I mean technically day 7, but I was really busy yesterday and couldn't post anything.

This one I didn't come up with entirely on my own. It's based on this tree technique by Stuart Kahler, now buried in the depths of Mocpages. It was posted all the way back in 2011, but somehow never came into common practice despite being a brilliant idea. It is based on flipping stacks of grass stalks upside-down and connecting them in a cone shape to create a realistic conifer texture. The technique is excellent, but it is very uniform, so to make it more irregular/organic, instead of constructing the cone with hidden hinges I connected six stacks of grass stalks to a center piece consisting of two more grass stalks using 1x1 flower pieces. Further stacks of grass stalks can be connected to the first six in a similar fashion, theoretically allowing for endless downward expansion as long as solid support structures are present and the connections at the top hold out against gravity. I don't know how big you can go before gravity wins out because I don't have enough pieces to try it out, but I suspect that some pretty big trees can be constructed this way.

As I said, do note that I didn't come up with this all on my own. In fact, one of the comments on the original 2011 post has a suggestion for a similar modification, though I've never seen it put into practice. So consider this particular post more of a publicity boost.

I still have one more technique left! It's my favorite of the bunch so I'll try to get it up soon.

I've also used this technique in an actual build, unlike most of my other ones. You can see it in action here.

Technique Week II | Technique Week I

Morning Mist - Yarra Valley

Lesson 3A: Distortion Techniques page 1 of 5

Thank you Jenny Romney for the use of your wonderful images and the inspiration

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Automatic Download of 5-Page tutorial in .PDF format:

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If you want to see how I made this (and how you can too!), visit my HDR Tutorial. I hope it gives you some new tricks!

Many people ask about my technique, and all the details are in the tutorial above. Others just come for the Photomatix discount code that they gave me since I am such a big believer in their product - that Photomatix discount code is "stuckincustoms".

You can visit the tutorial for this picture in the HDR Tutorial on www.StuckInCustoms.com

The biggest problem was people walking in front of the tripod, totally aloof to my HDR quest. Since it takes five minutes to explain HDR to people, it was not efficient to stop everyone in the area and give them a short dissertation on why it is important for them not to get in front of my tripod...

Also, there is a nice gal that wrote a dissertation about this photo at Washington University - you can read it here: stuckincustoms.com/a-dissertation-on-my-times-square-photo/

Technique: I found this little caterpillar on a flower, and shot it at my patio table with an artificial flower in the background.

Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (4x) + a diffused MT-24EX. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.

This is my friend's cat, the same one two pictures before this one, but I used an impressionistic technique on it. His blue eyes still come out very prominently and beautifully.

Northern Harrier | Hunting Technique

Smaller than the more common Red-tailed Hawk generally hunting from the periphery of woodlands, Northern Harriers, aka marsh hawk or ring-tailed hawk, prefer to fly low over open habitats, listening to prey activity below by twisting and turning abruptly over tangles of grasses and shrubs. Here, a male Harrier is seen flying over an open field into 50 km/h sustained wind gusting to nearly 100 km/h and from time to time touching down in search of small rodents, principally mice and voles. In addition to single action shots, some progressive composite images illustrating the Harrier’s sight and/or sound-based hunting strategy are provided throughout this photo album. According to “All About Birds”, Northern Harriers breed throughout Canada but generally do not winter north of the CAN-USA border. Granted, Kingston is on the northern fringe of the Harrier wintering range, however, the current mild winter and lack of snow in Southeastern Ontario may have influenced this bird’s innate desired to migrate south

Hello everybody :)

Today I want to show you a wall technique I explored while sorting my parts. It´s only made out of suitcases and some clip vertical parts. Moreover it´s also possible to make some variation by using next to the dark bluish gray suitcases some in dark gray. It´s quite a stable design and a decent alternative to the walls made out ot the "hammer" parts.

