Milan, Palazzo Brera Wild About Travel It does not have the magnificence of the Florence Uffizi, but the courtyard of Palazzo Brera in Milan is one of the nicest spots of the ‘Fashion Capital’. Originally a convent, built during the Renaissance, Palazzo Brera currently hosts the Art Academy, the Brera Art Collection (with a few significant masterpieces) and the wonderful old library.
‘Faking It’ at the Met, a Photography Exhibition That photograph is one of more than 200 on display in “Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop,” an absorbing if not revelatory exhibition at the . Organized by Mia Fineman, an assistant curator in the museum’s department of photography, the show offers abundant evidence that photographers have been cheating since shortly after the medium’s invention almost two centuries ago. The types of images Ms. Fineman has in mind are not those that involve staging or altering scenes in front of the camera. She is not concerned with whether Roger Fenton moved the cannonballs in his photographs of Crimean War battlefields. In Ms. A technical problem in the 19th century, for example, was that photographic emulsions were disproportionately sensitive to blue and violet light, resulting almost always in overexposed skies. But, you might ask, is tweaking to achieve more realistic effects in the same category as flimflam? To make sense of it all, you need to understand that Ms. (Ms.
Smashing Picture Harbouring a love of Ports - Photo Essay “A ship is safe at harbor, but that is not what ships are for.” William Shedd The problem with the weekly twitter photo sharing phenomenon @FriFotos is that the topics chosen are always great. Often when looking through images only expecting to find one or two, numerous suitable pictures spring out, signalling the need for a post. This is especially true of the topic for this week – harbours. The natural haven of Squamish, Canada Another reason the themes are well chosen is because they allow participants creativity to flow. My good friend Melvin founder and driving force behind the mighty Traveldudes website first brought my attention to the quote which starts this post. Ouranoupolis, gateway to Mt Athos, Greece Many of the world’s greatest cities are ports, located in the estuaries of large important rivers, or on the banks of artificial harbours. Peaceful Spetses in Greece once a stronghold of the struggle for independence Essaouira and its blue fishing fleet Sunset in Bastia, Corsica
Nikon Small World Photography Competition: Using Photomicrography Behold is Slate's brand-new photo blog. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @beholdphotos and on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. David Maitland Two inventions that revolutionized the world, the microscope and camera, offer us glimpses of worlds that were previously inaccessible to humans. This trove of images comes from the Nikon Small World Competition, an image contest Nikon hosts every year, open to both professionals and amateurs. It all sounds, well, technical, which is probably what is important when you judge a contest of entrants that include dryhead marine sedimentary agate, cholesteric liquid crystals, mosquito heads, and … butterfly tongues? According to the contest guidelines, “A photomicrograph is a technical document that can be of great significance to science or industry. Douglas Moore/University of Wisconsin. Ken Ishikawa/Tokyo Institute of Technology. W. Harold Taylor. Philippe Verrees. Tomasz Kozielec/Nicolaus Copernicus University.
Super Easy Typographic Portrait in Photoshop Last year we posted on Abduzeedo a very cool post about typographic portraits, the 45 Amazing Type Faces - Typographic Portraits became one of the most popular posts on Abduzeedo, and a lot of people asked me how to create that effect in Photoshop. We have also posted a little tutorial showing how to do that using, Flash Photoshop Quick Tips #5 - Typographic Portrait, however I decided to create a nice typographic effect using just Photoshop. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a really cool and super easy typographic portrait in Photoshop. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. Step 2 Duplicate the layer and go to Image>Adjustment>Desaturate. Step 3 With the Horizontal Type Tool (T) create text boxes and start adding texts. Also make some keywords much bigger and bold, like in my case I highlight some words like Photoshop Tutorials, Illustrator, Inspiration... Step 4 For each layer, go to Layer>Layer Style>Drop Shadow. Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Conclusion
Art of Composition in Photography- Tips and Examples Guest Article By : Siddharthan Raman The difference between a Snapshot and Greatshot is a composition. The way the photographer view the subject is very different. You may interested in the following related posts : 1) Point of View Before picturing something always try to view the field as a photograph, which helps us in getting knowledge of what to cover and what not to. Photo Credit : Adrian Sommeling Photo Credit : Vladimir Zivancevic – krug Photo Credit : Shlomi Nissim Photo Credit : Rahmat Mulyono 2) Simplicity Try to keep the frame very simple, this helps the viewer to focus only on the subject. Photo Credit : Marcus Björkman Photo Credit : Rimantas Bikulcius Photo Credit : Piotrek Lakowski Photo Credit : Peter Svoboda 3) Geometrical Shapes Look for shapes, patterns, symmetries, eye catching geometries, lines & curves. Photo Credit : Harry Lieber Photo Credit : Ahmad Alsaif Photo Credit : Yongjun Qin Photo Credit : Key Gross 4) Balancing the Picture Photo Credit : Tom Lingxiao Photo Credit : Raymó
Lori Nix diorama photography: Creating post-apocalyptic, tiny dioramas. Behold is Slate's brand-new photo blog. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @beholdphotos and Tumblr. Learn what this space is all about here. Lori Nix. Lori Nix thinks she may be "a little obsessed" with the apocalypse. Citing her strong ability to "build and construct [her] world rather than seek out an existing world," Nix would rather not utilize digital manipulation to create her post-apocalyptic futures, choosing instead to build tiny, painstakingly detailed dioramas. Modeling her dioramas after common spaces such as libraries, bars, and beauty shops (among others), Nix hypothesizes what it might be like to live in a city freed of its inhabitants, where "flora, fauna, and insects mix with the detritus of high and low culture," giving us a glimpse into what could very well be our near future; that is, if all those movies Nix watched as a child were right.
