By Lisa Kramer “A picture can tell a thousand words, but a few words can change it’s story.” ― Sebastyne Young In the world of P.O.W.ER, since they are deprived access to the written word, women create a secret visual language through which they can communicate. If I had the time and the talent, I…
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Video Interview with NY Photogravure Lothar Osterburg
Courtesy of Mozumbo Contemporary Art mozumbo.com
A Hybrid and the Art of Animated GIFS
Marina Esmeraldo of http://patternportraits.com Marina Esmeraldo is a London and Barcelona based creative– she specializes in illustration and image-making. Her work is informed by studies in architecture and graphic design, a passion for patterns, bold shapes and color, and her tropical upbringing in northeast Brazil. “The Hybrid” is a creative manifesto that she wrote, art-directed, illustrated and animated in collaboration with director Ross McClure: …
Photography: Peopling Your Travel Photos
By Dick Jordan Getting people into (or out of) a shot can present several problems that photographers, including leisure travelers snapping away with a smartphone, usually don’t encounter when taking photos of landscapes or inanimate objects. People in Motion: When people gather, whether in a big city, little village, beach, or national park, they tend…
Tête-à-tête with Avian Photographer Gaurav Mittal
By Fried Eye He believes in his dream and the journey he treads on. He gave up his lucrative profession and luxury to be with what he loves doing – photographing the most delicate and fragile moments of birds. Gaurav Mittal, an established “bird photography artist” says, “his images of birds are not a mere…
Photography: Realism Digital Art
By Jacob Surland Realism Digital Art is a term I use to describe the painterly and dramatic effects I’m striving for in my photography, utilizing Photomatix, Lightroom and Photoshop. This one photo, taken in Chicago on the morning after St. Patrick’s Day, turned out as a surprise to me, as I was experimenting with…
The Picture Poem: Blend of Image With Words
By Christopher Wood I have been teaching creative writing for twenty-five years, and for class assignments, have always used images to engage the imaginations of class participants. We each see an image differently; when we look at a photograph, we are looking at something literal, but how we interpret an image depends on many factors:…
Digital Photography
Experimenting With Free Effects by Lynn Wohlers People can get pretty worked up about how much editing is appropriate to digital photography. There are the purists who perhaps take more time in their actual shooting of the photograph, to avoid having to make unnecessary digital adjustments. Purists have a point; we can be sloppy in our…
