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468 creative works found

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  A FEW FISHY "TALES" AT THE SAND BAR "oil on canvas"
  by Shauna Noble

  SOLD – VERY HAPPY MAY 09 JUST FOR FUN – South Australia has seafood a plenty – I thought this would be a comic piece which highlights their unique features – starring the Magnificent Cuttle fish found in this area and are spectacular in their habits.

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  a few stand-outs...
  by Mandi Whitten

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  Just a few more steps
  by ragman

  Personally this is one of my favourites; as it reminds me of a boys journey through life and the steps he has to learn to climb. Everytime I look at it, the boy reminds me much of myself and the steps and the journeys that I have taken in life; the places I’ve gone, the people I’ve met, and all the adventures and affairs. Now I feel ‘Just a few more steps, and I’ll be home’ Sintra / Portugal Nikon F3 20mm lens original B/W neg scanned thru NikonScan OVER ONE HUNDRED VIEWS ~ THANK YOU*

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  Just a few reeds
  by jchanders

  Just a few reeds in the Ankeveensche Plassen in the Netherlands. For me they are conveying a great feeling of harmony and peace. Near Ankeveen, 7th October 2007, 9.51 am / Nikon D80, Nikkor 18-200 mm at 80 mm / F 18, 1/100, ISO 200

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  Narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
  by STEPHEN GEORGIOU

• The road map for the next few months
  by RedBubble

  So, we said January is thinking month, yet here we are mid-Februa…

  So, we said January is thinking month, yet here we are mid-February and we’re still thinking quite a lot! It’s been incredibly valuable to us to take a step back, look at what we’re really trying to achieve here, and how we make all the pieces fit. The first thing I guess you need to know about RedBubble is that we have no shortage of ideas, and no shortage of suggestions from the community. It’s actually quite rare that we hear of a bad idea — most ideas are great, or as Xavier would say, winners. So when we’re faced with hundreds or thousands of great ideas, the challenge is deciding what’s going to solve the biggest problems for the most people, and making sure we stay true to The Big Plan. A huge part of The Big Plan is the buying and selling. Artists are happy when they sell their work, buyers are happy when they find something they want to buy. With this is in mind, we’re going going to be spending a lot of our time over the next few months looking at our products, as well as how they’re bought and how they’re sold. What does that mean? Hopefully that means… Revised wall art products We don’t think we’ve got the wall art stuff right yet, and this is going to change. Pete’s already previewed our plans for framed wall art with interchangeable matted prints, but this is just the tip of the iceberg — we have some top secret stuff wall art products we really hope we can get ready. Wall art needs to be big and we still haven’t been able to find a way to economically ship big wall art around the globe, so this is high on our list (still). Post cards Our greeting cards still need some attention, but we’re also really keen to do post cards and some other printed promotional stuff that helps the artist sell their work and promote themselves. Photo books Calendars were a roaring success (and they weren’t even publicly available for sale), so we’re pretty keen to get a photo book product out there for everyone to buy. More T-shirt options We’re keen to have more colors and styles available to the buyers, as well as more options for the artist (like front and back printing, shifting the print area around on the tee, etc). Better selling tools As Pete recently discussed in the year ahead, we feel we’re in a partnership with the artists, and we need their help to promote their work and sell it. So we want to give you tools to do that. Business cards and post cards will help, but so will some technical stuff like allowing you to have a more product-oriented profile page and some more widgets to embed in other websites. Personally, I’d really like to help other artists sell their stuff by promoting it, so that’s something we’re going to explore as well. Better buying tools Not everyone is a buyer, but for those who come to RedBubble (or to your profile) with cash in their hand looking to buy something, we want to make it really easy. Mooks and publications In addition to In The Moment (on sale in a few days) and our current competition Gaia, Fran is working hard to introduce more periodical publications in the form of Mooks (not a magazine, not quite a book, get it?) to get more of your fantastic writing and art published. Disclaimers and footnotes This is the big stuff that we really think will make a difference to RedBubble over the next few months, but it’s not a definitive list at all. There’s no guarantee we can get all of this done of course, and there’s obviously other things that we’ll need to take care of along the way, but everyone needs a plan and something to focus on. Hopefully you’re as excited about this stuff as we are! — Peter & Justin

