Gallery: This Week in Photography: Insta World Series, Social Photos and a Time-Lapse Magic Wand
01Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired
It was another good week to have eyes as Google+ and Twitter announced new photo features, a Kickstarter took time-lapse to a whole new level and awards for the best microscope photography were dished out. Do some deep-blinks to get your peepers nice and fresh and let's dig in. __Above:__ Google and Twitter Overhaul Photo Sharing in Combined Assault on Facebook ------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you’re going to hand your images to the gods of social media, you at least want them to look good, right? Well, this week both Twitter and Google+ made photo-centric announcements that put the photo-sharing options in your Facebook feed to shame. As [WIRED Senior Writer Mat Honan reports](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/10/google-and-twitter-attack-facebook), the social media giants are dueling it out to hit Facebook where it hurts – in thoughtful image sharing and image organization. Previews of images and videos on Twitter will now show up inline – no more click to expand! Granted, that means you’ll have to upload your images directly to Twitter; images shared via other sites (can you say Instagram?) will still show up as a link in your feed. And Google+, that giant under-used underdog, now helps you curate your best images and share them with specific circles. The Google+ smartphone app “will automatically upload all your pictures for you, find the best ones where everyone is smiling, or the light is just right, enhance them, and even automatically turn them into animated GIFs or collages." Meticulous photographers (myself included) may cringe at the thought of handing the editing reins to Google, but maybe the trade-off is you’ll be cringing less at photos shared by your non-photographer friends. There has been constant chatter from the photo world about the rights we retain or give up depending on which social media channels we choose to share our images on. That being said, the questionable agreements we’re tied to when we click that box next to the words "I Agree" haven't stopped most folks from uploading their favorite vacation photos or outtakes from that big assignment last week. *Photo: Ariel Zambelich / WIRED; Illustration: Josh Valcarcel / WIRED*
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Light Painting Just Got a Lot More Fun Thanks to Pixelstick ----------------------------------------------------------- We’ve written about a lot of light-painting projects at Raw File, but they all take a backseat to Pixelstick -- a new invention that has blown the doors off this genre of photography. Pixelstick is a bar, or stick, that has 198 full-color RGB LEDs that can all be programmed to work together. It’s a big deal that Pixelstick has so many lights going at once since most light paintings just use one light source, like a flashlight. But what’s even more significant is the programming part. The stick works with SD cards and can read and then project images from Photoshop or other image editors. Users simply drag the stick through the air and the LEDs flash accordingly while the camera shutter is open. The images can only be 198 pixels tall but several thousand pixels long. According to the developers, it can also be programed to work with time-lapse photography to create 3D moving images. At the moment [Pixelstick is just a Kickstarter project](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bitbangerlabs/pixelstick-light-painting-evolved?ref=recommended), but it’s already almost doubled its $110,000 funding goal and has more than a month to go. We suspect it’s going easily rake in triple or quadruple what the developers asked for. Mass production is still a ways off, but we’re very much looking forward to a future full of Pixelsticks.
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Best Microscope Photos of the Year Bring Tiny, Amazing Worlds to Light ---------------------------------------------------------------------- While many photographers focus their cameras on the broader world around them, some find that training their lenses on the tiniest details instead can yield some pretty epic results. The [2013 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/10/nikon-small-world-2013/) shows us some of this year’s best microscopic work, from an extreme close-up of a ghost shrimp’s eye to gorgeous details of larvae. The images speak for themselves -- some so perfectly patterned and clear that they almost seem unreal. So while it’s nice to get caught up in the beauty of the outside world, sometimes it’s nice to get lost in the world you can only see through a microscope. __Above:__ *__3rd Place: Alvaro Esteves Migotto__, Universidade de São Paulo, Centro de Biologia Marinha São Paulo, Brazil* __Subject:__ Marine worm __Technique:__ Stereomicroscopy, Darkfield __Magnification:__ 20x
