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Beautiful Black and White Photography

Beautiful Black and White Photography
Advertisement If you’ve been following Smashing Magazine for a while, you know that almost all posts from the Monday Inspiration series1 are pretty colorful and eye-catching. This post is an exception. Compared to colorful designs where catchy colors help the design to stand out, in black-and-white designs the ability to stand out depends only on its ability to communicate rather than on its appealing visual presentation. Indeed, beautiful black and white photography doesn’t attract with its play of colors. Notice: this post isn’t supposed to showcase the best black-and-white-photos of world’s best photographers; please see it as a modest attempt to inspire designers for experimenting with black and white instead of using a variety of vibrant colors all the time. You may want to take a look at our related posts All photos belong to the respective owners. Beautiful Black-And-White-Photography Alin Ciortea6Alin Ciortea presents examples of modern street photography. Patrick Figaj21Ceremony.

(Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos David Haynes Photography-the Studio at Blount Springs Nikon D3 Shutter Release in Super Slow Motion ( slide your mouse over the image side to side for animation ) Still Loading: [ ......................................................................] (The white line on the left side of the blue “exposure” band, below the big “@”, is when the camera's flash fired for the exposure.) Marianne Oelund recently posted a sequence of images of a Nikon D3 shutter in action, over on the Digital Photography Review Nikon D3 forum. With her permission, I have turned that sequence into a mini web movie application, such that you can animate the frames by sliding your mouse back and forth across the image. I thought she had created the images with a high-speed camera, but it turns out that, lacking a high-speed camera, she went to great (and ingenious) lengths to create this sequence. The setup used to create the images was rather simple; anyone with basic macro equipment could do the same. What wasn't quite as straightforward, was collecting the timing data. I love this kind of ingenuity!

Tygr ve Favele Imágenes HDR Por el 10 de marzo de 2008 en: Sin categoría La técnica HDR “High Dynamic Range” es una tecnología de renderizado que consigue iluminar correctamente todas las zonas de una fotografía aunque estas contengan diferentes luminosidades, con esto lo que se llega a conseguir es que a pesar de los diferentes niveles de luminosidad de las fotografias se obtenga un gran detalle en toda la fotografia. El “problema de esta técnica” es que necesitamos tomar varias fotografías de una “misma vista” pero con diferentes exposiciones de luz, por ello a un aficionado eventual le puede llegar a conseguir obtener buenos resultados. El pionero en el uso de imágenes HDR es Paul Debevec, su intención era crear mayor realismo luminístico y animar objetos gráficos inanimados. Para intentar terminar de comprender esta tecnología lo más fácil es ilustrarla con un ejemplo… el mejor que he podido encontrar es este. Las mejores imágenes HDR Entradas relacionadas: No hay coincidencias

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. 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. You may also want to take a look at the following related showcases: Showcase Of Photos With Reflections: Philippe Sainte-Laudy9168357 merriewells10 Mik13 François Raimbaud15 Antti-Jussi Liikala17 Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir19 Azzam Merchant10521 Barbara Jones25 Julio Salinas27

Andrew Sanderson photography Galerie Timmerije Tigre Collazos: Ukradeno odjinud s by Maciek Duczynski All photos are copyright the photographer, and may not be used without written permission. Aaron Falkenberg , September 09, 2006; 07:46 P.M. Outstanding shots so far. I'll be checking in to see what's new. Cheers, Aaron Daniel Rice , September 16, 2006; 01:41 P.M. Great Nice work. VINCENT LAURENT , September 18, 2006; 05:04 P.M. Those ones too !! All your pictures here requires a book !!! John Patrick , September 18, 2006; 05:52 P.M. Fantastic shots so far. John. Adam Salwanowicz , September 23, 2006; 04:16 A.M. Kristijan Janjic , September 23, 2006; 06:25 A.M. outstanding landscapes!!! best regards kikki Martin Sutton , September 23, 2006; 04:26 P.M. Maciek You certainly have an eye for a good landscape - more please. Ramunas K , September 25, 2006; 03:30 A.M. Fantastic! Chris Stachura , September 25, 2006; 11:38 A.M. your landscapes are perfect! Matt Vardy , September 28, 2006; 09:56 A.M. Some of the most beautiful landscape photos I have ever viewed. Marek Dziekonski , October 05, 2006; 04:22 P.M. wow L.

10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits How do you take Portraits that have the ‘Wow’ factor? Today and tomorrow I want to talk about taking Portraits that are a little out of the box. You see it’s all very well and good to have a portrait that follows all the rules – but it hit me as I was surfing on Flickr today that often the most striking portraits are those that break all the rules. I want to look at some ways to break out of the mold and take striking portraits by breaking (or at least bending) the rules and adding a little randomness into your portrait photography. I’ll share ten of these tips today and a further ten tomorrow (update: you can see the 2nd part here). 1. Most portraits are taken with the camera at (or around) the eye level of the subject. Get up high and shoot down on your subject or get as close to the ground as you can and shoot up. 2. It is amazing how much the direction of your subject’s eyes can impact an image. A. B. 3. 4. Using techniques like slow synch flash can create an impressive wow factor. 5.

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