I recently read a pretty cool article around the idea of painting with light in photography. At first I wasn’t quite sure what that meant when I read the heading of the article but the jist of this is taking a photo with a long exposure in the dark and lighting up areas in your photo. What turns out is a photo of black but only ares where you lit the scene show up in the frame.

An idea someone did in the article was at night in a field of hay they set up their camera, and focused it upon a few bails of hay. With no light except for maybe some of the night sky they went around dressed in black with a flash light and lit up the bails and the final photo turned out with this creepy glowing bails and the rest of the photo some what dark

Here is an example of a photo taking from Chris Becker’s site. He has lots of more really cool light painted photos so be sure to head on over to his site to see more.

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So I know you have been thinking today, wouldn’t it be cool if i had a photo, poster, piece of art of my DNA? Well I have the answer for your DNA 11 will take your DNA and make an art piece out of it. Here is a quote from the site “DNA 11 creates abstract art from a sample of your DNA. Each custom piece is as original as you are, and is created on the highest quality canvas.”

The only problem is where the DNA has to come from, well you don’t want to know and its to graphic to talk about in this blog. Ok im kidding, but head on over to the site and check out the various color schemes you can have.

Links:

DNA Art
DNA Glowframe

Oh my birthday is coming up in October so if anyone wants to get me a present here you go!

UPDATE: Found a nice self contained unit that replaces the Pocket PC, and Bluetooth gps receiver, more information at the bottom of the post.

I have been wanting to set this up for some time and recently found a combination of hardware and software that work for me. What is this all about you ask? Well let me shed some light on this. Geo photo, coding, or what ever you want to call it, is the ability to write GPS data to jpeg EXIF headers. This text data is stored in the header of a jpeg adding the longitude, latitude and altitude you took your photo at.

You can do this a few ways, first of all you can buy a camera with built in gps (as of this time they are still pretty low quality), buy a hand held gps device that stores (waypoint, GPX, NMEA data) or a combination of devices. I have chosen the latter because I had a few piece of hardware already. Most if not all devices export out to some data format the one I choose is NMEA data since it works with the software im using on my PC.

My hardware setup consists of:

• Pocket PC with built in bluetooth
• Canon SD900 10 mega pixel camera
• i-Blue 737 bluetooth gps.

and the software im using:

• Navio for the Pocket PC
• RoboGeo for my PC

So how do you make this all work?
Well in theory you connect your gps to your pocket pc via bluetooth launch the Navio software, start it’s gps logging option which can record every few seconds your location to a file and then take your photos.

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Here are some pretty kick ass photos taking in the HDR method which in basic terms you take many different exposure settings of the same photo to create a dynamic range of light and dark and use a photoshop plugin to combined them into one photo. If you want more detail visit this page

Anyhow onto the cool stuff, click on the links below.

• Tokyo Night scape
  
• House – notice at the bottom the images used to make the final HDR one
• New York City HDR Examples
• Some other great examples

If you want to try your own check out the FAQ on this page, and you can also use this software to combined your images into a HDR one. If you do any cool ones let me know I would love to check them out.

Someone sent me an image in email today and I thought I would share it with everyone reading the blog as well. I do have to say it looks fake but after doing some research and seeing the rotation of the object it is possible. The ends are cut off that you would think stick out but they align properly if you look this object in the right angle..

Don’t stress your brain on this one! Oh if you havn’t figured it out yet you can click on the image to see a larger version.

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