Photo of the day - March 19th
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This is some absolutely stunning portraiture work. Delicate features meet a delicate pose. The catchlight in the eyes is almost magical. Outstanding work.
full vintage glamour portraits workshop!
/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPBO9paDGmA Bookmark this one for when you get home ladies and gents. It's a wonderful 1.5 hour long workshop on how to shoot and process vintage glamour portraits. Great stuff!
Photo of the Day - March 13th, 2014
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I've been experimenting with a portrait style similar to this lately. Super raw portraits that show every flaw, and yet still manage to really capture the beauty and intensity of the subject. This is one of the best examples I've seen. Usually portraits in this style tend to go with people who have a lot of texture to their skin, this takes it the other way and brings out the details of someone who has nice smooth skin with a hint of freckles. I can only imagine what the unprocessed image looked like. I certainly have to step up my game on my attempts at this now. I will be putting up a tutorial in the future on how to light, shoot, and process shots similar to these (albeit mine will be sans-ringlight).
Incredible COLOR photos from 1905-1915!
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Looking back on old photography is always an interesting adventure. It's a window into a past life that can otherwise be difficult to imagine. That being said, there has always been a bit of an "uncanny valley" in black and white photography. You get a lot of the feeling of the photo, but without the color it's difficult to immerse yourself in the image. That's why I was truly mesmerized when I saw this grouping of COLOR photographs posted on PetaPixel dating to around 1905 by Sergey Produkin-Gorsky. Yes, you heard that right. Color photos. These photos were not colorized later, they were taken in color.
The images were produced by taking 3 seperate exposures . Each one using either a red, green, or blue filter over the lens. Then those resulting monochrome images were projected through red green and blue filters onto a screen where the images could be printed in their full color glory. The amount of technical skill involved in doing something like this with the limited technology that was available in the early 1900s is absolutely staggering. Think about the amount of exposure time, and the necessity to make sure nothing in the frame moves throughout the entire production of the image. Staggeringly good work.
For more information, please read the full PetaPixel article, and visit the full collection online.
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NASA celebrates Cosmos relaunch with gorgeous photo gallery
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Tonight was the relaunch of the famous science television series Cosmos on Fox. The original, helmed by Carl Sagan, was a cultural touchstone that brought the love of astronomy, science, and deep thought to a television landscape that was desperately in need at the time. Judging from our recent science literacy polls, it looks like we picked just the right time to bring it back. Now hosted by Neil Degrasse Tyson, the new Cosmos looks to continue right where its predecessor left off.
To celebrate the relaunch, NASA today released a gallery of absolutely stunning photos from the goddard space telescope. Take the time to look through these just to appreciate the amount of knowledge and skill it took to produce them. Enjoy!