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New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
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And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
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Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
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Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
www.facebook.com/epiclandscapephotography/
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
www.facebook.com/epiclandscapephotography/
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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Image from '[Manual of Geology: treating of the principles of the science with special reference to American geological history ... Revised edition.]', 000858022
Author: DANA, James Dwight.
Page: 196
Year: 1880
Place: New York; Trübner & Co
Publisher: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co.
Following the link above will take you to the British Library's integrated catalogue. You will be able to download a PDF of the book this image is taken from, as well as view the pages up close with the 'itemViewer'. Click on the 'related items' to search for the electronic version of this work.
Public Domain Book: The international encyclopedia of scientific tailor principles, for all kinds and styles of garment-making ... Also designing ... embroidery, crocheting, knitting, worsted work, fancy and artistic needle work ..
by Christner, D. C
Published 1885
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
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The Epic Seascape! Malibu Sea Caves!
Landscape photography is not only about traveling through space, but it is also about traveling through time. One may return to the same beach time and again throughout the seasons to find a million different universes, changing in an infinitude of manners with each passing wave.
Not only do we voyage outwardly to get the shot, but we travel even further inwardly. While I spend my year trekking along the John Muir Trail, and on through Zion, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, Death Valley, and the Colorado Plateau, my heart always finds its home in these Malibu sea caves, where I have stood in awe during all hours of the day and night.
Included within are a few shots that only I have so far captured, including a miraculous winter solstice sunrise.
Best wishes throughout the coming year!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
instagram.com/goldennumberratio
Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
Objective 3: Elements and Principles of Design
Texture – The scratches on the doors and the grain I added to the image make it look like a really old photo. Nothing in the photo really looks soft, making the photo have a more serious feel to it.
Value / Tone – Since the photo is in black and white, the entire photo just has different tones of grey. The darker tones and the lighter tones make the whole photo look more three dimensional, especially inside, where there are more shadows. The vignette I added makes the tones around the edges slightly darker and makes you focus more on the center and right side of the image.
Pattern / Repetition – While they aren’t exactly the same, all the doors are similar. You can guess what the other doors would look like even though they aren’t in the photo. You can tell what the background outside might look like as well. This adds interest. Lastly, the windows also repeat, and they get smaller as you go left, which makes it look more 3D.
Contrast – The really old looking image contrasts with the relatively new looking car. Also, the tones contrast and there are areas in the image that are pure white and pure black. The brighter areas draw more attention than the darker areas.
Critiquing
I changed the photo to black and white because the colours didn’t really look that good, but I liked the composition of the image. I also liked the grain I added to the image. Zooming in and backing away a bit more might have made a better photo.
Objective 7: Photographic Styles –
Type/style of photography: HDR
The camera mode: Av
f stop used: 18.0
shutter speed used: 1/80, 1/30, 1/10, 0.3, 0.8
ISO used: 400
Exposure compensation: -3, -1 2/3, 0, 1 2/3, 3
Focal length: 27 mm
I enjoyed my most recent visit to San Francisco during the holiday season. One reason in particular was because I was actually able to visit the Museum of the African Diaspora (MOAD). In the past when I have visited they are closed that day, under renovation, etc. But this time I had the pleasure of visiting while they were celebrating the first day of Kwanzaa, which is called Umoja. In the past I have done some research on the celebration and the allure of its rich colors. But this was great as I was able to participate in an actual ceremony and do some in-person research. I actually learned that Kwanzaa is mainly for the children, the coming generation, to have some connection with the ancestral past. And it was also stressed that Kwanzaa is not a religious holiday, but a spiritual holiday; which leads to my whole endorsement of the idea.
In the United States many people celebrate Christmas, and all of the materialism, commercialism, emotionalism, and egotism that go along with the celebration of the birth of Christ. There has to be more. Especially since these isms are not good for many people, particularly those who are not financially and materially able. What about spirit? What about community? This is why Kwanzaa makes perfect sense, for those who need it. In a material culture bling and flashy-ness are most important. But some people see flashy material items as a reward for other achievements. In the right community, with the right leaders Personal Development is stressed first, and rewards later.
