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45 Beautiful Examples of Animal Photography

Igor Ovsyannykov — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:50:34 +0000

Taking photos of animals can be very challenging. First and foremost, you will need tons of patience. Just like landscape photographers wait hours at a time to get the perfect sunlight, animal photography requires lots of tolerance. Studying the animal prior to shooting, will help you understand it’s behavior and predict their actions. The photographs we will present to you today, demonstrate great use of color, exposure, blur settings, shutter speed, and focusing techniques.

45 Visionary Examples of Creative Photography #8

Igor — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:47:18 +0000

This is our eighth edition of the ongoing creative photography series. More than often, the images collected are manipulated. Photo manipulation is the application of image editing techniques to photographs in order to create an illusion or deception. Instead of using technical retouching, most of the images are creatively retouched.

Eurobus by Taylor Holland

Danilo — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:51:59 +0000

Eurobus is a photo series by Taylor Holland. The photos were taken during his bicycle commutes in Paris, France in Spring 2011.

> matmospress.com

Vacuum Sealed Couples – Photographer Hal

Danilo — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:28:38 +0000

Fascinating series “Flesh Love” by Japanese artist Photographer Hal, couples were vacuum-packed together and then photographed.
> photographerhal.com

Shaolin Temple by Tomasz Gudzowaty

Erica — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:16:49 +0000

Tomasz Gudzowaty was born in 1971. He is particularly interested in non-commercial sports, and also those that are not present in the media, sports that are exotic, atypical or somehow outside the mainstream. He cooperates with Focus Fotoagentur in Hamburg and Warsaw’s Yours Gallery.

Eric Cahan’s skies

Rubens — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:56:06 +0000

Eric Cahan‘s fine art photographs are ispired by nature, colors and the Light and Space movement, a brand of minimalism that originated in Southern California in the 1960s and focused on perceptual phenomena such as light, space, volume and scale. In this series Cahan captured the sky in its amazing color gradients in various part of the world.

Haunting Homeless Faces by Lee Jeffries

Danilo — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:34:06 +0000

Manchester based photographer Lee Jeffries began his career photographing sporting events but after meeting a young homeless girl in the streets of London he completely changed his artistic approach. Jeffries makes portraits of homeless people he meets in Europe and in the US, his photographs are gritty, honest, and haunting.

via: petapixel.com

Love Locks

Chris Eayres — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:50:52 +0000

A photographic record of every love lock on the Millennium Bridge in London on the 22nd of July 2011.
Love locks, also known as love padlocks, are in Europe at least a recent tradition emerging in the early 2000’s where two lovers affix a padlock to a public structure to symbolise their everlasting love. In the case of locks being attached to a bridge the key is then thrown into the waters below. The origins of the modern tradition are uncertain with an older Chinese one being often cited but uncorroborated. In many cases the local traditions are also a mystery and seemingly spontaneous including the Millennium Bridge padlocks. In one case though, the Ponte Milvio in Rome, the popularity can be traced to the book I Want You by Federico Mocci.
Each lock on the bridge snaps shut to secure and seal an emotion to a location and time, they bind the participants to a physical location and an emotional bond, a part of their biography shared and sealed forever in time and space. Whatever happens their past and future are bound by the lock to that spot and by emotion to that person, through the physical act of snapping a lock shut forever.
This book too is a moment in time locked to a location, this is all of those people and all those emotions locked together forever, recorded on the 22nd of July 2011…

…or until the bolt cutters come.

Creative Photography by Lyubomir Sergeev

Steven — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:48:19 +0000

Bulgarian photographer Lyubomir Sergeev seems to come with consistent heat when it comes to his photography. These creative photos come from a set of campaigns for customers. Each shot is a creepy contradiction and is masterfully composed down to the tiniest details.

Amalgamation

Danilo — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:34:20 +0000

Hundreds of faces seamlessly morph into one another in this mesmerising video animation, created by French artist Micaël Reynaud using a series of black and white photos taken by Michael Jang.

Click here to view the embedded video.

motion : Micaël Reynaud, gplus.to/micael
portraits : Michael Jang, michaeljang.com
music : Memory Tapes, myspace.com/memorytapes

animated gif available, j.mp/amagamation
youtube 1080p version, youtu.be/5lugDrGlQTQ?hd=1
static portraits, j.mp/uKhLs3 (+ interview of M. Jang)

photos by michaeljang.com