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Spotted in a dumpster next to a restaurant in Puerto Rico. I liked the strong light on the iguana against the dark interior of the dumpster. Not it's natural habitat, but what the hell.
More of my pictures from Puerto Rico are in my Puerto Rico set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157600821534703/...
The Human Spectrum: A Cinematic Exploration of Archetypes
This collection presents a series of high-concept portraits that bridge the gap between classical photographic aesthetics and contemporary digital innovation. Drawing deep inspiration from the iconic staging and dramatic lighting characteristic of Annie Leibovitz, these images explore diverse human conditions through a lens of heightened realism.
From the quiet, weathered solitude of a cellist in a decaying room to the vibrant, neon-drenched kinetic energy of a midnight sprint, each frame serves as a standalone narrative. The series meticulously plays with light—using soft sunbeams in a cluttered bedroom, harsh spotlights over a chessboard, and the cold, clinical glow of a laboratory—to evoke specific emotional responses. This work is an exercise in texture, mood, and the boundary-pushing capabilities of modern generative tools, reimagining traditional portraiture for the digital age.
These images have been generated by Artificial Intelligence.
A wild owl locks eyes with the viewer from its winter perch, its glowing yellow gaze revealing the silent power of a nocturnal predator.
This is a test shot my father took with his newly acquired camera while working as an insurance clerk in Liverpool in 1946. Sadly, the negative has become a bit scratched over the years but the dramatic light and the silhouettes of 1940s fashions and hair styles make it worth reproducing nonetheless.
I'm assuming the location of this shot is somewhere near to Lime Street station as the following two negatives on the roll are of the station interior.
If anyone can place the location, please let me know. The toothed stonework of the arch rules out a lot of possibilities (including Lime Street). The nearest I could come to it was Exchange station, but there the top of the arch was smooth. Central station also featured suitable toothed columns in its architecture, but I've never seen a shot under the awning to know whether there was an arched entrance to the booking hall there.
A radio tower is completely darfed by a Swiss moutain peak near Belalp
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Photography and Editing: Dirk Dreyer. Hi-Res pictures and prints available at galleries.dreyerpictures.com
Organization: Creative Light Photography
My husband saw this bottle the other day and thought it might make for a good image. So, I figured what the heck and was playing around with more dramatic lighting. I thought it made for an interesting product shot.
CameraCanon EOS REBEL T2i
Canon 50mm F/1.8
Exposure0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperturef/14.0
Focal Length50 mm
ISO Speed200
Exposure Bias0 EV
Made with a 1D Mark III 24-70mm L f/2.8. (ISO250, f/5.6, 1/160)
Used various blend modes and layer masks to properly present the dramatic light that was being displayed.
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Chiaroscuro--clear-dark. It's a word I learned from The Tale of Despereaux, and in that book it is the name of a rat. He is a rat who falls in love with the light, but can never enjoy it—as a rat, he is banished always to the darkness of the dungeon. The pain of the seperation twists and destroys him, and he becomes more evil than if he had never seen sunlight at all...
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I woke up this morning, and my window was full of sunlight and frost. It was beautiful.
I fell out of bed in my haste to grab my camera, and I took pictures until well after the frost melted (which, sadly, happened only a few moments after my first photograph).
My scar is really visible here. I just went through all of my other photos to check, and this is the first time that's happened. But I have had it all along.
...In case you were wondering.
My Flickr post today was part of a "mindfulness" exercise I gave my "communicating science via photography" workshop students last weekend, during our field trip at Blendon Woods Metro Park. I asked the students to think about composition, lighting, distractions, and camera settings before clicking the shutter. I also asked them to do three sequential photos in this exercise - each of a different subject, but with only one click of the shutter for each one. This was #2 in my series, and the image is un-cropped. I did bring up the whites in the flower, but that was all the processing done on the raw image file.
In this day and age of digital photography, it's easy to get into bad habits that we would never have done in the days of film photography. "Electrons are cheap" is what I often hear. However, I have found that mindfulness goes a long ways toward reducing the amount of time needed to review, and subsequently discard, bad photos. It's much better to think ahead, plan/visualize, and be successful (with fewer images to sort through), than to do the "spray and pray," or "snatch and grab" techniques of digital photography. Just my 2¢ worth here...
Framed like a still from a lost noir classic, each pose becomes a brushstroke in a living portrait. The gown gleams like danger wrapped in velvet—this is the femme fatale, mid-scene, just before the plot turns.
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not a super huge slide, mostly just loved this shot. some sliding done to smooth the grain, sharpen some and a little bit of tonal adjustment. shot at ISO 4000, f/1.8, 1/125
the bride & groom had an outdoor bar at the wedding last night...
after dinner, the bottles were all backlit by a spotlight and when i saw this, i thought it was dreamy.
hss!
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This was done with several PhotoTools layers and one Nik layer. I added additional makeup to the model using Photoshop. It was natural light at 1250 ISO with a modeling light to add edge definition on the right arm. I wanted a edgy city look.
There are moments when civility shatters—when the face we show the world contorts into something wild, primal, and real. This image captures that rupture. A snarl, a scream, a tongue stuck out not in jest, but in rebellion. His eyes burn with the fire of something unspoken. The arms, twisted across the frame, are not guards but signals—of protection, resistance, maybe defiance. It’s not just a portrait; it’s a protest. Against silence. Against conformity. Against the demand to always appear composed. This is what happens when feeling fights back.
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