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Interesting Photoraphy Reads

// July 31st, 2006 // Interesting // 3,481 views

A collection of interesting links for this week:

Colour photos from World War I
Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them to produce accurate color images. [Read more / even more / view gallery]

Searching for original Apollo 11 footage
Almost everyone on the planet who had access to television watched the first moon landing, back on the night of July 20, 1969. What the TV viewers didn’t know is that they weren’t seeing the best images. [Read more / view gallery]

20 Sure-fire headline formulas that work
So, you’re seeing too many of those “how to” and list headlines, and want to try a few different angles? Let’s move beyond those common headline formulas you see over and over, and add some new blood to your attention-grabbing arsenal. [Read more]

Photoshop for Aerial Photographs
Just as the name suggests, a how to on processing an aerial photograph with Photoshop CS. [Read more]

The world’s most photorealistic vector art

Damn, vector images never looked this good! [Read more]