British artist, physicist, and all-around science enthusiast Paul Friedlander produces kinetic light sculptures that provide a colorful feast for the eyes. Each piece in his body of work offers a visual medley of light and motion by rapidly rotating a piece of string through white light. The vibrating rope becomes invisible to the human eye, but colors from the light (which would normally be invisible to the naked eye) are revealed in rapid succession.
Low light photography can take place outside, between dusk and dawn, which is why it’s also sometimes referred to as night photography. It can also occur in other low light environments.
There are many situations that fit this scenario, from taking pictures using a point-and-shoot during an evening on the town to taking landscape shots at dusk. Because photography is all about using light correctly and to the best of your ability, it’s vital to master the basics of low light photography.
Done properly, shooting in low light can present new opportunities to become extra creative as a photographer.
Long exposure is one of the techniques that we find the most amazing. The way that the camera captures those few seconds and you’re able to see it, is really amazing. Pictures like that got a special feeling, somewhat magical. Long exposures are easiest to accomplish in low-light conditions, but can be done in brighter light using neutral density filters or specially designed cameras.
These infrared photographs taken by France-based photographer David Keochkerian look like bizarre, saturated landscapes created from a Dr. Seuss illustration. Seasons seem reversed, with white trees appearing in spring, and bushes are transformed into something that looks like fragile blades of bubble gum. You can see much more on Facebook, and Keochkerian tells us some images are available as limited edition prints if you contact him directly.
Stephen Knapp is an amazing artist behind this colorful light installation. This entire installation was created just with the help of refracted white light and glass. Amazing isn’t it?
Knapp used diachronic glass that is further treated with various layers of metallic coatings in order to give them colorful touch. In such pattern they this diachronic glass acts like a selective prism that focuses light into frequencies of the spectrum. Or in other plain words you can say he separates white light into a dazzling array of colors. Some words from the artist himself...
t's not every day that science and crazy brain implants lead to the generation of what is essentially a new sense, but it is that day today. Scientists from Duke University have found a way to make rats "feel" invisible infrared light and someday that same tech could give sight to the blind, or give us humans extras senses for fun.
In the experiment published in Nature, rats were first taught to respond to one of three normal, visible lights by sticking their noses into a little port that corresponded with the illuminated light. Then, the researchers implanted small, infrared-detecting microelectrodes—each roughly a tenth of the diameter of a human hair—into the part of the mice's brains that parses touch. Right after the implantation, the mice reacted to infrared stimulus by rubbing their faces, indicating that they were "feeling" the light, but eventually they learned to respond to it exactly how they'd responded to the visible lights in earlier tests. Something akin to "seeing" it or "feeling" it but not quite either.
When I find myself in something of a photography rut, it’s a good time to ask more questions. Ruts usually happen from running on auto-pilot, plodding along, doing the same-old same-old. I’m good at landscape photography so I keep taking landscape photos as it is easy, comes naturally and is enjoyable. But without times of reflection or questioning, it is hard for us photographers to improve.
Improving your photography is likely why you are reading Phototuts+ and that is a great first step. It shows you have an interest in continuing your progress. But if you do find yourself in a rut or looking to improve, here are 20 questions that may help you be more critical of your shooting rather than passive. And from that, I hope you can find ways to make even better photos.
1.6 billion people in the world don't have access to electricity, says the founder of a company called "MPOWERD."
These folks and another 1.5 billion people on lousy electrical grids often use kerosene-powered lamps to see at night.
The problem with kerosene lamps is that kerosene is expensive, and the lamps pollute the air that these folks breathe. So kids grow up with clogged lungs, etc.
So a company called MPOWERD has invented a cool little solar-powered lantern called "Luci."
This is a showcase of the 35 best infrared photos taken by professional photohraphers. I really like infrared technique.
