Nice Face Painting Pictures photos

July 29th, 2010 by admin

Some cool face painting pictures images:

Daily Disney – Monday Method – Main Street Clock
face painting pictures

Image by Express Monorail
View On Black

On Mondays I share a picture that maybe takes a little technical know how or creative thinking and try to explain a little how I got the shot.

Daytime blur. This one has two parts. First was a technique to get the shot and then there was some major editing.

Basically to achieve blur in daylight you need to somehow limit the amount of light that reaches the sensor with keeping a longer than normal shutter speed. This can be challenging especially in broad daylight. For this shot, it was near dusk so it wasn’t quite as difficult. So the first thing you want to do, as you do in the case of most, if not all creative exposures, is think about the "exposure triangle". ISO, aperture, shutter speed. Since I know I want as long as possible shutter speed and understanding the relationship between the three, I know I want as low as ISO as possible and as small (think larger number) an aperture as possible. "Aperture Priority" mode would be a good choice here, but at the time I was trying to learn to shoot in "Manual" mode, so I read the camera’s light meter and chose a 30 second exposure. Also, to help to limit the light even more I used a neutral density filter coupled with a circular polarizer filter. Think really dark sunglasses for the lens.

On the editing end of the shot, I started out with just a simple edit of levels and colors adjustment. It felt really flat. So to get the – almost fake "tilt-shift" lens – effect I did two things. Well, back up a step. First of all the clock face felt really lackluster so I did some dodging and burning on it to get it to stand out a little more. Actually, a lot more. Then I duplicated the layer and added a "motion blur" effect to the entire picture. Then I created a "show all" layer mask and painted away (with a very large soft brush) the areas around the clock. Lastly I used the "depth of field" effect within PSPX2 to blur out the background even more.

My hope is that the end result draws the focus to the clock. The blur – a combination of the natural motion blur of the crowd, the added motion blur and fake depth of field blur – makes for somewhat of a dreamy photograph. Hope you like it!

Quick EXIF:
Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 w/ neutral density filter and circular polarizer filter
Mode: Manual
Exposure: 30 sec
Aperture: f/22
Focal Length: 27mm (40mm full frame equivalent)
ISO: 100
Bias: N/A

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Jefferson meets Jefferson
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Image by Ko:(char *)hook
I didn’t notice this when I took the shot, but Jefferson is facing himself in this picture. The painting (The Declaration of Independence) is by John Trumbull. The statue is part of the National Statuary Hall Collection.