Poladroid is something to ease the hearts of Polaroid fans, ever since the tragic announcement that their instant film is no longer being manufactured. It is a program for Macs and Windows, so everyone can get in on the fun.
All you have to do after you download is drag your digital picture file on top of the “Polaroid camera” that appears on your desktop, wait for it to “develop”, and you could either wait for it slowly, or to increase “developing” speed, shake the image until the red “x” appears and it’s done.
Also, Flickr members should check out the group dedicated to this program and browse what others are doing with their digital images in Poladroid.
i noticed this a couple of days ago in usa today. it was only a matter of time before someone pointed the lens of the new high shutter speed cameras at lightning. the results are pretty fantastic, literally capturing the speed of light.
so while searching for the what types of cameras were used, i came across a couple of sites that were really cool. ztresearch has some pretty cool videos of actual lightning, while vision research has a great video gallery with work they have done with the Phantom HD camera. enjoy and i’ll see if i can dig up some more.
Fire (Jimmy Edgar Remix) from Erik West on Vimeo.
I’m fully embracing my (relatively new) obsession with both tilt shift photography and music videos, and I’ve just stumbled across a really delightful combination of the two (via BoingBoing): Here’s a lovely tilt-shift music video for the band Codebreaker, featuring vocalist Kathy Diamond. The piece was shot, directed, and edited by Erik West, who says, “None of the snow in this piece is simulated. I went out and show on the snowiest days of winter. The last scenes in the video were shot during a blizzard. This was shot on a Canon Powershot SD630 Point & Shoot. Additional footage was shot on a Sony EX1 by Jeff Thomas. Posted using Final Cut, Photoshop, Motion and Color.” (via Aaron Wahle via Matt Kirsch)
