Archive for the ‘Inspiration’ Category

Wonderland of Illustration – Competition

written on February 15th, 2010 with no comments

 

UPDATED 3/4/10:  See the contest winner here!

A timeless classic from the original Lewis Carroll 1865 book and the animated movie from Disney in 1951 to the new 2010 Disney live action movie, ‘Alice In Wonderland‘ has been a childhood favorite for many generations.

For a cast of characters that are now some 145 years old, it’s interesting to take a look back in time just to see how the initial lithograph illustrations, up to Disney’s full motion, computer enhanced version have altered the appearance, and display trends in illustration through many different mediums over the ages.

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25 Awesome HDR Images and Tuts

written on February 12th, 2010 with 4 comments

 

You know Flickr never stops to amaze me. The quality of photography on the wildly popular website is simply awesome, and puts some of the so-called photography stock image sites to shame. In recent times the popularity of HDR images has been fueled, in part, by the staggering number of photographers contributing their latest works to the site.

So what exactly are HDR photographs and images? Wikipedia probably explains it best:

High-dynamic-range photographs are generally achieved by capturing multiple standard photographs, often using exposure bracketing, and then merging them into an HDR image. Digital photographs are often encoded in a camera’s raw image format, because 8 bit JPEG encoding clips the camera’s possible dynamic range (and also introduces undesirable effects due to the lossy compression).

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