DIY Photography Photobooths and Backdrops

If you're a poor photographer like me, all you have at your disposal is the stuff around your own home. And maybe a few things from a cheap gift store like the Reject Shop or Daiso. You can make cool backgrounds for your portrait photography to hide ugly walls and doors or distracting furniture! Wrapping paper, fabric, blankets, crepe paper, streamers, tinsel, cardboard, curtains, newspaper and anything else you can think of can be used to set up a studio feel in your house! If you like to do photos of small things (eg: figurines) as I do, then even little scraps of textured/colored paper and fabric can be useful!

Here are some great tutorials to give you ideas!

http://apopofpretty.com/how-to-make-a-diy-photo-booth/

http://www.stylemepretty.com/2013/09/27/diy-wax-paper-backdrop/

http://www.marvelousmommy.com/2013/08/how-to-bokeh-photography-backdrop/


And some of my own photography ~

As an example, here is a background made from a scarf!

This image was made by loading up a photo from the web on my TV (via my laptop) and placing the figure in front. I used some blue cellophane over flash/lamps/torches to cast blue light to match the background image.

The photography of JeeYoung Lee

Beautiful photography by JeeYoung Lee that is not photoshopped! These scenes were created in her studio. Stunning work!

Source article: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/lee-jeeyoung-stage-of-mind-room

Christmas Card design for the boss

Long time no post! Sorry I have neglected you, my design blog!
These days I'm working 2 jobs, so life is pretty busy. One of my jobs is as a graphic designer for an oil company. Most of the the stuff I do is pretty boring but occasionally I get to do fun things that let me get a bit more creative. This is a Christmas card that I'm designing for my boss to send out. I used free vectors from around the web to get it done quicker. I hope to improve my Adobe Illustrator skills and be able to draw more complex shapes like these myself though! I did vector the angel, but it was based on an image I found on the web.

Slinkachu - miniature installation photography

I love photography and toys and photography of toys! I've stumbled across some wonderful pictures on the following blog/website.

http://little-people.blogspot.com.au/
http://slinkachu.com/

With the use of miniatures as street art installations, these great pictures are created! When you see the context shots they are so tiny in the scale of the rest of the world.

Photography - Creating Sunlight Effects in the Studio

Lighting has never been my forte and I can never really wrap my head around how it will work until I see it in action. I like to experiment with household items like desk lamps and torches in my figurine photos. Although I'd never really thought about how you could fake sunlight until I stumbled across this image/tutorial.

Basically using some lamps and paper/cardboard you can create your own sunlight. Pretty cool! Check out the video on how this image was made at the link below.

http://www.learnmyshot.com/How-to-Create-Sunshine-Effect-in-Studio-with-Artificial-Sunlight

Learn Typography

A nice little website about typography! Has some really good references for all those finer details that you tend to forget. The information is short and too the point and certainly not as boring as your graphic design text books that they try to make you buy in university. (but never use because TLDR;!!)

http://learningabouttype.com/index.html

Paintings that look like photos

These amazing paintings are by an artist named Jeremy Geddes.
http://www.jeremygeddesart.com

Rainbow Tornado

Source: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Council-of-World-Elders/

Amazing photo of a rainbow and a tornado taken in Arizona, USA!

Illustrated Trees

In one my assignments I was looking for inspiration from nature. I looked up some tree artwork to see how artists had interpreted nature in a simplistic or unique style. The trees made of typography are quite interesting!

【MMDギアス】Suzaku x Lelouch - Just Be Friends!

It's no secret that I love Code Geass and Vocaloids. So here we have a cover of a Vocaloid song "Just Be Friends" and an animation using models of Suzaku and Lelouch from Code Geass made in Miku Miku Dance. I'm always really amazed what people can make with the Miku Miku Dance animation software, as it a free program developed by fans. Of course many interesting videos like this one use a few different programs to make special effects in addition to MMD. But the overall time, effort and creativity is inspiring!