50 Captivating Slow Shutter Speed Photos Using a slow shutter speed allows for a completely different style of photography - from light painting to capturing smooth water effects. This article features a quick introduction to this style of photography, followed by 50 really amazing examples of the technique in action. Hopefully you'll leave feeling inspired! Shooting With a Slow Shutter Speed The Zeugma: Interviews: Duane Michals Duane Michals is that rarest of beings in the world of photography now, a true original. And in common with the other few remaining originals, he was born in the early years of the Depression, when the crumbling of a way of life caused many to question given patterns of thought. However, he came of age in the decade of conformism in the cause of comfort, the Fifties, when a serious photographer faced only one choice, of whether to imitate Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, or Robert Frank.
How To Make an Incredibly Easy Panoramic Photograph With Any Camera You might know that there are special cameras for shooting panoramic pictures. Today, we’ll put one together in seconds that we shot with a regular digital camera and a tripod. Grab your favorite image editor and camera, and let’s go! Even if you don’t have Photoshop, you’ll be surprised at how easy it can be to take some good shots, merge them, and get a convincing panorama.
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72 Creative And Smart Typographic Logo Inspiration If we are starting to go crazy in typography style, then let’s continue with typographic and smart logo designs, shall we? Here you’ll find 72 beautiful logos created by talented designers. This showcase just proves the point how much can one/two words, icons tell using correctly white, negative, positive spacing, colors, accents creating interesting associations. Is Alice in Wonderland really about drugs? 20 August 2012Last updated at 04:40 ET Alice in Wonderland fans have been marking the 150th anniversary of the fateful boat trip that saw the genesis of the children's tale. But why do so many see adult themes in the story, asks Sophie Robehmed. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is, on one level at least, the story of a girl who disappears down a rabbit hole to a fantastic place full of bizarre adventures.
FreeFoto: A Great Source For Stock Images If you are a web designer or an artist looking for some free stock images to use in your next upcoming project (web layout, blog, etc.) then give yourself a tour around FreeFoto, a great online stock image database. Unlike other websites, the stock images on FreeFoto are under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. You are just required to link back to the images and give attributions where required. Finding an image is done in two ways. The first is by manually searching for stock images, and the second is by browsing through the categories.
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Watermark Tee by Sweet Verbana Hello U-Create readers! I am so excited to be guest posting here today. It just so happens to be my first guest post and I'm still a little shocked that it's here at Ucreate, one of my favorite blogs! 36 High-Quality Latest Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs Typography is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner. The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into very attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave.