THE PHOTOGRAPHERS VAULT
Featured Work
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Dark ages by aleci
made with natural light,one softbox,darkened with photoshop and at a blur..finaly mixed it with a aged filter to give it scratches.
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You Crack Me Up by Dean Mullin
Inspired by a few entries in the CD/Water droplet challenge and particularly my dear friend Donell, who told me to fry a CD… never done that before so I was curious to see how it would go… Fantastic – literally hours of fun with the patterns, cracks, colours and processing :o) Sony a350 w/ Sigma 70mm Macro lens – 1/320 sec at f/3.5, ISO 800. Shelly asked me to describe how this is done – it’s really quite easy. Take an old CD, this was an old CDR with the dark blue surface, drop it in the microwave label side down (along with a cup of water just by the side so you don’t screw your microwave) and give it about 3/4 seconds. Watch the sparks fly and the surface crackle :o) get the water dropper, a decent light source (window) and a tripod and away you go… literally hours of fun finding cool patterns and trying to get your droplets just right :)
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Royal water by lokanin
Had some fun playing around with water drops. And then fine tuned this one with Photoshop and I am quite happy with the outcome. / Let me know what you think! Featured in The Woman Photographer and The Photographers Vault
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Waste not one drop by blueeyesjus
Initially this started out as an ink drop experiment, inspired by my very talented RB friend parmi but it somehow morphed into this, a simple shot (excuse the pun lol) but it was so frustrating for so many reasons, mainly the timing and lighting. I played around with lots of ‘homemade’ light sources but settled on a light box (used for viewing negs.) standing upright in the background (the white ‘spikes’ in the background are the flared out flouro tubes of the box) and a desk lamp with a cardboard snoot in the foreground to bounce some light off the water drop. Using an eye dropper (out of frame) I then just took endless pics in succession trying to grab the water drop, using shutter speeds of 1/500 to 1/1250, I played around with food dye so I could focus better on the actual drop but I was lucky enough to get one or two shots where a normal water drop was in focus and the right shape. I also found focus to be a real problem so my trusty metal rule (with nice big numbers) was used next to the shot glass to manually focus on where the drop was going to be before shooting. It’s also a nod to our drought stricken home and how precious every drop of water seems to be at the moment and in fact a dripping kitchen tap in the background whilst shooting was the inspiration Camera: Canon A590 IS
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Fly by Mui-Ling Teh
views: 152 / favs: 10 I folded 9 cranes connected by their wings from a single piece of paper. I had a strip of paper about 8.4mm wide, and cut slits on either side 8.4mm apart. See the process work here. Generally with miniature origami, there is the great challenge of preventing the delicate little piece of paper from being damaged by the moisture of my hands; and in this case I needed to touch the paper A LOT, so I had to wipe them often. Making a single crane in this strand (particularly ones in the middle) takes much more patience then making one individually because I of the interference of the other attached cranes/ paper squares, and I have to ensure that I do not accidentally detach the paper while folding (while cutting the slits, I left about 1mm at the ends). For a better idea of scale: / This actually takes much greater patience than folding Born from the Cell / / / Taken Nov.16, 2009 with an Olympus FE-340 on macro mode using natural light. I taped the other end of the cranes to a raised surface, and I had to fiddle around with the position in order that none appeared faced down or in some other awkward position; as well to get the blur. The background is a picture of the sky on my computer screen :o) / / This work has been instantly featured in: / Live, Love, Dream / The Photographer’s Vault / Color Me a Rainbor / / / / Also available at Zazzle /
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Balls by Vikram Franklin
With the rain outside … it’s time to do some table top! Ball placed on a sheet of black acrylic. SB-600 bounced off a sheet of white acrylic placed above and another flash snooted and fired downwards to form the soft glow around the ball. Blue tinge is from tungsten WB / Post work was limited to cleaning a few dust marks that still appeared on the acrylic.