Thanks for watching :)

Josh Adamski Technique

Off-flash technique

Toxicity: Non-venomous but will bite if provoke

Length: 1.0-1.2 m

Flll-in flash technique.

Note: Support my "Wildlife Journey" as I fly all over Malaysia & Borneo documenting unique and exotic wildlife. Photos can be purchased on Shutterstock.com, Alamy.com etc.

Technique mixte.

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BLYTHE-A-DAY

A flickr Group

NOVEMBER 2023: Photography Techniques

DAY 8: (supposed to be) "WORM'S EYE VIEW" Technique ...

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Another Blythe Fifth Avenue SuperModel ... captured in the wild ...

but ... APPARENTLY, we have MORE google research to do!

Mistaking the "worm's view" photography technique ...

with "camera ON the ground" view!

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... SOOOOOO ..... now that all the worms in Joshua Tree have the memo ...

we will post a TRUE worm's view ... TOMORROW !! (Nov. 9 !!)

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7DWF-"New Projects" Crazy Tuesday Theme

This year I am going to learn as much on Photoshop as I can!

I have been trying different techniques with editing and I hope to master all of these tutorials by the end of the year (IF that is possible!)

I wasn't sure I was ready for a long shot tonight, although I have been doing a lot of research on food lighting techniques, processing and "food styling" so I was kind of tempted to try some of it out...When I opened the fridge to see if we had anything worth shooting, this jumped out at me, and I couldn't really ignore it based on how I was feeling! Decided to have a go at getting that "soft, dreamy" look anyway, and go for the "random that is actually the opposite of random" food styling on my days off!

strobist: 580exii lastlolite softbox 1/16 24mm camera right, lastolite trigrip reflector camera left.

I was fiddling around with some LEGO panels at some point and discovered they could be meshed together as illustrated.

I built these puzzles using the technique, which can be extended to build puzzles of any size. The complexity can also be varied by changing the number of separate puzzle pieces.

Sadly, the newly redesigned panel pieces can no longer do this.

October 2005

technique of painting: colourful flamasters

The matte painting (which can be translated with painting backgrounds) is a technique used mainly in film used to allow the representation of landscapes or places otherwise too costly or impossible to reconstruct or reach directly.

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Not sure if it’s been shared by others. This is a simple SNOT technique that has small footprint and is quite stable.

Setup shot for this polaroid photo. Home Depot light and aluminum foil reflector. I only shoot with the high budget stuff!

No teeth, Sarah....

Trying to get a bit of forced perspective on Spidey's hand.

The matte painting (which can be translated with painting backgrounds) is a technique used mainly in film used to allow the representation of landscapes or places otherwise too costly or impossible to reconstruct or reach directly.

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The matte painting (which can be translated with painting backgrounds) is a technique used mainly in film used to allow the representation of landscapes or places otherwise too costly or impossible to reconstruct or reach directly.

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Sandwich Technique.

Beauty is the element of surprise.

You can't control it, and this mystery is central to creativity.

Camera movement, Color retouching.

Sandwich Technique.

Lacul Morii-Bucharest city

*Not the brand or technique is important in photographic art, but the understanding of the things behind the photographed subjects, the emotion, the composition, the joy or the sadness, the life itself that is mysteriously coming unrepeatable as a gift.

(Horia Stanicel)

* I have seen a large part of the most popular or devoted photographers' photographs over time and of course I can say that most of them have speculated on different situations, angles of photography, shadows, different brightness, feelings, human tragedies, all kinds of paradoxical situations that of course make them noticed. I do not want to bring any name into question for the simple reason that each photographic artist has a unique value. However, I regard the photographic art as a simple spectator that is difficult to be convince most of the times. I contemplate the creation of God and every time I photograph I do not forget how grateful we should be for all the beauty that our Creator gave it to us! People who forget this do nothing but hate themselves and the world they live in and photography is nothing but a mirror of this beautiful or crooked world.(Horia Stanicel)

*Nu aparatul foto sau tehnica este importantă în arta fotografică, ci înțelegerea lucrurilor care stau în spatele subiectelor fotografiate,emoția, compoziția, bucuria sau tristețea, viața însăși care vine tainic irepetabil ca un dar.

