Photo Eye by Mark Boyle
Photo Eye is about photography or more precisely about photographic images. It is not about equipment or technical information, just about the end result - the image.
5/10/2008
There is something about the square format that lends itself so beautifully to photography, particularly fine art photography. At the same time it is arguably the most difficult of formats to use successfully with its uncomprimising boundaries and unmoving nature.
One genre of photography more than any other seems particularly at home within the confines of the square image. I call.... more »
15/09/2008
Real Tilt-Shift photography refers to the use of camera movements, rotation of the lens (tilt) and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane (shift), to achieve very shallow depth of field and to control perspective. It has traditionally been done using medium and large format cameras or 35mm cameras with special lenses. Which also means it is a very expensive form of photography.... more »
2/09/2008
Perspective is an interesting thing. I am very tall so when I take pictures of people I need to be aware of my relationship to my subjects so that I don't end up with a whole lot of shots of people looking up to the heavens like a bunch of weird UFO spotters.
Kevin Connolly on the other hand, has the opposite situation to deal with. Being born without legs means his view of the world.... more »
14/08/2008
The West Australian AIPP Professional Photography Award Winners were announced at the local industries' gala awards night on July 4th at Central Park, Perth. These awards are held each year to recognise excellence in the local professional photography industry and to showcase the work of our local photographers.
This year the winner of the prestigious WA.... more »
5/08/2008
HDR (High Dynamic Range) images have become very popular in the last couple of years thanks to the availability of digital cameras and inexpensive software such as Photomatix and Adobe Photoshop CS2 and above.
What is HDR photography? Simply put it is increasing the exposure range of an image by.... more »
28/07/2008
There have been many images that have changed the world in some way but there are some that have become pivotal in our history and affected us profoundly. Life Magazine have produced a book called '100 Photographs that Changed the World', a collection of 100 such images as chosen by the Life.... more »
15/07/2008
Light painting, also known as light graffiti has been around for almost as long as photography itself. It comes in many forms but the overriding concept is that artificial lighting is added to a long exposure image by the photographer.
It can be done in the form of coloured gels to 'paint' or 'colour in' a scene or objects within a scene. It can take the form of light trails and shapes.... more »
2/07/2008
Not everything is what it seems and not everything seems to be what it is. Chema Madoz is a Spanish photographer who works in the world of the paradox with a wonderful sense of the absurd.
His deceptively simple images usually take very ordinary, every day objects and transform them into the unexpected. And he does it with minimal digital manipulation or use of special effects. more »
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