During this celebration I could see and feel the sense of community among those who presented and participated. I also noticed a couple of familiar faces from the WWW, which was like a lightbulb moment for me. And though Kwanzaa is said to be about the children, I think it can also be helpful to the adults who teach and interact with them, as a way to strengthen culture and community.
These Seven Principles of Human Learning taken from the National Academies Press free ebook Learning and Understanding (2002).
"During the last four decades, scientists have engaged in research that has increased our understanding of human cognition, providing greater insight into how knowledge is organized, how experience shapes understanding, how people monitor their own understanding, how learners differ from one another, and how people acquire expertise. From this emerging body of research, scientists and others have been able to synthesize a number of underlying principles of human learning. This growing understanding of how people learn has the potential to influence significantly the nature of education and its outcomes."
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The Seven Principles
1. The World Is What You Think It Is.
2. There are no limits.
3. Energy Flows Where Attention Goes.
4. Now Is The Moment Of Power.
5. To Love Is To Be Happy With (someone or something).
6. All Power Comes From Within.
7. Effectiveness Is The Measure Of Truth.
Excerpt from Healing Relationshipsby Serge Kahili King: "Everything you believe about anything is based on made-up rules. All your beliefs about yourself, about relationships, about men, women, children, about all the individuals you know, are really rules. Even more importantly, the rules you have about these things affect your experience with them."
THE IMMATERIALISM
Curator: Fabrizio Lollini
Artist: Rothko
About twenty years ago, a great historian of art, Michael Baxandall, wrote a fundamental book for the methodology of the studies, Patterns of Intention, in which, on the basis of a series of principles, he proposes an “inferential criticism” based on nature and fundamental affirmations that we support when we analyze a work of art. That is to say, “If we think or speak of a picture as, among other things, the product of situated volition or intention, what is it that we are doing?” He analyzes, for instance, the expectations that we have towards the work of art as bearer of the formal values of the period (How can we know them? What value they assume for us? How can we be sure that the public is aware of them?) He studies the relationships between the artist and his potential target, the artist and his colleagues, the artist and his client (Did they use common communicational codes? So then, how can we explain the changing of the taste during history? When we speak about “stylistic influence” what do we mean exactly?) Or, again, the relationship between the work of art and the scientific (or philosophical and economical) theories of its period (How can we affirm that the artistic product mirrors them, and if this reflection is intentional or not?)
All this, taking on Baxandall’s previous studies, is made more complicated from the fact that in order to express any critical judgment, we use a language that is not the one of the work of art, that is to say it’s not the visual or sensorial one. Rather, it is the cultural one, which belongs to the written language and bases itself on its own structures that change throughout time.
In the previously quoted text, the critical effort is displayed in four examples, which are different
for technical typology and periods: an iron bridge, the scotch Fort Bridge; Picasso’s Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler; Chardin’s A Lady Taking Tea; and Piero della Francesca’s Baptism of Christ.
The chronological order is not respected, because the matter of method, though applied to different objects, must respect a formal rigour that transcends the specificity of the singular case (however bearing it in our mind).
Apart from that, and from some other few anomalous cases of methodological consciousness, especially in the phenomenological sphere, what would happen if the mental forms of contemporary art history were applied to the concrete production of exhibition catalogues, monographic studies or other scientific occasions, to medieval art? Or vice versa? If we read the Renaissance, as the manuals or the students of art history usually do, as “avant-garde” in the modern twentieth-century sense of the term, we will not understand neither its importance, nor its ways of diffusion, nor even the influences on (and from) the client’s taste.
