Reflections of a boat on ripples in the water create a Monet’s Impressionism type of image
Unusual Red Reflections
Unusual Red Reflections
Category Archives: Photographic Art
Glow of a Filament
Although not that bright, the filament in this decorative bulb creates an artistic image
Surreal Woods
An image captured from a fast moving jungle vehicle going around the bend in the road creates a surreal photo of a sunset from the woods, almost a painting!
Architectural Designs
We welcome the new year by posting images with interesting design elements. Eye-pleasing architectural designs with continuing arches (in a garden in South Carolina) are presented below, in color and monochrome.
Sunset Rings
Shooting against the sun in Sunset Beach, North Carolina at sunset creates interesting rings to frame the landscape images.
Mosaic Mural on a Philadelphia Street
On a recent visit to Philadelphia, PA we saw amazing mosaic murals on the streets and side alleys in the south side of the city.
Eliza Kirkbride School has a mosaic mural that adorns the front of their school. Kirkbride students worked with COSACOSA art at large, Inc. to produce the mural, titled “Philadelphia: Love & Liberty.” COSACOSA is a non-profit organization that engages people of differing backgrounds to work together toward a common goal through participatory art-making.
The artwork celebrates both Philadelphia’s role in the founding of the nation and the hopes of its youth. Students investigated connections among the ideals expressed in our nation’s founding documents and immigrant stories from their families, their school, and their neighborhood. Kirkbride students represent more than 30 different ethnicities, and many are new immigrants.
Adding a Model to Burning Wool Images
In the world of photography, steel wool probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Who would have thought that such amazing images could come from burning the metal sponge we use to clean our pots? Adding a model and showering them with sparks adds to the creativity.
Burning Wool Spirals
Get creative with steel wool burning photos to make them even more interesting. Spin in different ways – spinning over your head, horizontal, figure-eight patterns can all make varying looks to the images and send the sparks flying out in different directions for cool new images.
Burning Wool Designs
Steel Wool Photography is using long exposures to capture the motion of hot embers flying through the air through the act of spinning burning steel wool. These embers are so hot that they glow very brightly, and as they fly through the air the camera sensor captures the streaks of light created.
Shutter speed is probably the most important aspect of the shot. Capture enough of the movement to show the streaking lights caused by the flying sparks. Choose an aperture that keeps the entire scene in focus. Keeping your ISO low will keep you from blowing out the brightness of the steel wool when it is lit.
Photographing Burning Wool
Steel wool photography is a type of light painting that uses steel wool that’s been set on fire. As the burning steel wool is spun around on a cord or a string, embers fly and create streaks of light when shot with a camera at slow shutter speeds.
Our Catawba Valley Camera Club in Hickory, NC had a session on photographing burning wool. It was an interesting project and we will be sharing a few images.
Lion Photo to Pencil Art
One of my fellow members of the Catawba Valley Camera Club, Hickory – Judy Young is also a pencil sketch artist. She used my lion photo from Gir National Park, Gujarat, India to create a pencil art piece. Wonderful rendition by Judy!
Design Photography – Slow Shutter Speed
In this image, the fan captured at a slow shutter speed creates soft, but orderly designs hinting of shape, form, and texture in monochrome
Design Photography – Circles of Art
What makes a striking photo? Often, it’s merely ordinary things composed in an ordinary manner. That’s because they always tend to have a single theme or idea, and because clutter is kept to a minimum. However, in this image, we are looking at the elements of design (line, shape, form, texture, pattern, and color) that turns a simple subject into an interesting photo.
Design Photography – Snow on Stones
This stone wall is softened by snow creating an order of lines, forms, textures, and patterns in a design photography composition
Design Photography – Graffiti
This composition has lines in the form of bricks, but random patterns of color graffiti bring a different sense of order in this design photography
Design Photography – Circles of Light
Concentric circles of lights in a theater create a photographic design involving order
Design Photography – Coming Together
The main elements that bring and emphasize order in this composition are line, shape, pattern, and color drawing the viewer’s eye to the center of the image
Design Photography – Symmetrical Designs Overhead
Successful photos rely on order, and the main elements that bring and emphasize order in a composition are: line, shape, form, texture, pattern, and color. Every photograph, intentionally or not, contains one or more of these element, which are known as the elements of design.
Here is an image of pure symmetry (or order) …….
Something Red – Reflections
Color has a significant impact on our perceptions, emotions and physicality. Incorporating the color red into photography denotes passion and bold emotion. Because it commands our attention, red brings text and subjects to the central focus of an image. Will be posting this week images with red as a predominant color to attract attention.
Here is an image of abstract reflections on water.
Renderings of a Bald Eagle
Photographically captured in cages at Carolina Raptor Center, North Carolina and artistically rendered head shots of the Bald Eagle.
Bald Eagle Headshot
Bald Eagle Headshot Rendering