PICTURES FROM ME… photos taken by me, family, friends, and occasional complete strangers. As a creative professional, I'll also post anything that interests me… funny, artistic, culinary...who knows
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Cinematheque suisse by Kenny Brandenberger
sweet...literally
AMAZING what he does with High speed. I don't have the capability or the equipment, but I have see the rigs for sale that allow you to do this. Cool.
Even though he only describes it as a hobby, Heinz Maier’s high-speed water drop photography is some of the best we’ve seen.
Using simple white backgrounds and colored liquids, Heinz transforms water into amorphous sculptures.
High-Speed Water Drop Photos Are a Cut Above the Rest
via 2photo
Celebrity portrait photography is tricky business, but Peter Hapak has mastered the technique.
His incredible portfolio will leave you wondering if there’s someone famous he hasn’t met. Check it out below!
Celebrity Portrait Photography at Its Finest
via It’s Nice That
Asiatic Lilies-- courtesy of my wife's green thumb!
REALLY NEAT VISUAL IDENTITY. see if you can pick up all that it communicates about the brand? visualgraphc:
Hefty’s Burger by Jake MacDougall
Festa Major by Marc Pallàs
How To Create a Double Exposure in Photoshop
more iphone pics
experimenting with my iPhone again (and I have the older 4) to take closeup shots. I am really pleased overall with the iPhone's ability to shoot closeup. My wife uses her 4s regularly to shoot and gets really good results. I fully intend to continue using the iPhone in conjunction with my dslr.
Kyuho Kim: Gravity
PARDON MY CLOUDS I'll be honest… I know looking at clouds is akin to watching vacation slides. It's a terrible cliché, and everyone does it at some point or another and expects everyone else to view them. I think its just that they're so darn fun to shoot, and maybe just a bit less so sometimes to view. Today was an amazing day–clear skies, cool autumnal weather as I lay on my freshly prepared deck. I fired a few, and added them to my pack of cloud pics. Enjoy (or loathe if you prefer).
"SUPERMOON" last night (7/11/14).
Took some with a clear sky easily the last full moon. THIS TIME... played with ISO (some are up to 3200) and a variety of shutter speeds. Figured aperture needed to be f22-322 (maybe flawed logic?). Anyone have tips on this for getting the detail in the clouds and the details in the moon? Seems you expose for one or the other? (note: these are lower res JPG also). I didn't want to composite in PS, nor did I want to shoot HDR. Didn't think ND filter would do anything either.
These 5 blend modes in Photoshop can be used for stunning results.
My wife's flowers in the front of our house. Playing a bit with lens compression on a zoom (about 80 mm on the roses, 220 on the lilies).
Poster by Raquel Peixoto
Brush Script Travel by Neil Secretario
Retouching is a labor of love. It takes time, focus, and the right mindset to turn good images into great ones. All of that time in front of the computer can drive anyone crazy, so we asked world-renowned retoucher Pratik Naik for his tips for staying loose and producing consistently beautiful final images. (To hear […]
Crispy Eggplant Parmesan Subs // A Beautiful Mess
This looks amazing and delicious and exactly like something I could actually make!
beautiful
Atypical by Pawel Nolbert
wonderful!
Olivia Wright whole, 2008
Plastic shopping bags have become a fixture of modern life, but despite their convenience, their impact on the environment is tough to ignore.
In his Plastic Bag Landscapes series, photographer Vilde Rolfsen draws attention to the issue by using colored lights to transform the bags into abstract images. See the rest below!
Plastic Shopping Bags Transformed Into Abstract Images
via AnOther Mag
Photographing fast-moving subjects doesn’t always mean using quick shutter speeds. In fact, adding motion to your still images can enhance the look and feel of the speed. Corey Rich explains how to imply movement in photographs with simple panning: Rich, using a Nikon D4S and a Nikon 17-35mm ED-IF AF-S zoom lens, photographs mountain biker Jake Dorey speeding down […]
Friday the 13th, 2014… the full "honey (or strawberry) moon," with mercury in retrograde.
