Wednesday
05Nov

This is our Moon Landing

It is really hard to describe how I feel today, the election of Barack Obama is a true inflection point our society. I wasn't alive when Americans landed on the Moon, but I have to imagine it felt a little like last night.

I have to admit that I was old enough to understand both. I was and still am amazed by all the hard work and innovation that went into landing men on the moon. But this story has been amazing and so much more emotional, and full of hope. The moon landing seemed like the end of a major effort; this feels like a fresh start with many possibilities.

Carl Madson


Thursday
30Oct

RED - DSMC (digital still & motion camera)

So RED is starting tease people with rendered bits of a new camera they're about to announce (November 13th I think). I'm really curious about the details of this device as I'm due for a new camera in the next six months. If the price and specs are tempting enough I'd be willing to switch from Nikon to RED... imagine that!


Thursday
16Oct

crescent under full

Looks like my latest light painting resonated with a lot of people, it's currently #1 on Flickr Explore for 10/15/2008. As with most of my photos there's never a clear idea before hand, just lot's of improv and luck I guess.

This was shot on the Pacific coastline of San Francisco around midnight, that orangish glow to the right is the Golden Gate Bridge. I used a 30 second exposure and a Nikon sb800 speed light to create this image. The green inner arc is the backlight LCD dispaly on the flash. These clear nights on the coast are rare and it just happened to be a full moon too which made for some fantastic night shooting.


Wednesday
24Sep

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Tuesday
16Sep

The Great iPhone Photo App Roundup

I've been a busy bee the past few weeks (months?) tediously installing, testing and reviewing every* single iPhone photo app. Check out the entire review on photojojo.com

I have to give a big "thank you" to the awesome team at Photojojo for recruiting me to do this project and being patient while I nibbled through the seemingly endless pile of iPhone photo apps.

*depends on when you read the article, a new photo app seems to appear on the app store everyday