Artistic Photography
I didnt want to post this in the "Digital Camera Example Thread" because I wanted to see some pictures people took as art and not just like an example of how pictures look on their digital camera.
Now let me start off by saying, I dont claim to be an artist, or a photographer or anything like that, I just have a new hobby of heading out with my digital camera and take pictures of stuff because it's fun for me, its a pretty low-cost activity, and sometimes I take pictures I really like. Here's some stuff I shot today, I'd love to see photos other people take if they're into just heading out with the camera as well, any comments/criticism/tips are also more than welcome!
these are just 4 of them that I really liked and thought came out the best.
Some stuff I shot today, check it out, comment if youd like
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<img src="http://totalgeekmedia.com/photos/fencebw.jpg">
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<img src="http://totalgeekmedia.com/photos/towerbw.jpg">
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<img src="http://totalgeekmedia.com/photos/fence3bw.jpg">
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Now let me start off by saying, I dont claim to be an artist, or a photographer or anything like that, I just have a new hobby of heading out with my digital camera and take pictures of stuff because it's fun for me, its a pretty low-cost activity, and sometimes I take pictures I really like. Here's some stuff I shot today, I'd love to see photos other people take if they're into just heading out with the camera as well, any comments/criticism/tips are also more than welcome!
these are just 4 of them that I really liked and thought came out the best.Some stuff I shot today, check it out, comment if youd like
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<img src="http://totalgeekmedia.com/photos/fencebw.jpg">
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<img src="http://totalgeekmedia.com/photos/fence2bw.jpg">
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<img src="http://totalgeekmedia.com/photos/fence3bw.jpg">
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For the one looking thru the chain links, get closer so that most of the picture is thru one hole and there is an object in the background. The link will focus your attention to the object in the background. Its called using frames. Leave some area outside the hole but most of the pic inside hole.
For the ones where you are looking down the fence, have something at the end of the fence. The fence will lead your attention to the object at the end of the fence. The fence right now doesnt really lead my eyes to anything.
A good test to see if the object you want to be the center of attention is to see if your eyes are first drawn to that. The first thing someone should look at is the focal point of the picture.
Hope that helps in your picture taking.:)
Here are some I took at school, and one from the top of the Sears Tower.
Nolf took those pictures.
You did well. If you want some wild effects, try running these through PhotoPaint... I like the central link in link-through with watertower having water tower framed in one fence link opening, and if you get too close, with a digital, the links will blur to get whole pic inside link unless it is a small object. Digital cams can be "far-sighted." These have a "don't fence me OUT" feel.
With a good pure normal camera, the pixel res is so tight, that folks who are pro artists are using 8 MP cameras to get these effects in fine focus with foreground and background flattened visually enough to record both in detail. You can get whole pic in a single link with both being detailed in final product, but you start with TWO pictures to get that from a digital source that is not hugely expensive. One of link, with everything else cut out, then a pic of what you want in it. what you want in it becomes background pic, the frame object gets layered on top of it in digital editign software. Photopaint, and Pasint Shop Pro can layer pics like this, and have tools to fade things in and out. You can select an area, wipe it to transparent, then have another pic below or above it and get artwork, but two pics are the starting point for even my 4 MP Camedia. That is how you do what marc suggests with a digital and have both in focus.
You have a good focal compromise in your artwork, now crop and see how far you can blow up the single link and tower. If your camera can natively save Tiff, and you can work with those tiffs, those will blow up better and retaiin edges, especially for radical blowups. For black and whites with no more than 255 gray scale steps, you can use .gif also, and that will be better than JPG for this one editing thing as far as how far you can blow things up without fuzzing them all to heck.
The corner pic is nice, but if you could drop soem of the hyper-bright washout and imitate sun through a thin cloud as far as diffusion you could get a sharp corner and have a sun splash effect that is slightly less doing a washout.
You have the basic edgy "realism art" idea well illustrated, Camman.
Here's one I took about a year and a half ago, this was during a walk in a nearby forest-park, with my wife and my dog. It was early evening, and a fog had just rolled in, and my dog was running up the path toward me. I set the camera for action settings (flash on, fast exposure.) The result...
Dexter...
this is a cactus in the backyard of my in-laws home in Sun City (Phoenix) Arizona, framed with the sun high and behind...
Dexter...
Late one evening I was zoning out staring into the fire place, when it occured to me that it might be neat to play with the camera and some different settings takng pics of the fire.
Pic #1: No flash, long exposure time. Captures some nice glowing embers and blurs some flame movement.
Pic #2: same settings, tighter on the base of the fire.
Pic #3: Wider shot, no flash, even longer exposure time. This had the effect of really "searing" the flame into the image.
Pic #4: Normal settings with flash. Basically cancels out any effect of the firelight, serving somewhat as a reference file. Captures flame flickers in mid-air while still showing base ember glows, and also catches some smoke in the process.
Dexter...
Dexter...
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<img src="http://purposelessproductions.net/misc/3treeisland.jpg">
~dodo
oooo I really like that second one over the water.
yeah, all these are from around the Portsmouth area, the first set are at an old weapons storage place that is now a wildlife preserve and the second ones were from Odiorne Point state park and Four Tree Island (if you know the area at all, otherwise the names I guess are kind of pointless to mention
wow, i didnt even notice the difference in the water. thats amazing!
ive driven through the portsmith area, but i looked on a map where those state parks are, and i have never gotten out to the point there. perhaps i should sometime.
~dodo
Here's a photo to an water drop at my kictchen, i took at least 40 shots to get this one, loads of pacience and luck required.
(I've resized, it was a bit big for here)
those are GREAT pics!
Dexter...
Thank you Leo, u can always check more photos at my photos link bellow.
Im hoping to post some of my best photos at some magazines (newspapers) this year over here in Portugal, wish me luck.
In case anyone is interested, a really popular website for news info about stuff going on in my area, www.PortsmouthNH.com currently has one of my photos on their front page as it's part of a spring photo contest for pictures taken around the seacoast area.