For more than two decades Stephen Wilkes has been widely recognized for his fine art and commercial photography. With numerous awards and honors, as well as five major exhibitions in the last five years Wilkes has left an impression on the world of photography. Over the years, Wilkes’ photographs can be found in magazines such as Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, Time, Life Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. His work on Ellis Island and his Burnt Object series were also featured in The New York Times Magazine as an artist showcase. He has been praised numerous times by the photographic and design industry with several awards including the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography, Photographer of the Year in Adweek Magazine, as well as honors in Graphics Magazine and Communication Arts.
These Darkened Cities image series by Thierry Cohen is truly awe inspiring. Not only because he accurately portraits the skylines of major cities with no lighting whatsoever, but because the images remind us of the incredible show we city dwellers are missing every night.
To make these images, Cohen travelled to places far away from the cities but on the same latitude. While LA, San Francisco or Rio de Janeiro are buzzing with gigawatts of electricity, locations like Joshua Tree National park, the Mojave Desert, and the Amazon are completely dark. They see the exact same skies as their urban counterparts, just separated by some time, as Earth rotates on its axis. Cohen photographed and combined these skies with images of the cities, treated so they looked as though they were illuminated only by the stars. The result is what you see here.
Photography Heat love Light Art installations, they have amazing magical when they lightening up the sky’s, often in impressive settings, whether it it’s the urban city or wide landscapes.
Today we are featuring some mind blowing light festivals around the world. Hope you will like these photos.
Today we have collected the beautiful photography “sunbeams photography”. Sunbeams or sun rays photography is one of the most challenging and time taking photography, as you have to gap for an early morning when the sun rise, upswing from the clouds or circling around the trees, this is the exact time when you have the chance to capture strong beams of light as they burst through the trees. Below are “Magnificent Sunbeams Photography Examples” that are really eye-catching. Check them out and enjoy.
In Infrared Photography, the film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. The part of the spectrum used is referred to as near-infrared to distinguish it from far-infrared, which is the domain of thermal imaging. Wavelengths used for photography range from about 700 nm to about 900 nm. To record the “invisible light” has always been an intriguing and fascinating experiment for photographers.
There are many ways to attack photography and some are much more expensive than others. Here in this showcase, we presenting a Stunning collection of Infrared Photography and Picturestaken by various artists in which all pictures are linked to the author’s pages. You may want to explore further works of the photographers we’ve featured below.
Monochrome is defined as the photograph where the image produced has a single hue, rather than recording the colors of the object that was photographed. It includes all types of black-and-white photography, which produce images containing tones of grey ranging from black to white. Here we have “25 Monochrome photography Examples” for your inspiration. Have a look and enjoy.
Since the camera is invented photography is the biggest source of inspiration and in digital camera age, it become bigger than anything else in the world. There are many genre of photography to attract and inspire viewers but today we are going to share only one which is Bokeh Photography, which is simple and really very inspiring. Hope you will like our 30+ Incredible examples of Bokeh Photography by various photographers.
Of course, it is through light that all digital photography is created. An image cannot form without light. Light can be used to an advantage in many ways. In addition, light can be in forms that create disadvantages and those disadvantages must be overcome. In order to move your digital photography to the next level, you will need to learn how to use light to your advantage and you will need to understand how to overcome lighting problems. There is a great deal to understand about light, but it is truly vital information for any photographer.
Long exposure photography is also known as time exposure photography, it can be done by increasing the duration of the shutter speed to sharply capture the stationary objects of images while blurring or smearing the moving objects. The paths of moving light sources become clearly visible in long exposure photography.
Barry Underwood’s images are documentations of full-scale installations that are built on-site in the landscape. Inspired by cinema and contemporary art, Underwood constructs installations that can sometimes take days, even weeks to build – before photographing them at night. via Photohab Blogger.
Our lives, particularly within the urban environment, are governed by light; half natural, half artificial. Light is enticing; promising excitement, safety, community.
Light is also the most basic medium for all visual artists, the waves without which we couldn’t experience their work. Whilst sculpture, film and even some aspects of painting can be experienced without sight, photography is entirely dependent on it.