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...Judge Me by James Leader
Third in the Crown Of Thorns series. One more to come. Blended layers and a sepia tone – using channel mixer and curves in photoshop – then a sepia texture layer added. Featured in Beauty of The Human Body and THE PHOTOGRAPHERS VAULT
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music magnified by Clare Colins
Pentax K200D: sigma F Macro 50mm / 50.0mm: 1.30sec: F2.8: ISO 400 “music magnified” was featured in THE PHOTOGRAPHERS VAULT / “music magnified” was featured in Black and White Photography / “music magnified” was featured in Domestic Art
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Sprawling Out by Julian Fulton-Boote
A bulb photo (long exposure) of a tall Blue Gum against the night sky and slow moving clouds Camera: Nikon D90 / Exposure: 30 sec / Aperture: f/3.5 / Focal Length: 18 mm / ISO Speed: 200
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Focus Stacking #1 by Pete Costick
Focus Stacking #1 / Image of watch made up from 15 separate images taken at varying focus points across the subject and merged using software to create sharp focus across whole image, thus increasing DOF. / See below the 15 images used and an example of the limited DOF on a single shot. Nikon D300, 105mm micro, f5.6, 1/20th sec Software tested: / 1) Photoshop CS4 – Powerful and memory hungry / 2) Helicon Focus (30 day trial) – Easy to use – works well / 3) Combine ZM (free) – Simple – works well Focus stacking is a digital image processing technique which combines multiple images taken at different focus distances to give a resulting image with a greater depth of field (DOF) than any of the individual source images. / Getting sufficient depth of field can be particularly challenging in macro photography. / Source: Wikipedia
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Apricot Dream by janeymac
I took this image after the sun went down and the fading natural light , light coming from my kitchen window and carport plush the camera flash….all helped give this interesting effect / the rose is a pale Apricot colour , the outer petals are almost white. FEATURED IN ; ALL ABOUT FLOWERS FEATURED : EXTREME CLOSE UPS FEATURED IN ; VIBRATION IN ART AND VERSE FEATURED IN PHOTOGRAPHERS VAULT /
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007's Glass Charm by Linda Bianic
Only James,,,,,,, / a lace thong …........ / on a martini stem…....... panasonic dmc lz7 Auto wb,,,1/25 sec..ISO200..flash off.. threshold adjusted,,, matte edges…then Orton effect applied,,,, in picnik one of my first stills,,,,, Featured in James Bond 007 April 30/09 Featured in Friends of Bangor and North Down Camera Club, May 2/09 Fourth place finish in JPG Castoff group challenge “Mirror,Mirror on the Wall Featured in Tone it Down, 3/day Oct 27/09 Oct 28/09 / Nov 4/09 Featured in No More Color Nov 6/09
Recent Work
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A SMILE WITHIN A SHADOW by Rob Toombs
A photograph of Jenny during our latest photoshoot….. I was working on different lighting techniques as well as trying to obtain a good sense of depth in the photograph.. Nothing has been done other than removing the colour whilst leaving the colour of Jenny’s eye. Photographed in Auto with a small table lamp..
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Farewell To The Weekend by David McMahon
As the rain bucketed down last night, I shot this image in the last few seconds before the sun disappeared over the horizon. Yes, we have had plenty of rain, bringing welcome relief from the record-breaking heatwave. The weather bureau said we’ve had an entire month’s rain in one day. The funny thing is, those of you who live in Europe or the Americas have still not seen your Sunday sunset – but it’s already Monday morning here. For this very reason, a US-based blogger, “Brian In Oxford” used to call me the blogger who posts from the future ….. I do not crop, enhance or post-edit my images in any way. Shot with a Pentax K100D, using a Sigma 18-125mm lens. F8, 1/350 sec, ISO 200, focal length 125mm. 120-1328
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Vibrant by janeymac
Red bottle brush (Callistamon) starting to bloom / It’s a beautiful sight in the garden panasonic lumix dmc fz8 / ISO 100 / focal length 6.00 / aperture f/5.6
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These Colours Don't Run by James Leader
Dan is very patriotic and he jumped at the chance to use the St. Georges Cross in some shots. The title comes from a tattoo Dan has on his arm. Layers and filters, sepia toned with an added texture and some selective colouring.
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All The Fun of the Fair by James Leader
Taken in Loughborough, Thursday 12th November 2009 at about 7.30 am. The Loughborough Fair is open for 4 days every November and is the largest street fair in Europe. King Henry III granted the Charter for the first fair in 1221 which makes this the 789th year the fair has been coming to Loughborough. I loved the deserted feeling of the street with all the rides covered and the stalls shuttered and all the toys taken away, a complete contrast to the brightly lit and noisey atmosphere of the fair at night. Layers with the high pass filter and some added saturation to make the colours a bit more punchy. Canon EOS 20D with a Canon 28mm-105mm USM lens
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You Parked On The ROOF Of The Pub? by David McMahon