The mimetic distance from the visual reality that an impressionist, or a futurist, or even a landscapist puts in his works, cannot be measured, neither on the basis of motivation nor on material ways, similar to the iconic allusiveness of Byzantine art. There is a feeling of the loss of references in metaphysical art, for instance, like how we feel when we look at Duchamp’s pissoir or bottle dryer, but also at a steady filming of a skyscraper.
Could this be possible in the art of the fourteenth century? The famous pipe, perfectly mimetic, doesn’t aim to be what it is, as the man of an Irish miniaturist of the early Middle Ages pretends to be what he is not, that is to say a material and recognizable reality.
The examples could be numerous.
Most contemporary critics base themselves on the outpouring of known facts regarding the author of the work of art seen in the work itself. From Picasso to Warhol to Haring we have a large documentation, which has built a sort of a daily agenda. But if we go back to the past ages where the information is fewer this agenda we are less likely to find. Hasn’t Cimabue only been a phase of Italian Art for the Anglo-Saxon world, losing a specific argumentum ad personam? (Not by chance, of his 50-year long activity as an artist we know only two concrete facts, as archival data). So, when we have a scheme of interpretation so lacking in details do we need to eliminate in the critical process the need to turn to biographic analysis? Yet, we are still attached to
the idea of genius and formal independence, especially in periods when the artist is quite far from contemporary representation. Some interpretations of medieval production as craftsmen clashed with the fondness for a history of art made of people, as we have been taught by Vasari: Yes, Antelami and Giotto are in fact multiple productive entities, but they are also – and they must be – identifiable as characters of an absolute level.
The idea of materiality opposed to the one of immateriality is not a key of interpretation exclusively based on the present age. Of course, the “immaterial values” that Bacon expresses with material choices in his manner of painting, in relation to the support constituted by the canvas, don’t follow the same of Titian.
Today, when with a plastic card pretending to be money (immaterial money) we buy two letters pretending to be a pair of jeans, or underwear, this doesn’t have a direct parallel to the Middle Ages, even if the signatures of Calvin Klein and Giotto have something in common. They express an immaterial value of quality with reference to the physicality of the object.
We don’t know what Piero della Francesca was thinking concerning the concrete values of his media, in his projects, perceptively rationalizing spaces and shapes. Sometimes we have the impression that he would gladly give up his tables, lime, and chalk if he had available realities that today we would define as more “virtual” (He could be thought as the remote patron of the supporters of Photoshop and AutoCAD).
While we all know very well Bill Viola’s theoretical speculations about technical devices able to overpass the instant temporality, in order to enter a tradition, that is, in the majority of the cases, deliberately and deeply “classic”.
Early on, Petrarch made a distinction between the learned elite and the uneducated public, between the expectations of the ones “who know” and the simpler ones “who don’t,” the stifling nature of ignorant evaluations like “Ah…look! What a nice painting! It seems like a picture!” and, “Look at this nice picture, it really seems like a painting!” always exist, and constitute the basis of a fundamental matter of art history.
From ancient Greek painters on, from Apelle‘s flowers and fruits, which seem so real that the birds crash into the wall in order to pick them up, some of the principles of evaluation have always been how far is the work of art from the reality that it portrays or suggests, if this distance is consciously achieved, or, vice versa, unintentional and not perceived and, finally, if it is permissible to see in the painting, or sculpture, something different from what materially we see.
In this way, without having any claim to offer a homogenous and coherent key of interpretation, or to be particularly original, it could be useful to have a look at some facts of the history of non-contemporary art regarding some ways to look beyond the materiality of the work of art. To show determinate objects, so it doesn’t count as an historical introduction, a sort of “history of art according to us,” but rather as a playful critical hint to highlight the critical course.
If we speak exactly about feeling of a loss of references, why we don ‘t remind ourselves of the scene in which Giotto, at the end of the thirteenth century, places the viewer from the “wrong side” with reference to the common senses? If we speak of “avant-garde”,
why don’t we call back the examples of conscious self-affirmations of the artist, as in Lanfranco’s, Wigelmo’s or Antelami’s eulogies in Northern Italy between the end of the eleventh and the beginning of the thirteenth century?
