2nd place at C/O Berlin's Subway Contest

My NY Subway photo won the 2nd place at C/O Berlin's Flickr Contest related to Bruce Davidson's Subway exhibition:

My Xmas photo is in a group exhibition in New York

I'm participating with my Xmas photo in a group exhibition entitled HOME, curated by Harvey Stein.
It's in New York's Umbrella Arts gallery, from May 3rd until 28th 2012.
Here's the flyer (click for original size):

My Tumblr

Not sure why, but i've created a Tumblr account.
For now, i'm posting one photo per day (using their lovely Queue), like the good old Fotolog.
For now (2), i'll stick with showing my photos (collages may appear, but not soon):
http://iurikothe.tumblr.com/

I've also created a Pinterest account to pin my favorite photos of other people (mostly masters like: Winogrand, Cartier-Bresson, etc).
http://pinterest.com/ik80/

My First International Photo Exhibition - Emaho Magazine - Hands NY

The photo below (Hands - NY) will be part of the Emaho Post 2012 Exhibition in Singapore (Feb/2012) and later on in New Delhi, India (where it will be up for sale)!!!

50 photos where selected, out of 3301 entries (source), around the theme Street Travel, my new speciality ;-)

Congrats to all!

Here are some links to the Exhibition and Emaho Magazine:
http://emahoexhibition.com/
http://emahoexhibition.com/results/
http://www.emahomagazine.com/
https://www.facebook.com/events/144235872358136/


UPDATE: here are 2 photos showing my pic at the Exhibition:

Back to Photography...

Hmmm, its been 6 months that i don't update this thing...
And sorry, no Collages today... nor soon...
I've been busy taking pictures.
Went to Germany (Netherlands and Finland too) in August 2011 and bought a Fuji X100, after trying to take some pics with the Canon 5D mark 1 I bought in March 2011. The DLSRs are too big and the 5D has a bad high ISO (>800?) performance since its a 2004 sensor.

Then from September to December i stayed in NY, taking lots of pictures, mostly Street Photography.

And here is my updated photography portfolio:

http://www.iuri.art.br/photo

image tagging (iptc, exif, xmp)

Like i did last year (or was it 2005?) with my music - because managing 90GB of mp3 isn't easy in the folder hierarchy and i the iPod needs the basic Artist, Title, Genre tags - this year is time to tag my images (photos and collages).

So i found some softwares that would to the job: Exifer, PixVue ... (more here). For now, the best one to batch rename is Adobe's Bridge (which i always found very slow and unbrowsable). This is nice because the IPTC tags are industries standard and written directly inside the JPEG or PSD file (not like iTunes and iPhoto!!!).

Another great feature is that the keywords (tags), title and descriptions are read by flickr! So i don't need to write the infos twice, and they are stored in the file!

Now i would like to know one nice cross platform viewer and iptc browser... something faster than Brigde please!

How to take a Photo of a Collage

thats the way:
- using 2 lamps (40W) making a 45º light incision on the image/collage/painting;
- the ladder i've used as Manual Image Stabilization;
- to further the Stabilization process i've made a 2s SelfTimer.
- Then, afterwards on photoshop you might use Levels>SetWhitePoint to make to white, white! (because of the bad light).

It (kind of) works like a charm, altough i prefer my scanner for the smaller collages. So now you'll see 2 bigger analog collages i've made on 2004 and 2005 (and hadn't worked out a way to digitalize them - they're framed!)

Collage_Panda

Collage, like any other stuff, really works only if you're inspired.
Two hours ago (0h00 of 09/16) i started one. Again, using only one Magazine, which was, of course a National Geographic.
So i used the US Edition of July 2006, which has nice Panda photos.

I took some photos during the gluing process, enjoy:

1. all images (+source) and material (glue, scissor, black 'cartolina')



2. Cutting the Panda's legs out!



3. Gluing the Panda (i'm using this as Wallpaper):



4. Finished!, now i've to cut the collage out of the black paper (cartolina):


5. So it looks this way:



Done in 1h!
+ 1h for flickr&blog. (2am now)... going to bed.
You can see this photos bigger here.
Update: Here is the Edited Panda Collage.

Sao Moritz

So last weekend i went with some friends to the Pousada São Moritz.
Check out some nice photos from there.

Brasilia06July

So here are some photos i took in Brasilia last month (some with the new camera).
And check this video out: Brasilia 360º (8min).
If you prefer, download it from Brasilia360 (60MB from archive.org)