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i think the pic turned out awesome the backround went blurry just how i wanted ut and the wear and scratch marks on the sniper skope turned out very well. the dust on the spotter scope stand turned out very well. i painted a painted silencer and added a scope cap on the top and painted the lense. the spotter scope was all custom and so was the fig and the gun. the fig with all the costom upgrades can move just like a normal lego figure
fig: normal fig with painted face,artificial foliage and a hood
spotter scope: 2 bipods a u clip and some mastery with the lego bar like sticks
sniper: regular ba m110, added artificial folliage painted and added lens cover
This is my little brother, Valur and that´s Aníta in the backround. I have posted some other photos from this photoshoot before.
Am still working on a new way for me to b/w convert and I am getting closer to what I really like in terms of tones and contrast. Was going for a shot/look that could be in an retro fashion magazine and as some of you may have noticed, I don´t often have more than 1 person in my photos.
I like this shot mainly cause of their stances and dark vs. light clothes. Only used ambient lighting for this and it´s shot by the shore at Þorlákshöfn. Makeup is of course done by Henný.
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Had a baby shoot yesterday using a new white backround purchase, so decided to do a high key close up shot using the set up, once the clients left.
Being a natural available light fanatic its a new world of lights for me as i find my self being more and more intrigued by the storbist art. Coming from a love of fine art in my school years i find the technique of lighting and using srtobist equipment very interesting and at the same time i must say i still feel like child beginer in this tech savy style and i just have so much to learn...
I was too tired to upload last night at my usual time, so uploading it this morning as i know I'm ahead in time compared to friends on the other side of the sea. Hope you are all enjoying your flickr evening. :)
Strobist info:
1xSB800 (iTTL +3) onto the white seamless backround behind model
1xSB800 (iTTL) through 60cm softbox --->camera right
White (five in one) reflector ---> camera left
fired by Nikon CLS by onboard flash in commander mode
This was a Mother's Day gift from my daughter...she put it in the front next to my rose bush. (the whole garden stake is below)
The rose's in the backround I bought the first year I got my house (10 yrs ago). It never bloomed very well...but this year it is stunning!! Maybe it just needed a little love from the heart!!
I have such great kids (well adults now!) lol....
This is dedicated to my wonderful daughter Carmelita, and a wonderful friend........ www.flickr.com/photos/clairepenn/ please check out her awesome photostream!!
(Thank you love for being there!! xxxxx)
I hope everyone had a awesome weekend, and found time to unwind, and relax!
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Iceland, North America right, Europe left. the gap between the two plate boundries. mountains in backrounds
San Marino in the backround
San Marino is the oldest constitutional republic in the world still existing: it was founded in 301 A.D. by Marinus of Rab, a Christian stonemason fleeing the religious persecution of Roman Emperor Diocletian. San Marino has the oldest written constitution still in effect, dating back to 1600.[2]
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Visited Vietnam's Marble Mountains yesterday. It was interesting; a range of 5 hills made of solid marble, right on the coast of the Pacific. There were a number of caves to explore, and a few really picturesque Buddhist temples carved into the rock. Unfortunately it also seemed to be a pretty tourist-trap kinda place. Vendors were hawking Carved Happy Marble Buddhas for only 1 dollar apiece (I didn't ask how much the Sad Marble Buddhas were). Cokes and coconuts, from the ubiquitous libation sellers, were also a dollar.
But the view from the top was totally worth all of the trinket stalls, drink vendors, and elderly Chinese tourists with video cameras.
Six word story...
damn round thing in my way
Silver Oak Tournament
Barbarians's Bash at Crystal Crags
Important keyboard shortcuts for 500px (Note: for a PC cmd=ctl)
cmd-click (to load a page in a tab in the backround)
cmd-w (to close a window)
f (to fave a photo)
L (to like a photo)
cmd-option-arrow key (to move between open tabbed windows)
My two favorite photosharing sites at present are 500px and Flickr. In this post I'll try to explain how I browse photos on 500px to find and uncover great photographs and also how to navigate the site. You can see the companion article How to Browse Flickr Like a Pro here.
500px is one of the most exciting photosharing sites on the scene today. It's a stark contrast to Flickr.
Flickr is a slow moving slow innovating behemoth owned by crappy Yahoo. 500px is a scrappy, fast moving, weekly innovating startup that just received over 500k in VC financing.
Flickr's community managers / staffers are abusive with their users and ban and censor people and ridicule their users. 500px owners are nice and pleasant and actually interact with their users on their site, Twitter, etc.
500px has a fresh new elegant photo page design. Flickr still looks like a tired old website from 2004.
500px seems to actually care about great photography. Flickr could care less (the quality on flickr declined dramatically overall when they turned it into a dumping ground by integrating Yahoo photos into it a few years ago and has gotten worse and worse).
500px is not frightened by the artistic female form. Flickr is scared to death of the female form (they censored this photo of a painting I took of a painting at the Art Institute of Chicago -- ridiculous).
It's exciting to see people that actually care about photography and photographers in charge at 500px. And it's been great watching so many of the best flickr accounts migrate over there over the past several months.
So where do I go to find great photos on 500px? All over the place.
For starters (like flickr) I go to my friends most recent uploads. Unlike Flickr (who will only show you the last 1 or 5 photos by your contacts) 500px shows you all of your contacts most recent uploads. The first thing I do here is cmd-click all of the paging icons at the bottom. This opens up the photo thumbnail pages in background tabs that I can tab to later without wasting time while they load. As they load in the background I'm cmd-clicking other photos on the page most recently loaded where I want to see larger photos. 500px gives you nice big thumbnails on this page in contrast to flickr's tired old page.
After browsing my friends most recent uploads to 500px, next I move on to my own recent activity page there. They just started paging this page this week and so now you can see all of your recent activity (like Flickr). Here, similar to flickr, I'll cmd-click the names of people who have interacted with my photos to load their photo pages in background tabs. From their I cmd-click the photos that I like on their page to open them up bigger and so that I can interact with them. If I like the photo I'll use the keyboard to quickly press "F" and "L" to both fave and like the photo.
Next I go to 500px's version of Explore (called Popular Photos). Here you will find some of the best photographs being published on the web today. I'm not kidding. 500px's Popular Photos page BLOWS flickr's Explore page out of the water. And 500px doesn't even need a secret "magic blacklisting donkey" algorithm to produce it.
Along with Popular Photos, 500px also has Fresh Photos, Upcoming Photo, and a staff curated section called Editor's Choice.
On each of these pages I'll cmd-click thumbnails to load photos to interact with in background tabs. Further, 500px allows you to filter these sections by subject, landscapes, people, nature, fine art NUDES! (did he just say nudes? don't worry folks, you have to check a NSFW tab in order to see these -- can you imagine FLICKR actually giving people an option to see the most popular nudes?)
By using the techniques described above, I can find some really amazing photos by some really amazing photographers on 500px. By relying heavily on the cmd-click function, I can more rapidly and efficiently navigate the site, allowing load time to take place in background tabs, leaving as much time as possible for me to actually spend appreciating and interacting with a photograph.
As a bonus tip, on other thing that I'm starting to do on both Flickr and 500px is curate photographs with Pinterest. I've just started doing this, but if I especially like a photograph on flickr or 500px (or anywhere on the web really) I'll pin it to a gallery on Pinterest. Here is a gallery I've started called "So This is America" which includes interesting and compelling photographs of America and here is another gallery that I've started of some of my favorite photographs by one of my greatest inspirations, American photographer William Eggleston. Pinterest is really what Flickr's own galleries should have looked like if they hadn't of done it so half-ass and with so many restrictions and limitations.