A I R H E A D: 2010

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

iPhone HD Video

iPhone 4 film - "Apple of My Eye" from Michael Koerbel on Vimeo.

I think my attraction to the "non" gear camera gear ie iPhone is the fact that we can finally break away from the need to "gear" everything out to make an image or tell a story.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

PENN CAMERA - HDR CLASS - JULY 18th

details...

Saturday, June 12, 2010

NEW Blurb Book on iPhone Photography

Apple 3Gs by Chris Alvanas | Make Your Own Book

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010

HERE WE GO, ARE YOU READY FOR THE RIDE?

House will show off the future with it's episode shot entirely with the Canon 5D Mark II

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Thursday, April 8, 2010

In the following 2 tutorials I will show you one of many ways we can make an image 3D. I want to mention how this thing started because it is important. Friend, Kevin Good, showed off some fun 3D footage he was playing with that was show it 3D and was interesting but I did not bite. Mark Vohwinkel and Ali Black began showing me the versions of experimentation they were playing with, still not biting. Then Mark asked me for some advice on how I would filter an image for use with the cyan/red 3D glasses. OK now the challenge, I nibble...that evening when poking around the "rabbit hole" I got sucked in. I admit it, thanks to these 3 I am down the hole and right now not even looking for a way out. Thanks for the journey.
As we explore new ways to make images more and more compelling we discover things like this that hope to get people to think outside the box and explore...think about where HDR started and where it is now. It had its 15 minutes of super fame and then started to find a place in the subtle ways we make images more and more interesting. Enjoy and Experiment.

Send me your experiments and questions: chrisalvanas@me.com
See more 3D images here: lightyearimnaging

Sunday, April 4, 2010

3D - stereoscopy???

Image of a madman and a madwoman? Maybe. Mark and Allie stand responsible for my dive into the rabbit hole of 3D. I cannot and do not really want to come out right now. As a matter of fact with some of the CS5 previews I have seen, this may be a solid direction, who knows? At least for now it offers a number of very cool possibilities on what once was a 2D space. Where it stops - no one knows. I will be posting a video tutorial on the technique I am using for this effect. There are folks like Mark and Allie that are taking a more "traditional" approach in that they are experimenting with real stereoscopic photography. Me I just prefer to fake it - after all what is "real" anymore. (ha) More to come...
***by the way - all of this 3D stuff needs to be viewed with the magenta/green glasses.

You can see samples of my fakery here...3D

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

THE "D" IN 3D AND THE "D" IN HDR MEET

Thought I might share some 3D fun with those out there watching that have the magenta/green glasses. Try this link for all of the recent tries but here is one for you now...

Go here for more...

Sunday, March 28, 2010

BEEN A WHILE - I KNOW BUT...

I know it has been a while since the last post but I will do my best to make it up to you with a cool new push to the world of 3D. Sounds odd I know but after some convincing it started to shoe some cool possibilities especially with the technique I have discovered. I will not only share this technique with you but will also provide a link to the newest 3D images I have been working on. Stay tuned for my next post and in the meantime you could get a pair of magent/grenn style 3D glasses, nothing fancy just the cardboard style will work. This way when I post the images and you are ready to embark and give the technique a try, you can see the results. After all if you cannot then what is the point.
Cheers

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

PHOTOSHOP FLIGHT CHECK

This image comes to us all from Jim Hooper, a great friend that gave me the idea to create a check list for those times when killing your computer seems like a good idea when running Photoshop. Here are some things that may keep you from killing your machine... it was created in hopes that it would be saved and kept as a quick reference for those times of need, that is why it is business card size. Enjoy.