Take a look at the latest website completed. It was for a NY based pop rock band, Days of Season. We wanted to create something different and non-conformist from what’s out there right now. Instead of doing a boring vertical blog based website, I came up with this horizontal scrolling website. I created a panorama that spans through the website and takes you from day to night as you scroll to the end, symbolizing the change of seasons. The panorama was inspired by their album cover, but had to be fully composed using other images. (more…)
A blog by Raul Coto Batres.
Archives for the year of: 2010
This is exactly how I’m feeling right now.
The government funds an art piece that comments on advertising. A provocative new sculpture has opened at the U.S.-Canada border crossing near Vancouver, BC. It’s a billboard advertising…well, nothing.
[via Fast Co Design]
Mind you, these are not photographs but composites by veteran CG artist Jim Kazanjian. Beautifully eerie. (more…)
Back in late 2oo8 Adobe released Photoshop CS4 along with one of the most impressive image editing features to date, Content Aware Scaling. Take a look at this in depth video and see what’s going on behind its technology.
Two years ago I was in Harlem exploring the area with my friend Alicia when in an impulse we decided to check out El Museo del Barrio. We had only one hour before the museum closed. As we quickly walked around the galleries none captured our attention as this one did; Dulce Pinzón’s Immigrant Superheros. I was deeply inspired by her photographs and the way she exalted and romanticized the everyday NYC worker. Read her description of the project: (more…)
Castle, I don’t even watch the show but I have a lot more respect for the writers who finally brought image enhancing back to reality. (more…)
A few years ago, French photographer Sacha Goldberger found his 91-year-old Hungarian grandmother Frederika feeling lonely and depressed. To cheer her up, he suggested that they shoot a series of outrageous photographs in unusual costumes, poses, and locations. Grandma reluctantly agreed, but once they got rolling, she couldn’t stop smiling. (more…)
My good friend and super star stylist, Karin Elgai. Check out her work here: www.karinelgai.com
I can’t get enough of this video. I urge you all go and get his album now!
I know I know, you may be asking what happened to October’s mix? Well this is it. Things were really crazy last month (birthday parties, Halloween, new website launches) so it has been pushed to November. Look at it on the bright side, you now get two mixes this month :) Without further ado here’s this month’s first mix. (more…)
In the world of advertising and photography nothing is as it seems. You can have bad photography and still be able to make your work shine after retouching. That was the case with this recent project where I had to compose 3 images into one. The lighting is not even consistent throughout all images. But after a few hours of tinkering, tweaking (and magic), you can see the final product is something worth of an ad. Retouchers are really the unsung heroes of advertising and photography. (more…)
So I finally had a chance to work on my new website and I gotta say is coming along very well. Here’s my concept from a few months ago. The layout has remained basically the same but I’ve mad a lot of tweaks to spice it up. The idea for this new site was to incorporate all the work I do, not just photography. So it was necessary to have a flexible site able to handle images, text and video.
Updated look with horizontal scrolling images
Another month another great mix to share! It’s actually been a very exciting month with new releases by Interpol, Of Montreal, The Walkmen and El Guincho! And a nice little treat from Kanye, from his VMA performance. Many of you have requested individual MP3s for all songs, so I’m changing up the format of the mixes to a Zip file with all the MP3s. Now you can listen to them individually and share them with friends! Enjoy. (more…)