50 Stunning Examples Of Reflective Photography Using reflections in photography can lead to some amazing effects and beautiful images. Using water, windows, mirrors or any sort of reflective surface can change an image into a work of art. The wonderful thing about using reflections when taking photos is that they can completely alter the image from something fairly straightforward to something richer or abstract or otherwise more artistic. Sometimes reflections can be annoying and certainly not artistic. But creativity and good-quality photos depend on the photographer being able to see things differently, rather than seeing only one part of a larger whole. Also, using reflected light can vastly improve the quality of lighting available. Whether you choose to use reflection in an artistic way or as a source of lightning, learning to use reflections in photography will help take your photographic skills to the next level. Below we present over 50 beautiful examples of reflective photography. Showcase Of Photos With Reflections: Mik13
Photographic Composition | What is composition? Position your subject at the intersection of those lines and it will be placed one third of the way from the sides, both top and bottom. This is illustrated in the image above of an old abandoned windmill in France. Some cameras have a means whereby you can actually see a grid in your viewfinder which will help you position your subject. Another way to apply the Rule of Thirds is by cropping the picture afterwards. Here is the shot again (below) after being cropped but without the grid lines. Note that when cropping it helps to keep the dimensions in the same ratio as the original otherwise you end up with a series of photographs of odd sizes which tends to look a bit amateurish. The last shot below is of a second windmill which I took after moving around the field a bit. According to Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004): "...it is seldom indeed that a composition which was poor when the picture was taken can be improved by reshaping it in the dark room." Top of Page
Smashing Picture - StumbleUpon My Photography Tutorials - How To Photograph Rain - Text Tutorials The reason why photographers stay away from using their camera in the rain is that they feel that the weather is not suitable for taking photos. Yet, bad weather sometimes presents the perfect opportunity to get the most out of your photography skills. In particular, autumn rain can provide the perfect opportunity to produce amazing photos as there are so many various colors and textures present at autumn. Shooting in the rain produces a backdrop of a dramatic atmosphere and softens romantic scenes. There are so many different objects and scenes that rain produces which often results in amazing photos. From capturing lightning strikes or water drops on leaves or even mesmerizing cloud formations before or during a storm, you are bound to end up with a collection of impressive photos. The reflections produced by the water can also produce mirror or blurs of dancing colors, making the photos beautiful and unique. Lightning strikes create a drama for any photo.
Anything Worth Seeing / ANTILIMIT Visual Weight and Room Size - How visual weight affects how small your room appears Have you ever encountered two pieces of furniture that are approximately the same size but one seems heavier that the other? In fact, one seemed to take up more space than the other. I am not talking about actual weight or size. I am talking about visual weight - heaviness and size perceived by the eye and sent to the brain as truth. Dark vs. By keeping visual weight in mind, you can fool the eye into thinking rooms are bigger or smaller and more or less crowded - a good thing to keep in mind when you have to come up with a design for an 8 foot by 8 foot room!
How to grow a Rainbow Rose, Naturally In 2004, two dutch companies, River Flowers and F.J. Zandbergen, experimented and successfully grew a rose that had its petals rainbow colored. As petals get their nourishment through stem, the idea is to split the stem into several channels and dip each one in a different colored water. This way all the colors will be drawn by the stem into petals and resultant rose will have all the colors in it. The same method can be applied to other flowers especially to Chrysanthemum and Hydrangea. You can use the same idea to color any flower, anyway you like. Sources: 1, 2, 3 Watch: Flowers Color Time Lapse
40 Incredible Digital Painting Portraits Get the FlatPix UI Kit for only $7 - Learn More or Buy Now As I’m browsing through portfolios on sites like devianART, some of the work that amazes me the most are the digital paintings and portraits of highly-skilled artists. In this post we’ll feature 40 outstanding examples. Digital Portrait Showcase: Captain Jack Sparrow Elena Formal Portrait Chris Ali G Jimi Hendrix Scarlett Johansson Lisa Edelstein Eyes Water Self Portrait Study Carlzon Portrait Portrait Drawing Natalie Portman Gerard Butler Pink Girl with the Blues Mood1 Desire Pintura Digital Sirnyx Portrait Comission Portrait Portrait 4 Scarlett Johansson Search for the Hiro Another Portrait Portrait of a Madman Liv Tyler Nancy Botwin Nancy Botwin 2 Nami Tamaki Kurt Cobain Josh Holloway Mr. Ryan Adams Tatsuya Christina Aguilera Keira Knightley Johnny Depp John Lennon Carlo Angry Look 3D Digital Portrait For more design inspiration, please see: About Steven Snell Stephen Snell is the owner and editor of Vandelay Design.
Premiere Pro CS5 Time Lapse Test With the T2i 550D This video is as “fun as watching paint dry”. I want to get in to the habit of doing at least one time lapse each month. Since I have been using Premiere and had no idea how to do a time lapse using this program (like I did with Sony Vegas) I thought it would be a good exercise to see how it was done. In the future I will do a video on how I created this video, but since I am high on paint fumes right now I will save that for another day. For an extra bonus, I tried to key out the green paint for a little bit of this test, but as the paint drys quickly so does it color so it didn’t work that well. Drag the Shutter I am trying to get better at dragging the shutter. Music by Kevin MacLeod.
Glass Beach - The Dump You'll Want to Visit - Unfinished Man - StumbleUpon Before you say anything about the content of this article, I hate people who litter. I’ll judge you if I think you’re too lazy to recycle. I hate pollution and the death of our fragile ecosystems and all the rest. It’s like a little Inuksuk… I’ve been trolling around for lesser known landscapes to road trip to and explore, and stumbled across this chunk of multicoloured west coast paradise. These days, Glass Beach is a protected part of MacKerricher State Park, but in 1949, it was the site of an unrestricted dump. Eventually, California realized that dumping automobiles, appliances, toxic substances and razor sharp shards of glass into the water was probably a bad idea, and looked elsewhere for a dumping site. The beaches under the cliffs lay polluted, cluttered and ruined, and were basically treated as a forgotten ‘mistake.’
Amazing Roads Photos | Beautiful Places - Geniusbeauty.com: Magazine for Beautiful Women Today I decided to add some more beautiful pictures to the “Beautiful Places” category. And this time it’s going to be amazing photos of roads. Yes, I really mean it, because even roads can be beautiful. These are absolutely different roads: roads in forests, asphalt roads, railroads. But each picture has its own character, its own beauty. If the copyright of any wallpaper or stock photo belongs to you, contact me and I’ll remove it! Photography Tutorials Second Picture is devoted to Photography Tutorials Photography Composition Photoshop Tutorials 3D Tutorials Web Design Tutorials Here you find all my photography tutorials. Many of the articles are not exactly Photography tutorials but rather photography case studies. Photography Tutorials Tone Mapping in Photomatix 17.02.2009 Category: Photography tutorials In this HDR tutorial I concentrate in tone mapping in Photomatix. Besides the tone mapping I do some preprocessing and postprocessing in Photoshop. Continue reading... HDR Photographing 14.02.2009 Category: Photography tutorials In this HDR tutorial I discuss photographing for HDR images. Continue reading... HDR Photography & Processing Work Flow 09.02.2009 Category: Photography tutorials In this HDR photography tutorial I describe the HDR photography and processing work flow. Continue reading... The Meaning of HDR in Photography Continue reading... Family Photos Continue reading... Bad Photos Continue reading... High Speed Sync for Flash