• Candid/Street photography - a few tips.
  by Mark German

  Today I was asked by someone for a few tips on shooting street/candids. Many people like this genre, but it is not the easiest to perform…

  Today I was asked by someone for a few tips on shooting street/candids. Many people like this genre, but it is not the easiest to perform successfully for many reasons, and often shots come out like – erm… snap shots. Since I took the time to write these brief pointers up for my friend, I thought I may as well share. Feel free to add, contest, debate, or send me lots of money. That last bit was a joke. Street/Candid / A few pointers: - A mid-zoom lens is ideal for candids. I use a 70-200mm on a crop body, and that would be fine for a full frame, also. If you do not have access to something in this range and/or can’t afford it, then concentrate on wider street scenes instead, and work within your equipment limitations. You do not need to have very expensive gear to do street. - 80% of people will be flattered you are taking their photo. Don’t try and hide it too much – and smile a lot. Walk up to people afterwards, and show them what you took (if digital). Without a long lens, you will more then likely be noticed most of the time. My rule is smile – and they smile back :) / (a hefty monopod can come in handy if things get out of hand) - 15% of people will not like their photo taken and either try and hide or cover their face or something. If you notice this – let them go – easy :) Respect people and their wishes. Many other opportunities around. - 5% of people are born assholes – or intensely dislike being photographed for their own private reasons. When you encounter this, just call out that you are deleting the image, and walk away. A few days ago, I was shooting a laughing session out in a city square. I laughed along with them. Someone asked me to join in, and I said that I was laughing on the inside ;) Then this guy rode up, and walked up to me. He asked me why I was shooting and I told him because it was a nice, fun thing to shoot. I asked him if he were going to join in and he said “no, not with a photographer around”. He said this as if I were a murderer. I said “easy fixed, mate. I promise not to take a photo of you”. And he walked off. Some people are just surly. NEVER hand your camera over to anyone. Even in the US, it is your right to take photos of anyone providing you are in a publicly owned area. This includes law-enforcement officers. Of course if they demand it, you must hand over your gear. But they are in the wrong, and it can usually be contested successfully. - A good way to take candids, is to visit fairs, fetes, etc – and face the crowd. Go to the side of the stage area and walk around, getting people used to you. Then start scanning the crowd through your lens. Make some jokes, take interest in the proceedings, become one with the crowd. Eventually people ignore you and you become a hunter/predator hahaha!!! / Look for emotions – listen to what is happening around you and time your shots to get the best emotive reactions. Position yourself so that light is to the left or right behind you, so that you can get reflections (catch lights) in the eyes. Always consider your backgrounds while shooting. Nothing worse then spending hours cloning out a light pole from behind someone’s head ;) / And frame your shots to allow for movement, as well as giving space to the direction someone is looking. - Wider street shots live and die by the ‘story’. This takes a little bit of keen observation and patience. A good system, is to position yourself in a people-traffic’ed (yes, I made that one up) location where you have visually composed an interesting scene. It may be a poignant billboard, or a large puddle in the street – maybe a pool of soft light spilling from an overhead lamp. And then wait like a spider :) A car will rush by as someone is walking, splashing them with muddy water – you time your shot to capture their indignation and water spray like an upturned umbrella. A mother and child walk through the lamplight, and as the mother moves back into darkness, the child, holding her hand, is illuminated. Your billboard espousing ‘have a happy day’ becomes a backdrop to a crying girl – or an arguing couple. Observe/setup/plan/wait/timing….a tripod is useful… Learn your camera so that settings are intrinsic. The less you need to think about technicalities, the more you can free your mind to focus on art. Hope that helps a little. Above all – try and relax and enjoy yourself. If you are uptight, it is contagious. If you smile, and interact with people, you will be automatically accepted.