(Horia Stanicel)

*Am văzut o mare parte a fotografiilor celor mai populari sau consacrați artiști fotografi de-a lungul timpului și desigur pot spune că majoritatea dintre ei au speculat diversele situații,unghiuri de fotografiere, umbre, luminozitati diferite,sentimente,tragedii umane chiar,tot felul de situații paradoxale care desigur să-i facă remarcați.Nu vreau să aduc vreun nume în discuție pentru simplul motiv că fiecare artist fotograf are o valoare unică. Totuși eu privesc arta fotografică ca un simplu spectator greu de convins de cele mai multe ori.Eu contemplu creația lui Dumnezeu și de fiecare dată când fotografiez nu uit cât de recunoscători ar trebui să fim pentru toată frumusețea pe care Creatorul nostru ne-a daruit-o! Oamenii care uită aceasta nu fac decât să se urâțească pe ei înșiși dar și lumea în care trăiesc iar fotografia nu este decât o oglindă a acestei lumi frumoase sau urâțite.

(Horia Stanicel)

ICM Technique

Técnica ICM

JUEGOS NOCTURNOS CON LA LUZ

Cuando la luz y la oscuridad conviven en simbiosis.

Durante la época del año en que la noche dura más que el día quienes queremos seguir disfrutando de nuestra foto-adicción nos aliamos con la noche y buscamos las luces que cohabitan con ella.

En mi caso, acostumbrado a fotografiar los reflejos de día en el puerto pesquero, al llegar la noche me llamaron la atención los reflejos luminosos de las farolas sobre el mar oscuro, y empecé a explorar la nueva situación hace algunos años.

Algunas imágenes han sido conseguidas mediante la técnica ICM, otras mediante velocidad baja de obturador y aprovechando el movimiento del agua. Otras veces la combinación de movimientos (el de la cámara y el del agua) produce efectos también sorprendentes. Lo que en realidad se ve es el rastro o estela de luz flotando sobre el agua.

NIGHT GAMES WITH LIGHT

When light and darkness coexist in symbiosis.

During the time of the year when the night lasts longer than the day, those of us who want to continue enjoying our photo-addiction ally ourselves with the night and look for the lights that cohabit with it.

In my case, accustomed to photograph the reflections during the day in the fishing port, when the night came, the luminous reflections of the streetlights on the dark sea caught my attention, and I began to explore the new situation some years ago.

Some images have been obtained using the ICM technique, others by slow shutter speed and taking advantage of the movement of the water. Other times the combination of camera and water movements produces surprising effects. What is actually seen is the trail or trail of light floating on the water.

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I fell in love with gouaches <3

I needed a simple and compact way to mount an L-motor inside a 6-wide train. No space for a vertical mount so I needed a 90 degree gearing.

In the past this was always tricky because of gears running on the studs of a technic plate and the height never really working out. Thanks to the 2x2 round tile with a hole in the middle that's now a lot easier.

My first thought was to put half-beams along the sides of the motor and connect them to the walls of the engine. Then I saw the jumpers I'd used for the M-motor that was previously in the loco and from there it was a small hop to the 2x2 tiles with a pin on top.

The T-piece on top supports the axle going down into the bogie. Using the #8 with stop gave me just enough of the axle to connect the bogie without it accidentally coming out.

It works with both a 1:1 gearing or a 5:3. I haven't done any endurance testing with this setup but initial testing was encouraging.

further experiments on the Inset Track for a project maybe probably.

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Again the base angle technique courtesy of Nick Trotta.

It feels good to post again! I haven't been acting building lately but I've still managed to go through my contact list and see the sweet stuff everyone else is building! I've been wanting to build one of my local Lifeguard Towers for a long time, and since I had made one when I was like eight, the contest over in the Teen Lego group is perfect! There are lots of little details and techniques hidden, so make sure to check out the full photo. I will post some more photos of the car too, as well as a breakdown shot.

Thanks!

Oh, and since it is Halloween, here's a funny video I found over on Youtube!

Please see my album of about 15 years of making Still Lifes With Cats. My technique is to start working witih a still life I want to make. Then Wiki ( and previous cats) will come walk into it out of curiosity. I welcome them and try to catch something nice or interesting while they are there. Then I leave it all and do something else for a while - because - 98% of the time - later I come upon the kitty alone doing something really beautiful or silly, but always unique with the still life. This morning I came in from outside and Wiki was drinking water by licking it off her paw right between the roses ! Earlier she tipped the little Chinese stand on its side. I adore these moments. This is because you cannot make a cat do anything BUT (my cats have taught me) everything looks better with a cat next to it.

Technique/Processing

Only one shot - the lights and shadows were already well balanced, so no HDR or DRI was necessary. The tram you see are in fact to trams - one just arriving at the stop and the other one, standing at the stop behind it.

Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) the School of Athens - Preliminary cartoon (1509) - technique white lead, charcoal - dimensions 285 × 804 cm - Biblioteca/Pinacoteca Ambrisoana - Milan

Sicuramente questo disegno è tra le opere più preziose della collezione e della città di Milano. È il più grande cartone rinascimentale a noi pervenuto e fu eseguito da Raffaello Sanzio, come preparazione dell’affresco della Stanza della Segnatura in Vaticano, fatta dipingere da Giulio II. Entrò a far parte della collezione di Federico Borromeo nel 1626, allorché egli lo acquistò dalla vedova di Fabio Borromeo Visconti per l’ingente somma di seicento lire imperiali, anche se in realtà fu collocato in comodato presso l’Ambrosiana già nel 1610. Benché sia noto come Scuola di Atene, il titolo più esatto sarebbe La Filosofia, come suggerisce l’omonima allegoria dipinta nella vela sovrastante l’affresco nella Stanza della Segnatura, secondo un assai complesso progetto iconografico. Riconoscibili, al centro, sono i due massimi filosofi Platone (dipinto con le sembianze di Leonardo, con il dito puntato verso l’alto e riconoscibile poiché regge il Timeo, una delle sue opere che grandemente influì sulla filosofia successiva) e Aristotele, identificabile dal libro dell’Etica.

This drawing is certainly one of the most precious artworks in the collection and in the city of Milan. It is the largest renaissance cartoon that has survived to this day, and was made by Raphael as a preparatory work for the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican, which was commissioned by Julius II. It entered Federico Borromeo’s collection in 1626, when he purchased it from the widow of Fabio Borromeo Visconti for the massive sum of six hundred imperial lire, even though it had actually been on loan to the Ambrosiana since 1610. Although it is known as The School of Athens, the more exact title is Philosophy, as suggested by the allegory of the same subject painted on the vault above the fresco in the Stanza della Segnatura, as part of a very complex iconographic project. At the centre we see the two greatest philosophers, Plato (painted with the likeness of Leonardo, with his finger pointing upwards and identifiable by the Timaeus he is holding, one of his works that had enormous influence on later philosophy) and Aristotle, who is identified by his book of Ethics.

Alright, just like others on Flickr, I’ve been asked how I get my HDR image to pop the way they do. Well, while in Baltimore I used my handy Flip Video to show you how simple my setup is.

Here is the link to me in Baltimore freezing my butt off, showing off the simple technique of shooting a rental car with 9 exposures. (don't mind the bags under my eyes... that's jetlag and aging for ya)

Okay, I shoot 9 exp because... well, my D200 can do it. It's digital and free. Now I typically take one shot. A test shot, with my metering on the largest matrix mode there is, to get an overall average of the scene's exposure. Plus with going further + and -, you cover more of the tonal range, so hopefully that contributes to a better overall final image.

