I read about a tool called Tagerator that takes your Flickr tags and makes a word cloud out of them.
Here's mine. I love it! Click on the image to enlarge.
Here is a really interesting video from Tim Mantoani, photographer. I had never heard of Tim until recently when someone on the dpreview forums suggested I watch his Blue Crane Digital Nikon Speedlights video. The speedlight video was really informative and I went to his web site to look at his work and stumbled across his Behind the Photos project where he is taking photos of photographers standing behind their famous photo.
In this 1 1/2 hour presentation, Tim talks about his work and some of his projects including the Behind the Photos project. Very inspirational.
Focus On Your Passion: Finding Yourself in Your Photography from PhotoShelter.com on Vimeo.
In this 1 1/2 hour presentation, Tim talks about his work and some of his projects including the Behind the Photos project. Very inspirational.
Focus On Your Passion: Finding Yourself in Your Photography from PhotoShelter.com on Vimeo.
I thought I'd unveil my Terry Ludwig Salmagundi Club Cityscape Set online too (I was feeling bad about not opening it, using it, or putting it with my other colors (after all I did *buy* it!). Here is the packaging.
Inside each box you get a blank color chart that you fill out for your records so that when you run out of a color you can figure out what color it was by matching the tiny left over chip of pastel with the marks you made on the chart, that way you can reorder your fave colors.
My studio desk is now cleaned up and I'm getting ready to make a mark!
I love color! Just looking at colorful things makes me happy. I'd thought I'd share my colorful pastel palette with you. It makes me so happy to look at it. I keep it all in my Heilman Pastel box which I bought myself for my birthday about 3 or 4 years ago? It is the most well made, sturdy little box and I highly recommend every pastel artist have one.
You can travel with the box and don't have to worry about any "crunching" of pastels as there is memory foam inside holding everything in place. In the studio you can open it and "lock" it open. You can place it open on a table or, get this, there is a tripod mount underneath so you can place it at any height on a tripod (this is great for plein air).
You can travel with the box and don't have to worry about any "crunching" of pastels as there is memory foam inside holding everything in place. In the studio you can open it and "lock" it open. You can place it open on a table or, get this, there is a tripod mount underneath so you can place it at any height on a tripod (this is great for plein air).
Just looking at them makes me want to go play and get dusty! Yes, the downside is the dust, believe me in my house you wouldn't necessarily notice any more dust, but it's important not to breath it in because of the risk associated with certain pigments.
Hope you enjoyed the palette tour ;)
