More inspiration....

I saw this pic and thought this would be fun for a "Multiples" assignment project

Tilt-shift Photography 

Tilt shift lenses focus on a single part of the photo and blur the surrounding area to create an optical illusion of miniaturized scenery (like your uncle’s train set). The blurred outer edges trick the eye into perceiving everything in the unblurred parts as miniature. Real tilt shift lenses are quite expensive, but a similar effect can be achieved by using Photoshop after you take the photo.

HOW TO.........

Photoshop Tutorials 
http://www.tiltshiftphotography.net/photoshop-tutorial.php  

http://visualphotoguide.com/tilt-shift-photoshop-tutorial-how-to-make-fake-miniature-scenes/

Online Website
http://tiltshiftmaker.com/ 

Free Software Download
http://tiltshift-generator.en.softonic.com/?ab=2

General Info
http://adwheelerphotography.com/2011/05/26/theres-a-shrinking-ray-in-your-camera/ 

Randomness

Not my work... the first three are a friend of mine, the rest are photos I've saved while searching Photographers of the Week

 

Photographer of the Week #16

 The Micro Photography of Dr. Gary Greenberg 

http://sandgrains.com/index.html

  For the first time remarkable photographs reveal hidden charms of ordinary SAND

Viewed at a magnification of over 250 times real life, tiny grains of sand are shown to be delicate, colorful structures as unique as snowflakes. When seen well beyond the limits of human eyesight, the miniature particles are exposed as fragments of crystals, spiral fragments of shells and crumbs of volcanic rock.
Professor Gary Greenberg who has a PhD in biomedical research from University College London said: 'It is incredible to think when you are walking on the beach you are standing on these tiny treasures. Magnified, the grains are shown to be delicate, colorful structures each as unique as a snowflake. "Every time I look through my microscope I am fascinated by the complexity and individuality created by a combination of nature and the repeated tumbling of the surf on a beach." Prof Greenberg, who searches through thousands of tiny rocks with acupuncture needles to find and arrange the most perfect specimens, then uses a painstaking technique to create his images. He has spent five years searching the globe for remarkable sand grains like these to photograph. He said,  "Extreme close up photography normally gives a very shallow depth of field so I had to develop a new process to make the pictures that I wanted. I take dozens of pictures at different points of focus then combine them using software to produce my images. Although the pictures look simple each grain of sand can take hours to photograph in a way that I am happy with. The beach nearest my lab is Haiku, Hawaii but my pictures show sand from all round the world from Japan to Ireland." 

 HOW SAND IS MADE

Sand is tiny fragments of rock that have been worn away over thousands of years.
Contrary to popular belief, sand is made as rocks crash and break in rivers and streams on their way to the sea, rather than the ebb and flow of the tides.
Deposits left by breaking rocks in the sea turns to silt and is much lighter so is dispersed over a much wider area out to sea, rather than on the shore line.
Some of the rock is soluble, but other bits remain and as they are slowly rubbed down over time they get smaller and smaller until they become what we know as sand.

Gary's pictures are available from his website sandgrains.com and his book 'a grain of sand' which is available on Amazon.
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Photographer of the Week  #15

Xavier Jamonet

http://xavierjamonet.deviantart.com/

Just when I thought I'd seen my favorites.... along comes images like those of Xavier Jamonet. I'm seeing a pattern in my "favorite" taste in artist's work: most are landscape, and the soft, flowing scenes tend to suck me into the image. A lot of photography work that I see, I think to myself, "I could do that."... whether I could or not is up for debate, but it's do-able with a little expertise). Then there are images like Xavier's that wow me: the lighting is fantastic, the colors are intense, the composition is perfect... and I don't know if I could ever be in that "right place at the right time" time in order to capture these images.

"Multiples" Project

I had fun with these, and want to do more more more!! It's a challenge, though, because Photoshop doesn't always do what it's suppose to, and you have to make sure you get the layers in the correct order.... and don't forget the shadows and reflections. The mirror was a challenge. My first attempt layered one of the reflections over the foreground... had to figure that one out

Photographer of the Week  #14

Carlos Henrique Reinesch

http://carlosrphoto.daportfolio.com/gallery/415929#18 

His work really inspires me to look outside of the box. One of his series is nothing but reflections in puddles.... all the more reason to not always look straight ahead... to not forget to look up and look down