The next in our speedpainting series is also by Nico di Mattia. It is a time lapse digital painting in photoshop with music from Spider-Man OST by Danny Elfman.
Nico Di Mattia was born in Cordoba, Argentina. (more…)
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Archive for November, 2009
Framing Digital Art – Megan Fox speedpainting by Nico Di Mattia
In this video Nico di Mattia does transformers inspired speed painting, it is of Megan Fox leaning over BumbleBee.
Framing Digital Art – Ironman speedpainting by Nico di Mattia
Following on from yesterday we have another piece by Nico di Mattia. This speed painting features music from Stratovarius and Black Sabbath. It is condensed from around 5 or 6 hours of working in Photoshop with a digital tablet.
How Speed Painting is Framing Art
If you’re a regular reader of this blog you’ll know we love photography, both traditional and digital. Over the next week or so we’re going to introduce you to something new; it’s called speed painting.
Speed Painting is an exercise, primarily digital, in which you paint on a time budget, using (more…)
Still Life Photography at Home
Still life photography has a long dated history and goes back to ancient times where a camera obscuras where used.
This type of still life was done by standing in a dark room and through a pinhole placed in the wall the outside world was projected onto the opposite wall, but it is given that they where shown upside down and in vivid color (more…)
Which is better for Photography: Digital Or Classic Film?
The popularity of digital cameras may have enjoyed amazing increase but film has still an important part to play in photography and will continue to be important for some time, a few years at the least.
Film has many advantages that photographers continue to recognize. Major players in the production of film like Kodak are still putting millions into it; though all experts agree that digital film will reign supreme in the near future.
Cameras of the past & the future
That’s right picture framers, today it’s all about photography equipment
Allot of advertising money is spent on telling us all just how simple and easy it is to take a photo, and it is certainly easier to load a film in the average camera now than it used to be.
You certainly couldn’t just pick up a brownie box camera and:
- Ready
- Aim
- Shoot
- Warning lights that tell you to change your angle
- Alerts telling you tor adjust your exposure
- Digital effects
Not long ago, even with modern cameras, you had only to look into the little lens and press a button to take a photo.
Now cameras have much more complicated features:
So what is the camera of the tomorrow going to be like?
Will it be so complicated that only a rocket scientist will be able to operate it?
How to take Great Pictures
Photography is an art, and therefore there are no set rules for getting the perfect pictures. The following tips, however, will help to improve your photographic style, experiment, and get great pictures on a regular basis. Whether your subject is a child, a pet, or nature, try some of these tips on your next photographic foray.
Hanging Oil Paintings in Picture Frames
The picture frame gives a more finished look to the oil painting and helps define the boundaries of the artwork. The marriage of a picture frames with an oil painting may be harmonious or discordant, enhancing or distracting – a poorly chosen frame can ruin the appearance of the oil painting, while an appropriate one can make it shine.
There are many different styles, colors and price ranges of frames with cheap ones made in moulded plastic and more expensive ones carved in wood.
