Flowers in Focus

Since it's spring time, there's an explosion of beautiful flowers, some with calming fragrances. Perhaps I'm going to post more photos in this post if I'll take more shots. I may even delete some of the photos if I feel like I can do better and take more interesting photos of the same flowers.

Crocus Focus

Hyacinth( it's so close, can you smell it?)

Sunny Daffodil

Gentle Daisy

Spring is here!

A good indicator of spring has always been the snowdrop where I live. Although the temperatures are still quite low, spring is showing up shyly. I can't wait to bathe in the warm sun and start wearing some lighter clothes.
Here are some of the first snowdrops that appeared:

Auto Art

Yesterday I discovered quite a cool program. It's an application that takes an input image and transforms it into a painting, according to the parameters you set. The interesting fact is that it's not really the same thing like applying special filters in advanced editing software like GIMP or Photoshop. This program actually PAINTS. And it's really good at it. It's fascinating to press the play button and watch it work. Oh and the more powerful your CPU is, the faster it paints :).

The name of this program is Dynamic Auto-Painter and you can try it for free, although it will add a watermark to the output painting. You can choose between several painting modes(or style, however you prefer it). I tried it too on one of my photos. Once you click "Start", it will run forever, displaying the amount of brushes applied until then, waiting for you to press "Stop". The more it runs, the more fidelity your final painting will have.

Here's the image I've experimented with:

And here are the output paintings, using different painting styles:

I am simply amazed by what this program can achieve. Of course, nothing like this matches a painting done manually, with passion.

Even more Full HD wallpapers

 [Important EDIT!]

It seems that blogger resized all of the wallpapers to 1600x900( now even if you're lazy you can figure out the 16:9 aspect ratio :P). Because of that, I'm uploading them to an archive.

GameFront Mirror 
MediaFire Mirror

Again, some huge 16:9 wallpapers I created from experimentation.


Light bulb filament:

Grunge Christmas globe:

Dirty glowing light bulb:

Blue Christmas globe:

Fire light bulb:

Enjoy!

A couple of more-than-FullHD wallpapers

I decided to make a few photos and experiment with making some wallpapers out of them. Unfortunately the weather and the fact that it's winter with little snow offered me little options of what to make photos of, even macro.


These photos are higher resolution than 1920x1080 but don't expect them to be crystal smooth: my camera shows a lot of noise in low-light conditions( it was cloudy, and macro photos require quite a lot of light). For comparison, I'm uploading the original photos too.

Infographic by: Wistia

A collection of stunning Black&White portraits

These are the portraits of homeless people. I think the photos are very impressive.

Find them all here.

A few more virtual photos

After I gave it a try, I found it's actually an entertaining activity and I discovered that taking these screenshots in Garry's Mod which I like to call them "photos" can help me plan a photo shooting in real life. Instead of figuring out how to make some photos on the spot, I can first experiment in the warmth of my home and then head out for a shoot.

Anyway, these are a few more photos I made in Garry's Mod, exploiting it's screenshot feature and simple DoF:

Too bad 'macro-photography' doesn't show anything new in a game :). I'd need a very high-poly prop for that.
The screenshots were taken on a favorite map of mine, gm_valley.