How could you resist composing a shot like this? Clear blue winter sky. Bright red roof. Highly visible yellow signs. (162 viewings, as of 21 November 2009.) And a laconic Aussie sign that says “Keep Right” while the arrow points left! This is the famous Ettamogah Pub, just outside Albury in New South Wales. I’ve stopped here many times and shot the pub in many different weather conditions, but when I stopped there briefly on June 5 this year, the sky was flawless. It was also a marvellous counterpoint for the fresh red paint on the distinctive metal roof. The Ettamogah Pub is based on a fictional pub in a famous Outback cartoon series. It all started with the late Ken Maynard, an Australian police officer who began contributing cartoons in 1958 to a magazine called “The Australasian Post”. His fictional “Ettamogah Pub” – and its strong-jawed Outback drinkers in their blue singlets and shorts – became so famous that someone had the great idea of reconstructing the pub in real life. Interestingly, the project posed a special problem for the architects because there were no right angles or straight lines in Maynard’s rendering! The pub is a huge tourist attraction – despite the sign outside that proclaims with dry Aussie humour, “Free Beer Tomorrow’’. I do not crop, enhance or post-edit my images in any way. Shot with a Pentax K100D, using a Sigma 18-125mm lens. F9.5, 1/500 sec, ISO 200, focal length 98mm. Featured in METALLIC JUNKTION, August 2009. Featured in PHOTOGRAPHY: RULE OF THIRDS, September 09. TemoraJune 5-7262
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Purple Haze Channels Jimi Hendrix by David McMahon
This was shot in early 2007, one of those strange evenings where a dull grey sky suddenly transforms into a riot of colour after the sun has disappeared beyond the hirozon. I moved around a lot, trying to get the best overall depiction I could, while the colours began with a smattering of light pink for several minutes before they suddenly took on dramatic orange and purple hues. The skyshow lasted fairly long, seven minutes in all, but the orange-and-purple strips were only evident in the last ninety seconds. I had used a variety of silhouettes through this sequence until I realised that the foliage of these two plane trees (with foliage similar to the maple) were perfect for what I was trying to achieve. Because the foliage was no longer very dense, I was able to use the tree on the left to highlight (but still show through gaps in the leaves) the wonderful sky. The tree on the right was spot-on to use as a motif on the right-hand side of the frame. Interestingly enough, this was the very last shot of the sequence I shot that evening. I do not crop, enhance or post-edit my images in any way. Shot with a Pentax K100D, using a Sigma 18-125mm lens. F5.6, 1/20 sec, ISO 800, focal length 125mm. 17-7285
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Solve This Puzzle: What Is This Mystery Object? by David McMahon
Put your thinking caps on …. what have I shot here? It might look like the world’s biggest bar code, but it ain’t! Let’s have some theories from all you sleuths out there …. If you don’t want to read the answer, don’t look any further. Solved after 24 hours by Sazfab who said it was a slippery slide. She’s on a roll now, having solved two of my “Saturday pictorial puzzles” in four weeks! Yes, it’s the bottom of a giant slide called the Euroslide, and the shot was taken at the Moomba fairground in Melbourne’s Alexandra Gardens in 2007. The real clue was the colours reflected in the image – and you can see one of my other Red Bubble shots of the slide at Slippery Slide This shot was actually taken the day after Moomba had closed and a team of workmen were dismantling everything in the Alexandra Gardens. I do not crop, enhance or post-edit my images in any way. Shot with a Pentax K100D, using a Sigma 18-125mm lens. F11, 1/500 sec, ISO 200, focal length 125mm.
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Love by Simon Whittaker
This is my son Jake (11 years old) with our dog Bailey. It is a family photo but I thought I’d add it here anyway. Taken with a Canon 5Dmk2 and Canon 70-200L 2.8 at 70mm f9 100 ISO in manual mode using studio lighting.
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Ghar Lapsi by Christian Zammit
Ghar Lapsi in HDR / Shots were taken at 6.55am (dawn) / Ghar Lapsi is situated just behind the town of Siggiewi, Malta CANON EOS 400D HDR info: / Tripod used / 3 shots where taken -1.0, 0, +1.0 / Photomatix This / work / has / been / produced / by / Christian / Zammit / Kindly / click / on / photo / below. / Visit my gallery /
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"Spilling Out" by Bradley Shawn Rabon
This photo is straight from the camera. As Is Whilst out with my friend and fellow Redbubbler Jason Connolly photographing the Derwent reservoir in Derbysire’s Peak District, England, we spent a lengthy time photographing Derwent dam and the surrounding area. We also spotted this lovely out flow of water into the Derwent reservoir. This water comes from the Ashop river which runs through Snake Valley. This stream is part of that river, making its way through the mountain from the river on the other side through this water way tunnel and then out into the Derwent. There is a dam 10 ft. dam on the river side which is still in partial use, although the river is allowed to continue on to the Ladybower reservoir as well. The concrete table here creates this beautiful cascade of water. Canon EOS-1Ds Mark ll / 28-300mm IS zoom lens / f/22 / Shutter speed: 2.5 seconds / ISO 125
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Crown Of Thorns - Stigmata by James Leader
The 5th in the Crown Of Thorns series. Dan came back for more, this time with the blooded palm. Don’t worry, it wasn’t my blood… The image of Dan was layered and filtered and then converted to black and white with the “blood” retaining its colour. I then added this to a texture layer and overlayed it so I could erase part of Dan to blend it in with the texture a little bit more cleanly. All my own pictures.
About This Group
Do you have a little tip or trick that can help someone else better their images.. LIterally anything at all from how to layer, photography terms, lighting, modelling, photoshop, drawing and software tips etc etc the list is endless. With so many different categories on Redbubble along with so many fantastic artists i thought it would be a good idea for everyone to share not only their work, but also their ideas, tip, tricks and methods….......
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