Reference photos with background

Firelit portrait by Philipp Kühne, use of fire to light the subject. Creates a warm, calm effect in the photo through colours.

Meet Kristin Ker Anderson, an artist known for remarkable makeup transformations. With no prior experience in makeup artistry, Kristin found herself captivated by amazing creators turning themselves into mesmerizing creatures and animals. "I said to myself 'wow!' Some of them I can do, some blow my mind, like how did they do that? What's that they're putting on their faces to become like that?" the artist writes on her website. "And my curious self started to follow them. Patiently waiting…

People-watching is my favourite pastime when I travel. I enjoy immersing myself in the surroundings and observing the quirks and odd sights. Sometimes being an outsider enables you to notice interesting sightings that are often neglected by the locals. What is 'norm' to the locals may be fascinating to the outsiders, our

At least half of my painting effort goes into shooting good reference photos. I “create” my composition in the viewfinder and shoot with as wide dynamic range as possible. Lately I have been using a drone to get shots that would have been impossible before. In order to get the widest dynamic range, I shoot bracketed photos at different f-stops then process them on my computer with Photomatix. I shoot thousands of photos, often visiting the same places at different times of day to find…

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I have a few recent paintings to share. Here's one of them, Impressions of Noosa. I had mixed feelings about the outcome of this, but it's come to grow on me. Something different at the very least. I also think it's worth sharing paintings that didn't go exactly as planned as this gives you a