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Learn Digital Photography – Getting the Best Out of Your Shot
Jan 18th
When it comes to photography, everyone wishes to get the perfect shot for their picture. However, things often go beyond what you want. Luckily with the presence of digital photography, you have more control over your picture. At least now you can look at your picture immediately on the LCD screen to see whether you are satisfied with your shot.
Indoor and outdoor
Imagine that you are taking picture of a birthday girl blowing the candle. Often the candles are your only light source. When this happens, you will want to increase the ISO setting and slow down the shutter speed (if you are using a compact digital camera, this will be done automatically) of your camera so that more light can be pass into the camera.
However, when you slow down the shutter speed, your camera is more sensitive to movement and there will be high chances that your pictures will appear ’shaken’. To avoid that, you can either turn on the flash or mount your camera on a tripod. And if your camera comes with the anti-handshake feature, remember to turn that on when you are shooting under low light condition.
When you are taking picture outdoor in a bright sunny day, you can keep the setting as normal and your picture will still look good. The only thing you need to remember is to never shoot your picture with the sun in front of you as that will make your subject looks dark.
Glare
Beside that, your picture will be very glaring when you put the sun in front of your camera. It is like looking into a big spotlight.
Sometimes you can also see this glaring problem when your subject reflects off the flash. Imagine that you flashed on a recently polished silver spoon. The flash will bounce back from the silver surface creating glare in your picture. What you can do is to either disperse your flash or step further from your subject and zoom in to it.
Framing
Framing is how you make the composition for your shot. When you are framing your picture, work your way without chopping any part of your subject. When you see that you can’t fit your subject into the frame, just take a few steps back or simply use a wide angle lens.
And when you are shooting with background that you can’t exclude, you can remove it later with software for photo editing or you can create shallow depth of field and blurred the background.
Living Room Design – Quick Tips for Using Modern Designs
Jan 17th
Next generation living room needs next generation designs. That is why the use of modern living room designs is apt for the contemporary style of houses today.
In order to create an impression of modernization, the designs should incorporate the appropriate living room accessories that will accentuate the look of the room. The idea is to come up with contemporary designs but still patterned to your taste and personality.
Here’s how:
1. Focus
You really do not have to spend more on buying new items just to create that modern look. With simple designs, you can easily come up with modern living room designs.
For instance, you can use lighting accessories, such as vanity strips and ornament lights. These items will serve as accent lighting and will emphasize or draw attention to your furniture even if they are not brand new. The idea is to blend modern lighting and not-so modern furniture and demonstrate what modern living room designs are all about.
2. Accessorize
Coming up with modern living room interior designs does not necessarily mean buying updated, modern furniture. You can do away with modern home accessories and create that modern living room design. These items are much cheaper than the brand new fixtures and furniture.
The important thing is to create a look of the modern world. This would mean using accessories that are elegant, shiny, and patterned in subdued colors such as silver, grey, or black.
3. Color magic
The next step in incorporating modern living room designs is the color scheme. Modern homes are usually painted in sleek colors, such as black, white, and silver.
Hence, it is best to stick to basic colors so as to reflect contemporary look. Modern living room designs for paints are also focused on using matte or flat paint finish. Avoid the glossy or shiny paint finish.
For walls, you can stick with the white color and enhance them with modern accessories such as paintings or modern day murals.
4. Go abstract
Most modern designs today are patterned in abstract designs. Hence, incorporating these things in modern living room designs will definitely bring contemporary look in your area.
You can start by using clocks or paintings with abstract designs. Abstract designs provide a playful interpretation on the perception of different things.
Chen Danqing Tibetan Oil Painting Group (Paper Draft) Appreciation
Jan 11th
Tibetan Group Oil Painting Paper Draft (Chen Danqing)
Painting Title: Tibetan Painting Group Draft
Artist: Chen Danqing
Painting type: Painting draft
Category: Sketch on paper
Size: 20*27cm
Created Year: 1980
Value: RMB 50,000 – 60,000 Yuan
Sold for: RMB 110,000 Yuan
Humanism emotions and personality power are main arts background of Chen Danqing art, which is a type of natural manifestation of himself’s emotional character, and was been soaked in his own experience, contains his deep understanding, compassion and respect for people who lived in the bottom of society. This type of humanistic sentiment and personality power have given glorious and noble significance to his oil painting works (praised by Deng Pinxiang).
“Tibetan Group Oil Paintings” were been recognized as a classic realistic landmark oil paining work after the Cultural Revolution, and had caused a large stir in Chinese artistic circles and literary circles, and has gained a wide range of concerns, comments, research and impact.
“Tibetan Group Oil Paintings” had thrown a great impact on the traditional creative model which had taken a prevalence for a long-term and was taken as a doctrine seriously at that time, it was been considered as a turning point of Chinese realistic oil paintings impacted by former Soviet to origin from European tradition. And his skillful realistic ability, as well as his deep grasp at European classical oil painting languages, all make viewers who indulged in traditional oil painting techniques admired much…
Origin: The collector bought this painting on the Jiade Auction.
About Artist Chen Danqing:
Chen Danqing was born in Shanghai in 1953, from 1970 to 1978 he was dispatched to countryside in southern Jiangxi and northern Jiangsu for rural labor exercising, during this term he self-studies painting.
In 1978 he was admitted to enter the oil painting department at the Central Academy of Fine Arts as the first postgraduate class after the Cultural Revolution in China; In 1980 after graduation he stayed in the school and acted as a teacher at the first studio of the oil painting department.
As early as 1980, Chen Danqing was become famous at home and abroad with his oil painting work “Tibet Group Paintings”, and become top ones in the Chinese oil painting artists. In early 80’s Chen Danqing was been taken for the most talented oil painting artist in China, and even until today, there are still exists a type of “Chen Danqing Complex” in Chinese Artists.
In 1982, Chen Danqing moved to New York as a free artist, and returned China in 2000 and accepted an invitation as a special appointed professor in the Tsinghua University, and acted as an appointed professor and PhD supervisor at the Fine Arts Academy at Tsinghua University, at the same time took charge of “Chen Danqing Studio”. In 2004 Chen Danqing resigned the duty of Professor at Tsinghua Academy of Fine Arts.
* Original address of this oil painting article: Stupendous Art World with Chinese Excellent Oil Paintings
Improve your painting techniques with painting book
Jan 10th
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