A lizard on a lizard, love this juxtaposition and its really a lucky shot considering the narrow depth of field. I try my best to keep the eyes in focus and this time I got lucky! Taken at the Honolulu Zoo this past May. 1/250 sec at f/5.0 with Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM on Canon 40D at ISO400. Cropped and post processed in Lightroom/Adobe Photoshop CS4.1
I was inspired to do this piece because of a recent Art History lecture I had on Andy Warhol. Although most of his work isn’t done by himself, he was the first artist to really embrace ‘Hollywood plastic’, and question society itself. He loved the fakeness in Hollywood and loved the celebrity image and used it to send a message to people about the kind of masks people wear. So I was really inspired to create something about society, and how its never ending on how much they can criticize you and make you want to change everything about you. The technical aspect of the photo is this: AB800 with large softbox at 1/4 power to camera left. The editing is fairly simple, just some curves and color adjustments in Photoshop.
The soft lighting in this photo is what initially caught my eye. As Katie stated it was produced by using a softbox.
You can check out more Katie’s work on her flickr photo stream and her myspace.
This is a square crop off the original photo (taken with a wide angle lens) and although I’d composed the original with a large expanse of sky I had to add some more to get the “big sky” look I was after. I did this by cloning the lower sky, that done, I added about 3 different texture layers and “played” with opacities and blending modes until I got something that worked -sometimes I work for hours on an image but this one came together fairly quickly.
Make sure to check out the other amazing photos Jill has taken.
With a craft mad 3 year old we often have pencils out. On this occasion we’d just sharpened them ready for another colouring session. Lining them up just reminded me of the way the teeth interlock on a zipper. It was shot with a Canon 400D with a 50mm f/1.8 lens with screw on macro filters. Colours were brightened post production.
Thanks Nicola and great idea. Next time I see colored pencils around I think I’ll take a shot just like this. Very creative.
“I am doing a 365 and on that day I didn’t have a photo yet. So I went into the kitchen at work and snapped this shot. No setup, no special lighting. I post processed it in photoshop to get the tones I wanted and added some vector graphics. That’s about it :)”
365 is when you take a picture of something, usually yourself, once a day and post it for one year. 365 days in the year so you end up with 365 photos. The trick is trying to be creative after all that time.
Here is a 365 project by a photographer named Julie that caught my eye. Below is a slideshow of some of her work.
Also, here is a flickr group that you can join if you’d like to start your very own 365 project.
I think what made me take this photo, was the influence of having seen so many inside shots of old passenger trains, and old busses. Stepping inside this vintage car, my camera automatically lifted for the shot. I did have a vision of using HDR, but I was too lazy to set for multiple images. Since I was shooting in RAW format, I knew I could produce a descent HDR anyway; at least in the style that I enjoy creating.
The image was processed with Photomatix single RAW HDR conversion, with somewhat exaggerated settings. Then processed in Adobe Photoshop CS3, where Neatimage was used to reduce noise, and a texture layer was added to enhance the feel of depth and color.
Canon EOS 40D
Canon EF 24-70mm 1:2.8 USM lens
1/64s
f2.8
ISO 400
Allen has definitely shown how someone can use HDR’s to make photos look like paintings or masterpiece works of art. Here’s another image of his that caught my eye.
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I took this photo of Hilary at 1:30 on a very bright and sunny day. Walking through a garden we came across a path under a bridge. I asked Hilary to step into the shade and took the shot. A lot of the light in the photo is sunlight reflected off the pavement. I love how the other side of the bridge frames her into the photo.
In photoshop I used a pair of Hue Saturation Lightness layers to convert to black and white and a curves layer for the split-tone.
After
Here is how it’s done:
