Photorealistic Harry Potter Portrait
Someone’s used Corel Painter to produce a beautiful rendition of young Harry Potter:
See the original painter tutorial here.
Burst Mode for taking crowd shots
You can use the burst mode of your digital camera to take great crowd shots:
Just hold down the shutter in good light, and pan!
Awesome metal texture
My Blue Eyes
This post is all about my blue eyes. I took the following macro mode photos on my P-200 and enhanced them in photoshop. I’ll post them below, with an explanation of all what changed from real photo to photoshopped masterpiece.
This is my favorite. I desaturated and lightened the area around the iris, and then layered another layer of blue ontop. Beautiful.
The top portion was blurred, smoothed, and airbrushed into an orange gradient, while the eye itself was smartblurred and airbrushed. The eyebrows and lashes were not blurred, and stray hairs were pruned away.
Here, I used photoshop to selectively layer an ultra-sharpened image and the original, which I used as a hue mask. I erased some of the skin hues to allow violets and yellows to shine through.
The Modern Man … and all his toys
It struct me that the modern man carries around a lot of excess junk, so I created a Flickr photoset themed on the stuff that I carry with me everyday. Here are the items, side by side with a reference picture:
A $200 london fog leather men’s jacket
A $40 designer shirt
$80 for pants that create little silky waves as you walk
When feet just aren’t good enough, $60 white New Balance sneakers
At least a $200 mp3 player. At least, man.
For candid moments, a sony P-200 with 1 GB of RAM will add $450 in weight to your body.
Motorola v400, $120
Why do we, in our modern age, need to wear $1,200 worth of equipment, clothing, accessories, and electronics on our bodies? Are they status symbols? No. I use all of these tools every day. Do I need them? No! I would be just fine in cheap clothes, with no mp3 player. Why, I could sing on my way to work instead of listening to the latest Koda Kumi hit. What then is this capitalist need to buy? Why do we consume?
