“Because of the tight focus of the LEDs, and their relatively short range, the effect on images is striking: the foreground is cool in tone and lit with hard, directional light; the background appears much warmer, even though it is often darker in exposure. There are two distinct colour temperatures in the same image – unlike in images produced by bare flashguns, where the flash saturates the entire image. Such images draw the eye to the object illuminated by Ringlight’s light.” (via Ringlight - Projects - BERG) “Matt Frondorf drove from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge. Mounted on his passenger side window was a Canon T-90, hooked up to his odometer and clicking off a frame for each mile of the 3304 mile journey. He didn’t drive at night. The result is American Mile Markers, a timeline of photos and composite videos that spans the country. Frondorf calls the process “statistical photography” that presents “what is really there -every picture from beginning to end.” 
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Alex AinslieI'm a recent Cornell CS MEng graduate interested in data, computation, design and their intersection. In 2009 I graduated early with an independent BA in Computing, Cognition & Aesthetics and minors in French and Information Science. My honors thesis examined the traces our Bluetooth-enabled devices leave behind in public space and my masters thesis explored opportunities for machine learning and visualization to inform personal sensemaking. I have spent the past three summers as an intern at Google working on mobile maps and gmail, suggest, query refinements, social search, and most recently goggles and mobile local search. I joined Google fulltime in August 2010 - the views expressed here are mine alone. This site was born as a personal photo journal during a semester spent abroad in Paris and has evolved into a curated collection of links, text, and images. |
