Archive for the ‘digital photography’ Category
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!
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!
Posted in digital photography
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
April 23rd, 2010
To round of our series of interesting Photoshop tutorials, we bring you another “Quick N’ Easy” tutorial, this time we are lead through a pretty basic 3-layer photo-manipulation. With stunning professional results!
A piece of art like that deserves a top quality frame, just like the ones we sell here at Picture Frames Express! Not your style? Then feel free to browse our 4-part photoshop series for tips on how to make your own frame-worthy image!
Until next time, The Picture Frames Express Team.
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April 23rd, 2010
Another fantastically useful Adobe Photoshop tutorial for our blog, this time taken from the “Quick N’ Easy” series on YouTube.
We hope that our featured tutorials inspire our readers to start tricking out their best photos, ready for a lovely Picture Frames Express frame.
Until next time, The Picture Frames Express Team.
Related Blogs
- Related Blogs on Photoshop series – Part 3/4
April 20th, 2010
Here at Picture Frames Express we love pictures! Originals, replicas, manipulations and all kinds of photos. As long as it can be framed of course!
We believe that image manipulation programs like Adobe Photoshop for example, are the perfect aid to help you enhance any lifeless photo, to one that is more than worthy of one of our frames! In light of this, we will be featuring a number of photoshop tutorials for all you amateur digital artists and photographers out there!
So get dug in and start making your photos worth framing!
Part 1 features a simple tutorial on Photoshop blending effects, very well explained by ‘Richard Harrington’ A.K.A rhedpixeltv of YouTube fame.
This video is number 156 of a long running series – “Understanding Adobe Photoshop”.
Feel free to look it up and pick up a few extra skills!
Until next time, The Picture Frames Express Team
Related Blogs
- Related Blogs on Photoshop Series – Part 1
April 19th, 2010
Landscape photography is arguably the most common form of photography, showing wide open spaces, most often devoid of life to express the vastness of area pictured. The only time people are involved in landscape photography is normally for scaling purposes, to convey the size of an object, or to add depth to the photo by giving an idea of distance.
Prior to the California Gold Rush, which gained momentum around 1848, explorers headed west. They brought cameras with them. Beginning around 1860, photographic prints were developed and became widespread. – Source: www.ehow.com
Areas like ‘Monument Valley – Utah’ in the American mid-west are hailed as being the beginning of landscape photography and who could blame them for taking cameras, with immense shots like this just asking to be captured. An endless sprawling desert broken only by huge sand mesa’s. Natural skyscrapers jutting out of the ground in such an unbelievably sparse environment… Beautiful!
The sprawling desert landscape of 'Monument Valley' - Utah
April 13th, 2010
Alice in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll . It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in art, digital photography | 
Tags: alice in wonderland, johnny depp, mad hatter, nico di mattia, Painting, photoshop, speed painting, tim burton
April 12th, 2010
Top 10 Biggest and Best Jumps Ever
Regular readers will remember our piece on taking the perfect action shots.
Well we have found some stunning examples action photography and some equally stunning Jumps!
In some of those jumps (the parachute one especially) framing the action is as dangerous as performing the stunts!
The result are incredible though, until next time,
Picture Frames Express team.
Posted in digital photography, sport photography |
Tags: Action shots, digital photography tips, expression, film cameras, frame, photo frames, photographic style