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I stumbled upon these great film poster designs by All City Media. Through some very good use of typography, colour and imagery, the films are each given a striking and unique personality. Their portfolio website, filled with a variety of film poster designs, is well worth checking out. Here is a selection of my favourite pieces of their work:
Convert Flickr metadata to Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop presets
22 July 2009
FlickrPhotography
Website development
Flickr allows photo metadata to be shown with each photo. The metadata contains shooting information about the photo- eg shutter speed, aperture etc. It can also contain the RAW conversion settings used to process the original RAW photo file. Therefore it’s possible to copy across the settings into your own Lightroom or Photoshop presets to create a similar ‘look’ for your own photos.
After quickly getting tired of copying settings across manually, I developed a tool which will output a Lightroom or Photoshop preset file based on the metadata found for that Flickr photo. Simply enter the full URL of the photo into the tool below and you’re away!
It is limited to photos which have metadata publicly available. Also custom point tone curve information isn’t converted- as the Flickr metadata page unfortunately doesn’t show all it.
Let me know if you have any suggestions or find any bugs. If you find it useful and have a website, please link to this blog post.
UPDATE 05/05/2010: Flickr doesn’t show the processing settings on their metadata page anymore – so unfortunately this converter won’t work any longer. Hope you enjoyed it whilst you had time to use it. Since it’s creation it’s done 3962 conversions!
Somehow I couldn’t whittle these down to just 10…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oliviaaboone/3413132355/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darad/3647545934/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbokeh/3431041361/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/luke_photos/3253547711/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewfphoto/3083636655/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jup3nep/3183738239/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/moretrees/2924950280/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/superbaka/2881682850/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21963462@N07/2584732746/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kayodeok/2084089437/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/virtualbiscuit/3516078086/
Smogr posted a London Underground map formatted for iPhones. Whilst I found it pretty useful, being a centralite I did find it annoying that Central London was split across four separate images, so I’ve created a single image of just Central London to download. I’ve found it invaluable as I learn London’s layout. You might find it useful too… unless you live in High Barnet.
Click here to download (you may need to right click- save as)
NYC-based artist Robert Longo produces these fascinating images of fighter pilot helmets using graphite and charcoal. Impossibly detailed, they bring out my boyhood obsession with aeroplanes and anything vaguely military related. I would love to see these in real life. His other works are well worth seeing too.
Dark Roasted Blend have a great blog post featuring Thomas Birke’s large format photos of Tokyo at night. Thomas also has a Flickr account which is filled with great shots. Here’s a preview:
I’ll be using this blog to give a number of web design and development tutorials and tips. Today i’m going to explain how to pull your photos from Flickr onto your website, like on my homepage. If you already have a WordPress website you can use the Flickr Widget to do the hard work for you. If you don’t, or wish to customise how your Flickr photos are displayed, read on…
Flickr API integration on my (now old) website
I am now based in Angel, London working on a freelance basis. I love being here already, and have some very exciting projects lined up over the next few months. I am still taking on new projects – if you are interested in using my services please use the contact form.