Monthly Archive for March, 2008

Piano roll boxes at the Mastertouch Piano Roll Factory

Published by imageservices on March 31, 2008 5 Comments

A museum photographer went to the Mastertouch Piano Roll Company to document the amazing factory and it’s contents before it closed in July 2005. We now have a great archive of images from the factory and an extensive collection of Mastertouch items in the Museum that document it’s history.

This highly significant company was established in 1919 and was the longest running and only piano roll manufacturer to be operating in the country.

This used to be a highly popular, quick and easy form of listening to music. Do you still listen to piano roll music?

National Library of Australia here are some other images taken in the factory before it closed.

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Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski
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Clouds photographed at Thunderbolts Way, NSW

Published by imageservices on March 30, 2008 0 Comments

This image was taken by a stretch of road known as Thunderbolts way in regional NSW. This is a beautiful area off the New England Highway on route to Inverell. We were travelling to shoot for the exhibition Yinalung yenu: women’s journey and kept stopping on this stretch of road to photograph the area. These clouds looked amazing whilst travelling so we stopped to document them.

Yinalung yenu: women’s journey an exhibition about six Indigenous women and their incredible stories

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Photography by Paula Bray
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7 shot panorama, Jiayuguan Pass China

Published by imageservices on March 29, 2008 0 Comments

This panoramic landscape shot was taken from seven separate images and then stitched together. The photographer used a medium format camera with a 22 megapixel back, an 80mm lens with a depth of field of f16 and a tripod.

The photographer travelled for nine hours across the desert to get this shot before the sunset and just managed to have enough time to shoot.

These images are best viewed at a larger scale when you can see the great effect of the panorama. So we projected them on a very large screen in the exhibition The Great Wall of China: dynasties, dragons and warriors.

We would love to know if you have experimented with stitching images!

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Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone.
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Stitched Panorama from Echo Point, Blue Mountains

Published by imageservices on March 28, 2008 0 Comments

This image is the result of several shots taken in the Blue Mountains that were stitched together to produce a panorama. See yesterday’s post for one of the single shots. Ten minutes before these shots were taken it was pouring with rain. The results of these panoramas were shown at the exhibition development for the Great Wall of China: dynasties, dragons and warriors. See tomorrow’s post for the results.

You might like to check out this Luminous Landscape for information on stitching images where they have a great tutorial on making digital panoramas.

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Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone
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View from Echo Point lookout, Katoomba, Blue Mountains National Park

Published by imageservices on March 27, 2008 0 Comments

A museum photographer went to this spot to photograph the landscape in preparation for a trip to China. The day was terrible and the photographer was about to leave as the sun broke through the clouds and the rain stopped. The photographer was shooting several landscape images to test the process of merging them together to produce panoramic shots. This is an amazing process where the images are stitched together . This can be done with the latest version of photoshop using the photomerge function but our photographer did this before CS3, which was very time consuming. Tomorrow we will post one of the stitched panoramas from the Blue Mountains then one from the trip to China.
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Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone
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Yellow Kangaroo Paw

Published by imageservices on March 26, 2008 0 Comments

This plant was photographed whilst on location shooting for the Powerhouse Museum exhibition, Yinalung yenu: women’s journey. In this exhibition six prominent Indigenous women share their stories and reveal the important roles women have played in Australian society, from traditional times to today. Kangaroo paw is a species from the Haemodoraceae family and is drought tolerant and bird attracting.
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Photography by Paula Bray.
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Soda Fountains

Published by imageservices on March 25, 2008 0 Comments

Soda fountains at the Paragon Cafe, Katoomba, NSW. Photographed for the publication What’s In Store? a history of retailing in Australia. This publication looked at factors that shaped Australian retailing, including goods, customs, specialist shops and changes in technology.
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Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone.
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Interior Powerhouse Discovery Store

Published by imageservices on March 24, 2008 0 Comments

Interior of the Powerhouse Discovery Centre collection store at Castle Hill photographed in 2005. About 50,000 objects are at this storage and preservation facility. This centre provides a unique opportunity for people to go behind the scenes and discover objects that are not on display. The centre opened in March 2007.
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Photography by Marinco Kojdanovski
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Inspired exhibition architectural view.

Published by imageservices on March 23, 2008 0 Comments

Architectural detail of the Inspired: design across time gallery. Inspired! uncovers the ways in which designers, makers, industries and entrepreneurs interact to make extraordinary objects. The Powerhouse Museum was designed by architect Lionel Glendenning.
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Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone.
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Sandstone detail.

Published by imageservices on March 22, 2008 0 Comments

Sandstone detail of a building in Pyrmont. Photographed for the 2006 Powerhouse Museum exhibition, Paradise, Purgatory and Hellhole: a history of Pyrmont and Ultimo.
Pyrmont was the source of some of the best, building sandstone in the 1850’s.
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Photography by Jean-François Lanzarone.
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