Digital Photography Hub

Water Droplets and Lemons

A Couple of Cool Links for you today that I am sure you will love with some incredible shots and ideas
45 amazing and clever photos of  water droplets  - http://www.lightstalking.com/water-drops
Food photography – when life hands you lemons – photograph them
http://www.lightstalking.com/lemons
Tips and tricks to awesome digital photography – free report here

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Macro photography of a Passionflower and Palm trunk. How to come up with awesome images

Can you imagine what these would look like if you took the shot of just the passionfruit vine with a flower in the corner ?
Wouldn’t it lose its impact ? Would it look half as good as it does moving close in to take a macro image where  the entire frame is filled with the [...]

Digital Photography and the Light

Photographers –  painters of light.
Ever noticed the light ?
I mean really noticed the light.
How it changes constantly, how it shifts and moves, comes and goes ever so slightly.
How it slides to one side then the next in a subtle dance of light.
Because our eyes adjust to the light shifts automatically and instantly we don’t [...]

Photography With Something You Already Have in Your Cupboard

Looking  for something with strong contrast, massive lights and shades, wanting something that gives you strong abstract shapes and shadows ?  Wanting something that is freely available, constantly changeable but can also be constant enough for you to take a heap of shots without it moving off on you at the crucial moment of pressing [...]

Paint swirls and moving liquid in photography

Amazingly, this is an an image of a plain old can of paint captured after stirring like mad to get the colour to mix properly.  It was quite old paint and had been sitting around for some time and I had a job to get the pigment to mix back in to a uniform colour [...]

Here’s that Peeling Paint Again !

Some Ideas to get you thinking :

Use as the basis for an abstract painting
Print out to cover journals
Use for fabric design,
Make your own cards, postcards
Enlarge and use each individual mosaic to paint something else in and then re-edit and transform again.
Use as a background for a piece of artwork
Print off for [...]

Wonderful Moss Garden – Natures Own Abstract Art

What do you all think of this as natures very own handiwork ?
This could almost have been duplicated in a tapestry or made into one of Kaffe Fassett’s tapestrys or  knitted works of art or painted into a giant artwork don’t you think ?
This macro image was one of a very small clump of moss [...]

More Everyday Shots – A New Perspective

More shots from the ladder How everyday things can gain a new perspective

The Wonderful World of Rust

Rusty, peeling paint flaky rubbish bin

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See What Pops Up When You Really Take a Look

Found these cool faces within the interior of an old dried up seedpod stem the other day.  It was a kind of flax type stem and when I split it open it looked interesting enough to haul out the camera and see what came up.
When I was editing it I spotted all sorts of things [...]