daily dose of imagery | by Sam Javanrouh
/ daily dose of imagery is a simple view of my day to day visual experience. I post one photo a day on this photoblog. for a brief technical detail of each photo, leave your mouse pointer
on images for a few seconds.

/ about WVS
Sam Javanrouh is a Toronto based Photographer/Creative Director currently working at Optix Digital Pictures.

If you're interested in purchasing prints, licensing images or want to hire me, check out the usage/licensing page
for more info.

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The grey patches are a quick calibration guide. For best monitor setting, adjust your brightness contrast until you can distinguish all the single grey tones from one another, and not any box is identical to its neighbour.

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/ equipment list
. cameras and bodies
.. Canon EOS 5D Mark II
.. Panasonic GF1, GH2, GX1
. lenses
.. Canon EF 100mm f2.8 L
.. Canon EF 200 f2.8 II L
.. Canon EF 17-40 L f4
.. Canon EF 50mm f1.4
.. Canon EF 70-200 L f4
.. Canon EF 85 f1.8
.. Canon EF 15 f2.8 Fisheye
.. Sigma 12-24
.. Panasonic 20 f1.7 Pancake
.. Panasonic 7-14
.. Panasonic 14-140
.. Panasonic 100-300
.. Panasonic 14 f2.5 Pancake
.. Voigtlander Nokton 25mm f0.95
.. Olympus 45mm f1.8

/ hardware
. Pentium Quad Core 2.4 machine running Windows 7 x64
. 6GB ram
. Nvidia 8800 GTS 640MB
. Dell 2407WFP + Dell 1907FP displays
. Pantone Huey Pro

/ software
. Adobe photoshop
. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
. Phase One Capture One LE
. Microsoft Media Expression
. Camerabits Photo Mechanic
. ACDSee
. Noise Ninja
. PTLens
. PTGui
. AutoPano
. NiK Software Plugins

 

/ awards and recognitions
.. Winner of Most Popular Photoblog at Photoblog Awards 2011 +
.. Runner up for Best America Photoblog at Photoblog Awards 2011 +
.. Runner up for Best Street Photography at Photoblog Awards 2011 +
.. Grand Prize Winner at PDN Ultimate Music Moment 2010 +
.. Applied Arts Photography 2010 + +
.. Top 5 Photoblogs - Aputure May2010 +
.. Smashing Magazine's 50 wonderful, inspiritational photoblogs +
.. Runner up for Photoblog of the year at Photoblog Awards 2009 +
.. Runner up for best Photo Blog at The 2008 Weblog Awards +
.. Featured in Best in Photography in WEB100 +
.. Runner up for best Photoblog of 2007 - Performancing Blog Awards +
.. Torontoist's favourite photos of 2007 +
. 2007 Photoblog Awards
.. Winner of Most Popular Photoblog +
.. Finalist for Photoblog of the Year +
.. 87 Great Photography Blogs and Feeds / Epic Edits Weblog +
.. Photoblog of the week - VFXY +
.. best photography blog | blogger's choice awards +
.. runner up - best photography of a weblog | bloggies 2007. +
.. photoblog of the year | photoblogawards 2006 +
.. website of the day on TAXI! (061231) +
.. best art/photo blog | 2006 canadian weblog awards. +
. photobloggies 2006
.. photoblog of the year. +
. photobloggies 2005
.. photoblog of the year. +
.. best street photography of a photoblog. +
.. best canadian photoblog. +
.. best photography of a weblog | bloggies 2005. +
.. best canadian photoblog | 2005 canadian weblog awards. +
.. best blog of 2004 | now magazine. +
.. top 5 photoblogs 2004 | forbes. +
.. runner up - best canadian blog | bloggies 2006. +
.. runner up - best photoblog | bloggies 2004. +
.. selected as site of the day by yahoo.
.. netscape’s cool site of the day.
.. photoxel’s site of the month october 2004.
.. agfanet’s gallery of the month nov 2004.
.. blogscanada top blogs, aug 2004. +
.. webby awards worthy 2005 +

/ featured in
.. Archinect - In Focus - Feb 2012 +
.. PhotoInterview - May 2011 +
.. Cleftclips August 2010 +
.. Layer Tennis - 2010 +
.. Applied Arts profile - June 2010 +
.. Petapixel interview +
.. Featured Movable Type Site - Sep2008 +
.. Popular Photography Magazine - Aug 2008
.. Josh Spear (May 5, 2008) +
.. Eating Sandwiches (May 4, 2008) +
.. Globe and Mail (May 3 2008) +
.. Virtual Museum Project: Dubious Views +
.. CBC Arts +
.. CityNews International +
.. The 9 on Yahoo! (10 Jan 2007) +
.. Juxtaviews +
.. Call for Help on G4TechTV. + +
.. CBC television.
.. CP24 Homepage (TV). +
.. Toronto star.
.. CBC Arts / Media +
.. Now magazine. +
.. Spacing magazine. +
.. photojunkie. +
.. JPG magazine + +
.. national post. +
.. cbc online. +
.. cbc radio 3. +
.. bbc news, in pictures +
.. how magazine online. +
.. bbc uk collective. +
.. globe and mail. +
.. coudal. +
.. surface ad symbol.
.. boing boing.
.. daily snap. +
.. blogto podcast. +
.. archinect. +
.. things magazine. +
.. shutterbug magazine. +
.. U&I magazine. +
.. eyes on creativity. +
.. I like cameras +
.. bedsheet and kid +
.. southbend tribune +
.. varsity online +
.. maisonneuve +
.. micro photo video magazine (no.21 nov 2006) +
.. buzzbadge - buzzing ddoi +
.. survival guide - 100 must know sites +