• Casual Portraits - a few tips (beginners/intermediate)
  by Mark German

  I was recently asked for some advice regarding shooting portraits. Since it winded up being rather lengthy I thought I’d share, for those…

  I was recently asked for some advice regarding shooting portraits. Since it winded up being rather lengthy I thought I’d share, for those that are interested – or would like to discuss it. / / Let me make it plain – I am not a professional portrait photographer and these points are more for casual portraits without the use of studios / backdrops / professional lighting equipment. / / Composition is extremely important when shooting portraits. It is essential to get the right framing and perspective happening, to display the person to the best that you can. That doesn’t mean they have to look beautiful – I am speaking technically. / / Perspective – / In general, there are three levels of plane that you can shoot from. Above, below, and straight on. They each produce a different effect to the viewer, and also depict the subject in a different aspect. From above – lends vulnerability. Can also impart a ‘questioning or questing’ mood. Emphasizes the cheek bones and eyes, which when looking at the camera, are wide open with pupils at the top. / / From below – imparts dominance. Gives greater power and impact to the face, while reducing the cheek bone lines. Emphasizes the bones around the eyes and chin and gives strength. Generally a more square look. / / Straight-on – An ‘honest’ portrait. ‘As-is’ feel. Great for illustrative/documentary shots, or when you want someone to look as natural as possible for a particular reason – for example, as part of a written piece about the character of a person. Also gives a simplified feeling, that can be great for humorous shots or anything that has an associated story other then the portrait itself. / / Of course, throw in angles, and you have a virtually unlimited range of choices to work within. / / Lighting - / _ / / As with perspective, different lighting gives a different feel and meaning to a portrait. Play around with side lighting, curtained windows, lampshades, off-shoe flashes, bounced and reflected light. Two semi-diffused hard lights from either side of a face with a soft central fill adds drama. Harsh light on one side with none on the other adds mystery. Soft all around diffused light looks glamorous (something people try and achieve by blurring their image – silly, really). / / Depending on the background, try and find a bit of back lighting. It brings out clarity in the hair and edges of the subject, delineating them. This is sometimes called ‘separation, and is used in videography also. / / Eyes are the shiniest thing on the human body. They are little mirrors. If you shoot a subject with their back to a window, you will have little to no light in the eyes. If they are facing a light source, you will get nice little _catch-lights that give life to the eyes. You can alter how these look by changing the angle of the subject’s head, moving your light source, or changing what the light source is. Or – you can play around with Photoshop, and not learn anything photographically ;) / / Composition - / The old rule is a strong and valid one. Give more room to the direction of the gaze. Not doing this asks more of a question, and needs to be substantiated in the subject’s attitude and/or expression to work well. Why are they looking off-frame? What’s out there? etc… / / Try not to amputate too many features – like ears. If you must, choose the frame line carefully. There are natural frames within frames – try a few crops/compositions and feel what works best. Personally, I try and spend a little time thinking about the subject, the environment – watching, trying to find the best angles to bring out the nature and character of the person. / / Group portraits - / Generally speaking, a good group portrait composition is one where the subjects’ faces are at different levels. Try it and see. Line ‘em all up – looks like a snap shot. Position the ‘family/group’ at different levels – voila! 100% improvement. / / If photographing a child, expect your best shots to be candids. Children have a short attention span and while you can amuse them for a while with sparky things and little jokes – I find the best shots wind up being those while the child is unaware. Burst mode helps a lot here, just as it does with pets ;) / / Choose a depth of field that either isolates a feature entirely, or brings the entire subject into focus. Don’t wing it. Winging it relies on luck. The more prepared and skilled you get – the luckier you get ;) There are DoF calculators around online if you search. Figure out what works well for a certain distance. / / Editing - / Ok, so you have discovered Photoshop, Gimp, PaintShop Pro – or whatever. I find there is an initial learning curve where everyone tries their hand at manipulation – from plastic skins, to glaring alien eyes, selective colouring, and so on. This may sound a little arrogant, but – leave your portraits as natural as you can. You do not do any favours to the subject by making them look inhuman. Seriously. My personal philosophy is, I edit anything that is transient. By this, I mean, a pimple /zit / love-bite/ wayward hair in the eye/etc. But I leave anything that is intrinsic to the subject – scars, eye colour, and yes, even double chins (and ladies – we all have them). If you position your subject (and choose your light and angles right) you will not need to do extensive editing. Saves a lot of time, faithfully portrays the subject and gives you a finer work. / / Any magazine portrait you see (unless it is one of those horrible before shots) has been manipulated for what the market now expects. Perfection. Perfection is not beauty. Perfection is unreal. There is no perfection. Repeat that. There is NO perfection. I do a lot of portraits. I see peoples’ skins magnified a hundred times very often. Our skins are not plastic. They are dynamic, breathing, living organs. I could carry on with this subject forever, but I hope this helps some.

