August 5th, 2010
As you know we at picture frames express love a bit of photobombing. So in our eyes Paul Yarrow is the most successful news photobomber in the UK.
Paul (aka news raider) has featured in countless news reports, appeared in parliamentary round-ups, and even been on the Antiques Roadshow.
Paul is a podgy, balding community worker from south London who has become notorious for appearing uninvited in the background of TV programmes over the past year.
The most common ‘battle gear’ of the News Raider is a beige sweater. The usual strategy is to wander around aimlessly in the background.
Paul has been know to employ props while photobombing; sometimes a phone, sometimes a newspaper and always a beige sweater… Read the rest of this entry »
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June 29th, 2010
As I’m sure our British readers will know, England suffered a terrible defeat at the hands of Germany’s squad at the world cup the other day.
The most controversial part of this match being the disallowed ‘goal’ from our very own Frank Lampard, which wrecked an already staggered level of team morale and spurred on an intense disliking of the referee (from the English fans of course).
The fact of the matter being, technology was out-ruled as a form of validation for a goal, referee’s word is final, no matter how inaccurate! This has raised talks amongst FIFA execs about the use of ‘Goal-Line Technology’ to help verify referee’s decisions and ensure a fair game.
Plenty of other sports use similar technology to validate badly judged calls and accurately review split second movements for fairness, but FIFA just don’t agree that it is in the best interest for the sport
Below we have photographs taken of the ‘no-goal’ using the goal-line tech. Judge for yourself!
June 7th, 2010
Following a good few posts on surreal digital artists, we would like to show that surreal imagery isn’t always digital!
In the form of a relatively short post featuring some brilliant surreal paintings, as in: real, hand-painted paintings! Which is a welcome break from all the digitally altered, created and manipulated stuff; though still a fascinating topic for us to cover!
A fantastic Russian-born painter specialises in just the sort of perception twisting surreal imagery that we love so much here at Picture Frames Express.
His name… Is Vladmir Kush!
We suggest clicking the paintings to open them fullsize in a new window, it’s the only way to truly admire the detail and care that has gone into creating such masterpieces!
Brilliant Metaphor.
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May 28th, 2010
Coming back on ourselves on to one of our favourite topics again – Digital illustration (A.k.a – Digital painting). Today we bring you a few shots from an absolutely fantastic digital artist, Michael Kutsche. Michael has worked with & for such big names as: Sony Imageworks, Dreamworks, Marvel, Sega & BMW! So before you even browse his works, you know he’s got to be good!
Fantastic illustration of several weary travellers
May 24th, 2010
It’s amazing how the saturation of an image can totally alter the message it conveys, for example: imagine a photograph of a beautiful blue sky, littered with clouds and a vibrant rainbow spanning the width of the image… now think of that in black & white. The emotions it can spark turn 180 degrees and the connotations of the image are almost reversed. Most people associate black & white photography with a long gone age of sepia family portraits and torn edged Polaroids, but black & white photography is just as popular today as it ever has been. Perhaps more so with the emergent age of digital photography and photo manipulation we have discussed so much, the capabilities of a black & white photo are increased almost tenfold!
Below are some examples we think show off the brilliant nostalgic feeling that a desaturated image can draw from your thoughts!
A brilliant skyline from a'top a skyscraper in New York
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May 12th, 2010
Even though photosurrealism isn’t in the dictionary, we think it is more than suited to this type of digital art.
All of the following images featured in this post are from an amazing digital artist we stumbled over on deviantArt known as AdonisWerther. His work is a mad mash-up of digital photography and surrealism, presented in a fantastic way! To truly appreciate these works, visit his deviantArt page and view the full resolution counterparts.
Prints of these are available on devaintArt, so if you are interested: remember that no picture is complete without a custom frame from Picture Frames Express!
Our first pick from the surreal collections
A brilliant mash up of realities
Another fantastically imaginative peice!
To truly appreciate the time, effort and intricate detail in these images, check out the artists deviantArt page here – AdonisWerther for the full resolution pics and purchase prints.
Until next time, The Picture Frames Express Team.
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May 5th, 2010
Excellent Digital Art
Following with our last posts theme of digital illustration, we are going to introduce one of our new favourite artists of the digital age… Tiago Hoisel.
Hoisel is responsible for some of the greatest digital illustrations available on the web, his fantastic caricature style combined with the photo-realistic shading and lighting effects creates an almost true to life image that would dazzle the likes of Da Vinci and Donatello.
Below are a few of our choice favourites, hopefully they impress you as much as they did us!
Fantastically real adaption of a well known fictional personailty.
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April 30th, 2010
With the dawn of Adobe Creative Suite CS5 we think it is the right time to show off the true power of a creative mind combined with an industry defining image editor… Photoshop!
As you know, we here at Picture Frames Express are strong advocates for the power Photoshop gives it’s users. It helps keep true creativity alive in this digital age, it is a brilliant source of images that are truly worth framing and hanging above the mantelpiece!
Today, we will show you a few awe inspiring digital illustrations from some of the best Photoshop artists from across the globe!
A truly surreal fantasy landscape shot, crafted from scratch!
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April 29th, 2010
A dogs life in Picture Frames
After our last post about life in spring we thought we’d take a closer look at one of mans best friend, Dogs!
You’d be forgive for thinking dogs and digital photography isn’t exactly going to be ground breaking. You would of course be wrong, barking possibly (sorry)
The following video from pedigree chum is a collection of hounds filmed at 1000 frames per second and some of the expressions they manage to capture are surprisingly human. Read the rest of this entry »
April 28th, 2010
So! Spring is finally here, plenty more sheep and rabbits pottering around, flowers blooming again, leaves on the trees. The world is crawling back to life! With temperatures practically soaring over here in the UK, it’s getting easier by the day for us to forget such a cold and depressing winter. In light of this, we are going to post a few pictures of some of the best spring photography we could find across the web!
Vibrant pink flowers amidst a perfect sky