Glowing Cities Under a Nighttime Sky
Shot with a Nikon D300 during a return flight from Amsterdam to San Francisco, at last count this little video has earned Flickr member Ettubrute more than 1000 faves.
My Favorite Flickr Group
Ben Venue Reflection
By vorlich
By my estimation, the Flickr group upholding the highest standard of excellence in feeling and sensitivity to the subject matter as well as technical proficiency has to be the one calling itself Art of Landscape. As the administrators state: ‘This is a group for the photographers who create landscape images that can be watched for hours.’
Art of Landscape member Vorlich is the artist responsible for the bit beauty to the left, a shot looking across Loch Achray, Scotland.
When the Art of Landscape administrators deem fit to include something by iImagineSo in their collection, then I’ll know I’m really getting somewhere.
Words and Thoughts in RGB
“Purple is mad as it can be both warm and cool at the same time.” Treated to such a beautiful presentation, I found Words and Thoughts in RGB an enjoyable refresher on the basics of colour history, science and application. I hope you like it too.
Do not adjust your set.
BRADREID.COM remains in a holding pattern. Following the most costly software expenditure that he has ever made in his entire life, the artist is currently investigating the possibilities offered by 3D computer graphics, of which the above test pattern is in no way representative. (I’m talking about the same technology you see in the movies, folks.)He hopes to have some little thing or other to show for it here very soon.
Please stay tuned.
May 28, 2008: I put quite a lot of time and effort into the CG thing, but truth be told not much came of it. CG is a lot to take on in one’s spare time. Oh well, I don’t have much else to do but brush myself off and try to get on with something else. Too damn bad I spent so much money though.
Grading the Film: Colour by Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson’s Monkey Business, (c) Brad Reid 2006
Illustration Friday topic: E is for… Entertainer
If you’re like me, then you’ve been ogling the advances in motion picture colour for some years now. Some recent standouts like Yimou Zhang’s House of Flying Daggers and Michael Mann’s Collateral express a joy of colour that makes almost everything else – and certainly almost everything from before 1995 (or around then, I would guess) – seem grey and tired by comparison. I love the colour in these movies. For my liking, their use of colour seems to go beyond mere assistance to the story – their colour seems instead to be part of their whole reason for being.
Illustration Friday: Flavour
One Dozen Flavours, (c) Brad Reid 2005 ^,1,2,3,4,5
Think of this as the shorter, edited version of what was previously posted at this url, the most difficult post for me so far. Despite its apparent simplicity, One Dozen Flavours, presented ‘live’ as a work-in-progress here at bradreid.com, had an arduously prolonged development.