Looking at my photos and discovers the diverse. I have taken pictures of everything. It is always something that is going as a red thread through all pictures. I try to keep the spirit of me. Never faulter your view or your look at everything.
You do best what you do. Try always different techniques but let your way at looking at the world shine through. It is not dependent of stuff and things. Its in your mind. Let your spirit shine through.
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Using my motif to create yin and yang in my photo to create a feeling of softness against the cold atmosphere. Creating a different view width the different angle. Please get different photo with a new angle.
Go down on your knees to get a new perspective to photography. Let macro photography be your new passion or simply take closeups. Use an magnifying glass to make the picture of your compact a new angle.
Miksang is Tibetan and means “good eye”. The idea is to get away from the control of the image, and instead let the shapes and colors speak for themselves. Discovering the world with a new vision. Searching for the simple and natural.
It is often I feel I am at peace when I am photographing. I’ll work a little more in this direction. Meditate is nothing new for me because I’ve trained martial arts for over 10 years. To seek peace and harmony in the photo is not a bad idea. The sight is our dominant sense, and will there be peace the rest will follow . I have already had the thoughts in this direction before. We need to think more of the action than actually the picture itself.
Mattias Adolfsson is an illustrator with his own unique style that you can take part in his blog Mattias Inks. I intend to take up a little of another image-building than just photography. The magazine is called the Photo and pictures so I think it is appropriate to take up little of visual artists as well. Tell me please about more artists in comments or simply advert yourself.
Mattias was the Senior Artist “at a game company” (PC and consoles). He began using sketchbooks when he was studying to become an architect in the early nineties. He says that it was not long before he took up drawing again. It began in earnest last year when he discovered Illustration blogs.
I have followed Mattias blog for a long time and think he has become trickier and developed his style. I think it is refining his style when you get an audience. That is how I personally feel when I write here. This post from 2007, I think says a lot about his cunning.
1st Your blog is of course well known not only in Sweden. What does it mean for you and your work?
The positive feedback I have received and may mean a lot to me personally, I’m working with quite different, the illustration piece at hand at the moment, (it has begun to turn up illustrations work remotely)
2nd If an artist, photographer, illustrator would like to post a similar blog. What would would you give as an advice?
An advice would probably be to post often, comment on other blogs and to post on the forums. You may cry a bit early, here I am.
3rd How much you use your computer for images?
Do not use computer at all, (formerly also to scan the images). Work with computer in my day job so the idea of sitting at the computer in the evenings is not attractive.
4th What do you think is a drawback to using Illustrator and similar programs?
Many are very adept at these programs, can not really see any direct detriment to them, it’s just that I prefer to work manually.
5th What grabs you in a picture?
Originality, vivid lines and humor are three things that catch me.
6th Have your imagery changed since you started posting it on a blog?
Yes and no. Practice makes perfect, and with bloging and the fact that I try to update on a daily basis has made that I signed an awful lot, and the more you are, the better it goes. Then I released all inhibitions, everything I post, I am not happy with.
7th How do you see your future and you have no clear goals?
One goal is to eventually be able to escalate my day job and invest all or part of my illustrations.
I hope it will go the way of Mattias and that he may fuss with what he wants. Thought fit to tell if some other nice pages of illustrators. 6Bilder is a very funny Illustration Blog. Liselotte is a Danish illustrator who is good at photography. Therapeutic Pictionary is also a very witty illustration blog.
Do you know of any blogs with illustrations that are good? Please tell in the comments. Remember that this interview was made 2007. Today Mattias is working with his pictures full time and he has made his dream come true.
You start your photography carrier with almost nothing. Two empty hands and a camera. There is ways to help you out starting a photoblog is one. There is service that can help you as a photographer or artist.
You start publishing something with help of Open Office that is open source and free. You save your work as an PDF. Then you upload it to Issuu and voila you will have a free book you can embed in your photoblog. You can use it to start an successful photo carrier or simply give others free tips. All is up to your imagination.
You can of course use Issuu to find your favourite e-magazine. Simply surf and make friends. You can use it as any community though its not easy. Could be much better here. I had a hard time adding friends. Why not be an poet as you present your photography. I made a try on swedish…So different can the result be.
Mattias Inks have done so and uploaded his creative work. He is an artist working with his moleskin so he simply uploaded his moleskin. You can read his blog and look at his homepage. I have an old interview with him i will translate from swedish.
We are crushed between good equipment and thinking in pictures. Being creative as humans and making our photo. Often are our thinking and telling with photos are limited by the technique being the “only” factor affecting the quality of our photo.
