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50 Captivating Slow Shutter Speed Photos | Phototuts+ 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 At the most basic level, you simply need to place your camera on a tripod (or flat surface) then make sure the shutter speed is set to a low value. Anything from around 1/10 of a second should allow an interesting effect, and experimentation is key - you'll probably need to play around to find the most appropriate setting. Useful Tutorials Shooting Waterfalls Steve Berardi has already written a tutorial here on Phototuts+ on how to shoot waterfalls which helps introduce the idea of shooting slow shutter images. Light Painting Inspirational Photos Michael Bosanko Michael Bosanko is my favorite light painter. Website Sara Heinrichs Flickr Website

Terry Border Makes Everyday Objects Come Alive (18 pics) Mail-Order Bride Artist Terry Border is one of those people who has a secret gift. He can take boring, everyday objects and make them come alive! What I love most about his work, though, is that it can be enjoyed by everyone. Today, I asked Terry where he gets his ideas. "Basically, I get ideas for photographs when everyday objects remind me of something else. "Then again, sometimes an idea just pops into my head. Cereal Killer Kiwi Getting Ready for the Beach Irony in Pill Form A Side of Baby Carrots Star of the Show Stud Muffin Honeymoon Sweet A Horrific Yarn Appetite for Destruction Paper Training Our Little Dog, Frank It's a Dirty Job, But... Zombies are Nuts About Brains Fruit With Life Experience Halloween Candy Exposure Behind the Scenes Missing "You know those things about yourself that you're self conscious of? Terry Border Other Things That Come Alive!

Alphonse Mucha Posters In 1860 Alphonse Maria Mucha was born in the countryside of Moravia. But it was in Paris where he eventually became prosperous in his companionship with Sarah Bernhardt, producing posters for her plays. Making a number of artworks for posters, panels and magazines, labels and even menus. He moved to America in 1904. There he instructed in various art schools and also taking on other assignments. Meanwhile he was also busy working intensely on his personal works. In 1910, after World War 1, Alphonse Mucha went back to Prague where he was assigned to such honorable tasks as designing stamps and even bank bills. The beautiful curving lines and pastel tinted colors with its detailed and decorative motifs. Art Nouveau created a fresh style to the world of posters and home decoration. Art Nouveau aims to beautify all aspects of life. More on Mucha Alphonse Mucha Posters was a major part of the Art Nouveau movement. Around new years day 1895 the poster was seen on billboards around Paris.

Alex Grey Watercolor Masterpieces This is the first of its kind post on Designzzz. The reason this subject of watercolor paintings is selected because these paintings cannot carry as much detail as other routine oil or digital paintings. That is due to the fact that watercolours are not that sophisticated with gradients and swirls. This aspect makes it the most aspiring brand of art, hence we are sharing a collection 20 watercolor paintings from all over the internet. And as usual, all the image names are properly linked back to the sources, just click them if you would like a large scale image. What do you think about these kind of posts? Eagle Harbor Mask Butterfly Effect Escape from the Sky Where Time Stands Still At First Glance Watercolor Portrait Signs of a Trawlerman Vanya Forest of Wings Qolsharif Mosque Jesus Oak Creek Sentinel I See You Princess Kaguya Brother Color Me! Hotel Rubi

Alphonse Mucha Biography Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic. It was a small town, and for all intents and purposes life was closer to the 18th than the 19th century. Though Mucha is supposed to have started drawing before he was walking, his early years were spent as a choirboy and amateur musician. It wasn't until he finished high school (needing two extra years to accomplish that onerous task) that he came to realize that living people were responsible for some of the art he admired in the local churches. That epiphany made him determined to become a painter, despite his father's efforts in securing him "respectable" employment as a clerk in the local court. Like every aspiring artist of the day, Mucha ended up in Paris in 1887. Meditation c.1886 For five years he played the part to perfection. On January 1, 1895, he presented his new style to the citizens of Paris. Commissions poured in. To learn more about Alphonse Mucha, see:

A Stunning, Intricate Maze Made From 2,200 Pounds of Salt | Co.Design Motoi Yamamoto has to be the most patient man in the world. A Japanese artist, Yamamoto uses salt to create monumental floor paintings, each so absurdly detailed, it makes A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte look like child's play. He calls them, fittingly, his Labyrinths. Yamamoto's latest labyrinth creeps out from a brick tunnel at the Fondation Espace Ecureuil, a gallery in France. He made it -- as he makes all these installations -- by sprinkling salt on the floor through a plastic bottle used for machine oil, starting at the back of the tunnel, then moving forward to avoid stepping on the designs he's already drawn. The whole thing took 50 hours over the course of five days and a whopping 2,200 pounds of salt. Here's an older installation at Sankt Peter parish in Cologne: The story behind Yamamoto's salt sculptures is sweet and sad. Yamamoto takes pains to extend the metaphor beyond the walls of the art gallery.

3D Glass Panes Using multiple layers of clear glass, Canada based David Spriggs and Chinese born Xia Xiaowan, transform flat artwork into 3D sculptures. Viewers are treated to different shifting perspectives of the works based on where they stand in the art space. Spriggs work revolves around powerful explosive imagery, often resembling storms, cosmic blasts or firework like explosions. Xiawan’s “spatial paintings,” which often feature distorted figures, are drawn individually using colored pencil on tinted glass. See Also INCREDIBLE 3D ILLUSTRATIONS JUMP OUT OF THE SKETCHBOOK For more on David Spriggs see his beautiful website at davidspriggs.com or for more on Xia Xiaowan see Wikipedia Above and Below: Xia Xiaowan’s distorted 3D figures Artist: Xia Xiaowan Below: David Spriggs beautiful paintings fill the room with stormy emotion. Artist: David Spriggs Artist: David Spriggs Source: amusingplanet.com

Sketches : Kevin Ragnott - StumbleUpon Contact Blog | Facebook | Copyright 2010 KCRWorks Arthouse Page 1 Arthouse Page 2 Arthouse Page 3 Arthouse Page 4 Arthouse Page 5 Arthouse Page 6 Arthouse Page 7 Arthouse Page 8 Arthouse Page 9 Arthouse Page 10 Arthouse Page 11 Arthouse Page 12 Arthouse Page 13 The Art of Paul Kuczynski - mashKULTURE Take a look at some paintings by artist, Paul Kuczynski. More after the jump. Seeking Higher Consciousness We can learn so much from nature. So much so, that if we modeled all of our technology off of the basic principles of how nature operates, we would be in very good hands. Using the law of conservation of energy, we would make sure that all power was used to the most efficient and effective means possible. For example, modelling our Solar Panels off of Photosynthesis, free energy becomes as commonplace as cars on roads… or sliced bread! These are actual planes in the air all at the same time! Wait till you see it in action in the video below, it’s amazing! In this video, Louie Schwartzberg describes a movie that he has been working on for a while, which brings a level of awareness to “That which is Unseen”. The most exciting part to me was the Dragonflies. Imagine if you had your own little Dragonfly jet they could fly around anywhere you wanted? There’s only one word I can use to describe it… Badass! Okay, this is just plain amazing! They say it works, and they’re convinced!

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