Category Archive: Photography

18 Creative and Horrific Digital Images for Halloween
October 28, 2009 - 6 Comments
Graphic Design, Photography, Photoshop

Horror art can be defined as being “the intrusion of a disturbing supernatural element into everyday human experience” (via Wikipedia). Chilling description isn’t it? Or, if you prefer, it could be described as being blood, guts and gore.
Horror can be [mostly] a very disturbing art, it can also be very memorable and creative. It is the latter two elements that we have captured for todays post.

25 Cool Digital Photography Tutorials, Techniques and Effects
August 28, 2009 - 25 Comments
Graphic Design, Photography, Photoshop, Tutorial

The list of cool digital photography techniques and tutorials is endless, you can even find 10 completley different methods to achieve the same effect. Which is the best? It really depends on the photographer and there level of expertise. In this post we have listed our own personal favorites photography techniques with tips tutorials to help you recreate the effect. You will find tecniques for the currently in vogue HDR, Tilt-Shifting and Lomography to the less common and diverse Sabatier and Escher effects. Which ever effect you use, your images are going to look cool and unique.

20 Beautiful HDR Photographs of the Marvels and Mysteries of Iceland
August 3, 2009 - 17 Comments
Inspiration, Photography

The only place in the world were you can witness such marvels of nature as a huge iceberg and endless glaciers, towering volcanoes and powerful geysers, raging rivers, magnificent waterfalls, jagged fjyords and experience the barren Highlands. Yes, Iceland is a photographers dream.

A Gallery of Slightly Odd and Wonderful Photography from Mr Toledano
July 31, 2009 - 7 Comments
Inspiration, Photography

Mr Toledano is a photographer of, in his, own words, of “slightly odd things”. Phillip has shot a wide variety of topics from the desolation of the Arctic Circle to devlish video game enthusiasts to a surreal yet thoroughly modern exploration of the American subconscious in his series, Hope and Fear.

A Gallery of Skillful Motion Photography: 20 Images from The Parkour Series
July 13, 2009 - 2 Comments
Inspiration, Photography

The urban environments, from photographers Alex & Cocco are about far more than bricks and concrete. Architecture comes alive when used as an urban playground, offering a never-ending set of challenging surfaces and spaces to those willing to explore them.

50 Beautiful HDR Images from 50 World Cities
July 9, 2009 - 82 Comments
Inspiration, Photography, Popular

HDR can make the ugliest, run down, industrialized cities seem appealing, and if you take quality HDR photographs of the most beautiful cities in the world thay seem to be captured from a different perspective, you seem to be able to view different elements of a familiar scene that you had never noticed before. Below, you will find 50 Beautiful HDR Images from 50 World Cities. Are any of these your city?

20 Beautiful Examples of Photoshopped Smoke Art and Technique Tutorials
May 18, 2009 - 26 Comments
Inspiration, Photography, Tutorial

In this article we are showcasing beautiful examples of smoke art, the very difficult technique of photographing smoke and with Photoshop creating the amazing shapes and coloring which you can see.
As well as showing you the beautiful example, we have also collected a lot of useful tutorials to help you get started.

35 Adobe Lightroom Presets – Adding Professionalism to Photography
May 8, 2009 - 10 Comments
Inspiration, Photography, Photoshop

Lightroom is a very powerful image management application database from Adobe, it not only allows professional photographers to manage hundreds and thousands of images, it also allows you to to do high quality post production work.

30 Creative Photography Examples using the Polar Panorama Effect
May 1, 2009 - 23 Comments
Inspiration, Photography, Tutorial

Wee Planets, Tiny Planets or the Polar Panorama effect, whatever name you prefer, is the technique of taking a 360° panorama image and using Photoshop (or any other decent image editor) and creating a circular or round image that wrap the panorama around to make it appear like a tiny/wee planet.

19 Amazing Free Graphic and Image Editors for Designers and Photographers
April 6, 2009 - 45 Comments
Application, Graphic Design, Photography

Graphic and image editors can help you create beautiful graphics and give your digital images amazing effects, but they can be expensive. What if all you wanted to do was create something simple and basic, would you pay hundreds of dollars just to do that? No, you would not.

10 Image and Gallery Lightbox Solutions for Wordpress – Plugins
March 31, 2009 - 29 Comments
Photography, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins

The easiest way to create an image gallery within Wordpress is by using the add [gallery] feature (from WP 2.5+), but to give your gallery something extra you may wish to add the Lightbox effect.

19 Tutorials for Creating Beautiful HDR (High Dynamic Range) Imagery
March 25, 2009 - 36 Comments
Graphic Design, Photography, Photoshop, Tutorial

HDR(High Dynamic Range) imaging is the process of taking several exposures and merging them together into one image. First, take a shot with normal exposure, then one with under-exposure and then overexpose a shot to capture the detail from the shadow. Then, you merge all the photos together to create your HDR image.

16 Creative and Inspirational Photographs – Distil Ennui
March 13, 2009 - 19 Comments
Inspiration, Photography, Popular, Portfolio

This is a showcase of the amazing photographs taken by Alex & Cocco, a collection of photographs that re-present the everyday confinements, re-proposing the ordinary, the displaced and the the overlooked.

28 Incredible Photoshop Image Manipulation Techniques and Tutorials
February 25, 2009 - 63 Comments
Photography, Photoshop, Tutorial

All of these tutorials will show you how to take the simplest image and create something eye-popping and professional. Each one uses different tecniques to achieve the result, and I am sure you would agree they are all amazing.

24 Examples of Stylish Sabatier (or Solarised) Effect Photography
February 23, 2009 - 8 Comments
Graphic Design, Photography

Sabatier or Solarised is a tecnique in photography in which the negative of a photograph is completely or slightly changed in tone. In a nutshell, dark is light and light is dark.
This tecnique can be created by over exposing the negative of an image or, as with almost all aspects of photography, can be created within Photoshop.

20 Amazing Images That Could Be HDR – But are definitely Not.
January 27, 2009 - 43 Comments
Inspiration, Photography, Popular

All of these images appear to be shot using the HDR tecnique, but aren’t. I promise. In most cases they have been taken with a single shot and relyied upon the elements to give the amazing effects you will see on each.

20 Amazing Examples of Conformal Photography. How do they do this?
December 19, 2008 - 49 Comments
Graphic Design, Inspiration, Photography, Photoshop, Popular

20 Amazing Examples of Conformal Photography. How do they do this?
I have read in various places that the images are manipulated with Photoshop, I am not sure. Either way it is in an amazing technique.
If anyone knows post it in the comments.