Faces in the crowd

Simon Hogsberg, a freelance photographer based in Copenhagen, has released the latest in his very engaging series of projects. This one is called "We're All Gonna Die -- 100 Meters of Existence."

Hogsberg has produced a 100-meter-long compilation that was shot over the course of 20 days in 2007 from a bridge overlooking a railroad platform in Berlin. The online presentation has a very cool slider that allows you to linger over portions of the photograph. (Look for the couple about midway through who each have medical patches over their right eye. What happened there?)

Hogsberg's previous work includes Faces of New York, where he walked the streets of New York for a month, seven hours a day, looking for people whose faces intrigued him. He found 10. He photographed the people, then had them talk for a bit.

More of Hogsberg's work here.

Snappies from the Frugal Traveler

Matt Gross, the Frugal Traveler, has a lovely set of photos from Venice in the New York Times this week. View the slideshow here. The picture above is the Ponte del Megio in the Santa Croce district. A very good writer who takes very good photographs.

Animated GIFs drive you nuts?

Then have a look at this Flickr comment stream. You might develop a new appreciation for the form.

Random, but not

I'm not exactly sure why this idea works, but it does. ... Well, I do know: six thankfully anonymous people writing terse captions about radically normal scenes. An existentially Greek chorus commenting about things you see every day in YOUR life. It grows on you. Sexpigeon.

(Seen first on Thrillist.)

{gear} After the DP1 comes ... the DP2

One of the most interesting point and shoot cameras may soon be getting an update.

Sigma has let some writers get a look at a pre-production DP2, the successor to its much-admired DP1. The highlights would seem to be an extended focal range, plus a higher ISO (from 800 to 3200) and menus that make more sense.

The DP1 has a sensor that's much larger than other point-and-shoots, one that's almost the same size as those found in non-full-frame dSLRs, resulting in much higher image quality. From DPR's review of the DP1:

The DP1's forte is no doubt the image quality at low sensitivities. The camera offers a resolution and an amount of detail that is unheard of in the compact camera sector and can keep up with quite a few DSLRs. To make the most of it you have to shoot in RAW though. The DP1's JPEG output is very desaturated and flat and needs a 'boost' in post processing.

For more about the DP2, here's RichardK reporting for SigmaUser.eu from Focus on Imaging.

(Seen first on Boing Boing Gadgets)