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Category: iPhoneography

  • Road Closures Sandton 1 Sept 2011

     

    If I wasn’t such a loyal and patriotic fan of the Springboks, I would have been more upset that I am already, but luckily, luckily, I’ll (try to) forgive them this time round. Well, that and today I found out that it’s not as bad as I expected.

    You see, for the last 6 months, I been been planning the iPhoneography exhibition at the Sandton iStore, and yesterday I found out that the Springboks are having a little going away party, for the World Cup, on the SAME night as the exhibition !! With road closures around the whole Sandton area, I started panicking a little.

    So, if you are attending the iPhoneography Exhibition on Thursday eve, please make sure you give yourself a bit of extra time to get there, as there will more than likely be congested traffic. If you coming from Rivonia Road side, try and avoid it, by coming around and approaching from Rosebank side. Or alternatively coming from William Nicol side. The iStore itself isn’t too affected as it is on the complete opposite side of Nelson Mandela Square, where the Springbok do is. Another alternative is to to perhaps use the Gautrain, bearing in mind that the last train from Sandton leaves at around 20:30. Check the timetables here. 

    On a side note, today I looked at the map again, and realised that someone had been very lazy, and confused the heck out of people.

    At first glance you would think that all the yellow roads were closed off. But look again. Only West street is closed. You see they have 2 black lines at the end of West Street, and only the 2 thin black lines on the other side of west street. Given that the standard colour for showing a major road on a map is yellow, these guys decided to just use Microsoft paint and draw in 2 lines, and colour in the other side of the road red. Silly people !

    It’s only 3 more sleeps, and I’m really really excited. And nervous. A bit :) See you there

  • iPhoneography Exhibition update

     

    I have been rather quiet here about the exhibition, mostly because I have been hectically busy trying to organise the whole thing. I think I have learnt that organising an exhibition is no mean feat. And the most important lesson is that exhibition is spelt with 3 i’s and not 2. Thank goodness for spell check :)

    So, everything is pretty much ready to go for Thursday eve, all that is left to do is to hang the pieces which we will be doing on Wed & Thur with a gallery curator, who luckily knows a lot more about this than me. There will be around 200 images on exhibit & of those about 60 or so are instagrams. A lot of the people exhibiting have blowing their images up to canvas size, and are really impressed with the way they have turned out. If you would still like to attend, make sure you either RSVP using the RSVP form or on the Facebook event page. If you not attending, don’t stress, I will be taking a cool video of the evening and putting together a “highlights package”

    A couple of people have written about the event their sites, including 2 of the top iPhoneography blogs:

     

    Looking forward to seeing you there.

     

     

  • Check out my awesome instagram canvas

    Remember a while back I told you about Printwild. Well, I decided to get myself an A2 canvas of a collection of mine and the wifes instagram pics we have taken over the last couple of months. I saw Dean on Twitter did this a while ago, and I was really keen to do something similar.

    We picked it up on Friday and am really stoked with the results ! Check…

    A few people have asked me how I did it, so here is a quick rundown. Can’t promise it will work, but I played around quite a bit to get it to look the way I want

    • Download all your images from instagram using Copygram. An awesome awesome tool that allows you to download every single instagram pic you have ever taken.
    • Once I had chosen which images I wanted, I opened them in Adobe Bridge which comes with Photoshop. In there, I sorted the photos in the order I wanted, and then exported it to a PDF. I worked out the size of the canvas, and then how many images I could get across & down. As you can see above, using the standard 612×612 instagram resolution, I managed to get 80 images on the A2 canvas
    • Once I had the PDF, I opened it in Photoshop, made slight changes here and there, and then exported to JPG
    • Uploading to Printwild was seriously a breeze. It took less than 5 mins, and I had my canvas printed in my hands within 4 days. Very cool
    I am hoping to take this up with me to the iPhoneography exhibition, so you can have a look see there if you are attending (Don’t forget to RSVP if you are )

  • iPhoneography Exhibition update

    The entries for the first ever South African iPhoneography exhibition closed on Friday evening, and WOW ! What a response. There were over 75 entries that came through and some of the iPhoneography was beyond amazing.

    I spent the better part of the weekend goign through the entries, and will be mailing the sucessful entrants in the next day or so. The whole idea behind this exhibtion is to try and showcase as many different styles as possible, and I think we have accomplished that.

    I also came across 2 really cool printing options to print out your images. The l today has 55% off canvases and the prices are pretty good as well.

    The other option is a place I found in Ballito, called PrintWild who do some really good Canvas work and offer free delivery over R300. I wrote about them the other day, and have been suitably impressed !

    So, standby, and you should have a mail soon ;)  If you have any questions, please shout

  • Printwild – Order your Canvas Printing online

     

    I came across quite a cool service the other day who are also based in Ballito, where I live. The service, called PrintWild,  is an online service that allows you to order a whole wide variety of photographic canvases & photographic prints.
    The process is pretty simple, you chose your image, upload it, chose your canvas size & they deliver it to you anywhere in South Africa for free (for orders over R300). Easy !!. They also do standard glossy prints which start at R23 for an A4 print. The stretched canvas prints start at R323 for an A4. Check out their full price list here.

    Here is more info on the service from their site:

    PrintWild takes your favourite image and turns it into a wide format canvas, acrylic or glossy print. PrintWild uses only the highest quality machine, ink and paper to produce exceptional canvas prints, acrylic prints and glossy prints in full colour, sepia or black & white.
    The output quality is second to none and the canvas print or photo print is guaranteed not to fade in 75 years. We will arrange delivery of your canvas print or glossy print to anywhere in South Africa free of charge for orders over R300.

    I am busy putting together a collage of some of my instagram pics (thanks to Dean for the idea) and want to have it printed on an A2 stretched canvas. As soon as I have it done, I will post a pic up here of what it looks like. Can’t wait to see the final results. If you keen on seeing some of the services that PrintWild offer, check out their site @ www.printwild.co.za