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January 18, 2020 | Leave a Comment |
What Is Color Temperature ?
Of the three elements of color (luminosity, hue, and saturation), hue is the one most closely associated with temperature. This is a psychological temperature not a physical temperature. Most people associate red with fire or blood (warm things) and blue with sky, water, and ice (cool things), where physically a blue flame is hotter than a red flame. You can identify which hues are warmer and which are cooler by their proximity to the absolute poles of red (warm) and cyan (cool) on the color wheel. When comparing any two hues you can always ask, “Which one is warmer and which one is cooler?”. Even when comparing two variations of the same hue, very often one will be slightly warmer or cooler. Color temperature is part of what creates color variety, which is one spice of life, a very important one, especially when it comes to visual communication.
The Things You Can You Do With Temperature
Many photographers think of color temperature as something to "get right" during exposure but you can also use color temperature creatively in post-processing. You can produce many compelling color effects with color temperature. You can make distant close layers feel closer by warming them and distant layers more distant by cooling them. You can make object feel more three dimensional by warming highlights and cooling shadows. You can add a warm glow that simulates early morning or late evening light. You can You can even make day look like night, by dramatically cooling it. And every one of these moves will change the emotional tone of an image. Temperature is a critical element for communicating with color.
Lightroom & Photoshop
There are many color adjustment tools in Lightroom and Photoshop that adjust hue. Having used them all since the day they were released (or before) I regularly use four and consider them go to tools worth mastering.
Category: Color - Adjustment Tags: adjustment, Color, color overlay, color temperature, curves, hue/saturation, photo filter, white balance
January 6, 2020 | Leave a Comment |
Check your inboxes!
My newsletter Insights went out Monday, Jan 5th at 6 am EST.
This special issue features The Best Of The Best Photography Of 2019.
Plus there's more.
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Category: Newsletter - Curated Links Tags: best of 2019, insights, newsletter, Photography
January 4, 2020 | Leave a Comment |
Constellation
Revelation
This is a selection of my top images of 2019.
Check back later – there will be some late entries.
This selection doesn’t reflect sales, publication, or activities on the web. It simply reflects my opinion.
Geography
The locations include Antarctica, Scoresbysund Greenland, Iceland, and Namibia.
Process
Continuing the momentum from the previous year's experiments I combined more images from the Hubble telescope (in the public domain ) with my own exposures, expanding my series Constellation with new images of deep space as well as stars observed with the naked eye.
Fog and glassy smooth waters in Scoresbysund Greenland offered surprise "straight" additions to my series Revelation. There are many other successful exposures waiting to be finished as composites. The images I released in 2019 all have a primal quality, a felt sense of being in the presence of another consciousness.
Concepts
Ideas about a living earth have been expanded to a living universe.
Where images in my Land In Land series present married views of the same land in both an overview and a detail seen by looking very closely, images in Constellation present married views of lands and the stars that surround them offering a glimpse into deep space and time. What’s beyond the object, behind the surface, and perhaps even within it shows through.
Magic Moments
We had ten straight days of full sunshine in Antarctica. Amazing!
Still waters and thick fog persisted for several days in Greenland’s, Scoresbysund.
Standing out the door on the rail of a helicopter above Icelandic rivers was thrilling.
It was a very productive year; more than 75 new works released; more than 150 new studies made.
It’s challenging to choose so few images from so many – but it’s insightful. Try selecting your own top 12 images. Try selecting the top 12 images of your favorite artist(s).
View more of my Annual Top 12 Selections here.
View more images in my ebooks here.
View my full Works here.
View my Series videos here.
View new images in my newsletter Collectors Alert.
Category: Images - Annual Top 12 Tags: 2019, Images - Photographs, top
The new year is a wonderful time to look at great photographs!
Dozens of media outlets collect their best from the past year.
You’ll find links to the best of the best below.
Enjoy!
Time’s 2019 Top 100 Photos
The New York Times Year In Pictures 2019
CNN 2019 Year In Review
CNN’s Best Travel Photos Of 2019
Bloomberg’s Year in Pictures 2019
Bored Panda’s 30 Most Powerful Press Photos Of 2019
Magnum’s Pictures Of The Year 2019
Top AP Photos Of 2019
New York Post’s Best Photos Of 2019
The Guardian’s Best Photographs Of 2019
The Guardian’s A Decade In Pictures 2010-2019
The Atlantic top 25 News Photos Of 2019
The Atlantic The Most 2019 Photos Ever
The Atlantic Photos Of A Decade 2010-2019
Reuter’s Best Photos Of 2019
CBS News Best Photos Of 2019
World Press Photo 2019 Contest Winners
Agora World Photography Competition 2019 Winners
My Modern Met
The Best New Yorker Photography Of 2019
National Geographic
Gizmodo’s Best Wildlife Photos Of 2019
Audubon’s 2019 Photography Award Winners
Business Insider’s Best Wildlife Photos Of 2019
Science’s Favorite Photos Of 2019
Sports Illustrated’s Best Photos Of 2019
The Guardian’s Best Sports Photography Of 2019
Best Photography Books Of 2019 - I
Best Photography Books Of 2019 - II
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Category: Photography Tags: 2019, ap, atlantic, Audubon, best, best of 2019, best photography of 2019, bloomberg, bored panda, business insider, cnn, elizabeth avedon, magnum, my modern met, national geographic, new york times, new yorker, photographs, Photography, photos, reuters, science, sports illustrated, the guardian, time, world press
January 1, 2020 | Leave a Comment |
Enjoy this collection of quotes on Commitment.
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” – Vince Lombardi
“Motivation is what gets you started. Commitment is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” – Mario Andretti
“Most people fail not because of a lack of desire but because of a lack of commitment.” – Vince Lombardi
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”― Peter F. Drucker
“The most important element in the failure equation is your personal commitment to keep trying.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Commitment is what transforms a promise into a reality.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Commitment is the foundation of great accomplishments.” – Heidi Reeder
“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.” – Tony Robbins
“You don't know what your abilities are until you make a full commitment to developing them.”– Carol S. Dweck
“Without commitment you cannot have depth in anything.” – Neil Strauss
“Commitment is an act, not a word.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.” – Marica Wieder
Category: Creativity - Quotes, Quotes - Creativity Tags: commitment, quote
December 16, 2019 | Leave a Comment |
Photoshop 2020 introduces new features, improvements to old features, and AI improvements.
Check out these 4 videos for details.
Learn more with Julianne Kost's full post including two more videos.
Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.
Category: Video - Adobe Photoshop Tags: 2020, adobe, new features, Software - Photoshop
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