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  The White Bridge
  by micmac

  A photo of St-Simeon’s pier, the most beautiful place I saw when I went for my little 3 days trip.While taking this shot ,a nice couple on a moto talked to me ,I ask for a little auberge to sleep for the night and they decided to invite me to their home.That’s Quebec,I would have done the same but it was a first for me…couldn’t believe it.I sent some photos by email and they were very happy.They are living at five minutes from there in a beautiful place called La Malbaie near the St-Lawrence river.The same day in the afternoon I took «Pointe-au-Père» and in the evening the sky became lavander blue,a real dream. / / /

• BubbleSites are Go (and a few other odds and ends)
  by RedBubble

  Hello, Grant has been working on the BubbleSites...

  Hello, Grant has been working on the BubbleSites for months now – and he’s keen to see the fruits of his hard work out there on the ‘Internets’. So today we’re taking the wrap off the BubbleSites and making it generally available. The thinking behind the BubbleSites is to provide you with a very clean, simple personal gallery website. Your BubbleSite is free of anyone else’s branding or artwork, and you control the content. The BubbleSites are one small step towards our vision for RedBubble. We can’t possibly hope to do everything for everyone with one website, so we’re looking to make RedBubble more flexible. We want to allow people to use RedBubble in different ways. Some folks want to use RedBubble as a place to send their customers. With the current website your customers land on a profile page, but there’s lots of distractions. BubbleSites provide a much more focused experience, for those who want it. We’re still doing lots of work on the BubbleSites, so expect to see more changes in the near future. In particular we’re working right now on giving people the ability to change the background color. If you’ve got any feedback or suggestions please wander over to the feedback forum and type away. This week we’ve also made some small changes elsewhere on RB. Images in challenges are no longer cropped (our challenge software is currently under beta testing – see here for a few example challenges). For those with a technical mind we’ve embedded hidden copyright information into every large image displayed on RedBubble – this means that if somone downloads a large image off RedBubble it can always be traced back to you. By default we’ve inserted your name and profile URL into each image, but you can change this on your edit profile page (down towards the bottom of the screen). That’s it for this week – thanks Grant for all your hard work! Here’s a picture of the man (and my favorite Grant t-shirt): Cheers, Peter

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  The Few
  by Catherine Veal

  ” Never, in the field of human conflict, was so much owed, by so many, to so few.” Winston Churchill, 20 August 1940, at the height of the Battle of Britain. We had the pleasure of these Historic aircraft, Lancaster Bomber, Hurricane, and Spitfire, at the Dawlish Air Show, 14/08/08. / The roar of 6 Rolls Royce Merlin Engines made the hair on your neck stand up. Hope you like it. / Thanks for looking. / MY TRIBUTE FOR D DAY Pentax K200D / Sigma 70-300 macro.

