Written by Bianca Gubalke
ART, Communication Design, Design, Editor, Google Top 10, Graphic Design Services, IT Consulting, Online Communication News, Semiomantics, Social Media Publishing, TOUCH, WP Best eShop Theme, Web Design Consulting, Website Publishing
Aug 2, 2010
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Life in a Day on Semiomantics
Life in a Day on Semiomantics joins the global experiment by reaching out for high Google rankings with its account of a single contribution on its way to climb through the mass of 365,000,000 search returns!
That’s what I call a challenge!
Life in a Day on Semiomantics
With nothing but my
Author Blog on a WordPress based Semiomantics Script crafted by
Yorgo Nestoridis and powered by the
YORGOO Publishing Network I will start on my “Journey into the Mysteries of Life in a Day” – this time online!
Here we go . . .
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Digital Art
Digital Art . . .
Digital Art
We are moving to a new Server… so why not transform the thought into some Digital Art using a digital photo and some imagination… wishing everybody involved “Good Luck”!
Web Graphics Design
This was just a beautiful, sharp picture of a bee on some pink flowering aloes in my winterly garden right now. . . the rest is an idea, a vision, endurance and patience to execute what’s on the screen of the inner eye – and even discovering new solutions along the way that will serve future requirements in Web Graphics Design and Website Publishing.
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Portrait Shooting
Based on Digital Photography Ycademy 9 we are able to plan our pictures depth of field. The only remaining problem is: you may have a camera which does not allow for A settings (manual Aperture priority settings).
Don’t worry, there is a way to at least partially compensate for this shortfall.
The below gallery can best be viewed HERE (opens new window).
Depth of Field in Portraiting with a low end Camera or Mobile Phone
Remember, we said that the depth of field is function of aperture and distance. Hence, we can use the distance trick which works with most any digital camera or mobile phone.
First we try to compose our picture in a way that the person is not glued to a background, such as leaning on a wall. Position the person at least 2 meters off the next background. Then frame clsosely from maximum 1.5 meters (without zooming). The result may be better if the background is even further away to fall out of the metered focal range (corresponding to infinity settings) which is at about 10-12 meters.
Now shoot your portrait: the autofocus will grab the face and apply the distance, which in it’s turn will trigger the aperture and shutter speed in function of that distance and light. By setting your camera presets on Portrait, the camera does this as well, whereas a narroc depth of field is forced.
In any case, you will end up with a sharp portrait and a more or less blurred background.
Portrait Post Editing
If you have taken your picture according to the above, then your post editing is a sunday walk. Just apply some of the great lightroom presets or photoshop actions. Some of these professional tools will lift the quality of your mediocre picture dramatically and clearly digg a huge canion between you and the competitors in your camera’s class.
Here an example: the below picture has been taken with my 4 years old $50 supermarket camera according to the above rule. Then I just pulled it through some professional filters such as stuff from from Kubota, Davis and onOne. This is a matter of just seconds :-).
Join tonight’s YcademyWorkshop for more tips and tricks.
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Digital Photography 2010
Being a passionate photographer since I was a little girl, and having integrated it into my artistic work with exhibitions in Europe back in the late 80’s, I am very excited to give Digital Photography 2010 a lot of attention and focus over the next two weeks. Our Daily Workshops are ideal to fill all the gaps and shadow areas that have accumulated over the years of little or no practice or that are normal if one just uses the digital camera to take some quick shots here and there without any higher ambitions.
The fact is that we could turn almost any decent digital camera into a brilliant tool to express ourselves the way we feel it.
For the more seasoned photo afficinados: maybe it’s time to step on the brake and look at something with new eyes, like one was seeing it for the very first time. . . re-discovering it, witnessing evolution, observing the similarities as well as the differences of what we may have been used to before… or what we may have been completely overlooking as sticking to our favourite routine. . .Recall… rethink basic principles and their interpretation and practical application. Experiment. Dig deeply into that excitement that comes when we go beyond the technique and … improvise!
In Digital Photography – as with Photography in general – it’s a Dance with Light!
Digital Photography 2010
The learning never stops… and while obviously the same principles of light and shadow, black & white or color… speed… frame and composition apply – to name a few – definitely, Digital Photography 2010 is not what traditional photography was a few decades ago.
Besides, the way we organize our photographic workflow and especially the post-editing complex on our computer today will not be what we will be looking at in 5 or 10 years’ time! By then the camera itself may be obsolete and we possibly just look and paste – directly via the most sensitive sensor there is: the retina – laser-beamed onto transparent screens… where we create the picture itself – perhaps in form of a hologram – directed by the power of thoughts, of memories, of imagination – who knows? Ok… back to basics :)
Learn Digital Photography Basics at Ycademy Seminar April 2010
The Internet with its content-oriented websites and blogs has turned into a virtual showcase of images in all forms and shapes – pictures, videos, media – and it all starts with a digital photo or some graphically designed image. So that’s exactly where the starting point has to be for anyone wanting to adorn their blogs, posts, articles and of course websites with captivating good quality pictures… or who wants to take it further and sell digital photography online in a professional way.
If this resonnates with you and you own a digital camera, I can only recommend you Learn Digital Photography Basics together with us at the Ycademy Seminar April 2010 – just get in touch with me via the Contact Form and I provide you with the necessary information.
