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Smoking is good for you!

January 23rd, 2007

Abstract photography is nothing new, and people constantly come up with new — or re-invent old — versions of photography techniques. One of the ones that is going like wild-fire (excuse the pun) around the interwebs at the moment is the art of photographing coloured smoke.
The trend started with the highly talented Graham Jefferey, […]

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Original post by Haje Jan Kamps and powered by Img Fly

Think of photos as paintings

January 15th, 2007

There’s a lot to be said for how the accessibility of affordable digital cameras has improved the level of photography overall, and I’m strongly in favour of the idea that digital photography is a good thing.
The downside of digital photography is that we are seeing a whole generation of people who never saw a […]

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Original post by Haje Jan Kamps and software by Elliott Back

Portraiture: Loosen up!

January 7th, 2007

I’ve spent a lot of time looking at portraits over the last couple of days for various reasons I shan’t get into in details, but there’s one pet peeve I’m afraid I’m going to have to share with you…
Why are people always so damn serious when they are being taken photos of? Does nobody understand […]

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Original post by Haje Jan Kamps and software by Elliott Back

Cross polarization

January 5th, 2007

Geekery and science meets photography: Cross-polarization is a fantastic little technique that exploits a quirk in the way polarizers work.
Think of light as wooden ice-cream sticks that are flying towards a set of bars. The bars will only let the sticks that happen to be aligned with the bars through, and absorbs all the other […]

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Original post by Haje Jan Kamps and plugin by Elliott Back