When we speak about “iconicity” in today’s art production, and nowadays we abuse this concept without having completely understood it, maybe it is better to keep in our mind a concrete example of Byzantine painting, and of the ways of its mental and visual fruition.
One of the biggest masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance is Piero della Francesca’s Legend of the True Cross, in the church of San Francesco in Arezzo.
As we know, the protagonist of the paintings is the sacred wood: born from Adam’s mouth, recognized by the queen of Sheba, hidden by Solomon, collected and employed to crucify the Savior, brought to light from Elena, mother of Constantine, and became the symbol of the new faith and the Christianization of the Roman Empire.
This is an event that is repeated and evocated through many other periods, whose main point is a common material that becomes extraordinary because it constitutes the physical object on which the death of God as human, the theological absolute reality of the foundation of Christianity, is carried out.
This is the only aim of the history.
But there is no crucifixion scene, it is a stage that is skipped, only physically recalled from the painted wooden cross placed on the altar, mentally perceived as the immaterial entity that this pictorial cycle has determined.
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The principles I used for this photo is Emphasis and movement. I used detergent and a blacklight to create the dripping shape on the mirror. I think I did a good job on creating the interesting focal point. One thing I'd definitely work on would be move towards a more parallel angle.
President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the Chair of the NATO Military Committee, Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, who made his first foreign visit in this position specifically to Ukraine.
“We are grateful to NATO for its support of Ukraine from the very beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. Thank you very much for your first mission and decision to be in Ukraine. Thank you very much. This is a very strong signal for us from NATO and professionals,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The main topics of the meeting were preparations for the next meeting in the Ramstein format and our state's defense needs. The President noted that one of Ukraine's top priorities was the implementation of the agreements reached at the NATO Summit in Washington on strengthening Ukraine’s air defense. The Russian dictator does not want the war to end, and only Ukraine's strong position and pressure on Russia can force the aggressor state to establish a just and lasting peace.
Special attention was paid to the operational launch of the NSATU mission “Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine.” According to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine is counting on concrete results of its work, in particular, on strengthening coordination in military assistance.
The Chair of the NATO Military Committee assured that the North Atlantic Alliance is ready to fulfill all its commitments, as it considers Ukraine an integral part of the transatlantic defense architecture.
“The message I would like to convey not only to you, but to everyone, is that NATO is on your side. We are determined to fulfill all our commitments and to defend all the values and principles that we share,” he added.
In addition, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Giuseppe Cavo Dragone discussed the continued military assistance from NATO member states and direct investment in the domestic production of long-range drones based on the Danish model. At one of the defense industry enterprises, they got acquainted with the production capacities and characteristics of Ukrainian long-range weapons and spoke with the people working there.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the employees for their service to the state and for their work, which every day brings tangible results and strengthens our army with domestically produced weapons; he also presented them with state awards.
“Thank you for your work. It's very gratifying to see that we have something to show, and it's not theoretical – it’s your tangible result. A real result that helps us and is feared by the Russians, the enemies of our state. It’s a great pleasure to be here with our NATO colleagues. It's truly rewarding when they see the high level of achievement Ukraine has reached during this war. The level of domestic production during wartime is exceptionally high,” the President said.
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The principle on this poster that really catches my eye is the emphasis, because of the bright colors used to create a proportion. The colors give a fresh look to poster, which is really suitable to the meaning.
Source: www.fromupnorth.com/graphic-design-inspiration-1052/
The design industry is built upon the principles of composition and storytelling across all media. More and more, the lines of traditional mediums are blurring. As such, designers who understand mixed-media ideation are in high demand. This term 6 course focuses on the combination of digital and analogue techniques to efficiently produce stop motion animation for compelling narratives. This course is built on the principles of teamwork, organization, and experimentation; students work in teams, while contributing to a single class project.
