Inspiration May 5

courtesy of zzap

courtesy of zzap

courtesy of zzap

courtesy of zzap

Inspiration May 4

courtesy of zzap

Rule of Thirds & the Photographic Triangle

All the shooting I've done thus far is wrong but it needed to be wrong for me to learn... Bloody hell!

Ok, so after showing Christopher a number of shots from the last 5 tests, he pointed out that it all needs to be lit correctly since things can look flat, and shot correctly and thus what I've done is wrong.

The following resources should get me on track...

Re: The Photographic Triangle
  http://www.flickr.com/groups/technique/discuss/17163/

Re: Rule of Thirds

  http://www.silverlight.co.uk/tutorials/compose_expose/thirds.html

  http://www.digital-photography-school.com/rule-of-thirds

Re: Composition
  http://photoinf.com/General/NAVY/Photographic_composition_Balance.htm

DUPLICATION and disCONNECTION by Xing Danwen

During the City Sites theory lecture, Xing Danwen's work was featured. I liked the collections of items that she was photographing.




Note though, she has some freaky stuff in her Personal Diary.

"DIY PVC skater dolly" by Martin Taylor

Awesome invention on like cool:

"And I Want To Be A Super Hero" by photographer Remi Lamande

This is a good concept... superhero-related fashion. Nice model, nice portraits.

VMan - A Day on Wall Street by Josh Olins

The VMan post only has two photos but I like the colour and situation... Some photographers really have it.  His website is kinda boring with nothing on it which is disappointing.

Mark Mawson - Aqua/Splash Art

These pictures (grabbed from other blogs) are truly amazing.  They are part of his portfolio collection called "Aqueous"...



Check out his "Smoke" portfolio too while you're there... I must show this to Paul.

 

Turtle Pics with Emotion

In light of the "Wow" tortoise doing the rounds, here are some pics of turtles showing emotions, here's a couple:






If you've missed the "Wow" tortoise video, see it here:


Another funny one can be found here:

Some cool stuff from LikeCool (3 Sep)

Game Characters Live Draw: Mario in 9 minutes


Steampunk Mr. Potato Head


Dimitri Tsykalov - Skull Apple


Yoda Fountain


Leica M9 iPhone Skin

Dancers in Motion by Bill Wadman

The photographer here is Bill Wadman... Check out the original post on LikeCool.
As I've said previously, I love this motion stuff. Brilliant!

Details.com - "The Agony of Zac Efron"

I'm always impressed by photo-shoots for magazines (Details.com)... I don't know why. Maybe I've subconsciously bought into the stereotypical ideals of beauty, etc. Maybe that's all it is, beautiful people in cool clothes, posing in odd locations.

Movement Pics "What the Naked Eye Cannot See" on AcidCow

Movement pictures as found on Acidcow, entitled "What the Naked Eye Cannot See".
By way of a sample, here are three of the twenty pics posted... Beautiful!

Storm Cloud Basking in Sun

Some aspects of these clouds remind me of when I used to take sunset photos every afternoon for an extended period.



This photo was posted here on Likecool.

Animalia by Mikel Uribetxeberria (11 photos)

These are awesome.  Shots with posed animals are great especially considering the logistics.

My favourite would have to be the one shown below or even the ape on the bed. I like his sexy thinking pose. :)  Check out the Animalia collection. On a side note, the rest of his stuff doesn't really blow my skirt up (as they say) but maybe the lanbroa series.

Concrete LEGO by Andrew Lewichi

On the trail looking for and at LEGO related work, I came across Andrew Lewichi... In addition to the two below, check out his other works, including an Acordian Obscura!

Oreo Manhole Cover

Concrete Lego

I LEGO N.Y. by Christoph Niemann

As referenced from the MoMA article, another related LEGO piece that I find interesting is called 'I LEGO N.Y.' by Christoph Niemann, which is available as a book, check out his site for his other work... his toothbrush/toothpaste illustration works is cute and the ink jar is awesome.

Lego: Plastic Bag caught in branch

Inkwell

Toothbrush/paste

On the topic of Lego Houses...

And here's a guy from the UK who is building a house made out of lego bricks... the article points out that it's about 816million lego bricks... Wowsers.  They have a really good photo library on the page.