www.ted.com What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, photographer and author Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions, and his answer is influenced by his faith as well as by his scientific turn of mind We can train our minds in habits of happiness. Interwoven with his talk are stunning photographs of the Himalayas and of his spiritual community.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
This time-lapse depicts a woodland floor with toadstool Fly Agaric and Phallus impudicus fungi growing. Filmed by Neil Bromhall for www.rightplants4me.co.uk Fly Agaric are poisonous and should not be eaten. Phallus impudicus is also called the stink horn fungi because is smells of rotting flesh to attract flies to feed on its spores. Getting flies to distribute its spored is an ingenious method whereas the Fly Agaric uses the wind to disperse it spores. It’s called Phallus because the shape of the fungi looks rather phallic penis This was filmed in my studio over a period of three weeks using Nikon D300 cameras, ellinchrom studio flash, humidifier and time lapse track Exposure interval 8-10 minutes Music “Dreaming spirit” by Paul Mottram
Video Rating: 5 / 5
A few nice visual art images I found:
Dublin Contemporary 2011 – Iveagh Gardens In Dublin
Image by infomatique
A NEW VISUAL arts exhibition has opened in Dublin which features over 90 artists from five continents.
A major exhibition called The Office of Non-Compliance is housed in Earlsfort Terrace and I hope to publish some photographs later this week. The Iveagh Gardens are being transformed into a sculpture garden throughout the six-week event and I took the opportunity to photograph some go them. I assume that more are to be added, I will check on a regular basis.
Theme
The title and theme of Dublin Contemporary 2011 is Terrible Beauty—Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance. Taken from William Butler Yeats’ famous poem “Easter, 1916”, the exhibition’s title borrows from the Irish writer’s seminal response to turn-of-the-century political events to site art’s underused potential for commenting symbolically on the world’s societal, cultural and economic triumphs and ills.
The second part of the exhibition’s title underscores Dublin Contemporary 2011’s emphasis on art that captures the spirit of the present time, while introducing the exhibition’s chief organizational engine: The Office of Non-Compliance. Headed up by Dublin Contemporary 2011 lead curators Jota Castro (artist/curator) and Christian Viveros-Fauné (critic/curator), The Office of Non-Compliance will function as a collaborative agency within Dublin Contemporary 2011, establishing creative solutions for real or symbolic problems that stretch the bounds of conventional art experience.
Venues and Programme
The main exhibition hub at Earlsfort Terrace, former home of University College Dublin, will provide a range of unusual spaces for mini solo exhibitions that range from large-scale installations to smaller intimate hangings. The Office of Non-Compliance, located within the Earlsfort Terrace exhibition site, will function as a promoter of ideas around a laundry list of non-conformist art proposals. This element of the exhibition will include ad-hoc, accessible structures for discourse around art and its place in society.
Extending its reach across the city, Dublin Contemporary 2011 will partner with four important Dublin galleries: The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, The National Gallery of Ireland and The Royal Hibernian Academy.
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane will present a retrospective of the work of renowned Irish artist Willie Doherty. An exhibition of American painter Alice Neel’s striking, psychologically penetrating portraits will take place at The Douglas Hyde Gallery.
The National Gallery of Ireland will host works by a number of international artists as well as a new commission by the distinguished Irish artist Brian O’Doherty. The Royal Hibernian Academy will host an exhibition of works by American painter Lisa Yuskavage and a new commission by Irish artist James Coleman.
Dublin Contemporary 2011 – Iveagh Gardens In Dublin
Image by infomatique
A NEW VISUAL arts exhibition has opened in Dublin which features over 90 artists from five continents.
A major exhibition called The Office of Non-Compliance is housed in Earlsfort Terrace and I hope to publish some photographs later this week. The Iveagh Gardens are being transformed into a sculpture garden throughout the six-week event and I took the opportunity to photograph some go them. I assume that more are to be added, I will check on a regular basis.
Theme
The title and theme of Dublin Contemporary 2011 is Terrible Beauty—Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance. Taken from William Butler Yeats’ famous poem “Easter, 1916”, the exhibition’s title borrows from the Irish writer’s seminal response to turn-of-the-century political events to site art’s underused potential for commenting symbolically on the world’s societal, cultural and economic triumphs and ills.
The second part of the exhibition’s title underscores Dublin Contemporary 2011’s emphasis on art that captures the spirit of the present time, while introducing the exhibition’s chief organizational engine: The Office of Non-Compliance. Headed up by Dublin Contemporary 2011 lead curators Jota Castro (artist/curator) and Christian Viveros-Fauné (critic/curator), The Office of Non-Compliance will function as a collaborative agency within Dublin Contemporary 2011, establishing creative solutions for real or symbolic problems that stretch the bounds of conventional art experience.