Dates: 24 and 25 April 2010 – 100% online with recordings for ticket holders only.
Ticket Price: $65 all materials included. The direct Ticket Link is
HERE – but do confirm with me.
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QR Code Art
QR Code Art – what the heck is that now?
Following Yorgo’s creative invitation HERE I could obviously not resist to play with the interesting code, especially as Art, Web Graphics and Web Design are all along my line – and I always wanted to create a bookcover for Semiomantics. So here is one of my quick excursions in form of a direct application – more on it see below:
QR Code Art
Besides creating the QR Code Art itself, what interested me as well was the behaviour of certain fonts I plan to use on my Noordhoek Project at the coming Ycademy Seminar this weekend.
Custom Bookcover for Semiomantics Demystified
The custom bookcover for “Semiomantics Demystified” integrates my QR Code Art Design perfectly as you see below… and yes, it just started with the simple QR Code in black and white… nothing else!
Custom Bookcovers at WP Best eShop
Custom Bookcovers are available at my SHOP HERE – and as I am and always was passionate about books and even created bookcovers by hand in the traditional French way during my years in Paris, France, and later produced Graphic Artwork for large Publishing Houses in Germany – I would be very pleased to work on any bookcover project; just get in touch with me via the Contact Form.
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QR code Art
Applied Art or Industrial design and Art, whatever you name it: it’s just fun! remember the creativity many artists developed around the barcodes?
As most mobile phones can read QR codes, it’s fun to code your site URL, phone number, text or SMS and to combine it with your graphic design.
QR code samples
QR code reading YorgoNestoridis.com
QR code Art and Graphic Design
QR code Art 1 pointing to yorgodesign.com
QR code Art 3 pointing to BiancaGubalke.com
Create your QR code Artwork
1. Create your code from HERE
2. Save the code and open it with Photoshop.
3. Select white color and cut to get a transparent background.
4. Add styles and layers … your imagination is the limit.
5. Load your QR code Art to a server and post the link here below into the comment field.
Enjoy!
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More Astir Beach Vouliagmeni Mist
Subsequent to a comment on my facebook, here are more Astir Beach Mist images from sunny Vouliagmeni:
Enjoy!
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Astir Beach Mist
Touch up your Photos with a few clicks and transform the Astir Beach Vouliagmeni image to what I like to call now Astir Beach Mist.
Final Astir Beach Mist
To get to this result, 3 filters or actions have been used in Photoshop CS4.
Astir Beach Kaleidoscope
Starting with the original image of an Astir Beach Sunset, the kaleidoscope filter by Mehdi was doing the trick to mirror and flip the image.
The Original Astir Beach Photo
The Kaleidoscope filter produces the following image, which needs to be cleaned with Wire Worm on 4 spots where the Kaleidoscope filter produced stains:
The Clean Astir Beach Image
To finish the Image, we just add a simple frame using the Angels Glass Action:
Astir Beach Framed Image
This results then in the surprising image as shown on top.
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Bianca GubalkeBookcovers for your Own Books
Bookcovers always fascinated me… especially with my past experience with large Publishing Houses in Germany for which I did the Graphic Design for Books – meaning the entire layout, often the illustrations and absolutely everything inside … except the book cover.
The fact was that they had contracts with companies that specialized entirely in book covers… and here the only criteria was the Marketing aspect: brief… to sell the book, tons of them!
Obviously, the Internet with its avalanche of ebooks and fantastic professional graphic programs like Adobe Photoshop have drastically changed the arena and the good news is that with this change came a certain form of independence and a shift in responsibility. You no longer have to wait … if you are ready and determined, it’s now in your own hands to not only write and publish but to also create Bookcovers for your Own Books or to find someone who does it for you at an affordable price!
Bookcovers for your Own Books
With Imagination, the right basic material in form of digital photos or some good web graphics, plus Photoshop and finally the right Action Script, you can do wonders in creating Bookcovers for your Own Books today, and this with a few mouse-clicks… yes, this took hard work in the past and the results weren’t always convincing, especially if this wasn’t your main area of interest.
Besma Goes West – the Book
I was inspired by the idea of going totally minimalistic and prooving that could be done with just ONE PICTURE!
'Besma Goes West' by Bianca Gubalke - 2009
Starting off with the above Digital Artwork I published just as she left the “old world”, I created the above Book Cover for our friend Besma Bashier today.
Today, Besma has finally happily settled in the USA and will – sooner or later – share her experience as an emigrant and her wise and caring guidance for others following the same route, in her own ebook. Where there is a bookcover there is – at least there could be! – an ebook!
Besma will be joining our next Ycademy Business Building Seminar at the end of this month and we are all looking forward to having her back with us again!
Book covers at WP Best eShop
I am happy to announce that finally I will add the creation of Bookcovers to WP Best eShop. Any topic or theme is welcome!
It seems the offline-online circle closes . . . and I can go to the Beach!
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Astir Beach Vouliagmeni Artistic Warping
Today just some artistic warping of an Astir Beach (Vouliagmeni) photo. Note the impressive effects on some of them and enjoy.
Astir Beach in Vouliagmeni New Images
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