Randomly Interesting Photography

I read this interesting article today dealing with the the truthfulness or the veracity of photography. I thought it quite interesting and definitely a read if you consider yourself a photographer who tries to represent the truth.

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I hope that we can continue to bring you guys some rockin’ and inspirational images with the instruction and tools to help you get out there and take your very own kick ass photos!

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by Joe

If I tell you how this shot evolved, you will probably laugh at me. It goes something like this: as I walking my son to school, I noticed this stick in a neighbor’s yard. I immediately thought, “Hmm. I could use that stick.” I decided to pick it up on the way back home. After I dropped the boy at school, I decided to see if I could find anything in the charity shops that would go with …. a stick. This dress was hanging there, in my size, and cheap enough to buy with the change I’d grabbed on my way out the door. So. We have a stick and we have a dress and we have…absolutely nothing else. I let my mind wander on the bus back home and as so often happens, inspiration struck out of nowhere.

I was going for a civilized wildness with this shot. It took about 15 takes to get the look I was attempting to capture – the kind of look you might see on the face of a woman who has integrated herself into polite society but remains shrouded in a cloak of the wild wood that spawned her.

I shoot in natural light exclusively – in this case, it was the window the my left. My settings were f/2.8 and ISO200 with a Sigma 30mm 1.4 lens. I work with textures a lot, and there are several overlayed here to give the wall behind me some texture, and add to the overall organic feel of the image. This would be an easy PP technique to replicate as it only includes a basic sharpening, color balance, texture overlay, and vignette.

What caught my eye with this shot is the “dark” feel of it. The vignetting and texture overlay give it that grunge feel while the model has this eerie look about her.

Cassie has a great imagination with her work. Make sure to look at some of her other photos.
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by Joe

There is nothing particularly exciting about how I took this picture. I’ve been a LEGO builder all my life and while sharing pictures of the models I build through sites such as flickr has become a major part of the hobby in the last few years, taking the actual picture generally is only a very small part. It took about forty hours to build the model, whilst taking the pictures took little more than half an hour. I usually take pictures of my models on my kitchen table. The background is formed by a blue-painted wall and there usually is plenty of natural light coming in through the window. The camera is a four-year old Olympus Camedia C-470 with pretty much everything it can do itself switched on. It was mounted on a small tripod. Rather than using photo-editing software to make my pictures look better, I take a large number of them and then select the ones that I like best -an obvious advantage of having a model that isn’t about to go anywhere any time soon. What made me select this particular picture is the focus on the gun barrel and the shape of the turret when seen from this angle. It may be obviously built with LEGO bricks, but it looks like a tank to me.

I picked to feature this shot because I thought it was cute LEGO army guys in a tank! That’s pretty awesome. Not to mention the GREAT use of lighting to display the subject. You can do this by using a softbox.

If you’d like to build your own softbox here is a great website with step by step instructions.

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