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Latin America By Motorcycle --------------------------- [Alex Washburn](http://www.alexwashburn.com/), a former WIRED photo editor, and her boyfriend Nathaniel are currently riding motorcycles form California to Tierra del Fuego. To document their trip they’ve started a blog -- [Where the Autopista Ends](http://autopistaend.com/) -- and needless to say, the rest of the photo staff is SUPER jealous as we follow along with their adventures. When we last talked to Alex she and Nathaniel had just left Huamantla, Mexico where they had a huge celebration with her relatives that featured a matanza, or pig slaughter. They were then on their way to Oaxaca, one of the most beautiful cities in Mexico, to celebrate Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. Like any trip, there have been some hiccups. They were stranded in Baja California for a couple days because they didn’t have the right paperwork to cross over to the mainland. But what’s a road tip without a couple delays and logistical headaches? We want to wish Alex and Nathaniel a safe rest of the trip and look forward to the adventures ahead! *Photo: Two butchers slaughter a 103 lb. pig in an empty lot of Huamantla, Tlaxcala. They moved their location at the last minute fearing the sound would disturb people in the nearby neighborhood of Colonia y Progresso. By Alex Washburn*
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A Time Before Sandy: Juliana Beasley's Portraits From the Rockaways ------------------------------------------------------------------- This week, marked the year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy. There’s been a lot of coverage in the past year of the communities in New York and New Jersey that were hit by the monster storm. But what about photography projects from those communities that go back more than a year? What about photography projects that go back more than a decade? [Juliana Beasley](http://www.julianabeasley.com/) first went out to the boardwalk at Beach 116th Street one weekend in the summer of 2002 and was instantly captivated. She returned days later with her camera to begin her real and heartfelt series *Rockaway*. [Creative Time Reports](http://creativetimereports.org/2013/10/18/last-stop-rockaway-park/) ran *Rockaway* this week to remind us of this smashing study of a “forgotten lot.” Beasley describes her subjects as “society’s outcasts deposited here many years ago by a social system that pushed them far away from glitz of Manhattan. Many of my subjects have died untimely deaths due to self-destructive lives ridden with alcoholism and addiction. They lived in SROs and boarding houses subsisting on meager disability and Social Security checks. Others struggled with debilitating mental illnesses, residing in adult homes alongside the elderly. Some just disappeared, moved on or moved away." *Photo: Juliana Beasley, Charlie Cowboy, 2004. Courtesy Juliana Beasley, Contact Press for Creative Time Reports.*
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Critical Mass' Long Shortlist ----------------------------- Critical Mass, the mega-jury competition hosted by [Photolucida](http://www.photolucida.org/), announced it’s [50 finalists](http://www.photolucida.org/cm_winners.php?CMYear=2013&event_id=16) for 2013. Among the 50 are a few familiar names and friends of *Raw File* including [Kirk Crippens](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/rawfile/2013/07/portraitlandia/), [Dave Jordano](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/rawfile/2013/01/detroit-dave-jordano/), [Clay Lipsky](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/rawfile/2012/08/clay-lipsky-atomic-overlook/), [Jesse Rieser](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/rawfile/2012/12/jesse-rieser-xmas/), [Kerry Skarbakka](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/rawfile/2013/01/kerry-skarbakka-falling-photos/) and [Jamey Stillings](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/rawfile/2012/11/jamey-stillings-ivanpah-solar-field/). 50 might sound like a big number, but it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the 700 portfolio entries at kick-off! All Top 50 photographers will be taking part in a group exhibition curated by Jessica Johnston of [George Eastman House](http://www.eastmanhouse.org/). Furthermore, three photographers will be awarded a solo show at either [Blue Sky](http://www.blueskygallery.org/), the [Center for Fine Art Photography](http://www.c4fap.org/), or the [Griffin Museum of Photography](http://www.griffinmuseum.org/). The big winner has a monograph made of their work courtesy of [Kehrer Verlag](http://www.artbooksheidelberg.com/html/en/recent_publications.html). For us, [Birte Kaufmann](http://www.photolucida.org/cm_winners.php?aID=5470&CMYear=2013&event_id=16), [Jeffrey Stockbridge](http://www.photolucida.org/cm_winners.php?aID=5198&CMYear=2013&event_id=16) and [Tsutomu Yamagata](http://www.photolucida.org/cm_winners.php?aID=5441&CMYear=2013&event_id=16) are the standout entries. Head over to the [Critical Mass website](http://www.photolucida.org/cm_winners.php?CMYear=2013&event_id=16) and gorge on the international smorgasbord of tasty photography. *Photo: Tsutomu Yamagata, ‘She comes for a walk once a month from Asakusa. She seldom meets her five sons.’*
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Swanky-Pants Gathering for the Lucie Awards ------------------------------------------- [The Lucies](http://www.lucies.org/awards.html) are billed as the Oscar’s of photography, but blink and you’ll miss them. Conservative and proper, The Lucies are the old man of photography awards, hence the black tie attire and red carpet. Among those honored on Sunday night was industry legend [John H. White](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._White_(photojournalist)), applauded for his [achievements in photojournalism](http://www.lucies.org/13/honorees/john-h_white.html). You’ll remember his name from earlier this year when he alongside 28 colleagues were given the push by the Chicago Sun Times when the newspaper decided to [can its entire photography department](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/business/media/chicago-sun-times-lays-off-all-its-full-time-photographers.html). Also worth checking out are Discovery of the Year, [Carlotta Cardana](http://www.photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-63261-13&count=0&code=People) and Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year, [Ebrahim Noroozi](http://www.photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-61980-13&uid=81406&code=Deeper%20Perspective). *Photo: Carlotta Cardana, Amanda and Jon, from the series ‘Mod Couples’*
