Ghostly Shadows And Light Manipulation by Ian Burns « Cat in water Ian Burns is New York based popular Australian artist. His artworks were presented in more than 100 various publications and exhibitions all over the world. Most of Burns’ works are post modern manipulations and not an exception is these ghostly sculptures. Inspired by the neon signs of Las Vegas’ famous strip, Burns created the sculpture series What Might Be, Progression and his follow-up sculpture “In Increments.”. Australian artist artworks are concentrated not only on the images themselves, but also how the images are being rendered. To spell out words using light and shadows manipulation, Burns created wooden frames and loaded them up with meticulously angled magnifying glasses and light bulbs. Comments comments
50 Free Resources That Will Improve Your Photography Skills Advertisement Photography is a wonderful hobby enjoyed by lots of people all over the world. It’s a very enjoyable passtime, but also a very technical one. There’s a bewildering range of cameras, lenses and accessories, and photographers also have to get to grips with computers and image editing software packages. With this in mind we’ve put together a list of over 50 free resources that will be useful to anyone involved in photography. We’ve divided these websites into categories for easy reference, but please bear in mind that many of these websites deal with more than topic. Beginner’s Zone These websites are an excellent place to start for beginners. Digital Photography School1 Very comprehensive photography resource. Photodoto2 Click on the Photography 101 link for an excellent set of articles for beginners. About.com: Photography3 Photography articles and techniques from the team at About.com. Inspiration The EOScars4 More and more digital SLRs are coming with a movie recording mode.
99 Excellent Examples of Forced Perspective Photography | Photography Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera. There are many ways to attack photography and some are much more expensive than others. When it comes to inspiration then there is no limitation on resources. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts that our readers may find helpful. Don’t forget to and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates. Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography Photography can serve as a nice source of inspiration. Further Resources! Find Something Missing?
Family Portraits: 10 tips for setting up your home photo studio Whether you’re taking portraits of your friends or you’ve been commissioned to photography a family – or whether you’re taking your own family photos – working from your own home photo studio can be exceptionally rewarding. Below we’ve compiled 10 expert tips on how to set up your home photo studio, with fundamental photo ideas for how to light, pose and set up your camera to shoot family photos. Tip 1: Family portraits Shooting any group of people is challenging, but photographing families can test even the most experienced professionals. You need to take control and be authoritative and clear about what you want everyone to do, giving you the best chance of getting everybody looking your way and smiling. Take multiple shots to give you the widest possible choice of images – somebody will always be blinking or half-smiling/ half-grimacing. To inject some energy and fun into proceedings, encourage your subjects to move around and interact with each other. Digital camera effects from A-Z
Histogram: photography cheat sheets for achieving perfect exposure Before the histogram, photography enthusiasts had to go through a lot more effort to get good exposures. But while the histogram is one of the most useful tools on your camera, it’s also one of the least understood. Understanding the histogram in photography and how it tracks your exposure is one of the key steps in learning how to become a better photographer. In this quick guide – and with a few handy cheat sheets – we’ll show you exactly how to interpret your camera’s histogram. Judging whether you have taken a decent shot and a decent exposure is simple with a DSLR. You can instantly see if the shot is too bright, or too dark – so it seems unnecessary to have a second, more scientific, way of judging the suitability of your exposure settings… So why bother looking at the histogram? First, and foremost, displaying the camera’s histogram is not a replacement for looking at the image itself when you review a picture. Reviewing images with your camera’s histogram
Hyper-photos: Jean-François Rauzier attempts to create the most detailed images in the world. Welcome! Behold is Slate's new photo blog. You can find us on Facebook, Twitter @beholdphotos and Tumblr. Hyperphotos are to panoramic photos what Google Earth is to a globe. At the foremost of this evolving genre is Paris-based photographer Jean-François Rauzier, who has spent the last decade building photos of unprecedented detail. As a fashion photographer in the 1970s Rauzier longed to break free from the constraints of advertising and film photography. Rauzier takes an hour or two photographing his subject from every angle “like a scanner.” Sometimes he also incorporates himself, clad entirely in black. If you have a large decorating budget and a huge space, his massive images are available for purchase from Waterhouse & Dodd in London and New York. Click to see more detailed image. Other Photo Features You May Enjoy
88 Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography | Inspiration Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera. There are many ways to attack photography and some are much more expensive than others. When it comes to inspiration then there is no limitation on resources. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts that our readers may find helpful. Don’t forget to and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates. Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography Photography can serve as a nice source of inspiration. Further Resources! Find Something Missing?