Venues and Programme
The main exhibition hub at Earlsfort Terrace, former home of University College Dublin, will provide a range of unusual spaces for mini solo exhibitions that range from large-scale installations to smaller intimate hangings. The Office of Non-Compliance, located within the Earlsfort Terrace exhibition site, will function as a promoter of ideas around a laundry list of non-conformist art proposals. This element of the exhibition will include ad-hoc, accessible structures for discourse around art and its place in society.
Extending its reach across the city, Dublin Contemporary 2011 will partner with four important Dublin galleries: The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, The National Gallery of Ireland and The Royal Hibernian Academy.
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane will present a retrospective of the work of renowned Irish artist Willie Doherty. An exhibition of American painter Alice Neel’s striking, psychologically penetrating portraits will take place at The Douglas Hyde Gallery.
The National Gallery of Ireland will host works by a number of international artists as well as a new commission by the distinguished Irish artist Brian O’Doherty. The Royal Hibernian Academy will host an exhibition of works by American painter Lisa Yuskavage and a new commission by Irish artist James Coleman.
Quick video of how to an image in Adobe Photoshop ACRusing the Tone Curve and Detail tabs in Adobe Camera RAW. Model in the video is Tamara from Kenosha, WI. Larger version of video at www.studiomlp.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
In this episode the challenge is “Bottle of Water”, which was chosen by last week’s challenge winner – Charlie. Find out what happens in this episode. Photographers/Contestants’ sites: Charlie Atkinson 500px.com Michelle Cruz michellecruz.nu Max Delgado www.flickr.com Hessel Folkertsma www.misterfolkertsma.eu misterfolkertsma.500px.com misterfolkertsma.tumblr.com Brian Lewis www.brianlewisphotography.tumblr.com Eleanor Parkman-Mayne www.facebook.com/eleae.art Michael Meinhardt 500px.com www.flickr.com Orson Rout Myles: www.youtube.com/OrsonMyles Varzina Natalia varzina.me www.flickr.com www.facebook.com Harrison Sanborn harrisonsanborn.tumblr.com Michelle Shannen michellecruz.nu http facebook.com Chloë Faye Simons www.wix.com www.flickr.com twitter.com Forest Taber www.taber-photography.com taberphotography.exposuremanager.com www.facebook.com www.facebook.com Ty Yang: www.prettygeeky.com http Their blog: www.thedailyphotographer.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
This week we published a post with 5 simple tips to get a strong image of Food to go with the many Food Photography articles in our archives (see below for some links) so we thought ‘Food’ might make a good theme for this weeks challenge.
Feel free to take images of any type of food you wish. It can be breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack. It might be food being eaten or styled on a plate. It might be a mouth watering cake, a sizzling steak or a tempting treat – it’s totally up to you.
I really can’t wait to see what you come up with this week!
Once you’ve taken and selected the ‘FOOD’ image that you’d like to share – upload it to your favourite photo sharing site or blog and either share a link to it or – embed them in the comments using our embed tool to do so.
If you tag your photos on Flickr, Instagram, Twitter or other sites with Tagging tag them as #DPSFOOD to help others find them. Linking back to this page might also help others know what you’re doing so that they can share in the fun.
Also – don’t forget to check out some of the great shots posted in last weeks challenge – Family challenge where there were some great shots submitted.
Here’s just a few of the food photography tutorials and articles in our archives.
Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.
Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips.
Food: Weekly Photography Challenge
hey guys ithree6mafia here talking about the different nikon cameras and models telling you which one is better in my opinion.
Video Rating: 3 / 5
In this episode the challenge is “Out of the Box” Photographers/Contestants’ sites: Charlie Atkinson 500px.com Michelle Cruz michellecruz.nu Max Delgado www.flickr.com Hessel Folkertsma www.misterfolkertsma.eu misterfolkertsma.500px.com misterfolkertsma.tumblr.com Brian Lewis www.brianlewisphotography.tumblr.com Eleanor Parkman-Mayne www.facebook.com/eleae.art Michael Meinhardt 500px.com www.flickr.com Orson Rout Myles: www.youtube.com/OrsonMyles Varzina Natalia varzina.me www.flickr.com www.facebook.com Harrison Sanborn harrisonsanborn.tumblr.com Michelle Shannen michellecruz.nu http facebook.com Chloë Faye Simons www.wix.com www.flickr.com twitter.com Forest Taber www.taber-photography.com taberphotography.exposuremanager.com www.facebook.com www.facebook.com Ty Yang: www.prettygeeky.com http Their blog: www.thedailyphotographer.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Watch this photography tutorial video to learn how to mix daylight with flash when photographing fashion or portraits.Fashion photography is one of the most exciting fields. Every photographer I know tried to go that direction at the beginning of their career. ; Fashion changes every season so as the style of fashion photography.Earlier we discussed set ups to photograph a model in the studio , today Nick Carter will demonstrate (in video above) how to photograph a model outdoors.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Some cool visual art images:
Seattle Street Art Graffiti Book Photos
Image by atto11
Image from the book SEATTLE STREET ART. A Visual Time Capsule Beyond Graffiti (Volume 2)
By A. Tarantino
ISBN-10: 0988272008
SeattleStreetArt.com
"The Seattle Street Art Book Series contains over 300 original photos taken within city limits over many years to help preserve the mediums aesthetic in print."
