Saturday, September 6, 2014
Friday, September 5, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Understanding Histograms in Photography
Histograms can be found in almost any modern image editing software. It is my guess that most current digital cameras, including some compacts, can display histograms as well – some even live as you shoot using your LCD screen. Such a persistent inclusion would suggest that histograms are quite important. Even so, many beginner photographers don’t seem to understand what they show. There is nothing wrong or shameful with that, as histograms may appear to be rather complex at first. Truthfully, they aren’t. In this article for beginners, I will try to teach you how to understand histogram. Hopefully, by the end of this tutorial, you will learn to “read” them and see if they are useful to your photographic needs.
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Monday, September 1, 2014
Most beautiful women in the world without makeup
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| Jessica Biel |
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New Boston Harbor Photo up today
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| Toward Logan Airport by Global Village Photography |
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Aerial Photographs of Beijing by Trey Ratcliff
I have been browsing the web for quadcopters and the aerial photography that can be taken with them and came across the story of Trey Ratcliff in Beijing. He was using his ‘New DJI Phantom 2 with Zenmuse H3-3d 3-axis Gimbal and Gopro Hero 3+ Black Edition‘ quadcopter to photograph the Forbidden City in China and was detained by Chinese authorities. They released him and confiscated his equipment but luckily for us he had already been filming Beijing for 5 days. Here’s some of what the photographer captured.
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Sunday, August 31, 2014
10 amazing photos that look like paintings
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| Southern California waves, by David Orias. |
Today we want challenge you with the reverse process: here are 10 photos that incredibly look like paintings. Let’s see if your eyes will play tricks on you as much as ours did.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (and more)
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| "Two Beds, Two Windows," 1981. © Jack Leigh Estate/Courtesy Laney Contemporary Fine Art |
The late Jack Leigh may be most remembered for his image, “Midnight,” a 1993 photograph of a sculpture called “Bird Girl” in Savannah, Georgia’s Bonaventure Cemetery. The image was a commissioned for the cover of author John Berendt’s novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. But Leigh’s career stretches beyond the single image. “Jack Leigh: Full Circle, Low Country Photographs, 1972-2004,” at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art celebrates his legacy. “While the exhibition’s primary aim is to explore and cement the importance of Leigh’s work, it also aims to continue his legacy of inspiring a new generation of artists,” said Tim Peterson, co-curator of the exhibition and chief curator of exhibitions at SCAD, in a press release about the exhibition. “Jack Leigh served as a defining influence for SCAD students and alumni, further augmented by important opportunities at the Jack Leigh Gallery.” The exhibition also includes work by photographers who inspired Leigh along the way, including Eva Rubenstein, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, George Tice, Sally Mann, William Christenberry, William Eggleston, Lisa Robinson, Marcus Kenney, Tobia Makover and others.
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Hurricane Katrina Then and Now: Lifting the Fog of Memory
Faded memories can eat at you. You may try to remember, but only a fog remains. The true power of photography records the present to help us remember the past. In today’s digital age, memories are captured frequently only to get lost in our digital vaults, but when we do go looking for them again, they can fire the billions of neurons that string together the pieces and lift the fog.
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A Conversation with Ryan Muirhead on Finding a Calling
Ryan's career as a photographer started only around five years ago, since then he's made quite a splash in the film-shooting (and otherwise) community and become a constant source of inspiration for me. In this interview he chats with The Artist Report about the importance of living in the present, concurring (or at least learning to live with) failure, and how he's gone about weighing what he wants to do against what he needs to. If you have an extra 25-odd minutes this afternoon I'd highly encourage you to check out this video, you may be a better photographer for it.
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Director’s Notes: Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man
In most cases, books about films are published long after the film has been made, after it’s won enough regard that people want to delve behind the scenes to appreciate it on another level (the exception being blockbuster films, whose companion books are a regular part of the accompanying onslaught of merch).
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