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Civil War-Era Photo Techniques Used in Modern-Day Portraits ----------------------------------------------------------- Matt Alberts believes the soul of an individual can be [captured through wet-plate collodion photography](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478802/Modern-America-Civil-War-lens-Photographer-uses-150-year-old-dark-room-technique-arresting-photos-designed-capture-Americas-real-soul.html). He fell in love with both photography and skateboarding at the age of 10, and has been visually documenting skateboarders and the respective lifestyle ever since. Now, he’s converted his mobile home into a portable darkroom, allowing him to take his wet-plate collodion process on the road. The process, invented in 1851, produces glass negatives and finely detailed prints, but historically collodion presented a challenge for landscape photographers of the time. Its inherent sensitivity to UV light made it impossible to capture both the sky and the foreground in a single image, but Alberts uses these limitations to his advantage. He believes UV light has the ability to see beneath the skin, "revealing character and depth" and providing the viewer with a glimpse of a person's soul within the portrait. Regardless of whether or not UV light has any ability to truly reveal a person’s character, Alberts portraits do well to support the claim, they possess an undeniably intense, textured and intimate quality. If you enjoy alternative photography processes, also check out our post this week on [Emma Powell's cyanotypes](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/rawfile/2013/10/emma-powell-in-search-of-sleep/). *Photo: Matt Alberts*
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Behind the Scenes of the World Series on Instagram -------------------------------------------------- Last year we wrote about [Brad Mangin’s coverage of the 2012 baseball season on Instagram](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/rawfile/2012/07/instagram-debate/). The guy’s a veteran; he’s been covering baseball for *Sports Illustrated* and Major League Baseball for over 20 years. But with his iPhone, he found a whole new way to document the game and its players that brought a fresh perspective. The photos were so well received that they got published as a book: [Instant Baseball: The Baseball Instagrams of Brad Mangin.](http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Baseball-Instagrams-Brad-Mangin/dp/1937359417) This post season [Mangin was at it again](http://instagram.com/bmangin). His Insta feed was filled with pictures you didn’t get to see elsewhere, like beautiful pregame warm ups shots from Fenway Park and locker room details of autographed World Series bats and balls. There aren’t any Insta shots from the Red Sox’s celebration because he was on assignment and had to make photos using his DSLR. [But those snaps are plenty of fun to look at as well.](http://manginphotography.net/2013/10/2013-world-series-game-6/) *Photo:The #redsox have begun warming up at #fenway before tonight's game 6 of the #worldseries against the #cardinals. #mlb #postseason #instantbaseball. By Brad Mangin.*
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The Significance of the Borderlands ----------------------------------- Borders themselves are just ideas. Fabricated demarcations. But the areas around borders -- the borderlands -- have real geographies and are sites where economies and cultures collide. Because of theses clashes, the borderlands are filled with important stories about violence, immigration and politics. If you’re in Washington DC tomorrow, two well-known photographers will be talking about their ongoing borderlands stories. Tomas van Houtryve will be discussing his project, *Borderland: In the Shadow of North Korea*, which looks at the area around the heavily guarded North Korean border. Louie Palu will be talking about his project, *Drawing the Line: The U.S.- Mexico Border*, which examines the U.S.-Mexico border from both sides. [The event is organized by the Pulitzer Center in partnership with FotoWeek DC](http://pulitzercenter.org/event/borderlands-photographers-tomas-van-houtryve-louie-palu-FotoWeek-DC-FotoNOMA-north-korea-mexico-united-states) and will be held at the FotoNOMA gallery. Seating is limited, so if you can make it please send an email to [email protected] so they can save you a spot. *Photo: Top image: Looking north from east of Tijuana, Mexico: The U.S. border fence cuts through mountains in the states of California in the U.S. and Baja California in Mexico. Image by © Louie Palu/ZUMA. Mexico, 2012. Bottom image: A small rowboat used by a scrap smuggler is seen inside North Korea, beyond razor wire from the Chinese side of the border near Dandong, China. North Korean soldiers and workers were observed loading scrap metal into the boat before it crossed the Yalu river to the Chinese riverbank at an illegal crossing point. Image © Tomas van Houtryve/VII. China, 2013.*