Thus thinking of composition and telling with your picture will stand in the background when your thoughts will stand in the background and are overwhelmed by thoughts of ISO, Megapixels, HDR etc. It will make you handicapped.
The technique will take over and worsen your creative side. If you could create your images with the camera in your cellphone instead. You will then not be limited about thinking creative. The art are given a freer medium and are thus not as limited.
We will see apps for iPhone like Chase Jarvis Best Camera. The best camera is therefore not the one that can handle the technique best. It is the one you are always carrying around and not keeping it on a shelf.
Therefore let your telling in photos be freer without being limited of the technique. Train composition and story telling with your cellphone. You will be start thinking in pictures and not setting the technique in the front room.
Ilva is a wonderful woman with a passion for food and photography. I got to know her through her blog Aglio e olio – an excursion into the Italian cuisine. She nows blogs at Lucillian Delights – an itallian experience. Just as you should be proficient in technology and function, it is important to capture the feeling of the moment. Ilva mastered just that and I am struck by is her passion that she has perhaps concentrated in Tuscany where she lives.
For beginners I would recommend looking at how others are doing and ask if you can. Copy and try to do the same before develop an own style that will grow in time. It is the only way to develop in her or his photography. To look at other people’s successful photo also gives inspiration and ideas for their own creations.
What I am envious of Ilva for her is alive and well composed macro and close-up photography. She does, of course, other fine well composed images. She plays with colors, lighting and structures so simple that I will be very jealous. It is very inspiring to follow her blog. I get lots of ideas of her photo. I asked her to write down some advice and tips what to think about. If you ask you´re not get any answers. It is by being inquisitive and to experiment as I feel that I learn best. Ask others what they think is important to capture a great image.
Bengt has asked me to come up with some advice for macro photography and I have put together some points with what I personally think are most important. Some apply only macro photography but really so I think it applies to all photography.
Photography is for me more a matter of concentration than technology. When I am out and shoot and I’ll do it any time alone because I need to concentrate, if I talk or think about other things I miss so much of what is to be seen. In addition you need to take the time needed to photograph a subject, sometimes it can go directly but sometimes it can take quite some time so my first advice is that you are shooting alone (or with a very sympathetic companion, I often have our dog with and he is perfect, when he sees me picking up the camera so he stops and stands breathless. He is probably the only one in my family who puts up with my photography …) and in peace.
Check if your camera has a macro setting and use it. It may sound basic, but well I see many photos on the web that definitely would have been better if the setting is used.
When you take close-up or macro pictures, it is important that the camera is not moving so happy to support it against something. One can, for example, set it on a small box or a bag of rice or something similar if you can not afford or desire to buy a tripod. Otherwise, you can support it sideways against something, it tends to be more steady when you are out shooting.
Try to shoot from different angles, sometimes an inch here or there makes an ok picture of an exciting and interesting image, moreover, it is good to try to see things from different angles.
Take many pictures, the more you have to choose the more likely it is that someone is you wanted it. I take several photos of the same image, often from different angles and with different distances and then when I get home so I sort out the worst is already in the camera so that I do not have to download unnecessary photos in the computer.
But above all, so one should not take things so bloody seriously, you have to have fun with it you can see the result!
Ilva sell her pictures if anyone is interested you can contact her via her mail. You can find more of her pictures on her Flickr feed and her other blogs. If you’re concerned about her camera so she uses Sony DSC H1 , Sony Alpha 100 and now Nikon D300.
Last fall I experimented with using the zoom on my kitobjektiv 18-55mm for my EOS 350D to create a little movement in the images by using long exposure while zooming. First, I played with a pepper grinder that we have at home on the dinner table. I look to have quite some time and then I will zoom in the image in a continuous motion while being exposed.
The second image I have created two dimensions by creating almost a double exposure by having a slow shutter speed while zoomed in fairly quickly. I also tried to use the train in motion picture to create a little pad, but have not succeeded in really well. It has thus exposed a long time in two positions, but still moved between locations. I think it’s important to experiment in this way, not least in order to learn this with the exposure and shutter speed. I also think it can make really cool pictures.
It would be fun to see if others have experimented with this or if you go out now and play a little. Please feel free to show what you’ve caught in your experiments. By looking at other ways to shoot, you can learn a lot. Check in our community to be inspired by others. You can also see it applied on my Örnbräken picture.
Looking at my photos and discovers the diverse. I have taken pictures of everything. It is always something that is going as a red thread through all pictures. I try to keep the spirit of me. Never faulter your view or your look at everything.
