Photographworks

Do You Use Pinterest?

January 5, 2012

Pinterest seems to be getting more and more popular and unlike a lot of sites that come and go, I think this one will stay the course. It appeals to people’s design sense and the ‘collector’ instinct. If you have a site at Pinterest, why not let me know? We may have things in common. [...]

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Happy New Year

January 2, 2012

The golden, carved faun in the photograph is a bracket support in an old building in the south of England. I turned the image around and filled in the background in order to make this image. The faun is half human from the waist up but with little horns and pointy ears, and half goat [...]

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Rich Georgian Terrace –

December 30, 2011

I learned a tip from a photographer today, which is to add a filter to an HDR image. Actually, I don’t know what filter he used, but the very idea of applying a filter triggered me to try something. I made a blank layer and filled it with a dark, rich brown. Then I changed [...]

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At The Turning Of The Year

December 30, 2011

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Advertising, Chocolate Box Pro, And Trajan Pro

December 28, 2011

Looking for the competition? Read to the end of this article. Typefaces and Fonts Just recently I was looking for a substitute for the Trajan Pro typeface. I like Trajan Pro and there is nothing wrong with it except that there is no web font version. In other words, there is no version that can [...]

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Inner Shadow Effect For Typography

December 23, 2011

Here’s how to make type look as though it is three-dimensional and coming through from a lower layer. People sometimes think that you need to make at least two layers in Photoshop in order to get this effect, but you don’t. I have seen people make two layers and then sandwich the type between the [...]

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Distance In Photography

December 13, 2011

When Gary Winogrand died there were a lot of exposed but undeveloped rolls in his refrigerator. When I say lots I mean hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. I guess I could go look up the number – there is bound to be a Gary Winogrand site somewhere with the information, but the exact number is [...]

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A Georgian Terrace In Edinburgh

December 11, 2011

A Choice Of Subjects Every so often I take a photograph that suits me. By that I mean that if I had my choice of subjects, I would choose portraits, and after than I would choose evocative scenes naturally framed. I think this room in an empty house fits the second category. The distortion of [...]

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Neu Eichmass Free Font – Quirky And Nice

December 7, 2011

This font is available from Free Typography. The website of the font designer Ivan Khmelevsky is here and his site is itself interesting, being built on Indexhibit.

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