Archive for the ‘ Today’s Bacon ’ Category
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 [ READ MORE ]
by Joe The photo was on my “short list” of things I needed to photograph here in Seattle. I’ve gone a couple of times, but decided to wait until I had a super wide angle lens to take the shot. I finally got the Tokina 11-16mm for my Nikon D90 so I went down to [ READ MORE ]
by Joe I run about 4 times a week and I usually do so first thing in the morning, so the light is just perfect. So 6 months ago I decided to take a small camera with me on a run, and wow! I just loved how the shots they were turning out. So now [ READ MORE ]
by Joe You can use any camera to take this shot. All you need is a lot of light, a timer on the camera and a sense of knowing when your camera takes the picture. 1) I set the camera on the ground or on a small tripod (I have a gorillapod)2) I set the [ READ MORE ]
by Joe I like street photography because I find fascinating how many expressions, feelings and emotions human beings can ‘create’ and how many ways we have to convey them. In my recent works, and in this picture, I am trying to capture the ways we can make an emotional impact on the world around them [ READ MORE ]
by Joe This place is located by Lake Biwa (the biggest lake in Japan), it is a kind of theme park whose motif is the scene of the village landscape of Netherlands. I was lucky enough to visit this fantastic place just when the tulips were in full bloom and on such a sunny day.I [ READ MORE ]
by Joe 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 [ READ MORE ]
by Joe I took the picture for my A-level exam, I had been working on legs and hiding the face in the project, this was the first shot I did in day light so it was a bit of a challenge for me. The lighting is all natural. Along with getting models half naked while [ READ MORE ]
by Joe About the portrait: To be honest, most of the credits go to the model. She has a very natural way of behaving. My intention was to catch her wonderful eyes. I asked her to move very close to the lightbox to soften the strobist light. On the other side of the face I [ READ MORE ]
by Joe Thursdaisy was one in a series of daisy photos I’d put up that week. The week before, serendipity (in the form of a few bokeh-filled days amidst banks of the flowers) had brought an informal Bluebell Week. Am a big fan of bluebells and I loved how the photos had turned out. So [ READ MORE ]