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High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography

Taylor — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:17:44 +0000

I love playing with Adobe Photoshop. Learning how to manipulate and design text, photos, and other images is something I remain dedicated to. I wanted to highlight a really cool artform that is on the rise: HDR, which is essentially the merging of multiple exposures to achieve incredible intensity, vibrance, contrast, and tone. I won’t go into the details, aside from linking to the wiki. I just want you all to see how cool the HDR process is, and what it can accomplish. One of my favorite design websites, Abduzeedo, has a great post called “20 Beautiful HDR Pictures,” which will highlight for you exactly what HDR can look like. Below are just a few examples from that post. Enjoy.

Kitsune Noir. You should go.

Taylor — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:56:53 +0000

I was just going to add Kitsune Noir to my blogroll, but then I accidentally (not so much, actually) spent a million hours on the site, so now we’re writing a postie. +KN is one of the coolest websites/blogs I’ve been to in a long time. I first visited the site when I was browsing the internet for cool desktop wallpapers, which I have been known to do every now and then. The site is run by a fella named Bobby Solomon. He likes both Japanese and French culture, so he came up with “Kitsune” (Japanese for fox) “Noir” (French for black) as a rad website name. You have to admit, it is a pretty cool name. Anyway, Bobby’s site is a rising star in the design world. Everything on +KN is pretty organized – it’s the content that is so interesting. My favorite elements are of course The Desktop Wallpaper Project (DWP), which features talented artists and designers from all over the world – Solomon recruits these people to submit original art, and then posts it with his comments and downloadables (including many screen sizes for computers, game consoles, and the iPhone!). The other part of the site I love is his mixtapes – Bobby makes these creatively themed mixtapes, complete with original front/back cover art.

In any case, you should check out Kitsune Noir. As I love art, music, film, and design (in varying amounts), I really dig it. Great work, Bobby!

From the Home Collection

Taylor — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 00:28:00 +0000

I have indeed been busy lately, but have found the time to continue doing random things like sketch. Sketching is like writing…it’s me putting ideas out on a page. Sometimes writing doesn’t do it for me, and I suppose I put writing up on a pedestal most of the time. My expectations are almost always high.

It’s also the world cup. Go Germany.