Blog on Photoblogs

Here we go again.  Another new featured image.  This time I came across Marcie Scudder’s Daily Practice the other day (Did I mention how much of a fan I am of Google Alerts?).

First thing, the photoblog name is just awesome - Daily Practice.  This sums up how you should be approaching your photoblog, practice.  Don’t be afraid to experiment, have fun, and try some new techniques on your site!

Now let’s talk a little about the image that I selected.

Colour Saturation
This one is pretty obvious, Marcie image has some serious pop and in my opinion that’s due to the colour saturation of the flowers when compared to all other aspects of the image.  It’s a great technique to draw focus to the main subject in your image.

Rule of Thirds
Am I an avid follower of the “Rule of Thirds”? No, not by a long shot, I believe in experimented with my work, but it really works in the image!

Light to Dark
Another technique to draw people’s attention to a certain area of the photo and again I feel that Marcie has nailed it.  The vignetting makes the flowers pop even more!

Make sure that you check out Marcie’s photoblog today! She’s posted some fantastic work!

Marcie’s work reminds alot of one of my favourite photography books Welcome to Oz, by Vincent Versace.  It’s a must-have book for anyone who takes their work seriously.  I highly recommend that you get a copy if you don’t already own it.

Also, I owe an apology to the last two featured folks who had featured images,

• Bbouwsema
• Urban Views

Thanks to some blog editting on my end, I messed up and their write-ups weren’t showing.  Please make sure you show them both some love and check out the featured image and their blogs.

Did I tell you that I just love Google Alerts?  If you’re not using it to help discover new talent, I suggest that you get over to Google right now and get an alert setup right now!  Thanks to this great service, I came across Brents photoblog today and was immediately impressed with his work.  The particular image that really jumped out at me is entitled “Nine” and it’s pretty obvious why.

The saturation of colours in this image are just incredible, but unlike some other images I have seen, it’s not over the top.  Brent doesn’t provide any details on the equipment he used when taking this image, or whether the sharpness was increased in post-processing, but the sharpness is just outta this world!  Maybe if Brent stops by he’ll fill us in a little.

On top of the great images, Brent’s photoblog is clean, and is clearly about the images, I recommend that you stop by  Bbouwsema and spend some time looking at this talented photographer’s work.

A few of you know how much I enjoy architectural and what I like to refer to as urban landscape photography.  The other day I google’d urban photography and stumbled across a great photoblog by Markus Hartel called Urban Views.

I knew right away that I wanted to feature Markus’ work on the site, and I eventually decided on a photograph entitled “Final Reductions”.  Trust me, there’s so much great work on Markus’ site that I had a difficult time choosing.

What caught my eye about this image in particular was how it made me feel.  The long exposure Markus used in this image really captures the “life” of urban areas.  They are always in motion and this image really portrays that.   I also really enjoyed the way that the background pops and after you are finished with the movement in the foreground you still have quite a bit detail to enjoy.

I recommend that you head on over to Markus’ photoblog and check out his work today!

This weeks profiled image comes to us courtesy of Stephen over at One Stone Eye. When I found Stephen’s photoblog, I found myself spending quite a bit of time admiring the detail that appears in his work, and this image in particular really caught my eye.

This amazing image was created by Cerstin Kleilein of CandreK diffuse and has to be one of my favourite images as of late.

What stuck me right away about this photograph was the obviously the pin-sharp focus and the vibrant colours.  Not sure exactly how the image was created, but it areas of the picture seem to be slightly desaturated which really helps the yellow and purple pop right out of the image.

Great work!!

If you’ve never tried destaturated areas of your work, give it a try, I am sure that you won’t be disappointed with the results.

This weeks image is from Austin Mann, I found Austin’s work last week and knew that I needed to profile him on Blog on Photoblogs.

So why did I decide on this image?

• The wide open space in this image really pulls me into the photograph.  I found myself lingering for quite sometime seeing if there was something else to be found in the grass, I love when an image grabs my attention like this one.
• The brightest area of this image is the mountain range, and that really drew me deep into the image.  After scanning the grass, I didn’t lose interest at all - the light mountain range really helped.
• The dark edges of this image kept me looking…if it was on a gallery wall, I would stay here for longer than normal.
• Finally, I am not sure about how much post-processing Austin did on this image, but the colours pop, and the contrast between sky, land and mountain range is great!

First, I want to extend my apologies to all my readers out there - I seriously fell off the wagon last week with regards to posting on the blog! Thanks for the emails, everything is fine! Real-life got a little hectic and the blog suffered.

Now back to our previously scheduled show. This weeks image comes courtesy of Kathleen over at Durham Township. Here’s why I decided that her image was this weeks image of the week,

• I did a little storm chasing a few weeks back and this image is what I wanted to capture.
• The contrast between the sky and the foreground really makes this image pop.
• The rainbow adds so much to this image
• As usual the post-processing on Kathleen’s images is top-notch.

Awesome work, make sure that you check out Katherine’s incredible work at Durham Township.

This weeks image is from Sean of TreeSwing.

As soon as I saw this image, I knew that I wanted it to be featured as the image of the week, and here’s why, first, it’s architecturally themed, and as I have mentioned before, I am a sucker for these types of images. I love the constrasting colours and how the picnic table stands out from the grass and the wall.  My eye is drawn immediately to the table and if it attempts to stray the strong horiztonal theme of the image and the verticals on the top of the image force it back to the focal point of the image.  Nice job Sean…

If you’re not familar with Sean’s work, make sure you check it out, you won’t be disappointed.