Rafael Goldchain | Beautifully Broken

Rafael Goldchain Artist and Photography Program Coordinator at Sheridan College in Toronto has a documentary airing on TVO this Wednesday May 15 at 9PM.  

The documentary is called Beautifully Broken and deals with his,

"Fascination with identity and mortality stems from his Jewish heritage and ancestors who died in the Holocaust.  Understanding the complexity of Jewish identity is something Goldchain hopes to pass on to his son."

Adobe MAX Wrap Up

For all those that missed the Adobe MAX Conference and have a hour and twelve minutes to kill click this link to watch the video wrap up of the conference.

Highlights include new features of your favourite imaging and web software, sneak peaks of new tech coming in the future and a good health dose of Adobe goodness.

Street Photography Do's & Don'ts

DigitalRev's Do's and Don'ts of Street Photography, a funny and informative look at one of photography's greatest art forms.

Humans Of New York

This link was sent to us by Alumni Kaleigh Middelkoop it is about Humans Of New York (HONY) a site by New York street photographer Brandon Stanton.  

HONY has been attracting a huge following on Facebook with his unique and beautiful images of the colourful humans of New York.  

For those of our students who are out shooting their street photography exercise this week hopefully this will give you some inspiration.  

Tauba Auerbach's RGB Color Atlas

Artist Tauba Auerbach has printed the complete RGB colorspace in book form, the RGB Colorspace Atlas.

This is totally and utterly photo geek art, love it!!

PBS Off Book

The Students are on summer break but before they know it they will be back in class.  Luckily both the Students and the Faculty love being at school!!

So to get the Students back in that school mode and to get their creative juices flowing here is a great video from the PBS series Off Book on the The Art of Logo Design.

Off Book is a great free series of videos by PBS Digital Studios about cutting edge art, some of our favourite vids:

The Art of Film & TV Title Design
Typography
Light Painting
The Evolution of 8-Bit Art

Virtual Lighting Studio

Here is an interesting online app called Virtual Lighting Studio.  It is in the beta version so far but looks like it has some promise for those that want to test out some lighting before stepping into the studio.

Thanks to alumni Rémi Thériault for sending us this interesting website.

Fotoshop By Adobé

Thanks to Prof. Wrixon for forwarding the link to Fotoshop by Adobé by Jesse Rosten.

X-Rite Colour Challenge

Click here to take the Online Colour Challenge by x-rite, it will let you know how colour deficient or efficient you really are.

As all our students know x-rite is colour profiling system we use here in the Program from colour checkers to colour calibrators, we love the munki!!

Dear Photograph

Here is an interesting site Dear Photograph it showcases photographs of old photographs taken in the exact same place.

The images uploaded by the users are quite interesting and touching take a look.

MOVE | Rick Mereki

This great little film was made by filmmaker Rick Mereki.

Thanks to second student Jennifer Woodley for sending us this link especially as our second year students are soon getting into motion capture.

2D Photography | Rube Goldberg Machine

Here is a cool video of a Rube Goldberg machine by David Dvir and his team at 2D Photography.  Second in command at 2D Photography is Kevin Luc a Program Alumni.

This video was sent to us by another Alumni Carol-Ann McColgan.

Plushtography Lens Pillows

These are very cute, felt and fleece lens pillows from Plushtography, click the link to check them out.

feature shoot

Here is a very cool site that "features" work from up and coming photographers and established photogs, feature shoot.

This site has great images, informative article, interviews and great resources.

Daniel Milnor: Storytelling Series

Here is an inspirational video from photographer Daniel Milnor about slowing down, shooting film and telling a story with images.

For all our Students who are on break and our Grads looking for a creative outlet this video will give you some inspiration.

Billy the Kid Nabs $2.3 Million

The only known photograph of Billy the Kid sold at Brian Lebel's Old West Show & Auction for $2.3 million dollars.  The tintype photo above was taken in 1879 or early 1880.  

Want to find out how to create your own tintypes click here. Also check out some modern tintypes done by image maker Shin Sugino.  

The Lytro Camera

Here is something the Faculty and Staff in the Program are eager to test, the Lytro Light Field Camera.  Why, well the camera allows you to choose the focus after you take the picture, to find out more about the science behind the camera click here.  

Very cool, this is why we love photography it is constantly evolving.  

The Science of Image Stabilization

Thanks to Bowie for sending us this cool piece of camera gear tech, this is for the true photo geek in all of us.

Even if you are not obsessed with camera gear this is a very informative article, click here to read the full article from Camera Technica.

The Camera Store - Battle At F-Stop Ridge

The staff at The Camera Store in Calgary Alberta have created this hilarious little clip for the true photo geek in all of us.

Even though you might not be in Calgary check out The Camera Store online.  For those darkroom, film and alternative process enthusiasts this store is definitely kicking it old school too.

Creative Camera Project

The Common Camera Project is a very interesting idea started by Kevin Huynh and others from Berkeley California.  The project has sent out hundreds of cameras to individuals who take an image and then pass the cameras on to others, the person who finishes the roll sends it back to the Common Camera Project.

The film will be processed and the images posted on the Common Camera Project site.  The mission of the project is to "safely express, cleverly connect, and collectively create" what a great and innovative idea using photography.  I hope someone sends a camera our way!!