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Photos by Danny Chan dannychan.ca.
Title of photo: #3
Objective 3: Elements and Principles of Design
Emphasis: The main focal point is in focus while the rest of the photo is out of focus. This draws the eye to the main focal point which is in the rule of thirds.
Contrast: The differences from the dark and light greens draws the eye to a specific point in the image with creates an area of emphasis.
Balance: The Balance between the light are dark is equal which draws the eye to all parts of the image.
Unity: The background is in harmony with the foreground of the photo.
Colour: The cool colours of the green of the leafs brings out a sense of belonging to the photo
Line: The horizontal lines of the branch leads the eye up the branch but still keeps the eye focused on the main focal point.
Tone: The differences between the dark and light brings value to the photo
Objective 4: Lighting
Soft diffused lighting from the clouds outside.
Objective 5: Post Production (ex. dust/spot removal, resize, contrast, white balance, sharpening, borders, etc.)
First I duplicated the layer then I went to High Pass under Filter, then other. This brings out the detail in the leaf and the water droplets on it. Then I used the curves to balance out my contrast. I sharpened my original layer to make it just a bit sharper. Then finally I resized my photo to upload it to Flickr.
Objective 7: Photographic Styles (ex. portrait, landscape, etc.) – Explain why the settings and composition are appropriate for the style of photography. (How did you create the shot?) You do NOT need to do Objective 2 if you are handing in this objective.
Type/style of photography: Nature Photography
The camera mode (P, Tv, Av, M): AV, I used this setting to get more control over my aperture.
f stop used: F/5.7, I used this f stop number to get a shallow depth of field
shutter speed used: 1/400, this is the shutter speed that AV mode chose
ISO used: 200, because the lighting outside was bright, so I had to use a low ISO
Exposure compensation: -1, when I was taking the photo, the camera made the pictures too bright so I had to turn down the Exposure.
Focal length:55.0mm
The principles of design in this photo are contrast and emphasis. The dark colors of the shadow are emphasized against the light. To take this photo I went outside when the sun was setting and had a light shine through to cast a shadow. I think I did well with having the shadow contrast and show the shape of the person. One thing I would change is to have the light more even throughout the picture.
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, Mother's Day 2008
Anti-war / anti-nuclear weapons activists converged on the Naval Submarine Base Kitsap-Bangor on Saturday May 10th, 2008 in a Mothers Day commemorative action. Participant's engaged in a traditional vigil and nonviolent civil resistance direct action to oppose the weapons of mass destruction as they exist in their offensive capacity on the base. The offensive capacity of the weapons is in contravention of several legally binding international agreements. Unfortunately, the United States Government is in flagrant violation of these treaties. The abnegation of international law by the Government of the United States of America imperils the world. Decision-makers behave in ways that are Machiavellian. They employ the Hobbesian model of power-politics where "might makes right" and the "ends justify the means", which is then applied to international discourse. However, there is a better way.
By respecting international laws and agreements, the United States can help to promote and create an international environment of equity and respect.
One of the problems with the trident nuclear missile programs is that in addition to their purported role as a well-intentioned defense, these missiles also serve as a basic international bully mechanism. The trident missile system deployed via Bangor submarine base is estimated to be capable of wreaking a several months' long nuclear winter over much of the globe.
Instead of operating in the realm of power-politics where the application, or the threat of application, of brute force hangs over international proceedings: I challenge the Government and the People of the USA to pursue a better way. I challenge the Gov't and People of the United States of America (including myself) to work for a foreign policy that truly values human rights, human dignity, human health, environmental health, fairness and equity, truth, honesty, respectfulness (for ourselves individually, for each other, and for the Earth). The means create the ends.
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
www.facebook.com/epiclandscapephotography/
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
facebook.com/mcgucken
Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
More on my golden ratio musings: facebook.com/goldennumberratio
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
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And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
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Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
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Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
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San Antonio billionaire Jim Leininger with Gov. George W. Bush.
