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December 5, 2011

The Ugly Side of Christmas

We are well into the Christmas season now and most people will either have put their decorations up over the weekend or will be doing so during the next. There is a wide degree of how far you can go with Christmas decorations, with some people happy with a simple tree to others that replace everyone photo in their picture frames with Christmas photos, have lights on the outside of the house and multiple cuddly toys of Santa, snowmen and other festive characters all over the house.

Sometimes though people can go a bit too far and it’s these that we will be taking a look at this month. So instead of showing you examples of good Christmas photos we are going to take a look the bad side of Christmas decorations and here is our top five worst offenders. You may notice a similar theme throughout.

Christmas lights on the outside of your house are acceptable if done well with a few carefully positioned lights hanging from the roof or windows. But this example takes things too far with hanging lights, lights in different shapes and light up characters all over the garden. These is a good example of too much going on with no thought to positioning, colours or theme. As with hanging a picture frame, these are all factors that contribute to the overlook that you are trying to achieve.

This example takes the idea of lighting the front of the house and runs away with it. I don’t think there is a single brink on the house or patch on the grass that hasn’t got a light on it!

Whilst this one doesn’t have too many lights, the house has far too much going on for it to look good. The roof has all sorts of characters on top and the entrance to the house has been decorated in white tinsel which doesn’t look very nice. The wooden train or the inflatable Nutcracker might look good on their own but with the multiple snowmen, light decorations and everything else there is far too many items in one place.

This dazzling display must cost a fortune to run and all those giant inflatable characters must take a fair while to blow up. As seems to be the case with bad Christmas decorations, there is too much crowded onto a small house for it to look any good.

All we have to say about this one is…why an elephant?

 

For more examples of bad Christmas lights and decorations have a look at www.uglychristmaslights.com.

September 5, 2011

Picture Frame Famous Landmarks

Whilst stumbling through the Internet one afternoon we came across these beautiful photos of what are considered to be some of the most important landmarks of the world. A landmark is considered as anything that makes a place instantly recognisable such as a building, statue or natural wonder. If you showed a picture of any of these landmarks to someone then they will most likely be able to tell you what country that landmark is in. For anyone who visits these places or enjoys regular travelling, taking that all important photograph to capture your visit is a great moment.

Here are some of our favourites which we think would make great wall decorations if put in a picture frame and displayed in your home.

 

picture frame of Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu, Peru

Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower, Paris

Christo Redemptor

Christo Redemptor, Rio de Janeiro

 

And if we were to get one picture frame produced of any famous landmark then we would have to go with this…

 

picture frame of Easter Island

Easter Island, Polynesian Triangle

 

If you have any pictures from your travels that you think would look great in a picture frame, then we can help mount or frame your favourite picture so that you can display it proudly in your home for all to see.

July 27, 2011

Amazing Concert Panorama

Once again it’s time for one of those marvellous images from the Internet that the Picture Frames Express team loves. That’s right it’s another amazing fully interactive 360 degree panoramic image to feast your eyes on!

Check out the Take That Progress Live 360 Wembley Photo.

Take That panoramic picture

Although not as big as the 80 gigapixel panorama of London we previously posted, this 20 gigapixel panorama of Take That’s recent concert at Wembley stadium is truly impressive. The panorama takes in everything from the band onstage and their giant stage prop, to the screaming girls in the front row and the steward stood on the very back row. It even allows each every individual fan that packed into the stadium to tag themselves on Facebook.

If you were there with friends and have found your group within the crowd then we think you should have multi picture frames made as a memento for everyone. You could have a picture of you and your friends in the crowd, a close up one of the band and one of the whole stage. This would look great in any of our styles of picture frames and be a great reminder of the sell out concert.

If you were there and have tagged yourself, then why not let the Picture Frames Express team know.

Till next time.

January 27, 2011

More panoramics

Continuing from our last post’s theme of ridiculously big photos – we present to you another fantastic find from across the internet.

360 Cities.net are the proud owners of a mind boggling 80 GIGAPIXEL fully interactive three-hundred-and-sixty degree panorama of London city!

Amongst several other brilliant city panoramas of course; but as of November 2010 – the London panorama is the biggest panoramic photo, EVER TAKEN!

 

Click here to visit the London 80 gigapixel panorama.

 

If that hasn’t completely blown your mind, then you really do need to see this.

A brochure of fully interactive, 360 degree… VIDEOS.

Incredible what we can do with technology, isn’t it?!

We hope you enjoyed this short but hopefully mind blowing post, we’re off to see if we can get the London panorama into a picture frame for our wall!

Until next time,
The Picture Frames Express Team

December 30, 2010

We need a bigger picture frame

We’ve covered a number of digitally concieved images and styles here on the Picture Frames Express blog, even several ways to digitally enhance an average photo.

We’ve seen how combining several elements for different photographs can create surreal landscapes or even realistic caricatures.

But what if we were to take several photos of our subject from different angles and digitally stitch them all together?

We end up with a…

P A N O R A M A

Just incase you didn’t notice, this image scrolls left to right.

Feel free to click the image itself to open it in a new window and experience it in full resolution.

This wonderful effect is achieved by carefully aligning several photos either horizontally, verically or even both; to create the illusion of one great seamless image!

One that is way too big to frame!

Below is a useful tutorial from YouTube, incase you are interested in how exactly these awe-inspiring photos are pieced together.

Or maybe even make your own!

Happy Panoramas!
The Picture Frames Express Team

June 29, 2010

England was FRAMED!

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!

England Was FRAMED

Goal…?

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