Madelin Woods (shot with iPhone 7 Portrait Mode)
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The iPhone 7 Plus Camera (and Portrait Mode)
TL;DR: The camera (and software) in the iPhone 7 Plus is making me take more photos again. It’s making me look more intentionally at the world on a daily basis again. And that makes it great. If you care a lot about the camera, carrying a big device around is absolutely worth it.
A couple of quick observations and opinions off the bat:
- Low light performance has dramatically improved, catching up to dedicated cameras
- Better dynamic range, which improves every photo, regardless of lighting condition
- The optics (both 28mm and 56mm) are a lot more crisp and allow for a bit more isolation of nearby subjects through optical bokeh
- The performance increase of the phone improves the experience of making a photo
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Robbie Manson at XOXO 2016
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Ike Edeani
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Start Writing Shorter Emails
As I was writing this, it ended up being quite a bit larger than I expected it to be. We can all see the irony here. So here’s the short of it.
Keep most e-mails under 5 sentences, and write them like this:
- Set context (1 sentence)
- Ask direct questions (1–3 questions)
- Don’t be rude
And when replying:
- If it’s an ambiguous e-mail: Paraphrase the request
- Reply effectively (the 5 sentence rule counts)
That’s it.
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Dave Johannes
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Typekit Practice
Typekit Practice is a collection of resources and a place to try things, hone your skills, and stay sharp.
Really excited about this.
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Klemens Torggler’s Evolution Door
A rotating geometric flip-panel door system that opens up with momentum.
The clever structure is just one of the various concepts by Torggler. He explains: ‘The special construction makes it possible to move the door sideways without the use of tracks.’
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#lonelydogchronicles: Hasselblad Edition
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Damaria Jay Hammonds
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Palace of Fine Arts
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Classname-like naming in Framer
In many cases, your Framer prototype will consist out of views that have a lot of properties and behaviour in common. For example, you’ll have modal views that have the same animation.
For this, I created a function that can group together these views. The way it works is as follows: you name your layer groups with a specific ‘classname’. In case of modal views you could name one of your layer groups modal ModalOne and another one modal ModalTwo.
You can group these modals in an object named modalViews with the following line (note the space at the end of the string as a separator):
var modalViews = getViewsByClassName('modal ');The function that is used for this, looks as follows:
function getViewsByClassName(_className, _parentView) { var _groupWithViews = {}; if(arguments.length == 1) { var _parentView = PSD; } for (var _groupName in _parentView) { if(_groupName.indexOf(_className) > -1) { var _customName = _groupName.split(_className).join(''); _groupWithViews[_customName] = _parentView[_groupName]; } } return _groupWithViews; }You can now loop through the
modalViewsobject and add behaviour to it as follows:for (var view in modalViews) { modalViews[view].on('click', function() { alert('Clicked on a Modal View!'); }); }Sidenote: If you want to look in a subset of your layer groups, you can specify the second parameter in getViewsByClassName as the scope in which you want to search.
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Brandon Souba
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Digg Reader
Probably where I’ll be going now, as Google Reader has shut down.
You can still transfer your data from the Google Reader API with Digg Reader.
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Kruisherenhotel, Maastricht
An amazing hotel.
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Adrift
Adrift is a short video by Simon Christen that focuses on the beautiful fog of San Francisco. Whilst cold, it makes for some stunning shots.
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Fitzgerald Marine Reserve’s Golden Glow
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Unihook
One hook. One nail. So clean.
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Pei Ketron
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Loading images on demand with CSS
Quite the hack. Quite the awesome hack. (via)
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The Beginner’s Guide to Mixing
More as a reminder to myself, a few guidelines to audio mixing. I wish you could add attachments to your bucket list.
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A tiny house at Facebook HQ
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Single photograph looks like four photographs
Photographer Bela Borsodi fastidiously manipulated household items in the photograph below to create an image that looks like 4 photographs.
So good.
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Introducing Video on Instagram
Fifteen seconds per video, thirteen filters, and ‘Cinema’ stabilisation.