But before I do that, I still need to find a shot that is interested and well composed on it’s own. Okay, got one? That was easy.

I use a tripod and remote trigger on Ch (high speed shutter) to snap all the shots at once. But take a single shot first to make sure the MAIN SUBJECT looks properly exposed.

If the mid-range looks to be exposed properly, then I'll know that it's what I want. Now I shoot 9 exp at 1stop intervals. Thus, if my scene normally would be shot at 1/60th, that means I'll be capturing the tonal range from +/- 4stops. There is a better chance that I'll get exposures of the darkest areas and brightest areas that way. So:

1/60, 1/1250, 1/640, 1/320, 1/160, 1/40, 1/20, 1/10, 1/5

So right there that covers more range and thus get more tonal coverage.

But that's only the tip of the ice cream. Now is time to get the images on the computer and process them.

Here is a quick 10 minute video on how I process the images with Photomatix and then Photoshop CS3

So in Photomatix, I roughly use these settings:

Strength: 100

Saturation: 100

Light Smoothing: (either the 4th or 5th button)  this has a dramatic effect on your overall image

Luminosity: Usually 10. Less = more halo affect on horizon, but does work better with the 4th Light Smoothing button.

Play around with these the most, as they will influence your image the most.

Tone:

white: 100

black: 100

Gamma: between 1.40 and 1.15

Color:

Temperature: between -2 and 4

Saturation Highlights: 10

Saturation Shadows: 10

Micro:

Micro-contrast: 10 (love me a good contrast)

Micro-smoothing: 5-30 (30 being smooth, 5 being pretty dramatic, but also lots of noise in the sky)

S/H:

Highlight Smoothing: 0

Shadow Smoothing: 0

Shadow Clipping: 0 unless I want some areas dark

Process. Save.

Once I get my photo into CS3, I take my time to dodge/burn the photo so all those little weird dark areas that Photomatix creates are all evened out. Once it's all even... ready for this, I:

Create a dupe layer

change it to: SCREEN (which makes it really bright)

adjust it to about.. I dunno, 30% or so until it looks properly exposed

Then flatten

Then use DODGE/BURN to even out the exposure and any areas that appear too dark/light

Create another dupe layer

change it to: SOFT or HARD light to exaggerate the colors a bit

adjust it appropriately.

Flatten

Once I do that, I might use the SPONGE tool to either saturate or desaturate the colors so it's even on the photo.

Now for the sky, if I want crazy clouds or colors, I use a magic wand or something to select the sky and thencreate another layer.

open up OPTIKVERVE'S VIRTUAL PHOTOGRAPHER and go through some of the presets in there. My personal favorites are:

Photocopy

Radiant

Landscape

Etc. Then I apply it, and adjust my layer, between 20 and 80%, depending on how much it changes the image

LARGE VERSION for educational purposes only.

That's about it really. There might be other things I do, but I always dodge/burn to even out the shadows and highlights. While the colors are vivid, I don't like things looking too crazy... usually.

Photography is just a journey like so many other things in life; we make mistakes, some of us more than others, but hopefully we learn from them and do things better next time.

It is always interesting to see how styles and techniques develop and evolve over the years. This image is from my earliest days of using a DSLR, a time when I thought pixels were those little creatures at the bottom of the garden and exposure compensation was just getting dressed in the morning before going out on a cold day. I’ve still no idea what those words mean but I have read them in a book, a book which is now doing a sterling job of keeping the coffee table level.

So this image, although being 8 years old, is still one of my all-time favourites and after a little encouragement I’ve given it a little tweak following my normal workflow these days; a few nips and tucks, adjusted highlights and shadows, a little bit of split toning, a spray tan and finally a slight crop.

It was originally posted with a pink border! What was I thinking? It brought to mind the time as a teenager when I had one of those Starsky jackets which I wore with bright red jeans and cowboy boots. OMG! You’re probably better not thinking about that for too long!

