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Beauty in the Everyday

09 Nov

Bottles, flowers, water drops & colourYesterday I showcased an image collection of 30 fabulous photos of pencils in an attempt to show how sometimes the every day objects around us can provide photographic inspiration.

Today I thought it might be good to make this the theme of our weekly challenge. Your challenge is to take an share a photo with the theme of:

Beauty in the Everyday

I’ll let you interpret that theme any way that you wish but encourage you to carry your camera everywhere with you for at least a day or two and allow yourself to slow down and look for those beautiful things around you that you might normally rush past.

Once you’ve taken your ‘Beauty in the Everyday’ shots we’d love to see them in comments below. Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section as pictured below) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer upload them to your favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them.

If you tag your photos on Flickr, Instagram, Twitter or other sites with Tagging tag them as #DPSEVERYDAYBEAUTY 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 Bugs Eye View challenge – there were some fantastic shots submitted.

Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.

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Everyday Summer Face Routine

13 Dec

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Charge your Canon camera battery from a solar panel while out on expedition. More detailed information on providing solar power to digital cameras is at Modern Outpost… www.modernoutpost.com Putting together a solar charger for your canon camera is easy when you have the right parts. This video shows how to build a solar power system for most dSLR battery packs. Equipment used includes… PowerFilm rollable solar panel Voltaic Generator multi-voltage lithium battery pack Solar panel input cable for the Voltaic DC battery charger for your Canon The Voltaic Generator battery pack was set to its 12-20V range, and it auto-selects the voltage within this range that supports charge flowing to the load (the battery charger in this case). For complete information on creating a portable solar power system for your electronics, including digital cameras, camcorders, laptops, iPods, satellite phones, AA batteries, and more, the place to go is Modern Outpost. http Thanks for watching!
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Mundane Music: The Sonification of Everyday Things

11 Dec

[ By Steph in Gadgets & Geekery & Technology. ]

Exploring the world through sound is not limited to simply listening to the audio that’s automatically produced by the people, nature and objects that surround us each day. For designer Dennis P. Paul, anything can produce its own strange music – including Legos, crumpled paper and clown heads. Paul created a device that scans the surfaces of 3D objects and translates them into audible frequencies.

In a sort of reverse of Realität’s ‘Microsonic Landscapes’, which used a 3D printer to turn albums into physical objects, ‘An Instrument for the Sonification of Everyday Things’ translates the size and shape of various items into sound waves.

A laser scans the surface of the object and sends that information through a sound processor. The more convoluted the object is, the more complex and chaotic the music. It took Paul approximately three weeks to build the instrument, which consists of aluminum tubes, black acrylic, a stepper motor, a high-precision distance-measuring laser and “a few bits and bobs.”

“I was a Lego kid, printed my own t-shirts, bought a computer at the age of 10 and started to program it to make music and graphics. If you sum this all up, it is pretty much what I do today: I’m a designer/artist with a geek streak!”


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The 16 Most Photogenic Everyday Objects

16 Oct

This post is written by James Maher – author of The Essentials of Street Photography – an eBook currently onsale at SnapnDeals (25% off).

You know how some people are just photogenic.  No matter what the lighting is or if they are all sweaty from the gym, they are still going to look damn good.

Well the same goes for certain objects and structures.  I am such a sucker for things like water towers, lampposts, and fire escapes, and so I thought I would create a list of my 16 favorite things to include in photographs.  These objects won’t always make a photo, but when included they will almost always make the scene more photogenic.

What are yours?

1. Cigarettes

Bad for your health, great for your photos.

Jerry Delakas

2.  Colorful shoes.

Especially when contrasted with dirty backgrounds.

Polka Dots and Pink Shoes, Subway.

3.  Old Patterned Walls and Wallpaper

An easy way to add an element of pattern and design into your photograph.

Razed Building

4.  Glowing Screens

It’s a good thing those glowing cellphone and iPad screens look good in photos, because unfortunately they are becoming hard to avoid these days.

25 People, 21 Screens

5.  Tunnels

The old frame within a frame.

Couple in Snowstorm, Central Park.

6.  Umbrellas

Particularly the translucent and colorful kind when lit from behind.

Green Umbrella

7.  Ladders and Fire Escapes

Turn them on their side and to an angle to create an illusion.

Escher Fire Escape

8.  Water Towers

Even better when you tint them and add some colorful frames.

Colored Water Towers

9.  Fire Hydrants

Gowanus Fire Hydrant

10. Advertisements that mimic or contrast with real life.

The Road to a Bright Future

11.  Glowing Lampposts

My favorite.

Glowing Lamppost

12.  Phonebooths

Quickly becoming antiquated.  Catch them before they all disappear.

Two Generatins, Phonebooth and iPad

13. Phone Lines

Especially when they are in the middle of nowhere.

Telephone Pole

14.  Old Doors.

Old Door

15.  Windows with Silhouettes.

Greek Protests

16.  Wet Cobblestone

Textures of Greece

Learn more about Street Photography in James Maher’s eBook The Essentials of Street Photography (currently 25% off at SnapnDeals).

Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.

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