You Pull Just What Y[[ou (Visual-Text Poem iii.)
Image by DerrickT
I wanted to essentially try something a bit different here (in my own signifying experimentation) regarding empty space (like air-sockets in an abandoned field [no flowers, no plants, no human/mechanical activity]) and to let the disassociative textualizations provide the translation for the over-all piece, which I suppose may or may not confuse the matter further, depending on the viewer’s idealogies. The "dueling" text here is a product of meditation and/or procedures of "versus vs. versus" where the charactertistics of each letter/word becomes their own ‘personal’ conspiracy theory. The connection with each creates a tension that I adore, focused on the exploitation of defocused operatives and how the individual psyche’ responds to the (or ‘each’) specific letter/word and how the "space" warrants other engines.
At first, I was undecided if I wanted to give this piece color because I felt as though the "whiteness" of the piece was basically my perception of ‘space’ as far as non-color is concerned (which "white" isn’t a color anyhow). As you see, I couldn’t help myself and I didn’t want to "sleep on it" because it would have probably been smothered/suffocated in the morning and I didn’t want to go through the day knowing that I had smothered an idea, choking it to death like a comedy manuscript in the hands of a horror writer (if I can be imbalanced for a moment!). I felt like the pink-ish color was the articulation of fleshy things, which in my opinion, I feel as though words and textualizations are flesh-eggs waiting to be hatched from another dimension, another time-warp, another un/comfortable opening, eventually siphing off into something else. Something else, like other texts, words, disassociations, &c., &c. —
The drops of blue here is, well, just that: Drops of blue pinched from a sponge-source. After I "pinched" the amount I felt comfortable with, I used a blow-dryer’s hot ‘air’ to push the puddle’d liquidation down towards the bottom-end of the page, which is the tail-like river you see coming from each drop (or "pool"). The "girls"/women in the middle of the piece are trying to "hold" everything together. They’re like the Mother(s) of the text.
All-in-all, this piece was an idea I had when visualizing text as "dueling entities." My fascination with poor syntax, disassembled alphabetics/text, uneven wordings, misplaced grapplings and non-appropriates (somehow "breaking the rules" — which have already been broken many years ago — but knowing that I am ‘adding’ to the misconnectiveness of art’s visual interstices is a turn-on), language as a tool for digging out that sunken ship from the bottom of your mind’s ocean and providing it in a way so that it creates "tension", to me, is an obvious progression.
Visual Berlin setup at Art & Beauty shelter
Image by psi36
Sigma has released their latest fast-apertured prime in the form of an 85mm f/1.4, a popular focal length for portrait photographers. With Nikon and Canon’s offerings costing a considerable amount more, does the Sigma offer up enough quality to be a good enough alternative to the big brands’ lenses? Is it sharp? What’s the bokeh like? Find out in this video. Full size sample shots at Flickr: www.flickr.com Twitter: twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com For the latest updates, visit our Blog: blog.digitalrev.com For more reviews, opinions, helps and tips visit: www.digitalrev.com In this Video: Sigma 85mm F1.4 EX DG HSM – www.digitalrev.com Canon EOS-1D Mark IV – www.digitalrev.com Visit our online store: www.digitalrev.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Adorama Photography TV presents How’d They Do That with David Bergman. David is a concert, sports and action photographer based in New York. David has photographed everything from major sporting events like the World Series to the high intensity world of rock concert tours. He has photographed six US Presidents and his Obama inauguration GigaPan has been viewed over 12 million times. For info about the gear David uses, and to learn more about concert photography as well as his work with Bon Jovi, go here: www.adorama.com See more of David’s work at www.davidbergman.net and at www.tourphotographer.com. Products David uses: Nikon D3S Body Only www.adorama.com Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G AF-S VR II Zoom-Nikkor ED-IF Lens www.adorama.com Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S Wide Angle-Telephoto Zoom Nikkor Lens www.adorama.com Nikon 14mm – 24mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S Wide-Angle Zoom-Nikkor Lens www.adorama.com Apple Aperture 3 Photo Editing Software for Mac. www.adorama.com Visit www.adorama.com for more photography videos! Send your questions to: AskMark@Adorama.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5