This has probably been done before, but it is still brilliant. Watch for some excellent "miniature" work by Keith Loutit, Sydney Australia.
Helpless from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Showing posts with label Other photographers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Other photographers. Show all posts
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Make Your Camera Do Less
PhotoAficionado has an article about lo-fi photography, that on and off borders on what we do here. The article has some good tips for those of you who are stuck with shiny modern cameras, but still want to take pictures with lots of unforseen effects. It talks into filters, bending the cameras settings, and postproduction.
I am not really sure if it is a good thing to "dumb down" your camera. I belive that you should always try to get as good a picture as you possibly can from your camera. And from that, you have to decide what kind of picture you can produce with the camera. I think you can take marvellous pictures holding a DUC from 1999 with 1.5 megapixels, but I would not bring it as my main camera on a portrait job. And I would not spend fifty minutes in photoshop to make my DSLR-shots look like they were taken with a Holga. Use the right tool for each job.
Link: Digital Lo-Fi at PhotoAficionado
Disclaimer: It is always more important that you stay creative than it is that you follow anybody elses rules. Including mine. ;-)
I am not really sure if it is a good thing to "dumb down" your camera. I belive that you should always try to get as good a picture as you possibly can from your camera. And from that, you have to decide what kind of picture you can produce with the camera. I think you can take marvellous pictures holding a DUC from 1999 with 1.5 megapixels, but I would not bring it as my main camera on a portrait job. And I would not spend fifty minutes in photoshop to make my DSLR-shots look like they were taken with a Holga. Use the right tool for each job.
Link: Digital Lo-Fi at PhotoAficionado
Disclaimer: It is always more important that you stay creative than it is that you follow anybody elses rules. Including mine. ;-)
Friday, February 20, 2009
Two-Dimensional Art
Todd Smith, who I just discovered on Twitter, is a good photographer who is doing some thinking on the side. This blog post of his deals with "flattening of the layers", as Photoshops would put it. The problem we have as photographers when we make two dimensional object from a three dimensional reality.
My favourite line: "Good photography distills the essence of the world and makes it fit inside a picture frame." That is a very good summary of what we all do as photographers. Also, Todd refrains from any talk about you needing any special technology for this. You do not need any special type of pen to write a good book, do you?
My favourite line: "Good photography distills the essence of the world and makes it fit inside a picture frame." That is a very good summary of what we all do as photographers. Also, Todd refrains from any talk about you needing any special technology for this. You do not need any special type of pen to write a good book, do you?
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