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Armed America: Portraits of American Gun Owners in Their Homes “isn’t a book about guns. It’s a book about people”.
Kyle Cassidy traveled 15,000 miles over the course of two years to ask those featured just one question: Why do you own a gun?”
The goal was to humanize an issue as polarizing as gun ownership and gun control, and according to the reviews, Kyle succeeded.
The Synchronicity Project is a simple yet beautiful idea to “Share the Time and Environment. Photos and Reports of the Globe at Glance.”
Created by Jun Tsuzuki, it’s supported by participants who find the project interesting, and is free to join if you fit that single criteria.
To participate, simply take a picture of where you are at and what you are up to, regardless of what that is, at a designated time.
The designated time is chosen by Jun, and has either a neat and euphonious look (Examp: 11:11:11 on 11/11) or a time during which a historical event took place (Examp: 9/11)
The designated time is also based on the GMT, so your specific time might not match up with the perfect time, but that’s actually the point. It’s supposed to be a portrait of the world at a single point in time, though not necessarily the “perfect” point in time.
If the project interests you, and you’d like to participate, then you’d better find a camera quick, because the next time is January 1st at 00:00:00 GMT (December 31st at 04:00:00PM on the West Coast, and 07:00:00PM on the East Coast if you’re in the US).
What will you be doing?
[Via: Cool Hunting]
Armed with a camera, a face, and the information that is currently floating around the Photo-Blogo-Sphere, you will soon be shooting portraits like never before.
Hot on the heels of The Art of Portrait Photography, Epic Edits Weblog has put together a list of 16 Inspirational Portrait Photography Techniques.
With texture, exposure, lighting, posing, reflections, shadows, focus, movement, colors and emotion all covered, it’s a how-to that will have you capturing images like never before.
[Epic Edits - 16 Inspirational Portrait Photography Techniques]
[Photo Via: sam_samantha]
Ever wonder how good photographers take great portraits?
There has to be a trick, right?
Well, according to Eric Hamilton, there’s actually a few tricks, and thankfully, he’s nice enough to let you in on some of them in his guide to The Art of Portrait Photography.
Rule number one is proper use of light, though he also mentions subject, focus, background, composition, texture, color, and exposure, with examples of each.
Ready to take your photos up a notch?
Then read on and find out what you need to do.
By folding bills like origami, artists are able to create rather unique portraits of some of the world’s most famous people.
Unfortunately, no instructions are included, but hopefully this is enough inspiration for you to figure it out on your own.
[Via: Random Good Stuff]
If you paint portraits on your own self, can they be called self-portraits? YouTube user Philinthecircle (Phil Hansen) wanted to answer that question and more with a piece called Influences, where he painted 30 different people (either a picture of the person or an object that represented that person) that influenced his life one on top of the other on his torso. The end result required 20 hours of painting and 30 hours of being a painting (including sleeping with it on), but it’s truly an original creation that is both beautiful and inspiring.
[Philinthecircle - Influences]
[Via: Wooster Collective]
