Looks -Pictures, Images, Visual Languages

Un certain impressionisme... italien. :o)

---> Au Musée de l'Orangerie jusqu'au 22 juillet.

"The urge to modify camera images is as old as photography itself—only the methods have changed. Nearly every type of manipulation we now associate with digital photography was also part of the medium's pre-digital repertoire: smoothing away wrinkles, slimming waistlines, adding people to a scene (or removing them)—even fabricating events that never took place."

"Sun spots are seen as the moon moves into a partial eclipse position after reaching annularity during the first annular eclipse seen in the U.S. since 1994, May 20, 2012 in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. Differing from a total solar eclipse, the moon in an annular eclipse appears too small to cover the sun completely, leaving a ring of fire effect around the moon." (David McNew/Getty Images)

All the more useful than these terms are explained in plain English ;o)

Check this one :

"White balance

reveals an interesting difference between a camera and a human eye : a human eye has a human brain attached. When you look at a white object, your brain is actually interpreting the lighting cues around you and calculating that the object is white on the fly. If the object is under a blue light, it will really look blue, but your brain compensates for the color difference, so you'll see it as white.

The camera does no such compensating unless you force it to do so, so if a white object is under a bluish light, the camera will record bluish pixels.

Adjusting white balance helps force the camera to compensate for the fact that most lighting conditions aren't perfectly white.

Many indoor lights have a yellowish tinge to them, while fluorescent lights have a bluish tint. Even natural light is a little bluer than you might think."

Also on howstuffworks :

10 Tips for Getting the Most From Your Digital Camera

10 Fall Photography Tips

5 Black-and-white Photography Tips

5 Portrait Photography Tips

"A Cinemagraph is an image that contains within itself a living moment that allows a glimpse of time to be experienced and preserved endlessly.

Visual Graphics Artist Kevin Burg began experimenting with the .gif format in this style in 2009 but it wasn't until he partnered with photographer Jamie Beck to cover NYFW that Cinemagraphs were born. [...]"

On stumbleupon.com, XAXOR showcases "the best pictures online". Elena's are tagged "Photography" -have a look, some series are great !

Jeremiah Morelli is a German middle school teacher : the digital artist focuses on fantasy-themed illustrations.

"“I’m interested in taking ideas that were radical in Matisse’s day (collapsing space through the blending of foreground and background, multiple angles viewed at the same time, and Fauvist color and expression, among others) and moving them into a contemporary photographic space,” Gordon wrote via email"

The above picture shows "the newer American cities love their neat grids. Los Angeles, the city of highways, has a startlingly organized grid."

"We asked writers and artists, including Grayson Perry and Mary McCartney, to pick a shot they treasure – and tell us the role photography has played in their lives."

D'accord avec plusieurs points de vue dans cet article -bien que je trouve son leitmotiv "un photographe qui a de la personnalité est..." un tantinet incantatoire.

Quant à ne jamais demander l'autorisation de shooter, c'est pour moi suivant l' "objet" shooté : pour l'humain, avant ou après, mais à un moment donné je demanderai s'il/elle veut bien que mon appareil le/la capte :-)

Superbe :-)