here are three fantastic on-line resources that offer definitions and examples of photographic processes: Historic Photographs, from the British Library, is an on-line gallery tour of photography “in its formative years.” Exploring Photography, from the Victoria & Albert Museum, has a series…