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Not too long ago I made a series of illustrations for St. Patrick's Day holiday (and, yay, I even got my first editor's choice for one of them - that's the one on the left; really excited!). In any case, they are all based around the idea of an "Irish Universe", or "Irish planet" with green-ish colors, colors of the Irish flag, and, of course, with shamrocks and clovers. And if only you could zoom in you would see that the landscape and terrain of all these Irish planets is also made up of clovers and shamrocks. Aaah... I also tried to make these illustrations as large as possible as they are not vector illustrations and, in my mind, a good alternative approach to giving designers the much appreciated flexibility in terms of what they can do with my images is to make ... [ Read more... ]
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Aww, thank you! I love bright colorful images, where color is a part of the overall impact and composition... :) My next one is going to be pink :) - posted by
Notebook
on March 13, 2008 |
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Wow! nice work Olga. "blue planet in space with stars" is my favorite. You seem to have mastered color in your illustration. Best, -Sal - posted by
Studioceja
on March 13, 2008 |
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Well, I believe that no weather is bad weather and happily take whatever comes my way. Any weather is great material for photography, rain, heat, warm colors of the fall all create beatiful windows of opportunity for photographers. Deep down, I am a nature photographer who loves being outdoors day and night, rain or shine. And, generally, I can weather the weather . Here, in Western New York (and I moved to the Buffalo area a few months ago), weather is "something else". And while my friends and colleagues start boasting beautiful spring images so characteristic of March, I still shovel, de-ice, and drive slow. Why? Because this weekend, just like many others before this one and probably quite a few ahead, is a cold, winter weekend. Not the kind where ... [ Read more... ]
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I am in WNY as well, and right now listening to the wind howl outside. I will make a trip out to clear the snow, and that's about it! - posted by
Niagaragirl
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Most blogs on here come from DT contributors – photographers. This blog post looks at needs of those on the other end of the creative process – consumers of photographers’ work – BUYERS. My point in a nutshell: Dreamstime is the most cost-effective agency for photo buyers that do not want the commitment of a subscription model and that buy images for credits. I am a contributor, and, theoretically, the more stock agencies charge per image the better for me because I’ll be getting a higher profit. So, theoretically, I should like the stock agencies where buyers pay more per image. Wrong. Because buyers shop around. And sooner or later they will leave sites where prices are higher and move to sites where they can buy the same image, but for 10-15 bucks cheaper.... [ Read more... ]
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Very interesting and also very true. If the volume of the images needed is big a subscription package comparison would be nice.
Thanks - posted by
Tridentmedias
on March 12, 2008 |
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Did you really think I got four exceptionally well trained giraffes to pose calmly in my super-sized snow-white studio with a hundred gigantic light boxes? Na-hah! Actually, I got them in their natural habitat amidst a peaceful green-filled landscape. And then I put my photoshop hat on and went to work. The end result is much more fun and much more useful to designers than the original, featured on the right Yesterday, I posted the link to the the first installment of the isolation tutorial. It covers using levels, magic wand, pen, and eraser tool approaches to isolating simple objects. Today, I finished the second installment to this tutorial - [link=http://www.chasingmoments.com/IsolationsTutorial2.html]... [ Read more... ]
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Cool article!
Original decisions! - posted by
Indos82
on March 04, 2008 |
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Thank you all for nice comments, let me know if you've tried any of the tips&tricks and how it went :) - posted by
Notebook
on January 22, 2008 |
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Thank you for tutorials. They are very helpfull. - posted by
Mariv
on January 21, 2008 |
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So, I have finally launched my photography site. It is intended as a gallery to showcase my work to potential buyers and clients and organize my work into categories I see it fit. It is accompanied by a blog to muse on life & discuss my tutorials, and by referral links both for buyers and sellers. It is also intended to be a collection of tutorials on issues of noise, color correction, isolation, and so on - something that I can offer fellow photographers, both aspiring and more advanced. Now, on to the fun part. Did you really think all the images in this blog post were born over this perfectly white background? Well, in my first [link=http://www.chasingmoments.com/Tutorials/Isolations/IsolationsTutorial1.html]... [ Read more... ]
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PS: I don't think there's a way to see email addresses from the Dt profile, so here's mine: charlesoutcalt at gmail.com or coutcalt at mac.com. If you're serious about a photo expedition, let's talk! - posted by
Charlesoutcalt
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Hey! Thanks for the ideas on my troublesome skull photo (for what it's worth, I took it in the Museum of Natural History here in DC--their collection of animal skeletons is a little eery, but they're also very beautiful in a Georgia O'Keefe sort of way). Anyway, I'll try your ideas, and see what I can do. For the time being, I've pulled my submission (with the gray background) from Dt consideration.
Yes, a photo safari around DC would be great! I would love to have a chance to get some inspiration, share the dilemma of producing a fresh vision of the sites that have been photographed 10,000,000 times, etc. I saw on your bio that you have a Ph.D. and a career in an area completely unrelated to photography--ditto for me (my degree is in education, and I do research consulting and teaching). I am way way way behind you in both talent and progress in this photography business, but I am always willing to learn from those who are ahead of me! - posted by
Charlesoutcalt
on January 24, 2008 |
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Charles, well, with your "skull example" is two options: (1) use wand tool to get rid of the dark background and then use the burn tool to burn around the edges of the skull so that there are no leftovers (you might want to experiment with changing hte setting from "highlights" to "shadows" (wand tool is a less effective strategy); (2) pen tool ! set it to a small feathering though otherwise the edges will show the background color, or when you are making your selection with the pen tool "carve" a little bit into the area of the skull.... - posted by
Notebook
on January 24, 2008 |
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666
posted on 18th of december, 2007
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"666" is this interesting number that's been haunting me for a while now. First, not too long ago, I was stuck on having 666 downloads. Well, that got resolved fairly quickly. God bless whoever downoladed No. 667 and helped me get over the (as some are suggesting) curse then. Now, of course, 666 is famous for being this ultimate personification of evil, the "mark of the beast", as suggested by wisdom of google. It its infinite resourcefulness, google tells me that the curse dates back to paganism of Babylon... or may be it refers to a Pope of Rome, or may be to Emperor Nero, Adolf Hitler, Kaiser Wilhelm, among others... gee... who knows? Anybody to venture a "modern" guess? As for me, I was surprised to find so many ... [ Read more... ]
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MRvent... you and your Acura! Wish I had one, with the links you leave I could get all sorts of goodies. - posted by
Littlemacproductions
on January 12, 2008 |
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I got one of this symbol embedded on my Acura Integra Mud Flaps... i 'l try to take a picture and post it... - posted by
Mrvent
on January 11, 2008 |
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I used to avoid anything with that number , but for a long while now , I just ignore it because I feel that if you believe in God , that number can't do anything to you .
I wish everyone a blessed New Year with nothing but GOOD happening ! - posted by
Mcab
on January 01, 2008 |
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