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  a few hours of my life
  by blackoutangel

  photo taken at atlantic avenue power company. more of my work is viewable on abandonedamerica.org

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  I mainly like life to be peaceful with a few loud noises thrown in to remind me to be grateful for the quiet I have...
  by Natalia Campbell

  ~StoryPeople.

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  Take a few moments to familiarise yourself with the contents of your kit.
  by Steve Leadbeater

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  Lion head bunny flying behind a chair
  by Arve Bettum

  A white lion head bunny flying behind a chair Olympus E520 40-150mm Featured in DSLR Users Only – 3 A Day – 20.5.2009 www.arvebettum.com

• A few site tweaks
  by RedBubble

  Hello hello, Yesterday we released a new RedBubble … there were three main public changes (and the usual behind the scenes work). ...

  Hello hello, Yesterday we released a new RedBubble … there were three main public changes (and the usual behind the scenes work). We’ve introduced a new larger size canvas (20 by 30 inches). I love canvas prints … and as far as I’m concerned bigger is better! The base price of the Extra Large Canvas is AUD 135, USD 128.25; GBP 60.75 (VAT exc); EUR 87.75 (VAT exc); CAD 128.25. We’ve added some more functionality to the bulk edit feature. Now you can bulk: Change your mark up, change product options, publish, delete and de-publish We’ve also done some work on how we display t-shirts on the website … so they look closer to the physical result. Below is an example (it’s a black on black design by the talented nofrillsart). The first shirt is the old way we displayed shirts – note that it’s very hard to see the black printing. We’ve fixed this so that what is displayed is much closer to the printed t-shirt people receive. Kudos to John for this work. Ciao, Peter P.S. Before I forget, a quick request. We’re finding that a few folks are mistakenly using the ‘writing’ area of the site in the place of the ‘journal’. Here’s what we say about the journal: Your Journal is a great place to communicate with your fans and the people who are interested in your work. People who are watching you will be notified each time you update your Journal. While writing is designed for creative writing … poems, short stores et cetera. Please let’s try to keep the writing section of the site for creative writing so that the creative writing is not swamped with our journal posts.

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  We Happy Few?
  by darkvampire

  Featured in Unconventional Artistry.

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  Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself...
  by Claire Penn

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  Gone in a few sec
  by LarsvandeGoor

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  a few nipps for the boys .. (Orgullo of Puerto Rico, a series)
  by Isa Rodriguez

  and us girls too..im not stereotyping. just wanna call the boys in for opinions sculpture hanging in the former prison “La Princesa”..in old san Juan Puerto Rico .. now the Headquarters of the Tourism department. Old San Juan Puerto Rico.. for more wonderful stuff about Puerto rico click here

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  A few rupees
  by John Spies

  This woman sold rice meals with potato curry and fish, and hot milky tea, from a shack near the lake in Pokhara, Nepal. For a few rupees, locals, and backpackers living on the cheap, could fill up with nutritious food. Squatting on public land by the road and cooking with scavenged firewood, this woman had a good business operation with her low-cost, popular eatery. Taken in 1980, with Nikon camera and lense and kodachrome slide film.

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  Stendhal's Passions To the Happy Few
  by Danica Radman - Tazzina

  The events of 27, 28 and 29 July 1830

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  Just A Few Drops
  by Sharon Johnstone

  Just got my new Canon Twin Lite Flash (MT-24EX). Very happy girl today!! / Shot with Canon EOS 350D with Canon EFS 60mm macro lens. / Just drops of water from the tap. / Straight from camera.

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  " Only a few left"
  by Malcolm Chant

  The Red Panda, also called the Firefox or Lesser Panda (taxonomic name: Ailurus fulgens, “shining cat”), is a mostly herbivorous mammal, specialized as a bamboo feeder. It is slightly larger than a domestic cat. The Red Panda is endemic to the Himalayas, ranging from Nepal in the west to China in the east. It is also found in northern India, Bhutan and northern Myanmar.[2] Their population continues to decline due to habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and inbreeding depression. / “Wikipedia” /