Make your photos look better!
There are different ways of making your photos impact more on your viewers (most important is of course the image itself), and creating visually pleasing borders, and or framing to them is one way. I usually frame my photos (as seen in the Black&White gallery), and I believe it is nicer to look at. It can be a bit challenging to make borders if you are not used to e.g. photoshop. I found a great program to help you out. Mostly I create mine myself inside photoshop but this tool makes it fun too! It’s called BorderMaker and is a java program tha can create all kinds of borders, rounded ones or straight, text from EXIF, colors, resizing - a bit of everything. Just choose which photos you want and it will create copies of them with borders. It is great and is worth a try. Free too!
Black&White session in Rotterdam
I was out hiking in Rotterdam’s harbor area to get some fresh air and brought the camera out for once! Coming home, emptying the card and realizing not many pictures were worth to keep, I saved a few and hoped to do a Black & White collection out of them instead. Motives are not much for the world, but it gave me a busy evening in photoshop… click the picture to see the other ones!
Lessons in photography
There is an amazing resource online called the Radiant Vista - a site for learning photographers. There are professional workshops and lessons to attend to , but most interesting might be the video and pdf tutorials and the Daily Critique. The daily critique features the photographer Craig M. Tanner who critiques photos that people submit to their site, one new every day. Very nicely done in a quicktime movie format and teaches you new ways of seeing pictures and how to compose them. Here is the link to Radiant Vista!
Wonderful underwater photography
Found a great webiste today from Alexander Mustard with amazing underwater photgraphy. He uses a Nikon D2x digital SLR camera with an underwater housing. He has collected photos during about 180 dives around the world. Among the places is Grand Cayman’s Stingray City, and sandbar full of Stingrays - a place I visited myself when I cruised the caribbean. Fun to see again (I held those stingrays in my arms!) Great stuff! Here is the link!
Loads of Music Videos!
Just found a great web resource with old 80’s music videos and interviews with David Foster. For you who don’t know, he is a pianist and producer of huge amounts of records from all kinds of artist like Al Jarreau, Barbara Streisand, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, NSync and many others. He produced many CDs in the 70’s, 80’s with himself at the piano, and composed and performed the theme song for the Calgary Winter Olympic Games ‘88. His name is on countless CDs and is well known in the Slick, West Coast rock genre. Fun to see those old movies! On the page are even movie clips with Michael Bublé, Chicago and some others too! Have fun!
LINK to the page
Funny trombone films!
Risking to bore people without direct link to the trombone, I just have to post a tip for you film lovers out there. A fellow trombone player showed me this page last night; films by Steve Peterson, some dude with the meaning to finally put the trombone in center! Funny clips of ‘filmish’ character follows. Enjoy, quite crazy stuff! (Broadband or high-speed internet connection is recommended) Click the link below!
thePetersonProject
TIME mag’s Best photos of 2005
TIME magazine has published a gallery of 24 of the best photos of the year 2005. Lots of pictures of motives of less happy nature, but as well some serious quality photo journalism. Go and have a look at them here: TIME: The Best Photos of the Year 2005
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