Shot this almost last minute, just using an inexpensive basic zoom lens and a tripod (autofocus too on most of the shots, no less— I know, I know). It was at 180mm. No fancy telephoto, no telescope mount. The lower photo (longer exposure) shows my perch for a few of the shots. To cut the neighborhood porch lights, I actually shot from between bushes and trees. From my angle the lights were almost all out of sight.
The top photo is the one I liked the best.
The middle two show a series of adjustments I made. I fired about 17 shots, and started a very small amount of post on them (primarily cropping tight to moon),
old photos the top shot was me experimenting a bit with strobe: softbox/umbrella mixed. The intent was to do photos ala the "long form" interview head shots. Digital, used the T2i, 55mm. Funny, because the subject is the same person as the bottom shot.
Bottom shot was taken with a medium format twin-lens Rolleicord. I believe 93 or 94? Reflective metered. I developed it in a darkroom (kids--remember to ask your parents about "darkrooms" and "chemical stabilization"). The photo was lost years ago, but not before I scanned it on an old 300ppi desktop scanner. I wish the scan was a bit better.
![Old Photo PROM Card From About Two Years Ago. [blurred The Name Of The Kids In The Shot]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/6917dbb441847f26fed309c178b09bc2/tumblr_n741bc9Rba1rlq9gwo1_500.jpg)
old photo PROM card from about two years ago. [blurred the name of the kids in the shot]
old photo
Only have the low res version from FB (reclaiming some of my FB shots). A random creepy "sky-before-the-storm" cloud shot-- don't recall if this was Camera or iPhone. I do recall tornadic conditions, so likely springtime or early summer a year or two back.
The backstory
Funny story about these orchids: I got one of the centerpieces from our student design show reception in April. It was the end of the night, and we were cleaning up the area, and there was a remaining orchid after all of the students and guests had theirs, so one of my colleagues said that I should take it home for my wife.
I know very little about flowers, but what I did know was that orchids were supposed to be finicky. It was a cold night, so I warmed the car. There was a support clip that the orchid stems were attached to a small rod on, to train them up. I set it carefully in the cup holder and began to drive home.
As I turned right at some point, my elbow hit the plant, snapping the stems almost in two in two different places. Aaagh! If not for bad luck I'd have no luck at all!
So I ran into the house, and grabbed some packing tape, wrapping it around the stems, propping them up. Yeah..that should work I thought to myself. Using the logic of a mischevious six year old, I brought the plant in and showed it to my wife.
She also was disappointed about my careless elbow, and slightly amused at my packing tape "cast." But we figured that we'd give it a go anyway. After about a week, one of the stems showed signs of dying, so I pulled it off and tossed it. The other seemed to be OK though, so I kept it in the sun and kept on watering it.
It appears to have come through OK (knock-on-wood). You can see in the top pic the areas where both stems snapped, and the one surviving stem thriving with two flowers, and a new "bud" forming behind them. The tape is till in place (afraid to remove it for fear of breaking it again).
The photos
On a rainy Wednesday, I thought I'd photograph this survivor for kicks. Put a cheap poster board v-flat behind it, and propped it up on pizza boxes. Used only window light (which admittedly wasn't much on this very gray day).
I also wanted to see under similar conditions what I could get out of the old iPhone 4 camera I have (5 mp). The bottom two shots are from the iPhone. They are a bit more contrasty, and have some noise in the bgnd, but look really good in average light conditions. There is also a bit of the flat and tape that got caught in the shot as the angle of approach is different with the phone (tried to smooth the tape on the flat out, and looks sad I know). The data on the iPhone shots is saying they are f2.8, and 1/120 to 1/60th of a sec? What that means on a lens that is a few mm is pretty relative, but still impressive. I imagine the Samsung and the iPhone 5 would look even better.
Oh...and guess what happened next? The flimsy V-flat fell onto the plant. But alas— alive and well still. That thing is like ROCKY.
OLD SLIK broke up. Got this today via UPS. Looking froward to using it… thing is built like a tank! Not the BENRO, MANFROTTO, or GITZO I'd like, but very solid so far.