Can anyone help?

So first off I tried saving my pictures for the internet and they still look a little weird then what i'm seeing on my photoshop screen. But the big question that I have is why is it that my pictures look better in Safari over firefox? I looked up some information and they say that you have to save you pictures as sRGB and not AbobeRGB becuase only mac's can read the AdobeRGB. I have a picture here that shows that their is a difference by just using different browsers.

On the left is Firefox and on the right is Safari

Polaroid not dead?

I got this article off the web and just copied off of Polapremium

THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT

INSPIRES POLAROID^® TO
RELAUNCH INSTANT CAMERAS

Dear Polapremium Customer,

we can not wait another day to proudly bring you some very important news which was presented by Polaroid itself at a press conference on October 13th in Hongkong.

THE IMPOSSIBLE POLAROID

After all the difficulties and changes of ownership during the last years, the new management of Polaroid now understands the source of the brand's attraction - which is surprisingly not based in digital cameras but in Dr. Edwin Land's groundbreaking 1948 invention of Instant Photography, which he ingeniously devised and passionately developed with a lot of care and devotion.

Since 2005, it has been our honour and pleasure to celebrate and evoke the sensational and almost mysterious power of Instant Photography in memoriam of Dr. Land. Doing everything in our power to keep this beloved and unique photographic medium alive, we grabbed the chance to take over the last factory producing Instant films from the old Polaroid management and to start The Impossible Project in 2008. Re-inventing a new analog integral film, we are now preparing, supporting and managing the comeback of Instant Photography.

Accomplishing this mission and proudly owning the former Polaroid plant in Enschede (NL), as well as already holding the first working hand-coated samples in our trembling hands, we are pleased to herewith announce a history-making cooperation between The Impossible Project and Polaroid:

Polaroid will re-launch the legendary Polaroid One Step Camera and is therefore commissioning The Impossible Project to develop and produce a limited edition of Polaroid^® branded Instant Films in the middle of 2010.

We feel proud and excited that our ambitions and all the relentless work we have already invested are now becoming the foundation for Polaroid's comeback as a producer of Instant Cameras.

Large-scale production and worldwide sale of The Impossible Project's new integral film materials under its own brand will already start in the beginning of 2010 - with a brand new and astonishing black and white Instant Film and the first colour films to follow in the course of the year.

ORIGINAL SX-70

CELEBRATION EDITION

In celebration of this significant milestone and to shorten your waiting period but to enable you to hold a lovely, shining Polaroid classic in your hands and start shooting right away, we are offering a hand-picked and exclusively compiled Celebration edition of the unique SX-70 camera in a very limited special batch of only 8 kits.

In each of the original leather bags you will find:

- one original SX-70 camera
- two original SX-70 film packs (collectible - ancient, not tested.)
- one flash bar
- one copy of the Polaroid book "Sofortbilder ohne Probleme"
- one picture frame
- one Polapremium CD with original SX-70 materials (manuals, articles, tips&tricks)

350 EUR

328 GBP / 430 USD / 38750 JPY

Worldwide sale of this delicacy will start on
Friday October 16th, 12.00 PM CET.

Paul Shambroom

I remembered the the UAM, Paul Shambrooms work in it last semester, I remembered liking it a lot so I looked him up online and looked though his work and just picked out a few of the pictures that I though were quite inspiring.








Paul Shambroom

What a Day

So I spent the last half of my day scouting out places to put my project tonight. And what I found out today or sound i say tonight is that although places that might look like good spots in the day have one of the following things at night: More traffic than anticipated, more light on the area so that if people do come by I would be easy spotted, not easy accessible for coming in and or escaping if need be, Upon closer look not as good as originally thought. But after driving around for about 2 and a half hours scouting and measuring locations I think that I have found the locations that I will be using for the project. Now to choose the right picture for the locations that I have selected. So much work so little time.

saw a cool picture

I saw this picture online but the white balance was all off so I just fixed it for practice. I think it looks better.

Before


After

More reading up...

So I've been reading a lot about "urban art" online the past few days and just seeing what kind of information the main stream media give to it. And there seems to be quite a few entries on the subject when you type it into google, but yet at the same time they don't really give to much detail about the work itself. They cover who the artist is, where the work is located, who is sponsoring the work, and then maybe they will describe it in a few sentences but that is about the actual piece.

One of the more interesting articles that I was able to find was the first article that showed up in my search was this article about these two graffiti artist who more or less had a competition, they called it a "battle". The whole thing took place out of Oakland, CA, and they say that it was the first organized battle between two graffiti artist ever held. By the way they were describing the whole event they made it sound like it was a very friendly event, which is kind of what urban art is about.
Graffiti Battle

Another super interesting article that I found was one about good old Banksy. That there is one of his works that people are not sure if it is art or if it is just vandalism. They go back and forth about what people think about it, and how others have to clean other items such as images like that all the time that would just be considered vandalism. Everyday they are cleaning up Vandalism, they say that just becuase it was made by Bansky that it still should be considered vandalism and taken down. But the problem comes in that if they do take it down that people would be upset becuase people have such a strong opinion of his work that they are afrid of some type of backlash.

Is Banksy Croydon-Beddington mural vandalism or art?

There was another article about how one of Banksy's work had been tag over by "envious artist" as sow as reposted in the article.

Banksy painting sprayed over by envious graffiti artists

Presentaion on touch ups

I've been working on trying to figure out how to do retouching and this is what I've come up with. This is the picture that I will be showing when I do my retouching presentation tomorrow in class...or I should say today. I believe that I have fixed the problem of the gray underlay that came when using the Gaussian blur.

Before


After

This is what I did on my Wednesday workday

So I went on researching what photos I will be using in my project. So I went to the library and looked up some book with photographers that I want and/or use for the project. Thinking about veering away from just the strait up Ansel Adams idea I just checked out one of his books, but I also checked out three other books. I'm going to look though the images and see if I can find a place that will suit the image that I choose. I've spent the past few days looking though the book and seeing if I could find any good images. I have found a few good images that might work for the product, but in a few days I'll scan the images that I am thinking about using when I have a little extra time to be able to scan them in to my computer.

Been doing some reading

So I've been trying to do some reading up for Mondays presentations on retouching, and airbrushing. I've been using this book called The Adobe Photoshop cs3 book for Digital Photographers and another one called Photoshop Artistryfor Photographers Using Photoshop cs2 and Beyond. The second book doesn't really go into much depth on how to air bush it more or less. The first book though has a step by step guide to how to airbrush. The problem with this technique is that in the finish product the peoples faces looks washed out and/or like almost a gray tone to them. So i'm going to have to figure out away around this. I think I have traced the problem to the gaussian blur layer that they say to use as the base of the problem that I am running into. So I'm going to try and find away around this problem.

this is why in Princese Bride they say "Never get involved in a land war in Asia"

These are some amazing pictures that are from china's celebration of their 60 years under communist rule.
There are more pictures at Boston Globe