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Friday’s Pictures – Foggy Landscape

Posted on July 15, 2011 by gigi
Friday’s Pictures is a recurring topic that features excellent photos by several photo artists and it revolves around a theme each week.

This week the theme is Foggy Landscape. It’s summer now and the heat is making me crave colder scenery. Take a look at these beautiful photos and dream for a moment of a perfect foggy day.

The Deeper I Go, The More Knowledge I Know

Photo by: Thomas Hawk | License: Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Beautiful picture of a California beach. I love the monotone colors and the subtle layers.

Quiet foggy day on the parkway

Photo by: Captjn | License: Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Wonderful photo. Love the warm tones and the way the road guides your eyes to the fog.

london calling

Photo by: greenhem | License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Classic winter landscape with naked trees and a cold monotone light. Amazing pic.

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Greek Countryside – Creative Commons of the Week

Posted on June 23, 2011 by gigi
This is a recurring topic where I pick a photo from the Creative Commons (CC) library and feature it as Creative Commons of the Week.

Summer sun [explored]

Photo by: Nikos Koutoulas | License: Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Beautiful photo of summer taken in the Greek countryside. The contrasting sky, the dry yellow field and green mountains give this landscape picture the distinct sense of the Mediterranean summer time.
Notice the way the sky is lit, there are no major overexposed bits. This light is diffuse and the sun enhances the clouds. Very good post production work.

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Self Portraits

Posted on June 1, 2011 by gigi

Maybe it’s because I’m a bit of a narcissist, maybe it’s because of my old compulsion to document everything (you can read more about that here) or maybe because I have no one else taking my picture but I really like self portraits.

looking for the self

Photo above by: [phil h] | License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

I like to take them and I enjoy looking at other people’s too. Creative people always take the best self portraits.

Car Ride 18/30

Photo above by: ex.libris | License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

To take a good self portrait you have to be comfortable with your camera and with yourself. To do that you need to take a lot of them. Just pick up your camera and point it at yourself or at any reflecting surface and then SHOOT, SHOOT, SHOOT!

me bored again

Photo above by: Hrabina von Tup Tup | License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

You can also use a tripod and a timer for a more polished portrait.

Try different camera angles (above your head, at eye level, etc.) different facial expressions (silly ones will make you laugh and you can just erase them later if you don’t like them), strange places, with your friends, different reflective surfaces, etc..

Maybe I Wrote in Invisible Ink

Photo above by: Thomas Hawk | License: Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Bisoux

Photo above by: Helga Weber | License: Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-ND 2.0)

Express your mood. Say something about yourself with it. Have fun.

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