Konica Hexar The Hexar is an excellent camera aimed at "real" photography. It's one of the fastest operating cameras I've used, and thus can serve double duty as a point-and-shoot. But it's not a point-and-shoot; if you want something completely automatic that will fit in your pocket, you'll probably be happier with a Yashica T4, Nikon 35Ti, or Contax T2. What makes the Hexar stand out is its f2.0 lens, excellent viewfinder, smooth shutter release, almost spooky quietness, and operating modes designed to aid serious photography. The Hexar is well thought out and well executed. Before jumping into specifics, let me describe the three basic operating modes: P(rogram), A(perture preferred), and M(anual). Exposure Modes The Hexar's P mode is like the program mode on most cameras except that the exposure settings are biased by the preferred aperture and minimum shutter speed you set. In A mode, you set the aperture and the camera sets the shutter speed. In M mode, you set the aperture and shutter speed.
Tutorial Tuesday: Foreshortening Tricks Hi folks! Tutorial Tuesday is going to be a basic one – I’m a bit under the weather currently so this may not be the best post, but I want to give you something that I feel is important in the world of drawing – some pointers on foreshortening. Check this out. Foreshortening is basically an optical illusion created from a compressed looking drawing in perspective. This perspective is distorted in order to create a false sense of depth, and is used a lot in comics – Superman flying with his outstretched arm coming out of the page, or a fist connecting with a villain’s face, etc. These comic drawings you see that appear to come off the page use some form of foreshortening to create that illusion. There’s several ways artists choose to render their drawings using foreshortening. Receding Plane Technique Scruffy Ronin uses a method that relies on a drawing a flat plane that recedes into space as a boundary. Five Points in Foreshortening Size, Overlapping Shapes, and Surfaces Blocks and Circles
Pick the right shutter speed for every photographic situation One of the most intriguing aspects of photography is that it's both an art and a science. Science tells us that, for most photos, there's a specific amount of light that will generate the "perfect" exposure--sort of like measuring chemicals in a laboratory. But it's not all test tubes and Bunsen burners in photography, because there are a million ways to get the right amount of light into your scene. Lots of different shutter speeds and aperture settings add up to the right exposure, for example. You're already had a chance to experiment with that using an interactive online camera simulator . Understanding Shutter Speeds You probably already know that your camera's shutter speed setting controls how long the shutter is left open, and therefore how much light is allowed to reach the camera's sensor. A slow shutter speed lets in a lot of light, but might also contribute to a blurry photo, since the sensor will register both a shaky camera and your subject's moments. Freeze the Action
future-scape: house in nagaoka aug 01, 2011 future scape: house in nagaoka ‘house in nagaoka’ by future-scape architects located in nagaoka, japan images © future-scape architects designed by japanese practice future-scape architects, ‘house in nagaoka’ is a single family residence in nagaoka of northern japan. dark facade contributes to passive solar gain in winter upon entering the space, the visitors attention is drawn upward to the large voids penetrating the ceiling. these interior openings pass through the floor plate of the loft allowing natural light to reach the lower level spaces. especially useful in winter, the sun’s warming rays can enter rooms located within the center of the arrangement. central heating and cooling encapsulated within the floor utilizes the opportunities for vertical circulation to quickly ventilate the home. expansive ribbon windows possess four air spaces to ensure the insulation of conditioned air and maximize daylight. double height entry foyer secondary entrance loft level site plan
How To Give Your Photos a Dark Processed Lomo Effect This post was originally published in 2010 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. Follow this step by step post processing guide to give your photos a dark lomo style effect with high contrast, blue tones and vignette burns. The effect is based on the popular lomographic technique and is similar to the processing effect used in many fashion shots and advertisement designs. Overall this effect does a great job of adding impact to a plain photography with cool colour casts and unusual saturation. View full size photo effect Begin by opening your photograph of choice into Adobe Photoshop. Go to Image > Adjustments > Levels and tweak the tones of the image. At the bottom of the Layers palette, click the Adjustment Layer icon and select Curves. Change the drop down menu to Green and tweak the graph for the green channel to further alter the tones of the image. Finally alter the Blue channel, creating an inverted ‘S’ shape to enhance the blues to give a cool colour cast.
The Amazing Sky | Astronomy author and photographer Alan Dyer presents amazing sky sights Must-Get Christmas Pictures Before the Tree Comes Down! The Christmas tree can provide an excellent background for some really unique photos- here’s a tutorial on how to get some great shots before that tree comes down. 1. The Christmas Tree Classic Bokeh Canon 85mm 1.8 f/1.8 1/40 sec 1600 ISO To get those big, beautiful, blurry lights, use your lens with the lowest aperture- For this picture, I used the 85mm 1.8, but the 50mm 1.8 or 50mm 1.4 would also work nicely. Place your subject as far away from the tree as possible- we moved some furniture around so Howie could be about 8 ft away from the tree. To take the picture, get as close to the subject as possible. 2. Canon 50mm 1.8 f/1.8 1/15 sec 1600 ISO Meep!! Supplies You’ll Need 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Of course, I used a heart punch for the picture of Howie. Canon 85mm 1.8 f/1.8 1/8 sec 800 ISO I loved how the snowflake punched turned out! To get this look, focus on something close to the lens, like your hand, with the tree blurry in the background. I even tried punching out the letter “B”.