Eric Holubow. Eric Holubow is an urban photographer. He trawls through disintegrating buildings, documenting their delicate transition into ruin. He captures that intimate point at which the visions of age-old architects slip into beautiful disrepair, reminding us that buildings, too, have a finite existence on earth. Photography, Retouching & Color correction. Light Painting - Tools Of The Trade. The following article is a guest post by Dana Maltby a.k.a. Twin Cities Brightest a.k.a { tcb } an addict to Light Painting. Now that you know the basics of light painting let’s move on to creating the effects you want. If you have a certain idea about a lighting effect you want, chances are you can make it happen. Some ideas are cheap and inexpensive while others can be costly and time consuming.
Every project is a great learning experience, and the results seen in the photos later on will keep you on your toes and inspired constantly. In the following post I will present the tools of the trade that I use to create my light painting art. If you know of other light painting tools and tricks, please add them in the comments. For each of the images below a different tool was used as the main tool. All the images above were taken with the cool stuff from my new bag. This is my first set of gear It was taken about a month into light painting. The set has evolved into this. 50 Incredible Photography Techniques and Tutorials. Advertisement Over the recent months we’ve been presenting various showcases of photography – while many readers hated the showcases, most readers found them inspirational and perfect for a lousy workday’s morning.
However, what we should have done in the inspirational posts is not just provide you with some inspiration for your work, but also present useful photographic techniques which can help you to achieve optimal pictures for your designs. And as requested by many of you, now it’s time to correct our mistake. In this post we present useful photographic techniques, tutorials and resources for various kinds of photography. You’ll learn how to set up the perfect environment and what techniques, principles and rules of thumbs you should consider when shooting your next perfect photo. 1. Celebration Of High-Speed PhotographyThis post is supposed to provide you with some inspiration of what can be done with high-speed photography. 2. 50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography 3. 4. DIY: Making new candles out of leftover wax and old candle jars | Today I’m sharing the fastest and maybe easiest DIY project I’ve done to date.
And you might just have almost all you need for this one around the house right now. I’ve talked about candles here many times. Every once in a while I splurge on some really nice candles from Anthropologie. For me, candles are a simple pleasure that make our home smell luxurious and they just make me happy. The last few times I bought the candles, I kept them after they were burnt out to eventually reuse the wax. What you’ll need Leftover candles with some wax still left around the sides or bottomOne leftover candle jar per candle you plan to makeNew wicks from a craft store ($2 to $3 for 8 to 12 wicks)A microwave safe container that you are comfortable tossing or using just for candlesA spoon Directions Using a spoon, dig out all of the wax from each candle.
We’ve had these in our home for about a week and they are burning very clean and smell great. Affiliate link included. DIY Happy Home Tip - Remove Leftover Wax from Candle Jars. I came across a post on the Yellow Brick Home blog and immediately related to the topic. It is something almost all of us, especially women, have encountered. We get a candle and it burns down but there is always a little bit of wax that remains in the bottom.
We always tell ourselves (or at least I do) that I can use the jar for something else and so I set it to the side, telling myself that I will remove the remaining wax later. Before you know it you have a whole stash of empty candle jars with annoying wax remnants just sitting around taking up space. In the post it says that you can simply pour boiling water into the jar with remaining wax and the wax will heat up and float to the top. As the water cools, the wax hardens back up for easy removal. Step 1: Gather some of those pesky old candle jars! Step 2: Fill your tea kettle with water and put it on the stove to boil. The wax immediately started to melt and float to the top! Perfect glass jars that you can reuse for other things!
DIY Project - Tinting Glass Jars with Jaidis. Earlier the wonderful A.G. Dow stopped by to share her experience with tinting glass using Mod Podge. Her jars turned out so beautiful that I wanted to give it a go! So let’s get to it! Ingredients Needed: 1/8 Cup of Mod Podge, Gloss1 1/2 TBSP WaterLiquid Food ColoringGlass Bottles/Jars Before you begin: Collect all of the needed ingredients and supplies. Step 1: I microwaved 1 1/2 tablespoons of water for 30 seconds in a glass measuring cup.
Step 2: I then poured the mix into the jar and let my daughter swirl it around. Step 3: I allowed the jar to drain as instructed in the original tutorial by placing it upside down on paper towel. Step 4: Instead of placing the jar directly on the rack in the oven, I placed it in a glass casserole dish. Note: My daughter wasn’t happy with the shade of pink when it came out of the oven. You may have noticed that there were multiple jars in the first picture. 1/8 Cup of Mod Podge, Gloss1 TBSP WaterLiquid Food ColoringGlass Bottles/Jars My Verdict: Jaidis.
An Interactive Story Unfolds In This Amazing Origami Book. The Adventures of a Village would probably be considered a real page-turner, except for the fact that it doesn’t have any pages. At least, not in the traditional sense. Rather, Julie Stephen Chheng’s creation is an illustrated choose-your-own adventure that’s part story, part game--all origami. Users fold and unfold different sections of the book, and by doing so, unlock new aspects of the narrative. Folding the image of train tracks through a village one way and reveals that the path ends near a calm seashore, folding it another way, though, conjures tentacles from some sort of sea monster wreaking havoc on the shore. It’s a mutable celebration of imagination that’s always one gorgeous step ahead of you, and challenges the strictures of what defines a book. “The book as an object is an incredible invention, a beautiful design and something functional with its own rules,” Chheng says.
Russian Mother Takes Magical Pictures of Her Two Kids With Animals On Her Farm. These wonderful photographs by Elena Shumilova plunge the viewer into a beautiful world that revolves around two boys and their adorable dog, cat, duckling and rabbit friends. Taking advantage of natural colors, weather conditions and her enchanting surroundings, the gifted Russian artist creates cozy and heartwarming photography that will leave you amazed. Show Full Text The boys in the photographs are the photographer’s sons and the animals belong to the farm she runs. “I largely trust my intuition and inspiration when I compose photos. I get inspired mainly by my desire to express something I feel, though I usually cannot tell exactly what that is” Shumilova explained to BoredPanda.
Rural settings, natural phenomena and the changing seasons seem to be the greatest stimuli in her works. Shumilova told us her passion for photography manifested in early 2012 when she got her first camera. See her gallery on: Flickr | 500px “Children and animals – it’s my life. Faithit: Some Things Are Worth Sharing.