Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Beauty In Nature

Beauty in nature is when the horizon goes on for as far as the eye can see, never ending. When there's not just one aspect about the scenery that is beautiful, but every little aspect of it catches your eye, from a single blade of grass to the faint wispy clouds in the sky. Everything about the image leaves you in awe. The lighting in the sky compliments or contrasts with everything in the foreground, and enhances what you're seeing. Beauty in nature can't be captured in a single photograph, there's no such thing as "picture perfect" with this. Beauty in nature is what causes you to get lost, and mesmerized by what's in front of you. A view that you could wake up to every morning and never get tired of it and still get the same feeling it gave you the first time you saw it.

Images that I've taken that made me feel this way:
Taken in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
Taken at the Cougar Reservoir, Oregon
Taken at Cannon Beach, Oregon
Taken in Downtown Portland, Oregon.

Although this image was not taken in Nature, it appears to be never ending.
Taken in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Although the photos above were edited I feel like true beauty in nature can't be edited, can't even be captured. If captured editing can enhance different things, bring out details you can't capture with a camera but true beauty in nature really can't be altered digitally.

Contemporary Street Photographer : Marius Vieth

Mask Of Society, Marius Vieth, Dusseldorf, 2013
An Ant Called Arthur, Marius Vieth, Dusseldorf, 2013
Retro, Marius Vieth, Dusseldorf, 2014
Escalating Red, Marius Vieth, Dusseldorf, 2014
Bio: "Marius is a highly active international Fine Art Photographer focused on Street Photography from Germany who is currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is founder of NEOPRIME International Fine Arts Label and also owner and publisher of his own magazine called NEOPRIME Contemporary Fine Art Photography. He also writes books about street photography and finding your creative soul, has won 21 international photographic awards so far, teaches workshops and he loves pugs!"

Photographer's Website: Marius Vieth

Contemporary Street Photographer : Valerie Jardin

By Valerie Jardin
By Valerie Jardin
By Valerie Jardin
Bio: "Valerie is a French Street Photographer that lives in Minnesota in the United States. She is an extremely active person who is very interested in humankind and the beauty that surrounds it. Valerie never rests! She teaches workshops on an international scale, constantly traveling from one big city to another and is also the hostess of the street photography weekly podcast Street Focus! While not teaching and recording her podcasts she writes for an Australian-based dPS magazine (Digital Photography School). In addition to all the above she has had her work exhibited in both the USA and Europe, featured in magazines and many websites, written countless blogs posts, and has been interviewed on shows, the radio and podcasts. She influences hundreds of people with her work on a daily basis."

What I like about these three bodies of work is the angles and the abstraction in the first and second image. I like how you can tell the silhouette's are from/of people but you don't know who they are yet you can tell that both subjects are in motion. She has a great use of gradient color, use of reflection/light that give her work unity.

Photographer's website: Valerie Jardin

Contemporary Street Photographer : Rui Palha

Carefree by Rui Palha
Unknown title, by Rui Palha
Unknown title, by Rui Palha
Bio: "Rui is a Street Photographer from Portugal. He has been shooting since 1967 and is highly devoted to the art of Street Photography. He has had his work exhibited and published countless times. He has won quite a few Photography awards. Rui has been a huge influence to the wider Street Photography Community for many years."

Photographers website: http://www.ruipalha.com/

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Digital Portraits


Great Uncle
"Don't move" - Group portrait
Bestfriend
Jackson
Molly