Friday 27 January 2012
Thursday 26 January 2012
Wednesday 25 January 2012
A repost from Gurney
I was reading Gurney's blog today and came across this article:
I'm not sure what to think. I don't buy the implicit prejudice that the original work these Chinese painters produce would be of dubious quality simply because they are not living in France or Amsterdam in 1890. In one image they also insultingly refer to original portraits as Kitsch - I guess the art academics from 1920 have truly won in their effort to convince everyone that avant garde art is the only thing of any value.
It is definitely scary that so many artists work for so little.
Monday 23 January 2012
A quick link
While browsing the web I just found the following:
I need to download the iphone app later
Monday 9 January 2012
A few tips
I ran into John yesterday at W.H. Smith while browsing through the magazines looking for Imagine FX. We ended up talking about atmospheric effects and colour shifting.
John made a good observations about colour temperature and how to increase the intensity of a light using hue and saturation shifts.
The basic idea is that as things get hotter you should shift hue towards yellow. For instance, a hot red would start as 100% saturation dark red. Then decrease the saturation a bit, increase the value a little and shift the hue towards yellow for a mid orange. At the hottest point it would be a much lower saturation but very high value yellow. We grabbed a coffee and ended up comparing the techniques while doing quick digital sketches of a green neon sign - the results are fairly dramatic and proved the point.
John also talked about the effect of "white balance" on our eyes. Our brain is colour correcting for the environment around us, which explains why shops appear to use coloured lights when viewed from the street but the light looks white when you go inside.
The blue highlights in the hair in my image below is the same thing. I wondered at the time where the blue was coming from because the model was in a white room without a significant blue bounce source (white walls, incandescent lights). The light was most likely white but colour correcting for the yellow light source shifted this to blue.
When doing a digital portrait consider the colour of the shirt the person is wearing. This should be a bounce light colour.
Wednesday 4 January 2012
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