Strobist 40 Must-See Photos From The Past The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” was coined by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. It’s a simple notion that applies to many aspects of our lives, but especially to historical photography. Sometimes, one simple picture can tell you more about history than any story you might read or any document you might analyze. [Read more...] These photographs all tell stories about the historical figures or events that they represent. Perhaps the wars, poverty, fights for freedom and little miracles of the past have lessons for us that we can use today? (via sobadsogood) Woman With A Gas-Resistant Pram, England, 1938 Unpacking the head of the Statue of Liberty, 1885 Elvis in the Army, 1958 Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956 Testing of new bulletproof vests, 1923 Charlie Chaplin at age 27, 1916 Hindenburg Disaster, May 6, 1937 Circus hippo pulling a cart, 1924 Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907.
Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Josephine Baker: Eve Arnold's Portraits of Hollywood Stars Behold is Slate's brand-new photo blog. Like us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter @beholdphotos and on Tumblr. Learn what this space is all about here. Eve Arnold/Magnum Photos. The diverse and lengthy career of photographer Eve Arnold, who passed away earlier this year, not long before her 100th birthday, includes an extraordinary collection of intimate imagery of celebrities. Arnold was often hired as a stills photographer on film sets, focusing equally on moments between shots as on what unfolded in front of the movie cameras. Marlene Dietrich was the first celebrity Arnold was hired to shoot during Dietrich's recording session at Columbia Records in 1952. Arnold photographed Monroe many times.
40 Hauntingly Beautiful Photographs of Graves Taken In Graveyards and Cemeteries By Daniel on April 6, 2009 under Books, Featured, Photography · Tags: Cemetery, Creative Commons, Death, Featured, Featured Photography, Graves, Graveyard, Hauntingly Beautiful, Neil Gaiman, Photography, Photography Gallery, The Graveyard Book Photo Credit: Onkel Wart Last week, I spent a few pleasurably-languid hours reading Neil Gaiman’s “The Graveyard Book.” Gaiman’s wonderful tale of a young boy – Nobody Owens – who is nurtured and protected by the ghostly denizens of a graveyard, transported me into another world, and made me contemplate about life, death and the afterlife. I had experienced the same feelings once before. We paused before a house that seemedA swelling of the ground;The roof was scarcely visible,The cornice but a mound.Since then ’tis centuries; but eachFeels shorter than the dayI first surmised the horses’ headsWere toward eternity. Graveyards are oases of tranquility in this chaotic world. Image Credit: Denise O’ Brien Image Credit: Smitty Image Credit: Suzanna
How People React When Complete Strangers Fall Asleep On Them On The Subway Most of us are all about compassion towards our fellow man, but would you let a tired stranger rest their head on your shoulder for a quick snooze? New York-based artist George Ferrandi has put that to the test in her quirky and fun photo project “It felt like I knew you.” The premise of Ferrandi’s project is simple – she pretends to fall asleep on a total stranger on the NY subway system, and her associate Angela Gilland captured their reactions on her phone. Most people were, not surprisingly, surprised. Napping on strangers is often a part of public prank videos, but Ferrandi approaches strangers with a somewhat more tender approach; “I focus on the shape of the space between the person sitting next to me and myself. For more interesting public New York photography, check out this photographer’s pictures of kissing couples in New York. Source: georgeferrandi.com (via: huffingtonpost)