Dr. Leininger, a major funder of the charter school movement, is on the board of evangelist Bill Gothard's Institute in Basic Life Principles: iblp.org/iblp/about/corporate/board/
Great American West Landscapes by California Fine Art Landscape Photographer Elliot McGucken! Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography
Great American West Landscapes by California Fine Art Landscape Photographer Elliot McGucken! Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photography
I sign every print with dx4/dt=ic, and my physics equation dx4/dt=ic graces the swimsuits and bikinis, while the golden gun is designed in proportion with the golden ratio, and the photos are oft cropped in divine proportions!
Beautiful Golden Ratio Composition Photography Surf Goddesses! dx4/dt=ic Athletic Action Portraits of Swimsuit Bikini Models! Athena, Artemis, Helen, and Aphrodite! Athletic Fitness Models!
My Epic Gear Guide for Landscapes & Portraits!
Everyone is always asking me for this! Here ya go! :)
My Epic Book: Photographing Women Models!
Portrait, Swimsuit, Lingerie, Boudoir, Fine Art, & Fashion Photography Exalting the Venus Goddess Archetype: How to Shoot Epic ...
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Epic books, prints, & more!
Exalt your photography with Golden Ratio Compositions!
Golden Ratio Compositions & Secret Sacred Geometry for Photography, Fine Art, & Landscape Photographers: How to Exalt Art with Leonardo da Vinci's, Michelangelo's!
Epic Landscape Photography:
A Simple Guide to the Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography: Master Composition, Lenses, Camera Settings, Aperture, ISO, ... Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography)
Epic Art & Gear for your Epic Hero's Odyssey:
Enjoy my physics books graces with my fine art photography! Light Time Dimension Theory: The Foundational Physics Unifying Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: A Simple, Illustrated Introduction to the Physical
New book! Epic Landscape Photography: The Principles of Fine Art Nature Photography!
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Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!
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Working on a couple photography books! 45EPIC GODDESS PHOTOGRAPHY: A classic guide to exalting the archetypal woman. And 45EPIC Fine Art Landscape Photography!
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Greetings all! I have been busy finishing a few books on photography, while traveling all over--to Zion and the Sierras--shooting fall colors. Please see some here: facebook.com/mcgucken
Let me know in the comments if you would like a free review copy of one of my photography books! :)
Titles include:
The Tao of Epic Landscape Photography: Exalt Fine Art with the Yin-Yang Wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching!
The Golden Number Ratio Principle: Why the Fibonacci Numbers Exalt Beauty and How to Create PHI Compositions in Art, Design, & Photography
facebook.com/goldennumberratio
And I am also working on a book on photographing the goddesses! :) More goddesses soon!
Best wishes on your epic hero's odyssey!:)
I love voyaging forth into nature to contemplate poetry, physics, the golden ratio, and the Tao te Ching! What's your favorite epic poetry reflecting epic landscapes? I recently finished a book titled Epic Poetry for Epic Landscape Photographers:
www.facebook.com/Epic-Poetry-for-Epic-Landscape-Photograp...
Did you know that John Muir, Thoreau, and Emerson all loved epic poetry and poets including Shakespeare, Milton, Homer, and Robert Burns?
I recently finished my fourth book on Light Time Dimension Theory, much of which was inspired by an autumn trip to Zion!
www.facebook.com/lightimedimensiontheory/
Via its simple principle of a fourth expanding dimension, LTD Theory provides a unifying, foundational *physical* model underlying relativity, quantum mechanics, time and all its arrows and asymmetries, and the second law of thermodynamics. The detailed diagrams demonstrate that the great mysteries of quantum mechanical nonlocality, entanglement, and probability naturally arise from the very same principle that fosters relativity alongside light's constant velocity, the equivalence of mass and energy, and time dilation.
Follow me on instagram!
Join my new 45EPIC fine art landscapes page on facebook!