Showing posts with label Photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photos. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Famous Kid - Then and now


Everyone saw this picture, which is so often used that the guy was a celebrity.
Now he just grew up, his new pictures at least interesting. 09 more images after the break...

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Photoshopia


 Even a small dose of phototypesetting celebrities. Black to white, and white - black. 09 more images after the break...
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Portraits On Floppy Disk


British artist Nick Gentry has recently decided to please us interesting and original works.
Portraits that he painted, made entirely from old floppy disks. 04 more images after the break...
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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Parade and Fainting


If you feel that the honor guard stand in easily, then you're sadly mistaken. The work is so intense that many simply do not stand and fall into a swoon.  21 more images after the break...
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

Sequence Photography - The Power Of Motion


 Sequence photography is a technique of shooting a series of images in where the subject is captured in successive motion. Sequence photography is a wonderful way of conveying motion in a static image. A merged photo sequence can radically show a different perspective much more than what can be captured in a single image. 22 more images after the break...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

The Art Of Coloring Of Vintage Pictures

After the invention of photography it became clear that its main problem is lack of colors. So masters who coul colorize photos for exhibitions and print publications were found really quickly. The history of this craft, that became a high art, deserves a separate large study. Since colored photography was invented people colorize only history photos to "bring" them to a modern audience, enhance the sense of reality. In spite of all the "wonders of Photoshop" today, as before, colorizing the picture to full similarity with the color photography is almost impossible. But some virtuosos are sometimes almost succeed. 

For example, Times Square, New York, 1943


I want to show the most interesting experiments on the coloring of the images presented on the historical photoblog Shorpy.  13 more images after the break...
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Friday, March 9, 2012

Lucky


I bet the owner of this car did not believe their luck when approached his car.  02 More images after the break...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Friday, February 17, 2012

Hitler's Favorite Apartments


Adolf Hitler’s lavish home life is revealed for the first time. — The Fuhrer’s personal photographer Hugo Jaeger was granted access to his apartment at the Chancellery in Berlin and to his Berghof estate in Bavaria. They reveal fine furnishings and art works, bought by the blood of millions. One of the few photographers to be using color photography techniques at the time, Jaeger travelled with Hitler in the years leading up to and throughout World War Two. 05 more images after the break...
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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Friday, January 27, 2012

Kiev Then and Now


Photos of old Kiev, dated 19 century, compared to today's snapshot.
Much has changed in a relatively short period of time.
People who visited this great city, it will be interesting to look at this compilation.
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Well-Known Photographers and Their Masterpieces

These are famous photographers who are holding their iconic pictures. The photos taken in the last 50 years have captured the hearts, and minds, of everyone exposed to the modern media.

Neil Leifer holds his photo, Ali vs. Liston, which he took on May 25, 1965 in Lewiston, Maine.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Old Pics of Bangkok — 1950s


Probably many will be interested to see what looked like Bangkok in 1950.
Postwar Thailand, remaining deeply feudal country, got into a zone of U.S. influence and actively develop the business. Earning all they could. First, a series of images taken by photographer Dmitri Kessel U.S. in 1951.
These cute trams are now replaced by high-speed monorails. 15 more after the break...
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Monday, December 19, 2011

Monday, December 12, 2011

The First Cover Page of Magazines


What were the very first cover of the most famous magazines in the world. It seems that Rolling Stone was originally a newspaper. It turns out, Vogue came out already in 1892, and Lifestyle in the nineteenth century!
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Titanic Interior


The infamous ship was once the most beautiful queen of the sea at that time. Let's take a  look of  interior, 24 more images after the break...
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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Thursday, November 17, 2011