Sadly for you I have not got any photos, you really would fall off your chair!

So that raises the question; what has been your worst fashion disaster?

The music for today is just mainstream pop. It’s got very little to do with this image apart from the fact that I like the tune and the colours reminded me of this photo; see I’m from simple stock. The video is quite wacky too, like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on acid and purely by coincidence the track is by LSD!

Now before you get any ideas, I’m firmly in the Grange Hill corner, ‘Just Say No’.

youtu.be/kg1BljLu9YY?list=RDMMkg1BljLu9YY

Just testing out an interesting lightroom technique from the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips website. It could be done in ACR or another raw processing program as well (I'm assuming).

I thought it gave a haunted/ghostly quality to this shot of a staircase leading to a locked gate at Fatehpur Sikri outside of Agra in India. Supposedly the technique includes scaling back on the saturation, but I liked the effect of keeping saturation close to normal on this shot.

Fatehpur Sikri, India

August 2007

I think we all know this technique by now...

The technique behind the 45-degree wall section.

Bandon Beach, Oregon.

I used multiple techniques to get this final image. I shot this image as a high key. It is also a 5 frame (+/-1 EV) HDR image. In my post processing I used digital ‘bleach’ techniques, converted to Black and White and selectively colored the rocks. This is my last image from Bandon Beach. Thanks again for all your views and comments. I hope you enjoyed my series of images from the beach! Bandon and the surrounding areas also offer many photogenic places. I will be posting a few more pictures from around this area. I promise no more beach pictures!

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I'm always intrigued by the activities which tourists do when travelling that the locals almost never seem to do.

Taken while travelling through New Zealand earlier this year.

Some distracting elements removed with the clone stamp, and the clouds enhanced with luminosity masks

7 Days of Shooting - Travels - Technique Tuesday.

The matte painting (which can be translated with painting backgrounds) is a technique used mainly in film used to allow the representation of landscapes or places otherwise too costly or impossible to reconstruct or reach directly.

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I had a rather fab time last week finally getting to put on my make-up, lingerie, dress and high heels and a chance to wear some wigs I absolutely love. I was Sao thrilled and full of joy to be en femme again I ended up recording several short spontaneous videos in which I expressed my delight.

This picture is cropped from a still frame taken from one of the videos. I bought a teardrop shaped beauty sponge as I was keen to experiment with my MAC full coverage foundation. II usually apply it with a brush and the final results are never as smooth as I hope them to be. I saw someone doing their foundation (on a You Tube video) with the teardrop sponge and loved the results.

I do have an airbrush make-up applicator which definitely produces the smoothest and best looking results. However, I was out of the silicone make-up required to use with the airbrush. I wanted a solution that would be better than the usual brush or latex wedge I use for foundation application. It would enable a small travel make-up kit to be used which I’m keen to assemble for the future.

I also wanted more glowing skin rather than my usual mat powder finish so I wanted a bit of a shine to my face and chest area. The MAC full coverage has a lovely finish and gently rolling on the foundation as opposed to using the brush strokes or latex wedge patting produce a much smoother finish. I was rather thrilled by it. To maintain the glowing look I was after I used gel blusher in soft pink rathe than powder blusher.

I was not prepared for the psychological impact applying my make-up in this way would have on me, it really made feel alive when I saw the finish. I loved it far more than the matt, somewhat dry, powder finish I usually have. In fact it definitely made me feel more feminine than ever before!

This is the sponge applicator I used for my foundation. I bought mine on Amazon. This is a link to a UK site so you can see the type of sponge applicator I used (it is less expensive on Amazon): www.boots.com/beautyblender-classic-sponge-10214712

This is my latest creation (wip): a dome built with 8 panels (4 x 4 x 13 Curved Tapered). The idea behind it was to capture a dome with the top of the “balloon” and hiding the lower section inside the building.

I'm going to use this construction for a running project, which is hopefully coming up soon. You may be curious! ;-)