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Mixed Technology

Max Elman — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:44:04 +0000

I’ve had a package of Polaroid type 59 instant 4×5 film in my fridge for five years now and decided to use it today. After picking up a set of Photojojo iPhone lenses from Doc Pop (courtesy of a Postagram contest), Kristan and I headed to Glen Canyon to have a picnic and shoot some photos. We found some great boulders to camp out on and took the first two of these:

We then packed up and drove over to Sutro Tower and shot a few more:

It was a great afternoon filled with a bizarre mixture of technology. The pinhole camera was made out of wood, the Polaroid back is 20 years old, the film is at least 8 years old, and my iPhone and lenses are brand new. Overall, I think it was a pretty fantastic mixture. Now I’m off to find more discontinued sheet film. Stay tuned for more!

View more photos from today on Google+

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200 days of 2011

Max Elman — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:05:20 +0000

This is the last major milestone in my photo-a-day project as I’m taking a break for the foreseeable future. Shooting a picture every day is tough work, and forcing myself to do it is no longer as productive and helpful as it once was. 665 days in the past two years isn’t too shabby though, if I do say so myself.

These 200 photos tell a fun story of my year so far: Visiting Sundance; buying a new motorcycle; spending lots of time with my family; taking trips to Vegas, Cancun, Europe; and some experiments with light-writing at night.

Thanks for looking, and comments are appreciated on Flickr.

View the full set on Flickr

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Garden Photoshoot

Max Elman — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:00:44 +0000

Sometimes you just have to set up a tripod and go jump in the backyard for a while. Today was one of those days. After it stopped raining (and the mud had a bit of time to dry out), I went out back and took a few hundred pictures. Here’s a few of those:

Yep. I can actually hover.

Here’s the final result. Click through to comment on Flickr.

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75 days of 2011

Max Elman — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:46:34 +0000

We’re off to a good start, 2011. A trip to Sundance, a new motorcycle, time with my family, steady work, and a quick getaway to Las Vegas all have made for a pretty crazy two and a half months. I’ve managed to (mostly) keep up with my photo-a-day project (no thanks to Canon and Apple for technology/repair issues) and would love for you to take a look and leave some feedback, dear reader.

View the full set on Flickr

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2010 in Pictures

Max Elman — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:06:35 +0000

2010 was a pretty awesome year for photography. I took more pictures than I ever have before (17,482 exposures) and completed my first project 365 (a photo every day). Here’s a few links and galleries:

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Huffington Post Image Theft

Max Elman — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:05:51 +0000

Well this is odd. The Huffington Post is using a photo of mine from Flickr under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Creative Common licence and there’s absolutely no attribution. While other images have Flickr names, mine gets a note that says “Google: Listen” (Listen being the title of the image). Are they trying to say that they found it via Google Image search, and therefore they don’t need to give attribution? That’s shady.

Hopefully they’ll notice and fix this shortly. And while they’re at it, maybe they can fix the text that says KZSC is “funded by the FCC”. Come on HuffPo, seriously? A radio station funded by the FCC? That doesn’t even make sense!

Here’s a grab of the article and photo on 10/26/10:

My image on Flickr, taken in 2007 at KZSC:

Update: I got in touch of the College Editor and she cleared things up. Apparently their new image scraper has some issues they’re working out.

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A Story And A Picture

Max Elman — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:44:24 +0000

Do you like photography? How about short stories? What about awesome amounts of creativity? Then you should probably check out A Story And A Picture - a new collaboration with Christopher Hermelin. I take the pictures and he writes a 1000 words a few days later. It’s a good system that makes for great results. Here’s a few images – click through to see the full stories.

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100 Photos in 100 Days

Max Elman — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:31:26 +0000

From July – November 2009, I “made” something every day. Usually a photo, sometimes a video, but something got uploaded to Flickr daily. Here’s the full slideshow. View images individually here.

Stay tuned for MSCED 2010.

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A 60 Year Long Pool Party

Max Elman — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:08:27 +0000

My father recently found quite a few slides from 1948 and had them digitized for various reasons. One of those reasons probably wasn’t so that I could mess around with them with Photoshop, but I did anyway.

Above is my version of my grandfather’s dive into a wonderfully blue pool. A bit different than the original slide below. It’s amazing what 60 years can do to a photograph…

Feel free to click through to Flickr and comment there.

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A flock of easter peeps

Max Elman — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:31:08 +0000

It’s that time of year again.. The time when a few of my pictures find meaning, popularity, and I feel particularly good about my photography. I took this shot a year or so ago and it’s always made me smile. (And no, there weren’t quite that many peeps. Oh, the wonders of photoshop.)

Buy a print here.

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