Shadow photography is a simple, yet effective way to create stunning images of just about any subject. All you need to get started in shadow photography is a light source and a subject who casts a shadow – that’s it! If you are interested in trying out shadow photography, here are some tips to get you started: 1. Look down, Continue Reading
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Video Rating: 4 / 5
Music/flipping starts at 0:30 if you want to skip the sappy stuff! Video: Recorded on a crappy point-and-shoot Nikon Audio: Your Hand In Mine – Explosions In The Sky (edited). (Band site: www.explosionsinthesky.com )
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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."
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."
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Visual Smell
Image by fs999
Pentax K-5 • 80 ISO • Pentax DA* 200mm f:2.8 ED SDM
Peony • Pivoine
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."
Check out these 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."
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North Charleston Arts Festival
Image by North Charleston
Now in its 29th year, the North Charleston Arts Festival will take place April 29 through May 7, 2011. The nine day event is one of the most comprehensive arts festivals in the state, providing thousands of residents & visitors with a fabulous array of performances, exhibitions, and activities featuring national, regional, and local artists and performers.
Organized by the City of North Charleston Cultural Arts Department, the festival strives to maintain the spirit of a community celebration with the mission of presenting a broad, multidiscipline event schedule that provides a wide range of performing, visual, media, and literary arts events for people of all ages and backgrounds. Many of the offerings are free, and those that are ticketed are moderately priced. Recognized by the Southeast Tourism Society as a Top 20 Event, the North Charleston Arts Festival truly offers something for everyone.
A few nice visual art images I found:
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts – sign – R.14
Image by ell brown
This is the The Barber Institute of Fine Arts building on the University of Birmingham main campus.
It is listed currently as being on University Road, and no longer Edgbaston Park Road (I would assume that University Road is the road that goes from Edgbaston Park Road into the University grounds proper).
It is a Grade II listed building built between 1935 and 1939, designed by architect Robert Atkinson.
It is an art gallery and concert hall, and is an Art Deco building. It was opened by Queen Mary.
1935 completed 1939, architect Robert Atkinson. Sophisticated design marrying
elements of traditional institutional classicism with Dudok inspired stone
dressed brick modern. A 2 storey compact block with shallow full height portal
wing to right hand of front. Ashlar faced ground floor and blind lst floor of
brick with flat coped roofline. The horizontal emphasis of the strip
fenestration of the ground floor is suavely combined with the vertical accent of
the slightly battered portal. The latter is complemented in small scale by
ashlar panels carved with symbols of the Arts on the first floor and reflected
by the visual stop of the larger panel at the end of return east elevation.
The banding and strip fenestration of the front follows round on to the side and
rear elevations giving a crisp linear definition to the design.
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts – Heritage Gateway
A sign near the gallery – it is R.14.
One of the most elusive and frustrating elements of photography is finding the right composition. Many otherwise good images are often derailed by poor compositional choices. There are several primary rules of composition to be aware of, and by being aware of them, and then combining them, you can give your landscape photos a real boost in terms of interest.
In this image, I had a flat gray mist killing any interest in the sky. But when this lone sailboat began sailing right at the edge of the mist, I began to see possibilities. By placing the sailboat at the intersection of the rule of thirds, and placing the horizon line at the bottom third of the image, I allowed the negative space to take up a lot of room. That negative space gives the boat a place to go, and keeps the interest squarely on the sailboat.
The first and most basic rule is the Rule of Thirds. This rule states simply that elements of interest in your photos should be positioned one third of the way in from top, bottom, left or right of the image. Elements of primary importance should be positioned at the intersection of those thirds. The rule of thirds tends to be the first rule I look to when composing my images. But I find my strongest images happen when I am able to combine the rule of thirds with other rules. These rules include using leading lines, using negative space, and using framing. Of course, there are always times to break these “rules”- they are actually more guidelines than rules. But that’s another article altogether.
Use negative space to help your subject stand out. Too often photographers try to eliminate negative space, simply because there’s nothing of interest in that space. Negative space is simply an area of the image with nothing in it- a blank sky, a dark shadow area, a flat expanse of land. However, that negative space can be used to contrast against your subject, ensuring the viewer’s eye goes right where you want it to. Ideally, your subject should be heading or pointing IN to the negative space, to lead your eye into the composition.
The shoreline in this image leads the viewer's eye right to the lighthouse. The lighthouse is positioned right at the intersection of the rule of thirds, with the water on the right creating some nice negative space in contrast with the rocky shore. The horizon line is roughly at the top third of the image.
Leading lines are another excellent tool to use to help draw attention to your subject. Ideally these lines are created by other elements in your composition and help lead the viewer’s eye right to your subject. Leading lines help create depth when used to lead the eye into the frame, giving a more three dimensional feel to the image.
A very effective way to draw attention to your subject is to use other elements to frame it within the image. Framing can be used to help keep interest where it belongs, and keep the eye from wandering aimlessly through the image. Framing can add context to an image. For instance, trees at the edges of an image, framing off a lake, or mountain peak, give a sense of where the photographer is when taking the image. Eliminating those elements removes the context. This is not necessarily bad, but another variation to consider when photographing at a location. I’ve often found myself frustrated that a tree was in the way, or I couldn’t get the view I wanted because a building was in the way. Then I realize that I can use the trees, or use the building (by shooting through an open window), to add that context that gives an added layer of interest to a photo.
By keeping these four simple compositional guidelines in mind when shooting, you can create a variety of images from the same subject, increasing your keeper ratio finding images you may not have found otherwise.
In this image of Half Dome, foreground trees are used to set apart Half Dome and make it stand out, while providing a context. In addition, note that the trees are roughly at one third on each side of the image. This need not be exact, but it helps create a space within the image that the eye finds pleasing.
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Combining Rules of Composition to Improve Your Landscape Images
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View of State Street Mall with public art in front of Marshall Field and Company
Image by UIC Digital Collections
Title: View of State Street Mall with public art in front of Marshall Field and Company
Creator: D.H. Burnham & Co.; Rapp & Rapp; Shaw, Metz and Associates
Description: Photograph of the State Street Mall from Washington Street. On the right is Marshall Field and Company Store with public art out front. Further down the street, on the right, is the Chicago Theater and the United Insurance Building, now the Unitrin Building. The sculpture is Being Born, by Virginio Ferrari.
Photograph credit: Brubaker, C. William, 1987
Date: 1914 (Marshall Field); 1921 (Chicago Theater); 1962 (United Insurance Building)
Geographic coverage: Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
Collection: C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Repository: University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. [Visual Resources].
Credit Line: Cite as [creator]. [title]. [file name]. [collection].
Rights: University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture and the Arts holds reproduction and licensing rights.
File Name: bru005_05_hF
For more images from the collection, visit collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/index_uic_bru.php?CIS…
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